Riman, Inc.
A Korean skincare brand whose US arm publishes no income disclosure of any kind, while its Korean parent and a former representative were referred to prosecutors in May 2025 over the exact period in which the US business was launched.
Real Korean manufacturing and a genuinely optional autoship, undone by a published instruction to buy four kits to start at Senior Manager and an information vacuum where the earnings data should be.
Can you actually make money with RIMAN?
No, and the company publishes the reason itself. Its own enrollment guidance says one Business Start Set makes you a Planner, sponsoring another upgrades you to Manager, and four Business Starter Kits start you immediately at Senior Manager. That is roughly $6,100 at regional pricing, with no customer required anywhere in the instruction. Inventory loading printed as recommended practice is a different thing from a distributor overreaching on their own.
There is no income disclosure to set against it. Not in the United States, not in Korea, not in any market, not ever. No median, no average, no zero-earner rate, no rank distribution. The nearest thing to large-sample evidence is the home market, where the registered Korean salesforce fell from about 480,000 in November 2022 to roughly 83,000 at the end of 2024. Your retail commission rate is also set by your rank rather than your selling, running 10% at the bottom of the ladder to 40% at the top.
There is a live matter covering the window in which the US business was built. On 8 May 2025 the Korean competition regulator issued a corrective order and referred the corporation and a former representative to prosecutors over unregistered multi-level selling between March 2020 and 17 November 2024. Nothing is proven and no indictment has been located. The company registered as a multi-level seller on 18 November 2024, the day after the regulator's stated window closed.
What is good here is why this file is not lower. There is no mandatory autoship, corroborated independently, and that is the single most common way people in this category lose money without noticing. The cheap door is real too: $20 for the account and $20 a year for the storefront, so somebody who refuses every kit can test the business for $40. K-beauty has authentic standalone demand worldwide, and the company put a reported $13.9 million into buying its Irvine headquarters rather than renting an office.
account fee, plus $20/yr for the MyShop storefront - but the promoted entry is a kit at $335 to $1,661
- An income disclosure, anywhere. Every other company on this site publishes something a reader can argue with. RIMAN publishes nothing while promoting a roughly $6,100 route to rank on day one.
- The four-kit fast track removed from its own enrollment guidance. While the company itself tells recruits that four Business Start Sets start them at Senior Manager with no customers involved, it is instructing people to buy rank.
- Policies and procedures a prospect can read. The page renders client-side and the domains return HTTP 403, so the rules on income claims, advertising, arbitration and termination are unknown to everyone outside the company.
- A published buyback. The visible return policy is 30 days on sealed and unopened product with shipping not refunded, against kits costing up to $1,661, and no repurchase-on-termination provision could be located in any retrievable document.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL IN THE US, UNDER CRIMINAL REFERRAL IN KOREA - no FTC action, state attorney general action, consent order or pyramid finding against the US corporation could be located. In Korea, the Fair Trade Commission issued a corrective order on 8 May 2025 and referred the corporation and a former representative to prosecutors over unregistered multi-level selling between March 2020 and 17 November 2024. A referral is an accusation, not a conviction; no indictment or verdict has been located.
Confidence: Medium
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A California corporation selling Korean-manufactured skincare under the Incellderm brand through US distributors, on a rank-gated plan in which the retail commission percentage itself rises from 10% to 40% as your rank rises.
The credit first, and there is some. There is a real Korean operating business behind this, not a marketing shell: a manufacturing program with USDA and Korea Forest Service plant-variety protection on its proprietary botanical, a published research relationship with a major university, and a $13.9 million headquarters purchased outright in Irvine. And unusually for the category, there is no mandatory autoship - multiple independent sources confirm that distributors are not required to purchase monthly, which removes the single most common mechanism by which participants in this industry bleed money. That deserves saying plainly, because it is the exception rather than the rule.
Now the two facts that decide the grade. The first is an absence: RIMAN has never published an income disclosure statement, in Korea, in the United States, or anywhere else. There is no median, no average, no zero-earner rate, no rank distribution, nothing. Against that vacuum sits the company’s own enrollment guidance, which tells recruits that one Business Start Set starts you as a Planner, that sponsoring another kit upgrades you automatically to Manager, and that "4 x Business Starter Kits = start immediately at Senior Manager" - roughly $6,100 of product bought on day one to hold a rank, with no customer required anywhere in that sentence. That is inventory loading published as recommended practice.
