Grand Master D.J. Kim is highly regarded as a great competitor and has numerous championships to his credit, including the 1975 Korean National Welterweight Black Belt Championship.
Grand Master D.J. Kim has been honored with several political positions within the World Tae Kwon Do Federation (WTF), as Senior Official Referee and the United States Tae Kwon Do Union (USTU), and as Vice-President and Secretary General of the USTU New Jersey State Headquarters.

In addition, Grand Master D.J. Kim and the Blue Dragon's Tae Kwon Do Academy’s students have demonstrated the art of Tae Kwon Do in order to raise funds for charitable organizations, including St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.