one of the founders, jin-woo yu, was inspired by a news article which introduced khan academy. he stated that the concept of openowledge was created from a desire to create a translated and better-organized site. another member stated that the concept of korean subtitles arose from her own experience with khan academy. in 2012, jin-woo yu and myung-gun seo created the organization khan academy korea. khan academy korea had a project to translate khan academy videos. the project was extended into the current openowledge project.