The second is a live proceeding. On 8 May 2025 the Korean Fair Trade Commission issued a corrective order and referred both the corporation and a former representative to prosecutors, alleging unregistered multi-level selling between March 2020 and 17 November 2024. RIMAN registered as a multi-level seller on 18 November 2024 - the day after the alleged violation period ends. Nothing has been proven; no indictment or verdict could be located and the file must be read as an accusation. But the window covers the entire period in which the US business was designed, incorporated and launched, and over the same span the Korean salesforce fell from roughly 480,000 people to about 83,000.
What happened to the Korean salesforce
RIMAN publishes no earnings data anywhere, so the only available outcome measure is headcount in its home market. These are reported distributor counts, not incomes.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Account / enrollment fee The number quoted in recruiting. It gets you a Planner account at a 10% retail commission with the unilevel locked. |
~$20 one-time |
— |
| MyShop replicated storefront A paid product rather than a grant. Includes a personalized store and reporting dashboard. |
$20 annual |
— |
| Starter Kit EX The cheapest kit. Optional in principle; in practice the field treats a kit purchase as the entry. |
$335 one-time |
— |
| Starter Kit Plus The mid tier. No published price ceiling exists on kit purchasing at enrollment. |
$1,116 one-time |
— |
| Starter Kit Premium The top published kit. Four Business Start Sets at regional pricing - about $6,100 - is the route the company itself publishes for starting at Senior Manager. |
$1,661 one-time |
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| Incellderm ampoule The flagship. Note that the commission percentage on this identical sale depends on your rank, not on your selling. |
$110 per unit |
10-40% by rank |
| Incellderm cream / toner A full routine runs $300-$400+, which reviewers put at roughly 3-5x comparable open-market K-beauty. |
$90 / $70 per unit |
10-40% by rank |
| Team Leader maintenance volume 10,000 BP a month to hold Team Leader; 100,000 BP - roughly $143,000 - for Director. Rank, and therefore your retail commission rate, is lost without it. |
~$14,300/mo team volume recurring |
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Who runs it, and what they ran before
Described in company and trade coverage as having more than thirty years of industry experience. No regulatory action, criminal proceeding or disqualification against him personally could be located. Note that the corporation and an unnamed "former representative" - not identified in any report obtained - were referred to prosecutors together by the Korean competition regulator in May 2025.
In post through the North American expansion announced in April 2023. Riman does not publish an executive biography page in English that could be retrieved, so his prior record could not be established from primary sources.
The most diligence-relevant appointment in the file. She joined RIMAN directly from Jeunesse Global, where she had been appointed President of North America in December 2020. Jeunesse settled an FTC matter and had faced long-running pyramid and RICO class litigation before winding down its US business. That is not a finding against her - but it means the institutional memory driving RIMAN’s US build-out is MLM launch expertise from a company that exited the market under a cloud, rather than skincare retail expertise.
The registered officers of the California entity are not the people the field sees; the people the field sees are not the officers of record. The first US National Directors, appointed July 2024, were announced as having "become top producers for a direct selling company, generating over a billion dollars in gross sales" - with the prior company deliberately unnamed. Recruiting a downline intact from an unnamed predecessor is the standard launch-velocity playbook, and it carries the standard risk.
Registered address
Irvine, California (US) · Seoul, Republic of Korea (parent)
Riman, Inc. is registered in California at 108 Pacifica, Suite 200, Irvine, with Hee Dong Woo as chief executive and Wang Woo Lee as chief financial officer and secretary. Neither appears in any US-facing marketing material located - the public faces of the US business are a marketing and sales leadership layer recruited from other direct-selling companies. The company bought its Irvine headquarters for a reported $13.9 million, which is real capital committed to the market. No audited financial statements for the Korean parent, the US subsidiary or the ASK Company holding chain could be obtained, and the equity relationship between them is not published.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who legally owns it? |
WATCH
Riman, Inc., California corporation #5051267, incorporated 28 April 2022, within a Korean group held through ASK Company. The registered officers appear in none of the company’s US-facing marketing.
