Tenor Sungho Kim was born in Gwangmyeong, South Korea. He first completed a Bachelor of Music degree in voice at the Korea National University of Arts under Prof. Kwangsun Song, followed by a Master's degree at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin under Prof. Ewa Wolak and Ks. Julia Varady. During this time, he attended masterclasses with professors Seungseo Na and Maurizio Carnelli in Seoul, Lioba Braun, Deborah Polaski, Bejun Mehta, Gerd Uecker, Christiane Karg and Brigitte Fassbaender in Hamburg, and Thomas Hampson and Barbara Frittoli in Verbier. In June 2023, he won the Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Among his many other awards, the most important include first prize at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (2018), as well as at the 47th Nanpa Music Competition in Suweon (2015), the 33rd Daegu Singing Competition in Daegu (2015), Gloria Opera's ‘Yang suhwa’ competition and the National Singing Competition in Seoul. He also won a special prize and was a finalist at the 54th Concurso Internacional de Canto Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition in Barcelona (2016) and, in 2020, at the Glyndebourne Opera Cup in England and the Cologne International Music Competition (2021). He also received 2nd prize at the Salvatore Licitra Concurso in Milan (2020).