Born in Busan, Kim started playing the piano at the age of 11, and by 15 won his first international competition and left for Germany.

[1] He is a graduate of Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and studied with Arie Vardi.

[3] He won a Jury Discretionary Award at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in the United States; Fort Worth Star-Telegram enthusiastically wrote that Kim "dominated" in his preliminary round recital.

[4] In 2015, Dasol Kim held the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of Young Concert Artists.

Kim's debut album, of works by Robert Schumann, was released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2015.