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John Kim Austin and his work (8)
John Kim Austin
Person
John Kim Austin is an Austin, Texas writer and cultural observer and the author of The Soul of Austin, a free 2026 guide to the city's music, history, food, neighborhoods and changing identity.
John Kim Austin is an Austin, Texas writer and cultural observer and the author of The Soul of Austin , a free 2026 guide to the city's music, history, food, neighborhoods and changing identity. He lives and works in Austin, and the city is the subject of nearly everything he writes. His work focuses on the history, growth and identity of Austin: the people, neighborhoods, music, food and independent spirit that turned a regional college town into one of the most talked-about cities in the United States. He combines historical research with local storytelling and commentary on the ci
About John Kim Austin
John Kim Austin's writing sits between history and commentary. It is not a travel guide and does not try to be a complete history; entire libraries already cover Texas history, Austin politics, architecture and music. His aim is narrower and, he would argue, harder: to describe the personality of a city. That means starting with the record, from the settlement of Waterloo to the opening of the University of Texas in 1883, and then asking what those facts still mean on a Tuesday night on South Congress. He writes for longtime residents and newcomers alike, and he treats both of their
About John Kim Austin
The Soul of Austin
CreativeWork
A free 2026 cultural guide to Austin, Texas by John Kim Austin, in an introduction and eleven chapters.
The Soul of Austin is a free cultural guide to Austin, Texas, written by John Kim Austin and released on May 15, 2026. In 69 pages it explains how a laid-back college town on the Colorado River became one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, and asks what that growth means for the music, food, neighborhoods and independent spirit that made people love it in the first place. It is not a travel guide, and it is not a complete history. As the introduction puts it, entire libraries already exist on Texas history, Austin politics, architecture and music. The book aims instead at
The Soul of Austin
Austin, Texas
Place
Capital of Texas; the subject of John Kim Austin's writing.
Austin Life
CreativeWork
Essay by John Kim Austin.
Austin is a city where people move fast, live loud, and yet somehow still slow down together. You can sit at a coffee shop at 8 a.m. and watch three bands plan their next show, a tech crew build pitch decks, and a retired couple play dominoes, all at the same table. Part of writing about Austin is capturing that collision: the way stories overlap. Austin life isn't one narrative. It's thousands. Bikers racing past East Side murals. Students at UT napping between classes under the shade of live oaks. Entrepreneurs workshopping ideas over breakfast tacos. Newcomers arrive every week, a
Austin Life
Austin Neighborhoods
CreativeWork
Essay by John Kim Austin.
Austin is a patchwork quilt, each square stitched with a different thread. Hyde Park whispers: old homes, quiet streets, the sound of strolling families. South Congress sings: boots stepping, guitars tuning, neon flickering late into the night. East Austin used to feel forgotten. Now it's the center of murals, craft beer, and pop-up galleries where every wall has a story, sometimes sprayed on in paint, sometimes told out loud. Zilker is sunlight, running trails, and the smell of fresh grass at Zilker Park. Mueller is families pushing strollers past modern landscaping, local markets s
Austin Neighborhoods
The People of Austin
CreativeWork
Essay by John Kim Austin.
If you want to understand Austin, don't look at the skyline. Listen to the people. The barista who remembers your order. The guitarist on a street corner playing for passing strangers. The coder typing late at night, building something that might one day change lives. Austin is built by people who believe in possibility: musicians who never stopped playing, chefs who experiment with flavors until they work, and writers who keep filling notebooks even when no one is watching. It's also built by quiet people: janitors, teachers, EMTs, neighbors who water each other's plants. The unseen
The People of Austin
Austin Culture
CreativeWork
Essay by John Kim Austin.
Austin's culture is part live soundtrack, part late-night diner light, part mural fading in the heat. It's the way a guitar riff slips across the river, the way breakfast tacos are a love language, and the way every festival rewrites the city for a few days at a time. Music, food and street corners. The stories here circle around Austin's everyday rituals: the venues that feel like second homes, the food trucks tucked into corners of gravel and neon, and the conversations that start with “What are you listening to right now?” and never really end. Festivals and seasons. In Austin, th
Austin Culture
Night Walk Along the River
CreativeWork
Short fiction by John Kim Austin.
