Kim Chee Yun is a violinist from Seoul, South Korea. Her professional name is "Chee-Yun". Kim performed in Korea at the age of 13. She studied at the Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, and Felix Galimir. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1989 which led to her New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall. She records for the Denon label.
Kim was appointed Artist-in-Residence at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas in 2008. Besides teaching, she still actively tours and gives recitals and concert performances.
Kim plays the Stradivarius "Ex-Strauss", loaned by Samsung Corporation. Kim owns a Francesco Ruggieri violin made in the year 1669 which she purchased during the early years of her career. Her violin is speculated to have been buried underground for nearly two hundred years with its previous owner in Norway.
She appeared in the season 7 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, "Denise Handicap”.