"Fortune Magazine selected President Yoon Suk Yeol as number three on its list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders in 2022," reads the Korean-language claim shared here on South Korean social media platform Naver Band on August 2, 2023.
"Our country's reputation is rising rapidly."
The post includes a purported graphic that includes the Fortune magazine ranking logo alongside a photo of Yoon.
The doctored graphic and false claim were also shared on Facebook here, here and here.
But a spokesperson for Fortune Magazine told AFP the publication has not released a new ranking for 2022.
The magazine's Chief Customer Officer Selma Stern confirmed on August 8 the magazine "hasn't published the World's 50 Greatest Leaders list since 2021".
In the 2021 list, published on May 12 of that year, Fortune ranked PayPal CEO Dan Schulman third -- behind then-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the scientists responsible for developing Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna's mRNA vaccines (archived link).
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