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| What does it actually cost? |
RED
$20 to open an account plus $20 a year for the storefront - but the promoted entry is a kit at $335, $1,116 or $1,661, and the company’s own guidance recommends four kits at roughly $6,100 to start at Senior Manager.
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| Published income disclosure? |
RED
None. Not in the US, not in Korea, not anywhere, ever. There is no median, no average and no zero-earner rate to examine.
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| Regulatory action against the company? |
RED
None in the US. In Korea, a corrective order and a referral of the corporation and a former representative to prosecutors on 8 May 2025 for unregistered multi-level selling between March 2020 and 17 November 2024. No indictment or verdict located - this is an accusation.
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| Is there a monthly purchase requirement? |
OK
No, and this is the strongest point in RIMAN’s favor - no mandatory autoship, corroborated independently. The recurring pressure comes from rank maintenance instead: 10,000 BP of monthly team volume for Team Leader.
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| Is there genuine retail demand? |
WATCH
Yes for the category - K-beauty sells at scale with no income opportunity attached. Less clear for the premium: pricing runs roughly 3-5x comparable open-market products and no peer-reviewed evidence supports the proprietary cultivar.
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| Can you get your money back? |
CONCERN
30 days on sealed and unopened product only, shipping not refunded. No US distributor buyback provision could be located, against kits costing up to $1,661.
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| Merchant play or miner play? |
RED
Miner. Your retail commission percentage itself - 10% to 40% - is set by rank, and rank is driven by team volume and by kit purchases. Selling harder does not raise your rate; recruiting does.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Open an account and hold a storefront | $20 + $20/yr account fee plus the MyShop annual charge |
| Unlock the unilevel at all | 10 customers + 1,000 SP a lifetime gate, satisfiable once and never revisited |
| Enter at the promoted rank | ~$6,100 four Business Start Sets, per the company’s own enrollment guidance |
| Recover $6,100 at the Planner retail rate | ~$61,000 of retail sales at the 10% starting commission, before any rank progression |
Read this twice
Two things make this arithmetic unusually hard to write honestly, and both cut against the reader. The first is that there is no income disclosure to anchor it - no median, no average, no zero-earner rate, in any market, ever. Everything below the cost line is therefore inference rather than measurement, and it should be read that way. The second is that the cost side is deliberately open-ended: kits run from $335 to $1,661 with no published ceiling, and the company’s own enrollment guidance recommends four Business Start Sets - roughly $6,100 - to begin at Senior Manager. There is genuine credit due on the recurring side, and it should not be lost: there is no mandatory autoship, confirmed independently by multiple sources, so a participant who buys nothing after the kit is not bleeding monthly. But rank maintenance reintroduces the pressure from above rather than below - Team Leader requires 10,000 BP of monthly team volume, roughly $14,300, and Director requires ten times that. Since your retail commission percentage is itself a function of rank, losing rank cuts the margin on your own personal sales. The line to hold in your head is this: the retail rate runs 10% to 40% and the difference is not how well you sell, it is how big your team is. At the bottom of that range, recovering the promoted $6,100 entry takes roughly $61,000 of retail sales.
Run your own numbers
Drag the sliders. Nothing here is stored or sent.
