 In 2006, he was decorated as "Artist of the Year" by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.He received an honorary invitation from Yale University and Rutgers University to be a visiting professor.Kim has been a jury member for competitions such as the Busoni, the Gina Bachauer, Clara Haskil, the Beethoven (Bonn), the Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Sendai, the Hamamatsu in Japan and the Paderewski, the Rachmaninov (Moscow), the China International Competition, Leeds International Competition, and Queen Elisabeth among others.