 German Kim

German Nikolaevich Kim () is Director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Al-Farabi University, Kazakhstan and one of the leading internationally recognized scholar of the Koryo-saram.Kim was born 16 July 1953 in Ushtobe, Taldy-Kurgan Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, one of three sons of Nikolai Kim (also known by his Korean name Kim Dyunbin), a safety engineer and premises manager at the Korean Theatre of Kazakhstan.