[1] He then completed a doctorate at Iowa State University in 2000, supervised by Wayne Fuller.
[1][2] Kim returned to South Korea, teaching at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies between 2002 and 2003, and Yonsei University between 2004 and 2008, before rejoining Iowa State as a faculty member.
[1][2] In 2021, Kim was elected president-elect of the Korean International Statistical Society.
[3][4] He is also a senior fellow of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
[6] The Institute of Mathematical Statistics elected him to an equivalent honor in 2020.