Kim Soo-im

Kim Soo-im (; 1910-1911 – abt. June 25, 1950) (All but one source reports her birth year as 1911.) Jessica Kim, her granddaughter, reports in her journal article that it is 1910.

After graduating from Ewha Womans University with a degree in English Literature, she met and lived with communist Yi Kang-guk. Using her fluent English, she worked as an interpreter for an American at Severance Hospital in the 1930s. During the US military government in Korea, she worked as an employee for the military government and lived with US Colonel John Baird in Okin-dong. Baird was in charge of the military police in South Korea.

From the spring to the autumn of 1950 an anti-communist/leftist fervor gripped South Korea. The government executed at least 100,000 people, often without trial, in an attempt to keep them from reinforcing and aiding North Korea. Kim Soo-im, a woman in a strongly patriarchal society, became one of this purge's victims. Kim was arrested by the authorities in early April 1950 on charges of engaging in espionage activities under Yi Kang-guk's direction while living with John Baird, having been in a romantic relationship with Yi Kang-guk, an elite communist who had studied in Germany. She was accused of being "very malicious international spy". Yi Kang-guk was subsequently executed in North Korea on charges of espionage and may have been an American agent. Her son is the person who discovered the formerly classified file on Baird and his mother. Kim Won-il visited Baird in a Rhode Island nursing home, but Baird told him that Kim Won-il's father was "Mr. Smith." Nancy Kim, a friend of Kim Soo-im, says that Kim Won-il looks like Baird.

Actors who played Kim Soo-im TV Jung Ae-ri - 1981 - 1st Republic - MBC Drama Yoon Mi-ra - 1985 - - KBS Drama Han Eun-jung - 2006 - Seoul 1945 - KBS drama

Film - 1964 -