	The first rough form of the organization began on the beginning of 2013 with founder Yu Jin-Woo and two others. At least one advertisement appeared on November 22, 2013. On January 2013,'Openowledge' was first created as a high school club. The founders only consisted of second-year high school students in CheongShim International Academy. The current site began operating on May 2013 as a beta version for about a month. Openowledge started operating as an actual service on July 16, 2013.