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TV show linked to cheating
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A SURGE in adultery in South Korea is being blamed on the country’s remake of Doctor Foster.
The World Of The Married earned rave reviews for tackling previously taboo subjects in the nation’s culture, such as women having relationships outside marriage and violence within the family.
The final episode drew an audience share of more than 28% last week – a record for a cable show.
South Korean newspaper
The Chosun Ilbo connected the rising level of adultery shown in a poll with the drama.
It said viewers are “drawn to the darker aspects of marriages gone wrong”.
Dr Shim Sangwon, a marriage counsellor in the country’s capital Seoul, said: “This TV drama has been all about themes that are very popular in society at the moment, especially infidelity. Women now have exactly the same rights as men and while there are many reasons why a woman will have an affair, a lot of it is about revenge on a cheating husband.” The original BBC series was a massive ratings hit and starred Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel as a married couple torn apart by his cheating. Five years after South Korea decriminalised marital affairs, a poll found 41.3% of married men and 24.4% of married women said they have had an affair.
In a similar survey which was carried out just six months after the reform in 2015, only 10.8% of wives admitted to an affair, although the figures for men were similar.
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DOUG Hurley and Bob Behnken will try to make history today.
Elon Musk’s Spacex will go where no private enterprise has gone before with the first non-government launch of humans into orbit.
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The Crew Dragon capsule and its Falcon 9 rocket is due to lift off for the International Space Station. The astronauts will blast off from historic launch pad 39-A at NASA’S Kennedy Space Center in Florida – the same site that sent the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon, left.
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A safe flight would mark a breakthrough in the quest to produce reusable spacecraft that can make space travel more affordable. Ahead of the launch Hurley, 53, left, said: “Bob and I have been working on this program for five years, day in and day out.”
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