Lee Hyo-ri ♥ Lee Sang-soon, warm mentor activities..1st place in ratings → 8th place on Netflix

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SBS's "Mongle Counseling Center," which is adding warm word of mouth with the performance of Lee Hyo-ri and Lee Sang-soon couple, is also occupying Netflix's popular chart in the second week of the broadcast.

SBS Special "My Heart Is Mongle-Mongle Counseling Center" (hereinafter referred to as "Mongle Counseling Center"/directed by Ko Hye-rin), a new challenge from PD Ko Hye-rin, who won the Baeksang Arts Awards for "Study and Behind the Scene" and is a program about an eight-week journey of young people with developmental disabilities (hereinafter referred to as "Mongle") who dream of love but have no opportunity to find their first love in life under the love coaching of "Counseling Director" Lee Hyo-ri and Lee Sang-soon.

"Mongle Counseling Center," which aired two of the three episodes, is a masterpiece that truly captures the love and growth of young people with developmental disabilities, adding to word of mouth day by day. This is also evidenced by figures. Not only was it ranked first in terrestrial ratings at the same time as of the second episode, the latest episode, but the 2049, which leads to popularity, doubled from the first episode. In addition, in the second week following the first week of the broadcast, it ranked 8th (as of the 17th) on Netflix's "Top 10 Series in Korea," continuing its stellar box office through the flood of dopamine.

The presence of Lee Hyo-ri and Lee Sang-soon also plays a big role in the unusual popularity and favorable reviews of love programs featuring young people with developmental disabilities. The two go far beyond the role of mentors in universal love programs and become the central axis of the "Mongle Counseling Center."

What stands out most is the mentoring method of the two. Observe the dating scene of "Mongle-ssi" and go one step further from interpreting their behavior, meet with "Mongle-ssi" in person to share their previous dating reviews, and think about improvements together. It functions as a "participatory mentor" that leads to actual changes beyond simple reactions. This participation extends beyond the studio to the daily lives of "Mr. Mongle." Lee Hyo-ri went shopping for Oh Ji-hyun's styling ahead of her second blind date, and Lee Sang-soon also planned a train trip to Nami Island for Jung Ji-won, who is the first to travel without a guardian, which was a warm touch to help the "Mongle-ssi" become self-reliant beyond just dating.

The attitudes of Lee Hyo-ri and Lee Sang-soon, who are revealed in the process, are also impressive. Although the eyes of young people with developmental disabilities are often inclined to 'protection' or 'compassion', the two look at 'Mongle-ssi' with completely different eyes. Rather than treating them as special beings, they maintain a natural sense of distance as if they are dealing with younger siblings who are in a relationship for the first time as seniors in their lives. Instead of over-wrapping or over-encouraging, naturally empathizing and reaching out only when necessary. This approach makes "Mongle-ssi" not an "object in need" but a subject who learns love and creates relationships on their own, and at the same time, viewers also accept their love as a universal emotion that anyone can experience, not a "special story," and draw deep empathy.

Producer Ko Hye-rin, who planned and directed the "Mongle Counseling Center," said, "I wanted to invite the two because I thought this program needed an adult who looked at young people with developmental disabilities as "young people" before "disability." This is why it is difficult to think of a face other than Lee Hyo-ri and Lee Sang-soon as the counseling director of the "Mongle Counseling Center."

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