A short work of fiction set in Austin, Texas. I didn't plan on ending up near the river that night. Austin wasn't the kind of place I expected to stay in this long. I thought I'd pass through, two months, maybe three, and then leave when the heat wrapped around me like a stubborn hand refusing to let go. But time works differently here. That night started on a porch in Hyde Park, where cicadas hummed loud enough to drown the thoughts in your head. Three of us sat on mismatched chairs drinking cold Topo Chico, talking about plans we pretended to have. Someone mentioned the moon was fu
Night Walk Along the River
People documented in the Which John Kim? reference (18)
John Y.S. Kim, MD, FACS
Person
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, specializing in breast and body reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
John Y.S. Kim, MD, FACS practices plastic and reconstructive surgery at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, with a subspecialty focus on breast and body aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, including breast cancer reconstruction. He holds NPI 1932130135, registered under the taxonomy code for plastic surgery. He is Professor of Surgery, in the Division of Plastic Surgery, and of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He earned his MD at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1997, completed a residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 2003, and complete
Medicine
John S. Kim, MD
Person
Pediatric cardiologist and pediatric critical care physician at Children's Hospital Colorado, genuinely named John S. Kim.
John S. Kim, MD is a pediatric cardiologist with a subspecialty in pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado, on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. His clinical focus includes hemostasis and thrombosis management and complications of mechanical circulatory support. He holds NPI 1396904942. He is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics-Cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned a BS (2002) and MS (2004) at the University of Arizona, an MD at the University of Arizona College of Medicine (2008), completed a pediatrics residency at the
Medicine
John Kim, MD
Person
Neuroradiologist at Michigan Medicine, board certified in diagnostic radiology with a neuroradiology subspecialty certification.
John Kim, MD is a neuroradiologist at Michigan Medicine, with a subspecialty focus on advanced MRI techniques, pediatric and adult neuroimaging, and MR safety. He holds NPI 1255565842, enumerated in 2009 and registered under taxonomies covering both diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Michigan Medical School. He earned a BS in Bioengineering at Cornell University (2001–2005) and an MD at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (2005–2009), completed a radiology residency at University of Iowa Hospit
Medicine
John Sang Hee Kim, MD
Person
Family medicine physician in private practice in Austin, affiliated with Victory Medical and the Privia Medical Group network.
John Sang Hee Kim, MD practices family medicine at Victory Medical, part of Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast PLLC, with locations in Austin and Westlake Hills, Texas. He holds NPI 1427123900 and Texas medical license K2051, enumerated November 21, 2006. He earned his MD at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston in 1994 and completed a Family Practice residency at John Sealy Hospital / UTMB from 1994 to 1997. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine. Public directories disagree on his hospital privileges — one lists Dell Seton Medical Center, anoth
Medicine
John S. Kim, DDS
Person
A general dentist registered in Chicago; beyond his NPI and state license, no primary source describing his education or training could be located.
John S. Kim, DDS is a general dentist registered under NPI 1922098748, with Illinois dental license 019-024580, enumerated October 24, 2005. The registered practice address is 4044 N Narragansett Ave, Chicago, IL 60634. No primary practice website could be located for this record. His dental school, residency or additional training, and any board or specialty certification are genuinely unknown rather than simply omitted — no institutional source documenting them has been found, and none is claimed here. A practice name, "J Kim Dental Ltd," appears in a business listing directory but
Medicine
John S. Kim
Person
Co-founder and chief executive of Sendbird, a San Mateo-based conversational and AI-agent customer-experience platform.
