Shim Euddeum's declaration of being DINK sparked laughter, and celebrities who say they will live without children after marriage are drawing attention.
In a video on the YouTube channel "Lee Hyun-yi" released on the 20th, Shim Euddeum told working mom Lee Hyun-yi during a conversation, "I will declare myself DINK."
Startled by Lee Hyun-yi's routine of waking up at 6:50 a.m. every day to raise her child, he said, "It's so hard. Do you have to get up at that time even if you drink?" expressing empathy, and eventually joked about being DINK with a laugh. Born in 1990, Shim Euddeum married in 2018.
Earlier, comedian Shin Ki-ru also admitted she lives a life close to being DINK. On the YouTube content "JD Video" in February, she confessed, "I'm 90% thinking I want to live without children. I just want to live like this."
When co-stars Yoo Min-sang, Kim Min-kyung and Park Young-jin empathized, saying "these days there are many couples who live without children," Shin Ki-ru, with her trademark frankness, joked, "There isn't much reason to use birth control," bringing laughter. Shin Ki-ru married a non-celebrity one year older than her in 2019.
Actor Ha Jae-sook also said on a broadcast that "she declared DINK upon marriage." She married her handsome husband Lee Jun-haeng in 2016 and lives in Goseong, Gangwon Province. She said on SBS's "Same Bed, Different Dreams 2 - You Are My Destiny" in 2021 that she told both families she intended to live without children.
She said, "I like children, but it's also happy to live together enjoying hobbies as a couple," expressing satisfaction with life with her husband. Her husband Lee Jun-haeng also expressed affection, saying, "I like living happily together with my wife as we do now."
The successive "DINK declarations" by celebrities show that forms of marriage and family are diversifying. It reflects people breaking away from the stereotype that a marriage is only complete with children and finding happiness in their own ways.
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