He was also interested in how to teach his child's mathematics, as revealed by Professor Heo Jun-yi, who won the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal in mathematics.
[Professor Junyi Heo / Recipient of Fields Medal in 2022: I think the biggest problem (of Korean education) is that students use it to be well evaluated, not to use it to study their precious school days.]
One of the world's highest honors in mathematics Professor Heo Jun-yi, who received the Joe and Fields Award, had a press conference yesterday.
Regarding the reality that one in three Korean high school students are 'give up on math', he cited the social and cultural background of always winning the competition and doing better.
He also introduced how to teach his children math.
He explained, 'I'm solving a math problem that my 9-year-old son has made one by one a day', 'I'm not making a big problem, I'm drawing a circle and counting and writing the answer'. 'The process of counting carefully together is mathematical I believe it helps with emotional development,' he said.