The story of an unemployed husband obsessed with shopping and table tennis, and a single-parent wife exhausted by the hardships of childcare and financial difficulties, was revealed on TV. The story of the table tennis couple, the final couple in the 8th season of JTBC’s ″Divorce Consideration Camp,″ was featured on the 13th. The couple entered the camp due to the wife’s severe stress caused by her husband’s table tennis addiction. Currently, both are unemployed, and their livelihood is difficult with the husband’s unemployment benefits and their savings.

The husband is completely focused on table tennis, without any worries about finding a job. Despite his difficult financial situation, he ordered 20 boxes of candy bars to give to the table tennis club staff. Whenever the wife mentioned re-employment, the husband became violent and insincere, angering the panelists. Jin Tae-hyun asked the husband, ″Do you prefer childcare or table tennis?″ but he couldn’t give a clear answer. Seo Jang-hoon expressed concern, saying, ″This couple seems to be the most serious of the three.″ The husband had zero intention of divorce, while the wife was 100% willing.

The couple’s differences of opinion were stark, and a video from the husband’s side was released. The video showed the husband caring for his wife, but the panelists criticized this. Seo Jang-hoon remarked, ″He’s just using his shield because he has no way to exploit his wife’s weaknesses.″ The husband expressed remorse, saying, ″My wife is not at fault. It’s my fault.″ However, even in difficult circumstances, the husband was seen caring for acquaintances, one of which was his close friend’s older brother’s cell phone bill. The husband explained, ″He was a really close friend, and I bought him a cell phone because he was in dire straits.″ However, the wife expressed her frustration at his behavior.

The couple had 200 million won in debt. The husband revealed, ″An older brother of mine suggested I try coin trading, and that was the root of the problem.″ The wife revealed that she had borrowed 40 million won to pay off her husband’s debt before their marriage. Seo Jang-hoon remarked, ″The history of ’jipaljikkon’ (meaning ’I’m going crazy’) is long and deep,″ and the wife recalled, ″I think I went crazy back then.″ The couple subsequently received psychological counseling, and the wife confessed to suffering from severe depression. ″I live for my child,″ she said tearfully, ″I just want to die.″

The wife opened up about growing up under her grandmother’s care, without any parents. She revealed her hostility toward her parents, saying, ″My grandmother was my mother, father, and grandmother.″ She explained that her father became paralyzed from the waist down in an accident while building a church building and later passed away. She also revealed the trauma of her childhood, confessing, ″I was sexually abused by my father as a child.″ The wife wept, saying, ″My mother left home for another man. I hate being a mother.″ The husband, witnessing his wife’s difficult past, said, ″I regret ever thinking about divorce.″