Kim Sung-joo (born October 10, 1972) is a South Korean television host and a former announcer.

[1] Born and raised in North Chungcheong Province, Kim is the son of a Presbyterian minister.

[2] He attended high school in Cheongju and moved to Seoul, where he graduated from Chung-Ang University.

[3] Kim started his broadcasting career in 1995 as a public service announcement reader with the government channel KTV.

While with MBC he became popular as a current affairs presenter and notably covered the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups.