Born in 1974, Kim Kyung-Hoon majored in photography at Chung-Ang University, and received a master’s degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication.
He joined Reuters in 2002. In 2019, he was one of a team of Reuters’ photography staff awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, and released a book with the title translated as ‘Guide you through photos: Hidden stories behind photographs’.