History

The idea of Colenth really started back in 2019, but it only really started to physically manifest in 2021, which was when the early founding team felt a new drive to make Colenth a thing. 
The newfound drive stemmed from the desire to expose Americans to more real, small, and literally local Asian brands as opposed to larger more established ones (although we still carry some products from them). So, after 2 years of both procrastination and preparation, we opened our website to the world in the June of 2023.
From then on, our cultural hub storefront has been updated frequently, bringing in new products and content. The team has and will continue to bring everyone more independent and authentic Asian stuff of all categories, while also making some extremely mediocre blogs and videos.

History

The idea of Colenth really started back in 2019, but it only really started to physically manifest in 2021, which was when the early founding team felt a new drive to make Colenth a thing. 
The newfound drive stemmed from the desire to expose Americans to more real, small, and literally local Asian brands as opposed to larger more established ones (although we still carry some products from them). So, after 2 years of both procrastination and preparation, we opened our website to the world in the June of 2023.
From then on, our cultural hub storefront has been updated frequently, bringing in new products and content. The team has and will continue to bring everyone more independent and authentic Asian stuff of all categories, while also making some extremely mediocre blogs and videos.

Meet the Founder

Kathara Bugnay, as a high schooler, originally came up with this store as a school project, and later came to expand it into a legitimate business, as seen in our store’s history. 

“I kind of just came up with it, then made it real with help. I didn’t know it would come to be an actual thing.”