10% Planner commission on a customer spending about $120/month. Cost is the $20 account fee plus the $20 annual storefront spread monthly - there is no mandatory autoship, which is real. What the slider cannot model is the kit: $335 to $1,661, or about $6,100 for the four-kit route the company itself promotes. Add that to ad spend if you intend to take it. No income disclosure exists in any market. Your own subscription cost of $3/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
RIMAN publishes no comparative pricing and no clinical evidence that its proprietary cultivar outperforms ordinary centella asiatica, which is the ingredient class the range is built on. The comparison below uses RIMAN’s published US prices against widely available Korean skincare with comparable actives, and is presented as a band because the exact comparator formulations differ.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| Incellderm ampoule - $110 | Korean centella or peptide ampoule, comparable size | ~$22-40 |
| Incellderm cream - $90 | Korean barrier-repair moisturiser | ~$18-35 |
| Incellderm toner - $70 | Korean hydrating toner, same volume | ~$12-25 |
| Cleansing oil - $30 | Widely stocked Korean cleansing oil | ~$12-20 |
| Deep Talk Plus supplement - $68 (28 sachets) | Open-market collagen or antioxidant sachets | ~$20-35 |
| Full routine as promoted - ~$350 | Equivalent open-market Korean routine | ~$85-155 |
| Total as sold ~$350 per routine cycle |
Total, built yourself ~$85-155 |
Price-to-value
Roughly a three-to-five-times premium on a routine basis. What you are paying for at the top of that band is a proprietary cultivar with genuine plant-variety protection and a real research relationship - but plant-variety protection is an agricultural registration, not a clinical result, and no peer-reviewed evidence that the cultivar outperforms ordinary centella could be located. The premium is also structurally unstable: the same products are resold on the large marketplaces and across a wide ecosystem of independent US sites, so the distributor paying full price is competing against gray-market stock at a discount.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Kit-free starter
$20 account, no kit, sells from the storefront at the 10% Planner rate
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 22% | −$40 |
| 6 mo | 24% | −$60 |
| 1 yr | 26% | −$90 |
| 3 yr | 27% | −$180 |
| 5 yr | 27% | −$260 |
Kit buyer
takes a $1,116 Starter Kit Plus, works the warm market part-time
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 6% | −$1,050 |
| 6 mo | 9% | −$1,000 |
| 1 yr | 12% | −$900 |
| 3 yr | 15% | −$1,400 |
| 5 yr | 16% | −$1,900 |
Four-kit fast-track
follows the published guidance - ~$6,100 in, starts at Senior Manager
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 3% | −$5,700 |
| 6 mo | 6% | −$5,200 |
| 1 yr | 10% | −$4,600 |
| 3 yr | 14% | −$5,900 |
| 5 yr | 15% | −$7,600 |
Methodology note. This table carries a heavier warning than any other on the site, and the reason is simple: RIMAN publishes no earnings data at all, so nothing in the income columns is anchored to a company figure. ANCHORED here is only the cost side - the $20 account fee, the $20 annual storefront charge, published kit prices of $335, $1,116 and $1,661, the enrollment guidance that four Business Start Sets at roughly $6,100 starts a recruit at Senior Manager, the 10%-to-40% rank-driven retail commission, the ten-customer plus 1,000-sales-point lifetime unilevel gate, and the 10,000 BP monthly team volume needed to hold Team Leader. MODELED by us: every income figure, every profit percentage and the cohort definitions, calibrated against outcome distributions observed in comparable rank-gated skincare plans that do publish disclosures. Two structural facts shape the shape of the table. First, the kit-free starter is the only cohort whose downside is bounded, because the entry is $40 rather than four figures - which is precisely why the field does not promote it. Second, the Korean home market lost roughly 83% of its registered salesforce between November 2022 and the end of 2024, which is the only large-sample evidence available about how long people stay, and it is not encouraging.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
141No income disclosure exists - anywhere, ever
2The company itself publishes the four-kit route to rank
3A criminal referral covering the entire US launch window
4The company registered as a multi-level seller the day after the alleged violation window closed
5The Korean salesforce fell roughly 83% in two years
6Your retail commission rate is set by your rank, not your selling
7No published price ceiling on entry
8The policies and procedures could not be read at all
9No US distributor buyback provision could be located
10The "top 100" and fastest-growth credentials are stale
11Distributors documented reframing skin irritation as a "healing crisis"
12US public leadership recruited from a company that exited the market under pressure
13The officers of record are invisible in the company’s own marketing
14The core product premium rests on an agricultural registration, not a clinical result
Green flags
71There is no mandatory autoship
2A genuine manufacturing and botanical program
3Real capital committed to the US market
4The cheap way in is genuinely cheap
5K-beauty has authentic standalone demand
6The company did register as a multi-level seller
7No US regulatory action of any kind
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- A published US income disclosure covering a full calendar year, including participants who earned nothing, with medians alongside averages and a stated expense line - the single largest available upgrade, and it currently does not exist.
- A retrievable, plain-language policies-and-procedures document covering paid advertising, income claims, marketplace selling and keyword bidding, plus a published US buyback at the statutory norm on kits purchased within twelve months.
