1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,177 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 2 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,177 {\a6}Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 3 00:00:05,855 --> 00:00:09,041 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:44,677 --> 00:00:47,648 Aren't you Kim Su Young? 5 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,880 Kim Su Young, right? 6 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,311 I'm Oh Sang Soon. 7 00:00:53,421 --> 00:00:56,761 I heard you were at a POW camp. When did you come back? 8 00:00:56,941 --> 00:00:58,373 Wait, Su Young. 9 00:00:58,483 --> 00:01:00,242 Kim Su Young! 10 00:01:00,472 --> 00:01:03,492 Aha! That youngster. 11 00:01:29,077 --> 00:01:31,727 Kim Baek Bong (dancer) 12 00:01:32,628 --> 00:01:35,870 Why don't you come and dance with the others? 13 00:01:36,666 --> 00:01:40,210 I saw you two dance earlier, and it was just a dazzling performance. 14 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:41,939 That's what you call art. 15 00:01:42,069 --> 00:01:44,149 After you've learned the steps, it's really easy. 16 00:01:44,279 --> 00:01:46,730 It's exactly those steps that looked difficult. 17 00:01:46,870 --> 00:01:50,870 I looked at your steps closely and tried to follow myself, 18 00:01:50,991 --> 00:01:54,281 but it clearly was no laughing matter, going with the flow. 19 00:01:54,430 --> 00:01:58,012 Here. Two steps forward, and then three steps back. 20 00:01:58,162 --> 00:02:00,952 Then, twice to the left. 21 00:02:01,122 --> 00:02:05,432 It was so complicated, I just quit right in the middle. 22 00:02:05,642 --> 00:02:07,782 It's only difficult because you're trying to understand it. 23 00:02:07,903 --> 00:02:09,964 If you try to follow along with your body, it will be easier. 24 00:02:10,093 --> 00:02:13,864 Then, Park Seonsaengnim. Will you dance with me? 25 00:02:14,004 --> 00:02:14,695 What?! 26 00:02:14,785 --> 00:02:18,039 I always wanted to have a dance with you, 27 00:02:18,274 --> 00:02:20,785 since everyone calls you the most stylish man in Myeongdong. 28 00:02:20,995 --> 00:02:23,536 If it's dancing, I just... 29 00:02:23,756 --> 00:02:25,426 I'd be just useless. 30 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:27,225 Would it make any sense that someone as stylish as you... 31 00:02:27,466 --> 00:02:29,696 wouldn't be able to do ballroom dancing? 32 00:02:29,846 --> 00:02:32,026 I'll show you the steps, so follow me. 33 00:02:32,127 --> 00:02:35,176 Ahh... No, I'm just fine. I'll just look. 34 00:02:35,286 --> 00:02:39,797 Ahh... try it once. When will you ever get another chance to dance with her? 35 00:02:39,957 --> 00:02:44,077 Lee Seonbaenim. If I show Park Seonbaenim some steps for free, 36 00:02:44,207 --> 00:02:45,607 will you do me a favor instead? 37 00:02:45,707 --> 00:02:46,628 Oh? Of course. 38 00:02:46,837 --> 00:02:50,397 Soon, we'll have a presentation at the Arts Theater. 39 00:02:50,507 --> 00:02:53,328 Will you please write about it? 40 00:02:53,438 --> 00:02:54,648 Ahh... of course I will! 41 00:02:54,748 --> 00:02:58,568 Even if you hadn't asked, I'd certainly promote your performance. 42 00:02:58,679 --> 00:03:00,828 So, you promised! 43 00:03:01,138 --> 00:03:02,879 Here, here. 44 00:03:54,284 --> 00:03:56,805 Was it fun? 45 00:03:59,734 --> 00:04:04,375 I asked, did you meet some people, and have a drink? 