Jeehyun Kim is Adjunct Language Lecturer of Korean language at the Department of East Asian Studies at NYU.

She received her M.A. in Cognitive Science, specializing in non-native speech perception, from Seoul National University, Korea. Her interests in foreign language acquisition and Korean language pedagogy led her to earn a Korean language teacher certificate after completing the Korean Language Teachers Training Program at Language Education Institute of Seoul National University, Korea. Afterwards, she continued her studies and earned a second M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is interested in developing task-based classroom activities at the collegiate level.