Dongmin Kim completed an M.A. in Korean Second Language Pedagogy from Korea University and holds a Ph.D. in Korean linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is a Certified OPI Tester from ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). Before coming to NYU in 2015, he taught at Middlebury College and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.