Someone posted an old Dragon Ball clip under the title "the wife who says she's doing childcare alone"

A community post titled 'the wife claiming solo childcare' contains nothing but this cartoon scene.

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Korean community post, image 1: Chi-Chi tears into Goku for never working — 'have you earned even one zeni since we married?' Then...
English translation
Chi-Chi tears into Goku for never working — 'have you earned even one zeni since we married?' Then... silence.

애초에 오공 씨는 일도 안 하면서 오반이를 돌볼 자격 없어! 결혼하고 나서 1제니라도 벌어온 적 있었어? 숙연..

💡 Why quote an old cartoon to talk about childcare?
Goku famously never holds a job in Dragon Ball, always off training or fighting, so Chi-Chi berating him is a go-to template on Korean forums to mock husbands who dodge both breadwinning and parenting — often posted self-mockingly by men admitting it hits home.vs. Reddit: like posting a Homer Simpson slacker gif to roast yourself in a relationship subreddit.Klore note
💡 What's with the eerie quiet and the blank faces at the end?
"숙연" (sukyeon) is a stock reaction meme — plain stick-figure faces — used when a joke lands so close to home the room goes dead silent.vs. Twitter: the "this you?" reply when a joke boomerangs straight back on the poster.Klore note

What Koreans said

10 top comments on the original thread, translated
  1. 113 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Wait lmaooo did he seriously never bring home a single cent the whole marriage?

    아니ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 정말 결혼생활 내내 한 푼도 안 갖다 준 거냐고ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

  2. 104 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    He even burned through his wife's family's fortune and bankrupted them too.

    심지어 친정재산까지 까먹어서 친정집도 파산시킴

  3. 22 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Goku's always been self-sufficient via hunting/gathering, survived alone fine for years. The money problems are honestly all because of Chichi's obsession with education.

    오공은 원래 수렵/채집으로 자급자족이 됨. 할아버지 죽이고 부르마 만나기 전까지도 혼자 먹고 살았고. 무술대회 이후 5년간 혼자서 수련하면서도 문제없이 살았음. 돈 쪼들리는 부분은 순전히 치치의 교육열이 문제지

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  1. 23 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Given how much Saiyans eat, farming probably just barely covers the food bill.

    사이어인 먹성 생각하면 농사로 식비 절감이나 겨우 할듯

  2. 31 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Okay yeah... this is actually solo parenting. I hate that phrase but this one checks out...

    이건...맞다 독박육아가 맞다....독박육아란 단어 싫어하지만 이건 맞아...

  3. 19 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    It's like comparing a broke independence fighter who sold everything for the cause vs a rich traitor — who's the better dad, kinda debate.

    약간 독립운동 한다고 집안 기둥까지 다 팔아서 자금 대신 독립운동가 vs 나라 팔아먹었어도 돈은 뒤지게 많았던 이완용 누가 더 좋은 아버지였냐 이런 문제같긴하네......

  4. 16 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    After the Buu arc he actually gets a real job, and once Gohan marries into Satan's family money stops being an issue.

    부우전 이후엔 제대로 일하고 있고 오반이 사탄 사위된뒤엔 사실상 돈걱정에선 벗어남

  5. 15 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Couldn't Bulma just support them financially? She's literally the richest person alive and they're basically family.

    근데 걍 부르마가 지원해줘도 되는거 아닌가? 세계 제일 갑부가 베프에 가족끼리도 막역한데..

  6. 23 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    First we gotta measure how much time he was even alive while Gohan was growing up...

    일단 오반이 다 클 때까지 살아있던 시간부터 측정해야지....

  7. 37 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Please just say he at least went hunting for food.

    제발 사냥이라도 하고 왔다고 해줘

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