Taewon Kim is a first-year Assistant Professor in the M.Ed. in School Counseling Program at the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. He completed his Master's degree in Educational Counseling at Seoul National University and has over three years of experience as a military counseling officer and supervisor in the Air Force. His research interests focus on multicultural counseling, school bullying, relationship factors and methodologies in counseling research. His dissertation was titled Counselors’ Collectivism/Individualism and Working Alliance: The Role of Self-Differentiation and Countertransference. He is an active member of professional organizations including the American School Counseling Association (ASCA), American Counseling Association (ACA), Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the Korean Counseling Association (KCA), and the Korean Counseling Psychological Association (KCPA).