Wound research has been relatively slow to take off in Korea notwithstanding remarkable progress in other fields of medical research in the past 30-40 years. Collective academic study with specific focus on wounds only began in earnest in 2002. It was then that around 50 doctors, nurses, and researchers who came together as a group to share scholarly work and formed “Academic Association for Wound Management”. They had long understood the relevance of this field and had been treating patients and conducting research on their own. In 2005, the Association was evolved into “Korean Wound Management Society (KWMS)”, encouraging many other researchers interested in wound healing to join. Although Korea only began to recognize the importance of wound management in the early 2000s, fortunately sophisticated and related industries such as biotechnology and information technology with brilliant, industrious, and eager wound researchers have contributed to rapid development of wound healing studies. The KWMS has started issuing Journal of KWMS twice a year since 2005.