Ramon magsaysay award first winner
Ramon magsaysay award!
Kim Ung-yong
South Korean engineer and professor (born 1962)
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim Ung-Yong (Korean: 김웅용; born March 8, 1962)[1] is a South Korean civil engineer.
Ramon magsaysay award prize money
During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale, He entered university at the age of 4. At 7, he received an invitation to work at NASA.
By the age of 5, he already spoke 5 languages.[2][3]
Early life
Kim Ung-Yong was born on March 8, 1962, in Seoul, South Korea.[1] His father, Kim Soo-Sun, was a physics professor at Konkuk University, and his mother, Yoo Myung-Hyun, was a teacher.[4] According to Yoo, by the time he was one year old, Kim had learned both the Korean alphabet and 1,000 Chinese characters by studying the Thousand Character Classic, a 6th-century Chinese poem.[5]
At three years old, he was able to so
