Dr. Kim’s recent research areas include observational studies of: 
1) star formation and protoplanetary disk evolution in diverse star forming environments; 
especially focusing on UV environments and externally photoevaporating protoplanetary disks 
("proplyds”) in Orion star forming regions; 
2) accretion and disk winds of young protoplanetary disks from very early phase of 
disk evolution to diskless young stars. 
3) kinematics of young stars for membership and proplyd lifetime problem;  
4) variability of young stars; 
5) star formation and disk evolution in star forming reginos in outer galaxies.
Dr. Kim uses multi-wavelength observations using both ground-based and
space telescopes from X-ray to radio wavelengths.