Jakkrit “Tom” Yompayorm, aka “Kru Tom Kum Thai”, 28, is a Thai language Twitter sensation, gathering over 90,000 followers after being crowned the Sunthorn Phu fan quiz winner from the famous knowledge-enhancing TV show, Fan Pan Tae. Since then, he’s been dishing out grammatical corrections for the common Thai language mistakes netizens make on social networks. BK met up with him to discuss Thai education and the value it places on the study of our language.