'Child prodigy' Song Yoo Geun confesses it has been a lonely journey

Article: Song Yoo Geun, "In Korean society, people become envious of you if you're talented in something... it has been lonely for me" confession

Source: TV Report via Naver

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The show did an update on where he has been recently and when asked how he has been doing, he replied, "There have been a lot of times that I was lonely. In general, if you're gifted or talented in the Korean education system, you're either separated from the other students or the target of envy. I think it's important that these students are given more educational opportunities and materials with good teachers."

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1. [+740, -13] He's right. Finland has the #1 education in the world and they're the complete opposite of us. Competition is left to yourself and they promote social activities. That's the difference between their education system and ours. There's a lot of envy and jealousy in college, society too... Instead of focusing on differentiating the gifted from the not gifted, we should be focusing our education on fostering more gifted talents. With our current system, we're unable to discover hidden talents and are throwing them away.

2. [+670, -13] As the Korean saying goes, even your family will be jealous over your success..

3. [+506, -12] He's right. You can tell with Nate, can't you? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

4. [+40, -0] Sharing your happiness brings envy and sharing your sadness becomes a weakness someone else will use against you.

5. [+35, -1] I still remember when he went to college and he couldn't adjust so the city provided a small container sized research lab for him to study in that he could bike to every day. I lived in the area and watched him bike and wondered why in the world he had to be born in a country like ours... This country is in no way prepared to be raising a prodigy.

6. [+35, -0] If there's a gifted kid, we need to be fostering him but instead we're busy trying to stomp him down ㅋㅋㅋ

7. [+35, -0] Having a kid like him in your school will only make parents go nuts because it makes their own kids not stand out as much

8. [+31, -2] He grew up so well... Please help the advancement of our sciences. Fighting.

9. [+29, -0] Koreans are rotten. You can tell just by the old saying that even your family will be jealous of your success..

10. [+25, -0] He's visually handsome but he looks so exhausted ㅠ Find strength, prodigy!!

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