Seo Jang-hoon issued a stern on-air warning to the ‘champion couple’ husband on the October 22 broadcast of JTBC’s “Divorce Reflection Camp,” after the wife revealed that he had slapped their eldest son across the cheek for losing a boxing match.
According to Ex-Sports News, the revelation came during the couple’s in-depth counseling segment. The wife said, “You don’t remember slapping your eldest son’s cheek because he lost a match?” The husband answered that it happened because his son “didn’t do his best.”
Watching the footage, MC Seo Jang-hoon erupted: “How could you slap a child’s cheek just because he didn’t do well in a match — no matter how much you are his father? A kid could do better, but he freezes up more because his father scolds him. No matter how much he is your child, you must not hit him. Times have changed.”
Seo added, “When the child grows up, he’ll think, ‘Father or not, I will never see him again.’ You’ll end up lonely in your old age.”
The husband also admitted he has never used corporal punishment on their second child. Seo called it out as favoritism: “The eldest will think, ‘My dad only likes my younger sibling.’ You will regret it. Treat your eldest son well.”
The episode aired Thursday at 9:50 p.m. on JTBC. The former pro-boxer couple returned to the spotlight earlier this month after the husband’s on-air “slave” remark about his wife sparked a fierce viewer backlash.
