Kim was raised in Seoul, South Korea, where she sang in the children's chorus of the national broadcasting company.
[4] During her training, she appeared in various operatic roles, including Adele in Die Fledermaus, the First Priestess in Iphigénie en Tauride, the page in Rigoletto, the milliner in Der Rosenkavalier, and Frasquita in Carmen.
[5] Kim made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2007 as Barbarina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro[6] and since then sang at the Met in the roles of Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
Kim has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including an award from the Sullivan Foundation in 2006,[10] the Sarasota Opera Guild's Leo Rogers Scholarship,[10] and the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation's Rose Ann Grund Scholarship.
[10] At Music Academy of the West, she received the Encouragement Award of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Song Competition.