Kammala wannan jumlar: Lim ya yi takara a tawagar 'yan wasan Koriya ta Kudu a gasar
maza 100 m freestyle a gasar Olympics ta 2008 a Beijing. Ya jagoranci zuwa Wasannin, ya gama a waje da manyan takwas na karshe a cikin 50.82 don kafa sabon alamar ƙasa da yin rajista a ƙarƙashin FINA B-cut (50.95) da 0.13 na biyu a 2007 Summer Universiade a Bangkok, Thailand. Da yake fitowa daga na shida a tsaka-tsakin juyawa a zagaye na uku, Lim ya fitar da dan wasan Uzbek Petr Romashkin da kawai 0.03 na dakika a zagaye na karshe don buga bango tare da lokaci na biyar a 51.80, kusan na biyu daga alamar shigarsa. Lim ya kasa ci gaba zuwa wasan kusa da na karshe, yayin da ya sanya na hamsin da hudu daga cikin masu iyo 64 a cikin prelims.