Career
He defeated Uzbekistan"s Ravshan Ruzikulov for a gold medal in the 66 kg division at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. He also captured a silver medal at the 2005 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary, losing out to Bulgaria"s Nikolay Gergov. Kim represented South of Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men"s 66 kg class.
Unfortunately, he lost the qualifying round match by a superiority decision to Iran"s Ali Mohammadi, with a two-set technical score (1–1, 1–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.