- Resolution of the Korean referral without indictment, together with removal of the four-kit fast-track language from all enrollment material and a documented retail-sales requirement before rank advances.
Downward
- An indictment or conviction arising from the May 2025 prosecutorial referral - the ceiling in the caps section binds immediately if this happens.
- Any US FTC complaint, civil investigative demand, state attorney general action or consent order naming the California corporation.
- A further year with no income disclosure while kit-stacking guidance remains published, or evidence that the US salesforce is contracting on the same trajectory as the Korean one.
Grade is D. No autoship is a real advantage. No income disclosure of any kind, and a criminal referral covering the launch window, are bigger disadvantages.
Give RIMAN the credit it has earned, because it is specific. There is no mandatory autoship - confirmed independently by more than one source - and in a category where the monthly qualifying order is how most participants quietly lose four figures a year, that absence is worth more than any marketing claim on the site. There is a genuine manufacturing operation behind the brand, with plant-variety protection registered in two jurisdictions and a real research relationship. The company bought a $13.9 million building in California rather than renting a mailbox. And a prospective distributor can genuinely test the thing for $40 if they refuse every kit, which is a real option that exists on the price list even though nobody in the field promotes it.
Then the vacuum. RIMAN has never published an income disclosure statement in any market. Every other company on this site publishes something you can argue with; here there is nothing to argue with. What fills that space instead is the company’s own enrollment guidance, which instructs recruits that four Business Start Sets - roughly $6,100 - "start immediately at Senior Manager", with no customer mentioned anywhere in the sentence. And the commission percentage on your own personal retail sale runs from 10% to 40% based on your rank, which is driven by team volume. So the plan tells a new recruit two things simultaneously: your margin depends on your team, and you can buy your way up the ladder today. Recovering that $6,100 at the entry-level 10% takes about $61,000 of retail selling.
The third element is the one that could still move. On 8 May 2025 the Korean competition regulator issued a corrective order and referred both the corporation and an unnamed former representative to prosecutors, alleging unregistered multi-level selling from March 2020 to 17 November 2024 - with registration completed the following day. This must be read carefully: a referral is an accusation, no indictment or verdict has been located, and nothing has been proven against anyone. But the alleged period covers the whole window in which the US business was designed, incorporated and launched, and across roughly the same span the Korean salesforce contracted from about 480,000 people to 83,000. A US recruit is being asked to buy a kit priced up to $1,661 with no earnings data, rules they cannot read, and a live proceeding in the home market.
If you go in, go in at $40
The account fee and the storefront are $20 each. Every dollar above that is a kit, and kits are the mechanism by which this business converts a prospect into inventory. Sell from the storefront at 10% for ninety days and find out whether anyone actually buys before you fund a rank.
Ask for the income disclosure and the policies in writing - before anything
Both requests are reasonable and both are free to answer. If the response is that no income disclosure exists, that is the answer, and it is the most important fact about the offer. If the policies cannot be produced in a readable form, you are being asked to agree to terms nobody will show you.
Never buy rank
The four-kit fast track to Senior Manager is roughly $6,100 of product bought before a single customer exists. There is no published evidence that anyone recovers it, because there is no published evidence about anything. Rank you did not sell your way into decays the moment the team volume slips, and the product is already being undercut on the marketplaces.
Sell into the K-beauty demand instead of into the plan
The category is genuinely large and genuinely growing, and customers seek it out without being recruited. Content, curation, comparison and honest ingredient education in Korean skincare is a merchant business with real search demand - and it does not require you to hold a rank, buy a kit, or explain a criminal referral to your downline.
Nine dimensions, weighted
Dimension profile
Further from center is better. Hover any point.
Hard caps that bind here
The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.
What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Riman, Inc. - California corporation #5051267, filed 28 April 2022, 108 Pacifica Ste 200, Irvine; CEO Hee Dong Woo, CFO/Secretary Wang Woo Lee (California Secretary of State registry extract)
California Secretary of State - Riman, Inc., corporation #5051267, incorporated 28 April 2022, 108 Pacifica Suite 200, Irvine; officers Hee Dong Woo (CEO) and Wang Woo Lee (CFO/Secretary)
Not established by this document: The California SoS bizfile record itself is served from a JavaScript search application with no stable per-entity URL, so the primary registry entry cannot be deep-linked; the extract above reproduces the filing data verbatim.
