# KOMPAKT RECORD BAR เมื่อ Listening Bar ทำเสื้อผ้า

**By Onion** · 2026-07-08

## Objects Designed to Be Used

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Jinmoo Choi opened a small bar in Apgujeong, Seoul in 2018, not to build a brand, but to build a room. A room where people could actually listen to music: on a proper sound system, at a price that didn't make you think twice, while a DJ played from their personal record collection.

That was the intention. And from that single intention, everything followed, including Spring/Summer 2026 of Kompakt Record Bar.

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KRB is a Seoul-based brand founded by JM, a veteran graphic designer and DJ whose real name is Jinmoo Choi. "Kompakt" is German for "compact" or "dense": a word that describes exactly how he builds. Simple on the surface, substantial underneath, nothing out of place.

When KRB moved from bar to clothing, the intention didn't shift. Their garments function as objects in the same way a record does: tactile, made for daily use, built to improve with time. SS26 is the most direct expression of this: 100% cotton, relaxed silhouettes, graphics that know exactly what they are.

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> A good bar doesn't have to explain itself. Neither does KRB's Spring/Summer 2026.

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Today KRB operates four locations in Seoul, and in May 2026 opened its first location outside Korea, in Tokyo's Ikejiri-Ohashi, developed in collaboration with Beams. A first step out of Seoul, but never out of itself.

That's the core of SS26: a brand that never forgot where it started.

**Tags:** Feature, Kompakt Record Bar, Record Culture, Seoul, SS26

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> Source: [onionbkk.com / Onion](https://onionbkk.com/blogs/blog/kompakt-record-bar-ss26)