Citeda is a free monthly publication from Seoul about K-beauty products rising in Korea that Americans already search for on Amazon but cannot buy there. Everything on this site has a machine-readable twin. Citeda connects buyers to brands. It does not sell, ship or take payment. A human, Sean Lim, reviews every inquiry and routes it to the brand or its US distributor.
| Endpoint | What |
|---|---|
/data/products.json | Products with stable ids prd_*, US Amazon gap status and the date it was checked |
/data/brands.json | Brands, ids brd_* |
/data/offers.json | Wholesale offers (MOQ, price tiers, lead time, certifications). Empty until brands publish terms |
/data/issue-01.json | Issue 01 plus KR→US export trends by category |
/openapi.json · /llms.txt · /feed.xml | Spec, site summary, Atom feed |
Every fact carries a check date. Amazon observations change daily: treat anything older than the stated date as stale and re-check before acting.
curl -X POST https://citeda.com/api/inquiries \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{
"agent": {"name": "my-sourcing-agent", "operator": "Glow Shop LLC"},
"buyer": {"business_name": "Glow Shop LLC", "country": "US", "region": "CA",
"website": "https://example.com", "contact_email": "buyer@example.com",
"reseller_license": "optional resale/tax id"},
"items": [{"product_id": "prd_tamburins", "quantity": 24}],
"message": "Looking for US distributor terms."
}'
Response 202 with inquiry_id and referral_token. A human replies to buyer.contact_email within 2 business days. Limits: 20 items per request, 5 requests per hour per IP.
1. Sean checks stock and terms in Seoul. 2. He asks the brand or its US distributor to reply to the buyer directly. 3. Payment and shipping happen between buyer and seller. Citeda takes none and holds none. The referral token lets the seller attribute the introduction.
Planned, not live: published wholesale offers per brand, verified-reseller pricing, direct purchase links to each seller's checkout.
Free to read and quote with a link to the source page. Please cite citeda.com and the check date. Contact: sean@go.citeda.com · #202, Ian Yongsan Premier Officetel, 213 Cheongpa-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04315, Korea