She is currently director of PERA (Park's Extensive Reading Academy) and a board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation. She was an international juror for the Language Learner Literature Awards. She has actively engaged in promoting Extensive Reading and Listening in Korea while teaching at Gyeongsang National University (GNU) as a suspervising professor of the English Only Zone Program (EAZY). and General Director of GNU English Camp. She also taught elemenatry school and middle school English teachers how to teach English using storybooks at teacher training programs in Korea. She received her doctorate in English Language and Literature from GNU in 2003. Her dissertation was "The Effects of Repeated Storybook Reading on the Language Development of Young EFL Young Learners."

Kim, Young-Im(김영임) earned her MA in TESOL at the University of Reading in the U.K. She finished her Ph. D course in English Literature at Chonnam National University in Korea. She is currently a president of KONA Storybook Center and KONA English Center. She has also taught English for adults at the Life-long Education Center of Gwangju Metropolitan City. She taught English using storybooks at Gwangju University and the Lifelong Education Center of Gwangju National University of Education. Her interests include extensive listening and reading and cultural exchange for kids and adults through volunteering. She runs a UNESCO KONA Volunteers for disadvantaged kids since 2004 and shared wisdom through storybooks as a life mentor. She will describe how the class was mutually beneficial for both adult students and kids, as well as for the global community during the Covid 19 period.