German Nikolaevich Kim (Russian: Герман Николаевич Ким; Korean: 게르만 킴; born 16 July 1953) is Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally recognized scholars on ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union: Koryo-saram.
In 1985, with the onset of perestroika and glasnost, it became permitted for the first time to speak openly of the deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union and other tragedies which had afflicted the Koryo-saram.
This piqued Kim's interest in the history of his ancestors, and in 1987, he returned to Kazakh National University as a doctoral candidate, writing his thesis on the topic of "Socio-Cultural Development of Koreans in Kazakhstan in 1946–1966"; after graduation up until today, he has continued his work in the field of Koryo-saram and Korean diasporas studies.
German Kim has written and edited a large number of books and papers published internationally.
He presented papers in over 150 international conferences, seminars and workshops in Asia, North and South America, and Europe.
He is a member of the International Commission on Sources of the History of Korea; Korean Studies Associations in Europe, Asia and USA.
He additionally was a historical consultant for the documentary film Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People.
For academic, educational and social efforts he was awarded the highest title of the “Honored worker of the Republic Kazakhstan” (2007); Medal “Merit for the outstanding contribution in the Development of sciences in the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2009); Golden Medal “Birlik” (Unity) for the outstanding contribution in the Friendship of the peoples of Kazakhstan (2013); 제18회 KBS 해외동포상, Korean Compatriots award of KBS for 2014 in the field of Humanities and Social sciences; Medal “20 Anniversary of Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan”, 2015; Order of Republic of Korea “Civil Merit” (국민포장.
Kukmin p’hojang), 2015; Medal of the outstanding Professor of the Kazakh National al-Farabi University 2016.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Kim Ким Герман Николаевич - главный научный сотрудник КИСИ при Президенте РК, доктор исторических наук, профессор, Заслуженный деятель Республики Казахстан.
– Сайт Казахстанского института стратегических исследований при Президенте РК.
http://www.kisi.kz/site.html?id=95 Директор Международного Центра корееведения - д. и. н., проф., «Заслуженный деятель Казахстана» Ким Г.Н.
Корейский этнос на пути модернизации в мировую нацию.
http://www.kbs.co.kr/korea/sisa/realtalk/vod/1330551_2717.html 대한민국’ 출판한 김 게르만 카자흐국립대학교 교수 (Республика Корея – новая книга профессора Германа Кима)- газета «Ханин ильбо».
- http://blog.daum.net/haninilbo/15962768김게르만 (Ким Герман, книги и статьи на корейском).
(Overseas Korean Foundation Digital Library).- http://research.korean.net/global/docs/s В КазНУ отметили 60-летний юбилей профессора Германа Ким.