The 2nd International Conference of Asia Thoracoscopic Surgery Education Program (ATEP) was held successfully in Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea from Dec. 4th to 5th, 2015. Among all the well-known surgeons, Dr. Adrian Seng Wae Ooi, from the Singapore National Heart Centre, was actively joining into every speeches in the conference and expressed his own perspective. During this conference, the Editorial Office of Journal of Visualized Surgery (JOVS) had the great honor to have an interview with Dr. Ooi to share with us some of his perspective on uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS).