High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wan J. Kim (born 1968) is the former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, a position in which he served from November 9, 2005 to August 31, 2007. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim is the first immigrant to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, and is the first Korean American ever to become an Assistant Attorney General. On August 23, 2007 Kim announced that he was leaving the agency for the private sector.