| Lim Kim | |||||||
| Birth Name: | Kim Ye-rim | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 21 January 1994 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||
| Genre: | K-pop, indie pop, folk rock | ||||||
| Occupation: | Singer | ||||||
| Years Active: | โ โ | ||||||
| Label: | New Entry | ||||||
| Associated Acts: | Togeworl | ||||||
| Module: |
| ||||||
Lim Kim (born January 21, 1994), birth name Kim Ye-rim, is a South Korean singer and a member of the band Togeworl with Do Dae-yoon. She competed in the Superstar K3 singing competition as a member of Togeworl, placing third. In 2013, Kim debuted as a solo singer, and is known for the song "All Right." She left Mystic Entertainment after her contract ended in 2016.[1]
Kim was born in South Korea. For high school, she decided to go overseas, and attended Leonia High School in New Jersey.[2] While attending high school in 2011, she heard about the New York City auditions for the South Korean singing competition Superstar K3. She asked a fellow Korean student Do Dae-yoon, who was known as a great guitarist at the school, to audition together, even though she did not know him well.[3] He agreed, and they formed the band Togeworl. Togeworl managed to pass the audition, and flew to Seoul to compete. The duo were successful, and were picked to be mentored by singer-songwriter Yoon Jong-shin.[4] Eventually they finished third in the competition, after Ulala Session and Busker Busker.[5]
After the competition, Kim and Do remained in South Korea, where they continued to receive musical training, and signed a contract with Mystic89.[4] [5] Togeworl released their first song in February 2012 for the soundtrack for the TVN variety show The Romantic. Kim began attending high school in Bundang District, Seoul in March 2012.[2]
In March 2012, Kim made an appearance in the drama Flower Band,[6] and released two songs for the soundtrack, "Two Months" and "Love U Like U," which was a duet with L from the boyband Infinite.
Though Togeworl planned to debut in 2013, member Do Dae-yoon had to return to the United States, due to issues with high school.[7] Because of this, it was decided Kim should debut as a solo artist before reuniting as a duo.[4]
In June 2013, Kim released the extended play A Voice, led by the song "All Right." The song was successful, reaching number two on Gaon's singles chart.[8] Then, she released a second extended play in September, Her Voice, and a full-length album in November called Goodbye 20.
In April 2015, she released her third extended play, Simple Mind. The track "Awoo" was the only K-pop song included on Spins 101 Best Songs of 2015, coming in at No. 51. In the article, Andrew Unterberger praised the song, saying "no [American] pop song this year breathed like this Korean emoji of a pop song" and calling it "a kinetic environment bursting with creativity, synthesis, and an intrinsic passion".[9] Billboards 20 Best K-Pop Songs of 2015 ranked the song at No. 8, claiming that Kim outdid herself and praising the song's "mix of woozy synths, trance-like chants, and trappy snares [...] pulled off with a sense of sophistication that's hard to make believable."[10]
On May 30, 2016, Mystic Entertainment posted an official statement announcing Kim's departure from the label after her contract has ended.[11] [12]
After an over-three-year hiatus, Lim Kim released "Sal-ki", her first published song as a rapper, on May 24, 2019.[13] Her new EP Generasian was released independently on October 15, 2019. Generasian won the award for Best Dance & Electronic Album and "Sal-ki" won Best Dance & Electronic Song at the 2020 Korean Music Awards.[14]
On December 9, 2021, Kim signed a contract with New Entry.[15]
Kim is known for her empowering lyrics, which demonstrate her interpretation of what it means to be a modern-day woman and attempt to tear down the Orientalist stereotypes of the West.[16]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR | ||||
| A Voice |
| 15 |
| |
| Her Voice |
| 16 |
| |
| Simple Mind |
| 16 |
| |
| Generasian |
| โ |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR | |||
| Naver Music Showcase (Korean: ๊น์๋ฆผ์ ๊ฐ๋ก์๊ธธ ์นดํ์์ : ๋ค์ด๋ฒ๋ฎค์ง ์์ ๊ฐ์ํ) |
| โ | |
| Beat House Live # 2 (Korean: ๋นํธํ์ฐ์ค ๋ผ์ด๋ธ No. 2 โ ๊น์๋ฆผ) |
| โ |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Sales | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR Gaon [22] | KOR Hot 100 [23] | |||||
