Lee Min Ho’s Drama “When The Stars Gossip” Slammed For Misogynistic Lines

Lee Min Ho‘s new drama When The Stars Gossip was recently slammed for misogynistic lines in the first episode. The story is of an obstetrician-gynecologist who arrives at a space station. He was raised by aunties from a pub, eventually birthing their babies.

Going to classes and getting full marks for SATS, going to med school and seeing women’s uteruses every day, receiving babies daily. The auntie’s uterus was like alcohol, but also comforting. They were warm, and even if they were all wrinkled from smoking, the aunties’ breasts were very big and safe.

— When The Stars Gossip

Netizens called out the old-fashioned script for its misogyny.

• Who’s the writer? Seo Sook Hyang? It’s the writer of Pasts. It seems like all the old writers have stopped developing from this type of speech.
• Barf.
• Ah, if your sensibilities are getting old, just retire soon.
• I got surprised hearing those lines too.
• So this is why it wasn’t aired until now.
• *Shiver*

When The Stars Gossip is about an astronaut and an OB-GN who set out on a fateful adventure in space.