Who is Currently the Smartest Person in the World?

3. Kim Ung-Yong

IQ Level – 210

Born back in 1963 in South Korea, Kim Ung-Yong might have seemed like any other child when he was unable to walk or talk but it wasn’t long before he learned to do both. In fact, the young Ung-Yong learned to speak efficiently at six months old. Yes, you read that right, he learned to communicate effectively with other people before he was even close to being a year old.

By the time this child prodigy turned three years old, he could speak a variety of languages which include Japanese, variations of Korean, English and German. His parents had noticed long before that that their son was quite unlike the other children around him but everything continued normally for him. A couple of years later, Kim Ung-Yong was already writing poetry, articles and essays in Chinese and Korean.

After an article about him was published in a popular magazine, he got an offer to study in Los Angeles, which he went on to do. At the same time he scored about 200 on an IQ test.

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