Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
Director of the Biocreative Orthodontic Strategy Center, Kyung Hee University, Dental Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Dr. Kim is a Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontics School of Dentistry at Kyung Hee University.


He is also a visiting associate professor of the Department of Orthodontics at Saint Louis University, and Visiting Professor and Honorary Head of the Department of Orthodontics, National Hospital of Odontology and Stomatology in Hochiminh City Vietnam, Orthodontic Expert, Harbin City 2 nd Hospital, Harbin, China, Clinical Adjunct Professor, Dalian Medical University, China.

Dr. Kim obtained an Orthodontic certificate and MS in the Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, and a PhD in the Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry at the Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He was the volunteer faculty of the Division of Orthodontics, Department of Orofacial Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).


Dr Kim was selected as one of the 100 Top Authors of 100 years of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (AJODO) in 2015. One of his research papers (Angle Orthod 2015; 85: 253-262) was named the winner of the 2017 Edward H Angle Research Prize as the best paper published in The Angle Orthodontist. Dr. Kim has lectured and published nationally and internationally on temporary skeletal anchorage devices (mini-implant and miniplate), corticotomy-related orthodontics, Digital Orthodontics, and Biocreaetive Orthodontics Strategy (BOS). He is the author of ten international text books and over 170 international and domestic scientific articles about this topic.