대학에서 일문학을, 대학원에서 경제학을 공부한 뒤 출판사에서 오랫동안 편집자로 일했다. 지금은 그동안 쌓은 경험을 바탕으로 출판기획자로 활동하면서, 삶을 변화시키고 새로운 세상을 열어 주는 책을 찾아 우리말로 옮기고 있다.
옮긴 책으로는 『인생의 문을 여는 열쇠』, 『파리의 하늘 아래, 아들과 함께 3000일』, 『시간 낭비를 확 줄여주는 초효율 공부법』, 『자신을 컨트롤하는 초집중력』, 『싸우는 식물』, 『과학의 대이론』, 『IT 용어 도감』, 『통계학 도감』, 『식품 보존 방법』, 『수수께끼가 있는 아침 식사』, 『심리학 도감』, 『잠 못들 정도로 재미있는 이야기-뇌』 등이 있다.

세종대학교 만화애니메이션학과 학사 졸업 후, 세종대학교 대학원 만화애니메이션 석사 졸업하며 논문으로 석사학위논문: 미국 슈퍼히어로 코믹스 작화의 특징 연구 - 마블 코믹스(Marvel Comics)의 작화 사례를 중심으로 (A Study on Features of Drawing American Superhero Comics - Focusing on Drawing Comics the Marvel Way)이 있다.

이후 애니메이션 [배트맨], [벤텐], [turok], [슈퍼히어로] 등 다수의 작품에 원화가로, 영화 [김씨표류기], [박쥐], [구르믈 버서난 달처럼] 등 다수의 작품에 콘티 제작에 참여하며 ‘Marvel’ 코믹스 연재 작품 ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier Infinite Comic #1’, ‘Infinity: the Silver Surfer: Against the Tide’ 단편, ‘Age of Ultron’, ‘Venom’, ‘X-force’ 시리즈, ‘Marvel’ 커버 일러스트 작업, ‘BLACK PANTHER AND AGENTS OF WAKANDA’ 외 다수, 다수의 미국 게임회사 일러스트 작업하였다. 또한 《김락희의 인체 드로잉》(성안당) 작법서를 출간하였으며, 현재
유튜브 채널 ‘rockhe kim’을 운영 중이다.

Rockhe Kim was highly interested in three dimensional sculptures and drawings since he was a little kid. He preferred superhero genres than Japanese cartoons, so he always watched Superman and Batman TV series on Sundays. As for the actors, he liked powerful characters with muscular bodies, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hanging around with a friend whose dream was to become a cartoonist, naturally he started to dream of being a cartoonist himself as well. He gained practical experience from animation company and film storyboard company as he turned twenty years old, and draw as much as he would like to after he went to the university. From this portfolio he had built, he was selected as a writer for the national support projects and able to carve out a career in the U.S. comics industry and until now, he has been working nonstop by drawing various illustrations and concept art work for domestic and foreign market.

He obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Comics and Animation Tech at Sejong University, and published the paper A Study on Features of Drawing American Superhero Comics. He participated in Batman series of Lotto Animations and film storyboards of the movie Castaway On The Moon(2009) and Blades Of Blood(2010). He won an excellence award in 8th Korea Comics Contest for his short animation JungSun Arirang, and was selected as a supporting writer for ‘K-Comics Global Co-creation Work’, sponsored by KOMACON(Korea Manhwa Contents Agency). He serialized the feature-length cartoon film X-FORCE in American comics MARVEL, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Infinity: Against The Tide for short cartoons. Some of his cover illustrations include: Age of Ultron, The Incredible HULK, Spider Man: Amazing Fantasy, Black Panther: Agents Of Wakanda and more. On top of that, he has worked for various domestic and foreign game concept art. He continues to work as an illustrator and is operating his Youtube channel of anatomy drawing, ‘Rockhe kim’.