For context, read my previous post.
The last post I wrote dealt with a father who openly admitted to playing with his son's genitals for periods of 5-15 minutes, pulling his son's pants down to show his genitals to others, and other things that would raise alarm from a public audience. After this, some concerned people, including many South Koreans themselves, started calling for the end of the show.
Since I have no idea what Hello Counselor is and only saw that specific clip, I'm looking more into Hello Counselor and what it actually is. I tend to give everyone, no matter how heinous their actions are, the benefit of the doubt, so I considered that this was a weird parody gone wrong. However, when people try to parody things, they usually make an effort to signal that they are making fun of something. I did not get that at all from Hello Counselor.
On the episode itself, one Twitter user said that the wife receives unwanted sexual contact as well. The husband puts his hand down her pants in front of their two children and touches her breasts in public telling her that she "doesn't have much there." Other things he had done include making his wife pack the kids' lunches while she was sick, not helping with household chores when she was heavily pregnant, and admitting to feeling indifferent towards his wife. She had a traumatic pregnancy as well and has an anxiety (panic) disorder and depression, which adds to the stress she suffers from.
Hello Counselor has other controversies regarding their method of handling matters that would be best left to a professional rather than broadcast on national television and sensationalized. They also encourage someone to totally change their self-expression to please their family, which could be chalked up to cultural differences.
