Korea’s own Geun-ius
November 8th, 2005
While other children his age are in elementary school, Song Yoo-geun is a freshman at the physics department of Inha University in Incheon, west of Seoul. Yoo-geun will be eight sometime this month and he is Korea’s youngest university student.
He set a record by completing elementary, junior-high and high school in just nine months (it takes regular Koreans 12 years to complete these stages of schooling before they can enroll into a University). Apparently, the university tested Yoo-geun last month and he surprised the scholars by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.
Yoo-geun dreams of making flying cars based on the superstring theory. Next time someone says ‘This can be understood by a child of eight’, give them the link to this article.
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While it’s great to encourage super smart kids… it’s such a shame to steal their childhood away by placing them into these environments that they have not yet developed the social skills to thrive in. An 8 year old at University is subject to too much beyond his years.
Wonder if he’ll ever be able to score pot on campus.