Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[289, 196, 219, 50, 154, 45, 87, 64, 294, 234, 192, 13, 237, 202, 238, 141, 278, 67, 27, 246], k=13

219