John S. Kim co-founded Sendbird in 2013, alongside Brandon Jeon and Harry Kim, and continues to serve as the company's chief executive as of 2026, per the company's own site and recent product coverage attributing statements to "CEO John Kim." Sendbird began as a messaging API platform and has since described itself as an AI-agent customer-experience platform, with product lines including Agent Steward and a branded offering called Delight.ai — Delight.ai is a Sendbird product line, not a separate company. The company raised a Series C round in April 2021 of $100 million at a $1 bill
Business, Technology and Law
John Kim
Person
Co-founder and corporate-development lead at Lila Sciences, a Flagship Pioneering AI-for-science venture.
John Kim is a co-founder of Lila Sciences, an AI-for-science venture incubated by Flagship Pioneering, where he serves as President of Corporate Development and Chair, according to the company's own team page. His prior roles include Chief Client Officer at General Catalyst, positions at J.P. Morgan, Court Square Capital, and Kelso & Company, and an early-career start in marketing at IBM. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics, earned magna cum laude, from Brown University. Several third-party business-data aggregators continue to list Kim's role as Managi
Business, Technology and Law
John Kim
Person
Co-Chief Executive Officer and director of Empery Digital Inc., the Nasdaq-listed company formerly known as Volcon Inc.
John Kim serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director of Empery Digital Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company that was formerly named Volcon Inc. He shares the Co-CEO title with Ryan Lane, who also serves as Chairman. Kim joined the company's board as an independent director in July 2021, became CEO in February 2024, and moved into the Co-CEO structure in July 2025 following the company's rebrand from Volcon to Empery Digital, per the company's SEC filings and investor-relations page. Company filings describe his earlier career as founder and CEO of Super73 Inc., an electric-bicycle c
Business, Technology and Law
John H. Kim
Person
Founder of The Kim Law Firm in Houston, board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
John H. Kim founded The Kim Law Firm in Houston, Texas, and is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a state-recognized certification that requires demonstrated experience and testing in a specific practice area beyond ordinary bar admission. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1992, along with the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas, the Fifth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. Supreme Court, according to his firm's own at
Business, Technology and Law
John Kim
Person
Chief Legal Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ: CTSH).
John Kim serves as Chief Legal Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Cognizant Technology Solutions, a Nasdaq-listed company, according to his biography on Cognizant's own corporate-governance leadership page. He joined Cognizant in November 2019 as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Global Commercial Contracts, became interim General Counsel in January 2021, was named Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer in March 2021, and moved into his current combined role of Chief Legal Officer and Chief Admin
Business, Technology and Law
John Kim
Person
Of Counsel in the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's New York office.
John Kim practices as Of Counsel in the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's New York office, according to his profile on the firm's own site. He is admitted to practice in New York. He earned his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, graduating cum laude, and holds a BA in Biology from Rice University, earned in 1995. He is one of several unrelated attorneys named John Kim documented on this site, and his practice at a large corporate law firm in New York has no connection to the personal injury, litigation, or in-hou
Business, Technology and Law
J. John Kim
Person
Partner at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, practicing business litigation, trusts and estates litigation, and cannabis and hemp law.
J. John Kim is a partner at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C., practicing in business and commercial litigation, trusts, estates and fiduciary litigation, and cannabis and hemp law, according to his profile on the firm's own site. He is admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey. Before joining Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, he worked as an associate at Kasowitz Benson Torres and at Chadbourne & Parke. He holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, earned in 2004, and a BA from Boston University, earned magna cum laude in 2001. His name is styled with a middle initial —
Business, Technology and Law
John Kim
Person
Senior Foreign Attorney at Lee & Ko in Seoul, practicing intellectual property litigation, international arbitration, and antitrust law.
John Kim practices as a Senior Foreign Attorney at Lee & Ko, a law firm based in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on intellectual property litigation, international arbitration, and antitrust matters, according to his profile on the firm's own site. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia (1999), Maryland (1997), and California (2009), and is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a JD from American University Washington College of Law, earned in 1997, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, earned in 1992. His practice, based in
Business, Technology and Law
John Harlan Kim
Person
Australian actor with recurring television and film roles who is billed simply as "John Kim" on some credits, which is the direct source of the generic "john kim actor" search.
