Originally an idea crafted by an Ipoh student closely connected with MUN in Malaysia, the student wanted to find a way to spread the educational opportunities that MUN provides to students across Malaysia, especially in areas where MUN is less well-known, as almost all Malaysian MUN conferences are usually held in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Whenever the IpohMUN Secretariat attended one of these conferences, a thought always re-surfaced back into their minds: "What if there were groups of students just as passionate as we were, but which the location of MUN conferences made it such that it was inconvenient or too expensive for them to attend? What if, instead of having to travel inter-state or internationally, they could attend a physical MUN conference from within the same city? What if there was a way for us to put our policy-making and resolution-writing into real-life action in our communities?"

And thus, the concept behind IpohMUN was born; an MUN conference focused on developing motivated students into promising leaders of the MUN scene and resultingly, of the world.  

Believing in learning and quality of the debate as the most important aspects in MUN, IpohMUN intends to build a generation of students in Ipoh who will achieve success in other MUN conferences in the future. As a non-profit, IpohMUN is an organisation built by motivated individuals with a passion for education to participants in MUN conferences not only in an academic manner, but via the multi-faceted experiences and skills that an authentic Model UN conference offers.