Dear Friends and Colleagues: 

YoungHoon Kim, was ranked number one in the world in 2024 by Reader’s Digest, one of the top three magazines in the United States in terms of sales volume. (The representative cover model of Reader’s Digest is U.S. President Barack Obama.) In addition, US Weekly, the No. 1 Hollywood celebrity magazine in the U.S., will soon cover YoungHoon Kim. He is the first South Korean to be interviewed by US Weekly with the Editor in Chief and Vice-President for an US Weekly exclusive video interview, as the person with the current highest IQ in the world. His US Weekly interview has been completed and will soon be published on US Weekly’s official website. (US Weekly’s official cover models have included Michael Jackson, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Taylor Swift.)

A brief introduction to YoungHoon Kim: As of 2024, YoungHoon Kim is the current highest IQ record holder certified by GIGA Society, Korea Record Institute, World Genius Directory, Global Genius Registry, Esoteriq Society, Nano Society (IQ 276). With perfect scores on various experimental high-range intelligence tests, he was officially recognised as having an intelligence of one in a million by the Mega Society which was the only one listed in Guinness World Records in history (also having full memberships from Mensa to GIGA Society as the top-ranked member with the highest IQ). As the President and CEO, YoungHoon Kim founded a non-profit organization, the United Sigma Intelligence Association for the world’s brightest minds, which includes seven Nobel Prize winners. From his organization, the greatest minds in the world such as Noam Chomsky, Yuval Harari, Richard Dawkins, Howard Gardner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Anthony Giddens, and Terence Tao have received official awards with the winners’ consent.

The World Mind Sports Council and the World Memory Championships recognise YoungHoon Kim from South Korea as the person with the highest IQ in the world and congratulate him.