Minkyung Kim researches organizational communication and its impacts on community resilience and sustainability. Specifically, she studies organizations serving vulnerable populations and how they leverage and navigate communication processes like inter-organizational networks to maximize their capacity for community impact. She also researches symbolic, material, and mediated artifacts as forms of organizing and how such empower culturally and politically marginalized communities. Kim’s works have been published in the Journal of Communication, Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and mainstream and ethnic news media in South Korea and Europe. 

As a former PR specialist, Kim worked in the private and nonprofit sectors. She is also heavily involved in ESL education in Korea and has written a series of textbooks for novice to advanced English learners. She served as a key member in launching a new 1:1 English education platform for professionals in finance and engineering.