Former basketball star Hyun Joo-yeop grants an appearance on TV CHOSUN's "Dad and I Season 3" with his son.
On the 14th at 10 p.m., the returning TV CHOSUN "Dad and I Season 3" deals with the stories of parents and children who can feel closer than anyone in the world yet sometimes feel farther apart than anyone. It is a real-family observation program that takes time to understand and forgive each other by revealing the long-suppressed resentments in their hearts and showing how much parents and children mean to each other.
In the teaser video released on the 3rd, the former basketball star Hyun Joo-yeop, who lost his everyday life after allegations surfaced of negligence and power abuse while serving as a basketball club coach at a school where he worked, appears. During that time Hyun Joo-yeop received psychiatric treatment and lost more than 40kg due to emotional distress, becoming gaunt. There was a correction regarding the controversy, but Hyun Joo-yeop said, "I was mentally very distressed... If it had been something I had to go through alone, it might have been okay, but my children and my wife also had to go through a difficult time," conveying the devastation of his family's daily life being threatened. Hyun Joo-yeop said, "My eldest son Jun-hee spent the longest time in the hospital and is still having a hard time," expressing his distress over his first son, who is cut off from the world and holding on with psychiatric medication.
The eldest son Hyun Jun-hee said, "In the past my dad was my dream and the coolest dad. Now... a broken hero?" revealing complex feelings toward his father. After the controversy, fellow students came and mentioned his father and continued to bully Jun-hee, and as the unfavorable looks from those around him repeated, Jun-hee ultimately quit the basketball he had been selling out and decided to take a leave of absence.
For Jun-hee, who thus shut himself off from the world and himself, even his father's attention became a burden. "To be honest, I feel uncomfortable. When I was really struggling, my father didn't notice, so why is he pretending to care now? I think that," he said, revealing the deepening rift between father and son. Faced with his son's firmly closed heart, Hyun Joo-yeop said, "You can't open it all at once. It will take some time, but I think it will get better if I keep trying," expressing his intention to build time for change for his son.
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