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'''YoungHoon Kim''' is a South Korean man who claims to have the world's highest IQ.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2025-06-20 |title=Conor McGregor aligns himself with world's highest IQ holder |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/conor-mcgregor-aligns-himself-with-worlds-highest-iq-holder/articleshow/121971651.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2025-07-04 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> |
'''YoungHoon Kim''' is a South Korean man who claims to have the world's highest IQ.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2025-06-20 |title=Conor McGregor aligns himself with world's highest IQ holder |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/conor-mcgregor-aligns-himself-with-worlds-highest-iq-holder/articleshow/121971651.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2025-07-04 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=January 2025 |title=AfD jubelt zu früh: Zweifel an Identität des «schlausten Mannes der Welt» |url=https://www.watson.ch/international/deutschland/722587848-young-hoon-kim-soll-sich-fuer-die-afd-ausgesprochen-haben-stimmt-das |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[Watson (newspaper)]] |language=de}}</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Kim scored 276 points at a [[World Memory Championships]]'s IQ test in 2024, which the organization said was the highest score it has ever recorded.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seung-hyun |first=Song |date=2024-07-18 |title=South Korean recognized as person with world's highest IQ |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/article/3436983 |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[The Korea Herald]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-18 |title='영재발굴단' IQ 175 대학생, 9년 뒤…놀라운 근황 공개됐다 |url=https://www.hankyung.com/article/2024071833497 |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[The Korea Economic Daily]] |language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-27 |title=YoungHoon Kim, la persona con mayor IQ del mundo, no dejo dudas: "Jesucristo es el camino, la verdad y la vida" |url=https://www.cronista.com/colombia/vida-espiritual/younghoonkim-la-persona-con-mayor-iq-del-mundo-no-dejo-dudas-jesucristo-es-el-camino-la-verdad-y-la-vida/ |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[El Cronista]] |language=es}}</ref> His claim of having the world's highest IQ has been disputed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Kein IQ-Wunder: Alice Weidel und die AfD fallen auf Hochstapler rein |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/gesellschaft/id_100575514/alice-weidel-und-die-afd-fallen-auf-hochstapler-rein.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[T-Online]] |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Posse um AfD-Fan: Fiel Weidel auf einen Hochstapler herein? |url=https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/weidel-hochstapler-younghoon-kim-100.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=ZDFheute |language=de}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |
Kim scored 276 points at a [[World Memory Championships]]'s IQ test in 2024, which the organization said was the highest score it has ever recorded.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seung-hyun |first=Song |date=2024-07-18 |title=South Korean recognized as person with world's highest IQ |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/article/3436983 |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[The Korea Herald]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-18 |title='영재발굴단' IQ 175 대학생, 9년 뒤…놀라운 근황 공개됐다 |url=https://www.hankyung.com/article/2024071833497 |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[The Korea Economic Daily]] |language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-27 |title=YoungHoon Kim, la persona con mayor IQ del mundo, no dejo dudas: "Jesucristo es el camino, la verdad y la vida" |url=https://www.cronista.com/colombia/vida-espiritual/younghoonkim-la-persona-con-mayor-iq-del-mundo-no-dejo-dudas-jesucristo-es-el-camino-la-verdad-y-la-vida/ |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[El Cronista]] |language=es}}</ref> His claim of having the world's highest IQ has been disputed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Kein IQ-Wunder: Alice Weidel und die AfD fallen auf Hochstapler rein |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/gesellschaft/id_100575514/alice-weidel-und-die-afd-fallen-auf-hochstapler-rein.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[T-Online]] |language=de}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2025-01-16 |title=Posse um AfD-Fan: Fiel Weidel auf einen Hochstapler herein? |url=https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/weidel-hochstapler-younghoon-kim-100.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=ZDFheute |language=de}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |
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Kim has stated that the "Bible is the perfect, eternal, and final Word of God"<ref name=":0" /> and has endorsed Germany's [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]] party.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=January 2025 |title=AfD jubelt zu früh: Zweifel an Identität des «schlausten Mannes der Welt» |url=https://www.watson.ch/international/deutschland/722587848-young-hoon-kim-soll-sich-fuer-die-afd-ausgesprochen-haben-stimmt-das |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[Watson (newspaper)]] |language=de}}</ref> |
[[Mensa International|Mensa]] member [[Cícero Moraes]] stated that it remains unclear how exactly Kim's IQ was measured. He said that the president of the Official World Record company, which certified Kim's IQ score, was a member of the United Sigma Intelligence Association company, a company that Kim himself had founded.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-21 |title=Homem que diz ter 'QI mais alto do mundo' revela fé cristã e gera polêmica na web; entenda |url=https://extra.globo.com/blogs/page-not-found/noticia/2025/06/homem-que-diz-ter-qi-mais-alto-do-mundo-revela-fe-crista-e-gera-polemica-na-web-entenda.ghtml |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=[[Extra (newspaper)]] |language=pt-br}}</ref> |
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Kim stated that his IQ score had been certified by the World Mind Sports Concil, a company that lists him as one of its managers. In 2021, Kim founded the Giga Society, an [[High-IQ society|organization for intelectually gifted individuals]] which bears the same name as another organization, founded in 1994, that is also centered around gifted people. In 2024, Kim's own Giga Society declared him to be the person with the world's highest IQ.<ref name=":2" /> |
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The founder of the 1994 Giga Society, Paul Cooijmans, said that Kim had created multiple websites purpoting to be high-IQ societies and listed the names of third parties on such websites without their knowledge. Kim's United Sigma Intelligence Association listed phylosophy professor [[Klaus Mainzer]] as an advisor on its website. Mainzer later contradicted such assertion, stating that "it's all fake". After Kim endorsed Germany's AfD party, party member [[Alice Weidel]] wrote a social media post endorsing him. She later deleted the post amid concerns over the legitimacy of Kim's accomplishments.<ref name=":2" /> |
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Kim has stated that the "Bible is the perfect, eternal, and final Word of God".<ref name=":0" /> |
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