[5] Its founding dean is Ross King, head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

[6] The camp is currently led by Dafna Zur, an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.

However, after the success of the Korean Wave, the camp has seen a significant increase in popularity, with over a hundred participants each year and a waitlist of 120 students in 2023.

But in 2018, it received $5 million in funding via a private donation from the Korean handbag company Simone Corporation.

The camp was also expressly designed to include a dojang, a training hall for Korean martial arts (notably taekwondo).