At the age of 11, his family moved to Los Angeles, in the United States.
He majored in physics at Harvey Mudd College, and went on to earn a master's in engineering at UCLA and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
[1][2] Kim moved back to South Korea to join Samsung Electronics in 1999, where during a tenure of five years he rose to become leader of their global marketing initiatives.
[1] Kim was instrumental in generating brand visibility worldwide for Samsung with its "DigitAll-Everyone's Invited" campaign.
[3] He moved back to the United States in 2004, when Intel hired him as their chief marketing officer.