Posts about the stress of living with or catering to a 시누이 (husband's sister) are a perennial flashpoint on Korean women's communities, but this one hit especially hard because of the sheer specificity of the food restrictions combined with the husband's passive pressure — a dynamic many Korean wives immediately recognized as their own reality.
A post on Nate Pann — one of Korea's most popular community forums for candid life venting — is going viral after a stay-at-home wife laid out, in exhausting detail, just how impossible it is to cook for her college-aged sister-in-law (시누이, *shinu-i*) who moved in nearby and basically adopted their home as a free meal plan.
The original poster (OP) says she's genuinely fine with most of it. Doing the laundry? The washing machine handles it anyway. Cleaning? The robot vacuum does the heavy lifting. The sister-in-law coming home late at night? OP's a deep sleeper, so whatever. And since she's a full-time homemaker, cooking and housework are just part of her day. She was ready to be generous.
But then came the food list. And it is *a list*.
No seafood of any kind — no fish, no shrimp, no squid, no clams, no raw fish (sashimi/hoe). The reason? She doesn't like the 'mushy texture.' Okay, fine. But then: no meat cooked in broth or soup. That rules out budae-jjigae (the beloved Korean army stew loaded with sausage, ham, and ramen), because apparently even *ham* floating in liquid is unacceptable. No beans. No carrots. No cucumber. No eggplant. If there's even a single piece of carrot in fried rice, she won't eat it.
OP says she's been so worn down by the constant accommodations that she's started automatically removing the sister-in-law's banned ingredients from every dish she makes — almost like she's been gaslit into cooking around one person's entire personality. And to top it off? The sister-in-law can't cook at all. Like, at all. She reportedly can't even crack an egg properly to make a fried egg. OP says this is not a joke.
The kicker that's really setting Korean internet on fire: if the sister-in-law skips a meal, the *husband* visibly gets in a bad mood. So OP is trapped — cook an impossible meal for a picky adult who contributes nothing to the kitchen, or deal with a sulking husband. The comments are not holding back.