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I’m not sure why you would be surprised…. podegis are everywhere in Korea still. Women aren’t spending their whole time with a baby on their back like in the past so there isn’t any real health concerns. In Korea I see a mix of mothers and fathers transporting their baby in a podegi while out, grandmothers carrying grandchildren in podegis while shopping and of course in homes podegis are regularly used to put babies to sleep. I see our friends with babies do this all the time. Even if you only see children being pushed in strollers/prams, I can guarantee that many families use a podegi within the home. Normal modern use of podegis is not “frowned on” in Korea. Criticism would be referring to podegis in the past where women had to carry a child for a long time on their back, which is not a problem these days.
Please be more considerate with your comments online. It seems you commented without thinking, but the fact is you were publicly criticising a family’s parenting methods which can seem pretty underhanded, considering that this family very generously gives their time and shares their personal life with us on these videos.

Hi Pete, Alice’s mum here.
We use and have used a number of different ‘transportation’ methods with Alice. Early on we used our pram and an Ergo carrier, and as she grew, we introduced the podaegi, which she came to prefer over the Ergo. Nowadays it is a combination of walking by herself, the pram and the podaegi. We mostly use the podaegi at nap times, to put her to sleep, or for short trips to the shops, or dinner in our local area- she’s 2 years old, too heavy to carry for long periods. I am careful in how I tie the podaegi, and I never pull her legs into a particular position, I always let her position herself comfortably and naturally, and ensure that I tie it so she can move if she feels uncomfortable, and to minimise any pressure over her lower legs. But to be clear, she actively chooses and prefers the podaegi. She can communicate her feelings and I would never place her in it if she was uncomfortable or didn’t like it.
When we go out with the podaegi in our local community (where a lot of Koreans live) or in Korea, I do hear a lot of comments from Korean people. None of them ever suggest concern or come across as ‘frowning’ upon it. Women always remark how children sleep well in the podaegi and it is more comfortable than modern carriers (which I agree with) and many younger mothers remark that they always think of the podaegi as difficult to tie but they would like to try it.
Even now prams and strollers are less common in Korea than carriers. I suppose in past generations women only used podaegi, and I’m sure most mothers would have been doing more physical, hard work in the day, whether because there was less domestic technology, or they were part of agricultural communities, so many babies would have been carried for much longer periods of time. If you couple this with possible issues such as calcium deficiency (evidenced by the high incidence of osteoperosis among elderly Korean women,) I can imagine bow leggedness to be quite a plausible outcome, however the frequency and manner in which we use the podaegi to carry Alice really doesn’t warrant your concerns, her legs are growing long, strong and straight.
And even though modern carriers and luxury prams have gained popularity in Korea now, podaegi is still more common than you might realise, often just used inside the home to put babies to sleep, or worn by babies’ grandmothers, to whom it is more natural than a modern carrier.
Even if people might go through a phase of hyper vigilence about podaegi bowleggedness, I believe that its popularity will return, as many children of this generation, through moderation of use and adequacy of nutrition, grow up with perfectly normal leg physiology.