The year he turned 25, he became head chef at Redwood Grill in Canada. In 2006, he began working as head chef at Alice’s Kitchen. In 2009, he became head chef at Grill Meg. In 2010, he became executive chef of Cereal Gourmet in Garosu-gil, Sinsa-dong, Seoul.
The breakthrough yearThe year he turned 36, he became known by appearing on Olive’s Sam and Raymon Cooking Time, a show in which he was paired with the chef Sam Kim.
In 2012, he became executive chef of Table on the Moon and first met the actress Kim Ji-woo in a segment of Olive Show. In 2013, he married Kim Ji-woo and opened the restaurant Midgard near Sinsa-dong that same year. In 2014, a daughter was born.
In 2015, he joined SBS’s Law of the Jungle in Indochina as the first chef on the show and also appeared on KBS Joy’s Hankkiui Pumgyeok. In 2017, he joined the chefs of JTBC’s Please Take Care of My Refrigerator.
In 2018, he appeared on Channel A’s Jibung Wiui Makgeolli and said he has a herniated disc. In 2019, he reopened Cereal Gourmet in Dongtan as Cereal Gourmet 2.0. In 2020, he opened the YouTube channel Insaeng Gogi.
In 2021, he became a judge on JTBC’s Cooking – The Birth of a Cooking King. In 2022, he cooked for a Black Desert Mobile user event. In 2023, he appeared on MBC’s Buddy Into the Wild and served a course meal on a deserted island.
In 2024, he said he had taken part in Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars season 1 as an adviser. In April 2025, he was head judge of a camping cooking festival, and in December he appeared on Culinary Class Wars season 2 as a white spoon. In 2026, he collaborated in turn with No More Pizza and Xylek Korea.
Raymon Kim (born May 5, 1975) became head chef at a restaurant in Canada in 2000, the year he turned 25, and became known in 2011, the year he turned 36, by appearing on Olive’s Sam and Raymon Cooking Time. He later appeared on Please Take Care of My Refrigerator and Culinary Class Wars season 2.
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Worked as head chef at the restaurant Redwood Grill in Canada, a post that lasted until 2004. He said he first entered this restaurant’s kitchen when he was 22.
Source 02 · Kyunghyang Shinmun (Korean) · Interview on life as a chef · opens in a new tabSource 01 · Ilgan Sports (Korean) · 2025 Camping Cooking Festival judges · opens in a new tabSource 03 · Etoday (Korean) · Kim Ji-woo’s husband Raymon Kim · opens in a new tabWorked as head chef at the restaurant Alice’s Kitchen, a post that lasted until 2008.
Source 01 · Ilgan Sports (Korean) · 2025 Camping Cooking Festival judges · opens in a new tabSource 03 · Etoday (Korean) · Kim Ji-woo’s husband Raymon Kim · opens in a new tabBecame head chef at the restaurant Grill Meg, a post that lasted until 2010.
Source 01 · Ilgan Sports (Korean) · 2025 Camping Cooking Festival judges · opens in a new tabSource 03 · Etoday (Korean) · Kim Ji-woo’s husband Raymon Kim · opens in a new tabBecame executive chef of the casual American dining restaurant Cereal Gourmet.
Source 31 · Seoul Shinmun (Korean) · Kim Ji-woo and Raymon Kim selfie · opens in a new tabSource 09 · Nocut News (Korean) · Wedding day · opens in a new tabBecame known to viewers by appearing on a cooking show paired with the chef Sam Kim. An August 2011 article lists it as “Olive Cooking Time Duet,” and season 2 ended on June 6, 2012.
Became executive chef of the restaurant Table on the Moon. Around this time he first met the actress Kim Ji-woo in the Olive Show segment Kitchen Fighter, as judge and contestant.
Source 10 · MK Sports (Korean) · Food allergies · opens in a new tabSource 03 · Etoday (Korean) · Kim Ji-woo’s husband Raymon Kim · opens in a new tabSource 09 · Nocut News (Korean) · Wedding day · opens in a new tabHeld a private wedding at Raum in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul. The marriage had been announced earlier that year, on Feb. 12.
