[1] Her grandmother moved from Seoul to Canada to raise Kim and her older brother, Richard.

While at Ryerson, she volunteered at campus station CKLN-FM as an announcer and voice over artist, and worked as an intern at MuchMusic.

[1] After graduating, she worked as a videographer at MuchMusic before joining CTV's The Chatroom as a music reporter and becoming special correspondent for Canadian Idol for two seasons.

[4] In February 2010, Kim joined etalk host Ben Mulroney along with etalk reporters Leah Miller, Elaine Lui, Susie Wall and Jeanne Beker in Vancouver to cover the 2010 Olympic Winter Games for CTV.

She travelled to Zambia to generate awareness and gain first-hand knowledge of the strength and resiliency of women in the developing world.