[1] After earning her undergraduate degree, she moved to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a research scientist.

[1] Her doctoral research considered the development of arene-based charge transfer complexes.

[4] EFC materials enhance electrochromic (EC) displays' applications in dark conditions and increase their potential for security, encryption, and analytical uses.

She and her research group have improved EC/EFC materials by designing substituents to optimize EC bistability in order to prevent charge leakage and introducing TiO2 nanoparticles (TNP) as a transparent ion storage layer to lower power consumption.

[4] In 2018 Kim was made Chair of the American Chemical Society Korean chapter.