Students in South Korea face an abnormal and damaging level of pressure due to the high stakes of the college entrance exam.

“that is way too much pressure for like a seventh grader to have there's like an abnormal amount of pressure”

He feels that the speculation and public attention surrounding the Fields Medal create unnecessary pressure that detracts from the act of doing research.

“And so you know you don't ask anything. You just do your research, you like what you do and you discover like this person of course you don't exactly know who it is but you can you know see that it's not so many candidates let's say think that this is not worth anything or this is not worth and and ”