Without changing a thing, everything changes.

We don’t replace your chair or your desk. We turn the place you already sit into a healthier one — and instead of asking your body to fit the desk, we fit what’s underfoot to your body.

A chair looks after the upper body; a footrest, the lower.

STORY

Until it hurt, we never knew.

ROUMO was founded by Jonghoon Lee and Minseo Kim, a couple who work as graphic designers. It began with a problem of their own — the neck and shoulder pain they felt at their desks. Unable to find anything on the market that met their needs, they designed an original footrest of their own to solve it. That challenge struck a chord with many others, and today it is driving a change in the desk environment.

PROBLEM 1

Why desks feel uncomfortable

It doesn’t fit my body.

Desks and chairs are built for the average. Few bodies fit that average exactly.

I can’t change it myself.

Office desks and shared furniture are fixed. We’ve always adapted to what we were given.

I don’t know what’s right.

No one taught us the right height or structure. Choosing well feels overwhelming.

Replacing it costs too much.

Replacing a desk and chair is costly. Even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll fit.

PROBLEM 2

The legs had nowhere to rest.

Look around any office and the same movements repeat. A leg crossed, one foot pulled up, a body perched on the edge of the chair. The motions differ, but each is the same search — legs looking for a place to rest.

MISSION

No need to replace your desk or chair — done easily

Keep your desk and chair

Your desk and chair stay right where they are. What changes is where your feet rest.

Simple, low-cost solution

No assembly, no installation. A far lighter commitment than replacing furniture.

Better posture, comfortably

Nothing forces you to sit up straight. When your legs are at ease, better posture follows naturally.

Fits your body exactly

Height 5–19 cm, 81 combinations. The standard is your body, not the average.

SOLUTION

Not correction, but behavior design

Simply setting it down is enough to make it part of your habits. Rather than pushing people, it changes the environment, so that a good posture follows naturally. The burden of change is carried by the product, not the person.

SOLUTION

Making a place for your feet and legs to rest

Its two-tier structure supports the shift in posture between focus and rest, and adjusts to fit the way you sit.

PROOF

A new standard, shaped by time

The two-tier structure ROUMO introduced in 2019 has become the industry standard. Among people who use it every day, the rating stands at 4.88 (Naver), recognized by Good Design Korea 2022·2025.

DETAIL

Solving it one step at a time, together with users

The mark of a good footrest was never an array of flashy features, but the disappearance of the little things that nagged at you day after day. Beyond that, we are working to resolve, one by one, the discomforts that nearly everyone has met at least once in their desk life.

A footrest shouldn’t stop at a flat plate that only holds the soles of your feet. It should make room for both — the way you sit when you focus, and the way you sit when you rest.

Most footrests slide away the moment you press on them, drifting back until they slip out of reach. Your balance breaks, and you feel unsettled. A good footrest grips the floor and keeps its place, however hard you push.

When it’s narrow, your feet drift together toward the middle. So both can stay at shoulder width, a footrest needs a broad platform — around 512mm across.

There should be no clatter of parts knocking together as you move your feet — that kind of sound breaks your concentration. With a simple, wobble-free structure, it should stay quiet even as you shift it.

Having to bend at the waist and reposition it by hand breaks your immersion. You should be able to change its position with your toes, just as you sit.

You should be able to set the height and angle that fit your own body, because each person's physique and environment are different.

To shift your posture and position quickly, it has to be light enough to move easily with your feet alone.

Since it bears your weight every day and is nudged by your toes, it should be built from sturdy materials with a simple structure that endures over the long run.

You should be able to choose a color that sits naturally within your space. In particular, when dust and marks show less, the product brings a greater sense of ease in everyday use.

Many people tell us about cold feet. If warmth is added, it should be done with a structure that lowers the risk of low-temperature burns and fire, for a comfortable and safe warming experience.

References

The studies cited in the text are reference material intended to explain the background of the problem and the reasoning behind the design approach; they do not guarantee any specific effect.

↗ Desks that don't fit the body — 46.7% of workers mismatched, appropriate desk height 60~79cm (ScienceDirect, 2025) ↗ Ergonomic design range, 5th-percentile woman to 95th-percentile man, desk 68~76cm (BIFMA G1-2013) ↗ A tendency to make use of the backrest when a footrest is used (ScienceDirect, 2021) ↗ The conditions for behavior to occur: motivation, ability, trigger (Fogg Behavior Model) ↗ 'Shifting posture every hour' as a protective factor (BMC Public Health, 2022) ↗ Leg-crossing and pelvic and trunk asymmetry (PMC, 2014)

ROUMO doesn’t set out to change you. Instead of asking you to sit up straighter, it changes the place your feet come to rest. So that your focus can hold even as your body moves, it keeps quiet pace with the part of you that wants more. And the place you’re sitting right now becomes a place to find what’s possible.

Make room for what’s possible

ROUMO LC99 is a desk-environment product that encourages and supports good posture; it is not a medical device. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease, and how it feels may vary from person to person. Verified specs: support height 5~19cm, width 512mm, 81 height and angle combinations.

ABOUT

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Once, we believed there was an easy road. Voices boasting of the fast way up were everywhere, and we wrote their words down. In time the voices faded, and all that was left was the seat itself. Whatever had been said so lightly, it seems, was light enough to scatter first. What stayed was the daily repetition — enduring a today no different from yesterday, stumbling each time we reached for more, sitting back down in the same seat to begin again. It wore on us, and often it felt small. They were days of holding on without quite knowing what for.

Then one day, we glanced beside us — and understood. That all those days we’d taken for dull repetition were really one journey, joined a single step at a time. That every time we fell, every time we sat back down in the same seat, something had kept pace at our side. It was never loud, so we hadn’t noticed — but the step beside us had gone on quietly all along. So we chose persistence over flash. Remembering — and promising ourselves — that one quiet step is what finally becomes a road, we stay at someone’s side and match their stride, walking gently alongside the heart that reaches for more. A daily routine, and one step more. ROUMO.