- California Secretary of State bizfile Online business search (source registry for entity number 5051267)
- "㈜리만코리아의 방문판매법 위반행위 제재" - Korea Fair Trade Commission press release, 8 May 2025: corrective order plus criminal referral of the corporation and its former representative for unregistered multi-level selling, March 2020 to 17 November 2024
Korea Fair Trade Commission action reported 8 May 2025 - corrective order and referral of the corporation and a former representative to prosecutors for unregistered multi-level selling between March 2020 and 17 November 2024; multi-level registration completed 18 November 2024
Not established by this document: No monetary fine was imposed by the KFTC in this action - the sanction was a corrective order plus a criminal referral, so any penalty amount now rests with the prosecution.
- Korea Fair Trade Commission press release mirrored on the Korean government policy briefing portal, 8 May 2025
- KFTC 결정 2025-009 - full decision text: multi-level selling operated from March 2020 to 17 November 2024 without registration; registration completed with the Mayor of Daegu on 18 November 2024 (대구2024-1호)
- "공정위 '인셀덤, 불법 다단계'…법인·대표 검찰 고발" - Yonhap News on the referral, 8 May 2025
- "Korea's Fair Trade Commission penalizes Riman Korea for illegal multi-level marketing" - ChosunBiz English report
- "리만코리아, 다단계 판매업 미등록·미가입 판매원 방조…공정위, 검찰 고발" - Newspim, naming former representative Kim Kyung-jung (김경중) as the referred individual
- RIMAN regional enrollment guide - "Step 5: Choose Your Starter Kit": 4 × Business Starter Kits starts a recruit at Senior Manager, 1 × Business Starter Kit starts a Planner, sharing a further kit upgrades to Manager
RIMAN regional enrollment pages - kit ladder and the published instruction that one kit starts a Planner, a sponsored kit upgrades to Manager, and four Business Starter Kits start a recruit immediately at Senior Manager
- RIMAN 2024 Compensation Plan (PDF) - seven Planner ranks, BP volume requirements, Pool/Pool Plus/Pool Premium purchase-history tiers, six commission streams
- RIMAN Canada Planner information page - 10–45% commission range and rank-gated group bonuses
- "Riman Review: Giant byoungpool personal care" - BehindMLM: Starter Kit EX $335, Starter Kit Plus $1,116, Starter Kit Premium $1,661; $20 basic membership; 10–45% rank-driven retail commission; ten-customer and volume gates
BehindMLM company review - Starter Kit EX $335, Starter Kit Plus $1,116, Starter Kit Premium $1,661, US product price list, rank-driven 10%-40% retail commission, ten-customer and 1,000 sales-point unilevel gate
- "2024년도 다단계판매업자 주요정보 공개" - Korea Fair Trade Commission annual multi-level seller disclosure, 30 July 2025: 105 registered companies, KRW 4.5373 trillion total sales, 6.87 million registered salespeople, 83.3% received no bonus at all
Korean industry filings and trade reporting - 2024 Korean revenue of about ₩174.7bn (roughly $128m), seventh among Korean multi-level sellers; registered salesforce of roughly 480,000 in November 2022 falling to about 83,000 at end-2024
Not established by this document: The roughly 480,000 registered salesforce figure for November 2022 is not carried by any KFTC disclosure retrieved; the closest company-sourced figure is the "about 400,000 Beauty Planners" claim in RIMAN's own 2023 launch materials, so the 480,000-to-83,000 decline should be treated as company-claimed at the start point and KFTC-confirmed only at the end point.
