Kim is the first woman to join the leadership of the South Korean parliament and become its deputy speaker.

[2] In 2005 she received Order of Civil Merit for her advocacy work on women's rights - namely in abolishing patriarchal Hoju system and enacting special law on sexual violence - as one of heads of now-Women Link, a South Korean NGO.

Kim was the chair of Gender Equality and Family Committee of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2014.

[4] Kim also served as the deputy chair of Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy led by President Moon Jae-in from 2017 to 2020.

[5][6] Kim holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Ewha Womans University.