Source 08 · TV Daily (Korean) · Who is Raymon Kim · opens in a new tabSource 09 · Nocut News (Korean) · Wedding day · opens in a new tabOpened a restaurant near Sinsa-dong, Seoul, with Kim Ji-woo. It had a menu for vegetarians, and he said part of the proceeds would be donated.
Source 14 · My Daily (Korean) · Charity restaurant opens · opens in a new tab The article is dated Sept. 10; the exact opening date could not be confirmed.A daughter was born to him and Kim Ji-woo.
Source 11 · Asia Economy (Korean) · Birth of a daughter · opens in a new tabJoined the filming in Vietnam. Star News says Raymon Kim was the first chef to appear on the program.
Source 12 · Sports Hankook (Korean) · Joins Law of the Jungle · opens in a new tabSource 13 · Star News (Korean) · The chefs’ week · opens in a new tabAppeared on the tasting panel with the TV personality Sayuri.
Source 32 · TenAsia (Korean) · Hankkiui Pumgyeok first broadcast · opens in a new tabSource 24 · Korean Wikipedia · Raymon Kim · opens in a new tabJoined as a new chef with Lee Jae-hoon, Ju Bae-an and Park Geon-yeong.
Source 15 · Herald Muze (Korean) · Four new chefs on Please Take Care of My Refrigerator · opens in a new tabSource 16 · Herald Muze (Korean) · Lookalike chefs join the refrigerator show · opens in a new tabAppeared as a guest and kneaded steamed rice and pumpkin by hand. He said he has a herniated disc that leaves him without feeling in his left leg.
Source 17 · My Daily (Korean) · Makgeolli on the rooftop · opens in a new tabReopened Cereal Gourmet in Dongtan in a different form, about seven years later.
Source 18 · Herald Muze (Korean) · Cereal Gourmet 2.0 · opens in a new tabThe channel focuses on meat dishes. His agency, Blank C, announced its opening.
Source 19 · My Daily (Korean) · YouTube channel opens · opens in a new tabOn the celebrity cooking competition that began Sept. 23, he judged with Oh Se-deuk, Sam Kim, Jung Ho-young, Yoo Hyun-soo and Hwang Jin-seon in that day’s broadcast.
Source 20 · Xports News (Korean) · Cooking – The Birth of a Cooking King to air in September · opens in a new tabSource 21 · Topstar News (Korean) · Cooking first broadcast · opens in a new tabSource 22 · Topstar News (Korean) · Third “Cook King” winner · opens in a new tabAt an offline user event, prepared the main dish, a long-haired buffalo rib stew of the northern plantation.
Source 23 · Game Talk (Korean) · Black Desert Mobile Heidel banquet · opens in a new tabWith Jung Ho-young, served a course meal made from ingredients caught on a deserted island. The broadcast had a 5.8% nationwide rating and was No. 1 in its time slot for 70 weeks in a row.
Source 25 · Sports Donga (Korean) · Buddy Into the Wild · opens in a new tabHe said he did not appear but took part as an adviser.
Source 26 · Xports News (Korean) · Why wasn’t he on Culinary Class Wars · opens in a new tabServed as head judge of a camping cooking festival held at the Jaein Falls auto camping site in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province.
Source 01 · Ilgan Sports (Korean) · 2025 Camping Cooking Festival judges · opens in a new tab Based on a report by the organizer, Ilgan Sports, published the day before the event.Appeared as one of the 18 “white spoon” chefs leading Korean cooking. The first episodes were released on Dec. 16.
Source 27 · Biz Enter (Korean) · Culinary Class Wars 2 white spoons · opens in a new tabSource 28 · Geumgang Ilbo (Korean) · Culinary Class Wars 2 lineup · opens in a new tabA new item developed around a ragu sauce he suggested went on sale through Coupang Eats’ Eats Chef Collection.
Source 29 · Dailian (Korean) · No More Pizza collaboration · opens in a new tabIntroduced a recipe for crispy herb lamb shoulder rack, which is hard to make at home, on YouTube.
Source 30 · Hi News (Korean) · Xylek Korea collaboration · opens in a new tab The date is that of the report.END OF SELECTED RECORDSSelected records, 2000–2026 · not a complete list of work. “Key moment” is an editorial label, not a measure of success.
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