Kim played as a defender for Kookmin Bank FC, an amateur club team in South Korea, from 1980 to 1991.

In 1992, he retired as a player and coached Kookmin Bank until 1997, when the club dissolved.

[2] In September 1998, he moved to Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma to work as a coach.

Kim was appointed as the manager of Chinese Super League side Henan Construction on 12 November 2010,[3] but was sacked in the middle of the 2011 season on 23 May 2011.

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