'The chain called blood ties,' its cruel and heartbreaking reality stained living rooms with shock.
On the morning of the 2nd at 10 a.m., SBS Plus' Lee Ho-sun's Cider aired its 18th episode under the weighty theme 'a chain forged by blood, blood ties,' pouring out stories of real families more vicious than melodrama and raising viewers' immersion. From a father ignored by his family after retirement to a wife who is jealous of her biological daughter, and conflicts surrounding a child born from an affair, relationships that inflict deeper wounds because they are family evoked both empathy and anger.
What shocked the studio most that day was the story of a North Korean defector mother tormented by a son who drinks all year round. Although he was an elite who graduated from a prestigious university, after business failure he relied on alcohol and even showed violent tendencies, and the reality of the son was truly tragic. The news that the son, who frequented detention centers and showed violent behavior toward his parents, was entrusted with a grandchild was enough to make the cast tense.
Expert Lee Ho-sun sharply saw that the son's behavior was not simply a drinking problem and gave a cold diagnosis, saying, "This son needs to go hungry a bit." He then presented a shocking three-step action guideline: give the son not even 10 won, move far away, and do not meet for five years, and with the strong 'cider' advice, "sometimes you must love frighteningly," he left the storyteller and viewers moved to tears.
Comedian Kim Jun-Ho's wife, MC Kim Ji-min, also helped the immersion of the program with sincere empathy and anger. Kim Ji-min, choking up, said, "I still beat the ground in regret that I couldn't have a drink with my late father. I cried a lot because of that," and added, "I think the children will regret it," delivering a line that made the scene solemn.
Regarding the story of a mother who was irresponsible toward her child, she exploded in anger, saying, "Does giving birth alone make one a parent?" which let viewers breathe a sigh of relief.
[Photo] Lee Ho-sun's Cider
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