Kim's first dream was to become a doctor. Instead, she went to engineering school and soon found out that her true calling was indeed to help people be healthy. She earned her diploma in massage therapy from the Northwest Academy of Massotherapy in Maumee, Ohio and gained licensure from her native state of Ohio in 1998, where she then worked for herself and at various spas to become the best massage therapist she could be.

After watching the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, Kim set a goal to travel to Greece, where the Olympics originated, and to work with Olympic athletes. To prepare herself to meet this goal, she attended many sports therapy seminars and worked with ultra distance runners in the USA Track and Field 24 Hour National Championship and also local triathlons in Toledo, Ohio. After gaining this experience she was chosen from an elite group of massage therapists who had worked with professional athletes to go to Athens for the 2004 Olympics. There she was granted access to the Olympic Village to work with athletes in their training facilities.

Kim furthered her studies in Neuromuscular Massage Therapy and also had the opportunity to work with chiropractors who treated Cincinnati Bengals players. In 2005, she moved to Huntsville for a couple years to work as a massage therapist and then returned in 2009. After many years of doing massage, she started looking for another way to provide people with alternative health care. She considered the fields of naturopathy, chiropractic, and prosthetics before deciding to pursue a career as an acupuncturist.

In 2014, Kim completed the four-year Diploma of Acupuncture program at the Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in Sugar Grove, North Carolina. She gained her acupuncture certification through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and established her private clinic in Huntsville, Alabama.

Kim's next goal is to create a community acupuncture clinic in Huntsville where she can work with other licensed acupuncturists to serve the public, including military families, in a different setting.

In her free time, Kim enjoys spending time with her dogs and hiking, camping, kayaking and also participates in various shooting related sports.