| As lead artist | ||||||
| "Colorring" (Korean: ์ปฌ๋ฌ๋ง) | 2013 | 16 | 7 |
| A Voice | |
| "All Right" | 2 | 3 |
| |||
| "Rain" | 5 | 7 |
| Her Voice | ||
| "Voice" | 7 | 14 |
| |||
| "I'm Asking You" (Korean: ๋ถํํ ๊ฒ์) | 85 | โ |
| The Suspicious Housekeeper OST | ||
| "Goodbye 20" | 12 | 18 |
| Goodbye 20 | ||
| "Happy Me" (Korean: ํ๋ณตํ ๋๋ฅผ) | 4 | 3 |
| Reply 1994 OST | ||
| "Awoo" | 2015 | 22 |
| Simple Mind | ||
| "Love Game" (Korean: ์๋ฉด ๋ค์ณ) | 29 |
| ||||
| "Who Are You?" (Korean: ๋, ๋๊ตฌ๋) | โ | Hello Monster OST | ||||
| "Stay Ever" | โ |
| rowspan="2" | |||
| "Sal-ki" | 2019 | โ | rowspan="14" | |||
| "Yellow" | โ | โ | Generasian | |||
| "Mong" | โ | โ | ||||
| "All Right Remix" | 2020 | โ | โ | rowspan="3" | ||
| "Mago" | 2021 | โ | โ | |||
| "Falling (Prod. by DPR Cream)" | โ | โ | ||||
| "Falling" | โ | โ | Begin Again Open Mic OST | |||
| "The Moment" | โ | โ | Reflection of You OST | |||
| "Veil" | 2022 | โ | โ | rowspan="2" | ||
| "Damn Cold" | 2023 | โ | โ | |||
| "Lion" | โ | โ | Webtoon Singer - Jeongnyeon OST | |||
| "Confess To You" | โ | โ | King the Land OST | |||
| "Already One Year" (Korean: ๋ฒ์จ ์ผ๋ ) | โ | โ | A Time Called You OST | |||
| "ULT" (Korean: ๊ถ) | 2024 | โ | โ | rowspan="1" | ||
| Collaborations | ||||||
| "Love U Like U" | 2012 | 27 | 48 |
| Flower Band OST | |
| "Soap" (Korean: ๋น๋) | 2013 | 43 | โ |
| Fall to Fly | |
| "Christmas Wishes" (Korean: ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค ์์) | 43 | โ |
| Mystic Holiday 2013 | ||
| "Roommate" (Korean: ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ) | 2014 | 40 | โ |
| Roommate OST | |
| "Winter of Haeundae" (Korean: ๊ฒจ์ธ ํด์ด๋) | 64 |
| rowspan="2" | |||
| "Myung Soo House Ddok Bbok I" (Korean: ๋ช
์๋ค ๋ก๋ณถ์ด) | 2 |
| ||||
| "His Habit" | โ | Timing | ||||
| "A Little Close" (Korean: ํด์ ๋ง๊ณ ํด) | 29 |
| Hi High | |||
| "Are You a Grown Up?" (Korean: ์ด๋ฅธ ๋ง๋) | 2015 | 90 |
| rowspan="2" | ||
| "Coffee" (Korean: ์ปคํผ) | 5 |
| ||||
| "Imagine" | 2021 | โ | Begin Again Open Mic OST | |||
| "Say Something" | โ | |||||
| "Love Me Crazy" | 2023 | โ | SM Station Season 4 | |||
| "Romantico" | โ | rowspan="2" | ||||
| "First Night" | 2025 | โ | ||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR Gaon | KOR Hot 100 | ||||
| "Without Knowing It All" (Korean: ์ ์์ง๋ ๋ชปํ๋ฉด์) | 2013 | 25 | 31 | A Voice | |
| "Alice" (Korean: ์บ๋ด์ ๋ง์ฅ๋) | 68 | โ | |||
| "Say Love" (Korean: ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค ๋งํด์) | 66 | 61 | Her Voice | ||
| "Urban Green" | 81 | โ | |||
| "Drunken Shrimp" | 87 | โ | |||
| "Truth Never Matters" (Korean: ์ธ์ ์ง์ค์ด ์ค์ํ๋ ์ ์์๋) | 88 | โ | |||
| "What Should I Do To You" (Korean: ๋ ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ข์๊น) | 57 | 40 | Goodbye 20 | ||
| "No More" | 2015 | 96 | Simple Mind | ||
| "Wind" (Korean: ๋ฐ๋์) | 63 | ||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Artist(s) | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR Gaon | KOR Hot 100 | |||||
| "Last Scene" (Korean: ๋ผ์คํธ ์ฌ) | 2014 | โ | philtre feat. Choiza & Lim Kim | Philtre : Scene #2 | ||
| "Someone I Know" (Korean: ์๋ ๋จ์) | โ | Cho Hyung Woo feat. Lim Kim | Him | |||
| "My Ballad" | 60 | Swings feat. Lim Kim | Vintage Swings | |||
| "Pianissimo" | 16 | Toy feat. Lim Kim | Da Capo | |||
| "Gondry" (Korean: ๊ณต๋๋ฆฌ) | 2015 | โ | Primary & Oh Hyuk feat. Lim Kim | Lucky You! | ||
| "Yellow (Only Onstage Ver.)" | 2020 | โ | Lim Kim | Only Onstage: 10 | ||
| "Waterfall" | 2022 | โ | Minho feat. Lim Kim | Chase | ||
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Entertain Us | Herself | |
| 2013 | Running Man | Herself | |
| 2013 | Monstar | Choi Kyung (young) | |
| 2012 | Flower Band | Ye-Rim (fictional character) | |
| 2012 | Superstar K3 | Herself |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5th Melon Music Awards | Best Newcomer | ||
| 15th Mnet Asian Music Awards | Best New Female Artist | |||
| 2014 | 28th Golden Disk Awards | Best Newcomer | ||
| 20th Korea Entertainment Arts Awards | Best Ballad Artist | |||
| 16th Mnet Asian Music Awards | Best OST | "Happy Me" (Reply 1994) | ||
| 2020 | 17th Korean Music Awards | Best Dance & Electronic Album | Generasian | |
| Album of the Year | ||||
| Best Dance & Electronic Song | "Sal-ki" | |||
| Song of the Year | ||||
| Artist of the Year | ||||
