Born in Texas, Kim started production as an intern at NPR in Washington DC and later moved to CNN in Hong Kong. In 2010, he worked as an Associate Producer on the Korean remake of John "Woo's A Better Tomorrow" and has since directed videos for Google, The Wall Street Journal and Elite Models. He recently founded a micro-documentary web-series called "Google Glass Diaries" which documents the lives of people around the world through their own POV.