[1] Kim Aerim was born in Sinelnikovo, a Korean village in Siberia.
Alexandra was adopted by Jozef Stankevich, a Russian friend of her father.
[2][3][4] Kim gave up teaching and moved back to Vladivostok, where she took part in political activities for the cause of Korean migrants.
There she met with Yi Dong-Wi, Kim Rip and other Korean independence fighters.
[2][3][5] Kim was captured, along with many other Korean communists, by White forces and Japanese troops on September 4, 1918.