Roy Kim

Roy Kim is one of those rare finds where the voice hits you before you even know his backstory — warm, unhurried, genuinely soulful in a way that stands apart from the polished K-pop machine. He shot to fame winning Superstar K 4 in 2012, which is impressive on its own, but what really gets me is that he then went off to study at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. rather than just riding the wave. That's a guy who actually wants to understand the world he's writing songs about. And write he does — as a singer-songwriter, his folk-tinged acoustic work has a lived-in intimacy that feels personal rather than manufactured. Still only in his early thirties, I think the most interesting chapter of his career is still ahead of him.

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Name (English)

Roy Kim

Name (Japanese)

ロイ・キム

Reading

ろい・きむ

Born

July 3, 1993 (age 33)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

singer / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rooster

University

Georgetown University

• Official sitehttp://roykim.interest.me/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/roykimmusic/
• Xhttps://x.com/official_roykim
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Kim
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11773473

Tags

• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.