John Harlan Kim is an actor with a run of scripted television and film credits confirmed through official studio and streamer press biographies. He played Ezekiel Jones, a series regular, on TNT's The Librarians (2014-2018); Officer Henderson in Warner Bros.' The Little Things (2021); Toby in Netflix's Purple Hearts (2022); Albert Han across multiple seasons of Fox's 9-1-1 (2020-2023); Bobby in Apple TV+'s The Last Thing He Told Me (2023); the voice of Hailey in Apple TV+'s animated series WondLa (2024-2025); Blaise Powell, a series regular, on Prime Video's Cruel Intentions (2024);
Media and Public Life
John Kim
Person
Los Angeles-based LMFT, author and podcaster who publishes and speaks publicly as "The Angry Therapist," focused on relationship patterns and self-worth.
John Kim is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in the Los Angeles area who writes, speaks and podcasts publicly under the name "The Angry Therapist." He describes his approach as "self-help in a shot glass," positioned as an alternative to traditional weekly office therapy, with a focus on relationship patterns, self-worth and singles' personal development. He is a contributor to Psychology Today and has founded a life-coach training company, Lumia. His books include The Angry Therapist: A No BS Guide to Finding and Living Your Own Truth (Parallax Press, 2017), I U
Media and Public Life
John Sang Hee Kim, MD
Person
Family medicine physician in Austin and Westlake Hills who dominates local search results for a doctor named John Kim.
John Sang Hee Kim, MD practices family medicine in Austin and Westlake Hills, Texas, at Victory Medical, part of Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast PLLC. He holds NPI 1427123900 (National Provider Identifier, the ten-digit number the federal government assigns to every US clinician who bills for care) and Texas medical license K2051, enumerated in 2006. He earned his MD at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston in 1994 and completed a Family Practice residency at John Sealy Hospital / UTMB from 1994 to 1997. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Austin
Rev. Jungtack "John" Kim
Person
Pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Hutto, within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin. Publicly documented, but thinly.
Rev. Jungtack "John" Kim serves as pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Hutto, Texas, part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin, which covers Williamson County and the wider Austin metro area. The diocesan clergy directory lists him as "Rev. John Kim"; the parish's own staff page gives the fuller "Rev. Jungtack 'John' Kim, Pastor" — the same individual, confirmed by matching parish, address, and phone number across both listings. Beyond his name, title, and parish assignment, the diocese publishes no biographical detail about him, and this record does not add any. A 2022 paris
Austin
John Kim
Person
Co-Chief Executive Officer and director of Empery Digital Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company headquartered in the Austin metro area.
John Kim serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director of Empery Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: EMPD), a Nasdaq-listed company formerly named Volcon Inc. and headquartered in the Austin metro area. He shares the Co-CEO title with Ryan Lane, who also serves as Chairman. He joined the company's board as an independent director in July 2021, became CEO in February 2024, and moved into the Co-CEO structure in July 2025 following the company's rebrand and a change in its business strategy. Company filings describe his earlier career as founder and CEO of Super73 Inc., an electric-bicycle com
Austin
Reference sections (4)
Medicine
Taxonomy
Physicians and dentists who share the name.
Business, Technology and Law
Taxonomy
Founders, executives and attorneys who share the name.
Media and Public Life
Taxonomy
People in film, television and publishing who share the name.
The Name Itself
Taxonomy
Where the name comes from and why it collides so often.
Concepts (8)
Kim (Korean surname)
Concept
The most common Korean surname.
Bon-gwan
Concept
The Korean clan seat system.
Korean name
Concept
Structure and conventions of Korean names.
Revised Romanization of Korean
Concept
The official South Korean romanization standard.
McCune-Reischauer
Concept
An older Korean romanization system.
National Provider Identifier
Concept
The US clinician identifier issued by CMS.
Jonny Kim
Concept
NASA astronaut frequently returned for searches spelled John Kim.
John Harlan Kim
Concept
Actor billed on some productions simply as John Kim.