Kim Ung-Yong

With an IQ score of 210, South Korean civil engineer Kim Ung-Yong was recorded by the Guinness World Records as one of the most intelligent people of all time. Born in 1962, Ung-Yong was only 4 months old when he started talking and by the age of 3- when most kids begin to understand 1 language – he could speak Korean, English, Japanese and German. By four years old, he had penned two short books of essays. A year later, an article was published about his extraordinary intelligence in Look magazine and after reading it, a teacher from Grant High School in Los Angeles wrote to Ung-Yong. In February 1967, his father applied 5-year-old Ung Yong to be enrolled at the high school. He went to the United States to study and later ended up working for NASA for the better part of a decade. At age 18, he quit his job at NASA and moved back to South Korea. He is currently a professor at Chungbuk National University.