- KFTC 다단계판매업자 주요정보 공개 - per-company disclosure database (sales, salesperson counts, bonus payouts)
- "다단계 판매원 10명 중 8명 작년 후원수당 '0원'" - Yonhap on the 2024 disclosure: top 1% of paid salespeople averaged KRW 70.16m a year, the remaining 70% averaged KRW 80,000
- "공정위, 리만코리아 檢고발…'미등록 다단계 영업'" - Financial News, citing the KFTC figures of KRW 174.7bn revenue, roughly 83,000 salespeople and seventh place by revenue
- 공정거래위원회 다단계판매사업자정보파일 - machine-readable KFTC dataset behind the annual disclosure
- "RIMAN Expands to North America" - Direct Selling News on the April 2023 Las Vegas grand opening
Direct Selling News coverage of the North American launch (April 2023) and the K-beauty feature (January 2026); PR Newswire, 10 March 2026, on the 3,500-attendee Long Beach convention; Orange County Business Journal on the $13.9m Irvine headquarters purchase
- "RIMAN and the Tradition of K-Beauty" - Direct Selling News company feature, 5 January 2026
- "RIMAN Ignites Momentum at 2026 North America Convention" - company release, 10 March 2026, over 3,500 attendees at Long Beach, California
- "Korean Skincare Firm Riman Buys in Irvine" - Orange County Business Journal on the $13.9 million purchase of 108 Pacifica by Rspectrum LLC
- "RIMAN Hosts California Convention" - Direct Selling News on the Long Beach event, 12 March 2026
- 2026 DSN Global 100 - complete service-focused and product-focused rankings; RIMAN does not appear on either list, and was instead given a Bravo Innovator Award
Direct Selling News Global 100, 2026 edition - RIMAN does not appear; the widely repeated top-100 placement rests on 2021 revenue
- DSN Global 100 Lists - participation is voluntary self-certification of net revenue, which is why a non-reporting company is simply absent
- "RIMAN, South Korea Billion Dollar Company, Officially Launches In North America" - the source of the widely repeated top-100 placement, describing RIMAN as "ranked #23 on the DSN Global 100 List" on 2021 revenue
- BBB Business Profile - Riman, 108 Pacifica, Irvine, CA 92618 (not BBB accredited; BBB file opened 11 September 2024)
BBB business profile for Riman (Irvine, CA); third-party marketplace and independent reseller listings of RIMAN and Incellderm product
Not established by this document: Third-party marketplace and independent reseller listings of RIMAN and Incellderm product were not linked: each is a single transient seller page carrying no evidentiary weight for a published grade.
What we could not get
- The US policies and procedures in full - the page is JavaScript-rendered and returns no text, and the main domains return HTTP 403. Rules on paid advertising, income claims, marketplace selling, keyword bidding, arbitration and termination are all unknown
- Current official 2026 US kit pricing, and whether any price ceiling on enrollment purchasing is published anywhere
- The amount of any Korean fine, and the identity of the referred former representative - not named in any report obtained
- The corporate chain in detail: ASK Company’s ownership and financials, and the equity relationship to Riman, Inc. The widely repeated assumption that the parent is Coreana Cosmetics could not be substantiated and appears to be wrong
- Any US distributor buyback policy, and whether RIMAN holds Direct Selling Association membership in any market
- The prior direct-selling employers of the North American President of Sales and the listed Vice President, and the unnamed prior company of the first US National Directors
- Audited financial statements for the Korean parent or the US subsidiary; US-only revenue; and the current US distributor count
- Any peer-reviewed clinical evidence that the proprietary cultivar outperforms conventional centella asiatica
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This is independent analysis for decision-making, not legal, financial or investment advice. Allegations reported by third parties should be verified against primary court and regulatory records before any decision.
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Author, editor and publisher
This report was researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, working from primary documents - RIMAN’s own compensation plan, its policies and procedures, its terms of service, its income disclosure statement where one exists, and its regulatory and self-regulatory file. It was scored against nine weighted dimensions that are published in full, with their weights, on the methodology page.
Before publication it was reviewed by Rob Fore, who checks every source link, every figure against the document it came from, and every allegation against its stage-label - an investigation is not a finding, a warning letter is not an enforcement action, and a filed claim is not a verdict.
The editor does not set the grade. The published score is the weighted composite of the nine dimension scores, and the build refuses to emit a page where the two disagree by more than 0.06. A grade moves when the evidence moves it and not otherwise.
Rob Fore has marketed online since 1996, wrote Online MLM Marketing (2014), and is CEO of Listech Inc, the Nevada corporation that publishes this site. He holds affiliate positions in companies graded here - including LiveGood, which this site grades D, SendOutCards, which it grades C−, and the Home Business Academy, which it grades B−. Those positions are disclosed on the reports they touch, and changed nothing on this page.
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