[4] In 2010, Kim appeared at her first ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich where she took the bronze in the junior category of the women's 10 meter air pistol.

[5] In 2024, she contested that year's Asian Shooting Championships, where she won a silver medal in the 25 meter pistol women.

[9] She contested the 2024 Summer Olympics later that year, where she finished with silver at that games' women's 10 meter air pistol behind her Korean compatriot Oh Ye-jin.

[11] For this, some dubbed her the "coolest person on the planet,"[14] others complimented her "main character energy,"[13] and GQ described her as the games' first breakout star.

[4] On 30 August 2024, W Korea and Louis Vuitton published a series of photographs and videos with Kim Yeji as the model.