Dr. Kim is an assistant professor at Soonchunhyang University's Department of Sports, Leisure, and Creation. She was granted a doctorate under the theme of "Serious Leisure Scale(SLS) development through Serious Leisure Conceptualization" at Seoul National University. In addition, she completed the scale through the study of 'Reinventory of the SLS: development of SLSII (2015)'. For 20 years, she has received several research subsidies from the Korea Research Foundation and has conducted various studies on serious leisure for sports participants. In particular, the serious leisure scale she developed is included in 'https://www.seriousleisure.net/'' and is used in many studies. Recently, she is conducting research focusing on cost and career in serious leisure.