YoungHoon Kim is the only honorary member of GIGA Society as 1st ranked of high intelligence.
YoungHoon Kim is the current highest IQ record holder certified by Korea Record Institute, World Genius Directory, Global Genius Registry, Esoteriq Society, and GIGA Society (IQ 276, SD24). With perfect scores on various experimental high range intelligence tests, he is Lifetime Member of the Mega Society listed in Guinness Book of World Records (also having full memberships from Mensa to GIGA Society as ranked 1st member of high intelligence). In 2024, he was recognized as number one in the world among the 50 people with the highest IQ in a major American magazine, Reader’s Digest.
In the mind sports field, he is the world’s first intelligence specialist advisor at the World Mind Sports Council, World Memory Championships, World Speed-Reading Championship, and World Mind Mapping Championship; He was the first South Korean arbiter at the World Memory Championships and Asia Pacific Memory Championships.
Currently, he serves as the president & executive director at the United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA) and United Intelligence Research Institute of USIA in partnership with Artificial Emotional Intelligence Research Center of Yonsei University.
He studied degrees in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, sociology, philosophy, and theology (Non-denominational) at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of London, Korea University, and Yonsei University. Currently, as a research partnership advisor, he is collaborating with the research lab and center at the University of Cambridge and Yale University.
His detailed profile can be found here.
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