46 00:04:07,065 --> 00:04:09,405 Well done. 47 00:04:11,896 --> 00:04:16,417 Have you been waiting for me all this time? 48 00:04:22,159 --> 00:04:24,309 Just forget about her. 49 00:04:24,518 --> 00:04:27,099 She has always been a free-wheeling woman. 50 00:04:27,229 --> 00:04:31,790 She wasn't someone you could hold all to yourself, Oppa. 51 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:39,120 When I go downtown tomorrow, I'll buy you some paper. 52 00:04:39,330 --> 00:04:42,150 Write some poems, will you? 53 00:04:56,771 --> 00:04:57,891 That's quite fun! 54 00:04:58,001 --> 00:05:00,582 Should I start learning it seriously? 55 00:05:00,602 --> 00:05:01,882 That was so embarrassing, man! 56 00:05:01,992 --> 00:05:03,763 What was?! 57 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:06,933 I couldn't look at Kim Baek Bong in the face, what else?! 58 00:05:07,143 --> 00:05:13,204 Two people who don't even love each other, holding hands, touching each other... 59 00:05:14,052 --> 00:05:16,054 Ahh... listen to you! 60 00:05:16,274 --> 00:05:17,994 You're more conservative than I thought?! 61 00:05:18,194 --> 00:05:22,544 Our world famous Casanova Park In Hwan is avoiding the other sex, you say?! 62 00:05:22,715 --> 00:05:26,545 Liking women and having an affair are a different story. 63 00:05:26,756 --> 00:05:30,436 All I admire is a woman's elegance and beauty, 64 00:05:30,566 --> 00:05:33,426 I would never enjoy that kind of immorality. 65 00:05:33,786 --> 00:05:38,026 So, what you're saying is, you oppose ballroom dancing. Is that it? 66 00:05:38,286 --> 00:05:41,267 Shouldn't lust be felt subtly? 67 00:05:41,397 --> 00:05:45,257 Feeling lust while engaging in ballroom dancing?! 68 00:05:46,746 --> 00:05:48,166 Listen to you! 69 00:05:48,387 --> 00:05:50,337 We're getting a little licentious, aren't we? 70 00:05:50,457 --> 00:05:52,637 I just enjoyed it. 71 00:05:52,827 --> 00:05:55,729 How should I put it? In the ruins and desolation of our postwar, 72 00:05:55,958 --> 00:05:57,879 seeing two people move with the music and dance... 73 00:05:58,009 --> 00:06:00,679 It makes you feel alive, doesn't it? 74 00:06:00,789 --> 00:06:03,488 As if it was telling us, "Come on, strip yourself of all that weight." 75 00:06:03,608 --> 00:06:07,129 "Let that somber look on your face be drowned by the joy of dancing." 76 00:06:07,369 --> 00:06:10,499 "The war is over!" Uh? 77 00:06:20,791 --> 00:06:23,281 Ahhh... come on, try it out! 78 00:06:23,651 --> 00:06:27,352 Come on. Here! 79 00:06:32,872 --> 00:06:37,393 Isn't culture a counter-reaction to its own social climate? 80 00:06:37,513 --> 00:06:41,094 Whenever society experiences gloom, culture tries to lift people's spirits. 81 00:06:41,294 --> 00:06:43,615 It springs forth with immense energy. 82 00:06:46,895 --> 00:06:50,355 War is a cruel matter to everyone. 83 00:06:50,575 --> 00:06:55,646 Let alone those who perish in the war, those who survive, in a certain sense... 84 00:06:55,806 --> 00:06:57,987 end up experiencing even gloomier emotional clouds. 85 00:06:58,117 --> 00:07:02,958 During the war, people do everything to survive. 86 00:07:03,178 --> 00:07:07,379 When people's lives are hanging by a thread, 87 00:07:07,539 --> 00:07:12,061 wouldn't the line which separates man from animals become increasingly blurry? 88 00:07:12,451 --> 00:07:18,862 But, the moment the war ends, people begin to wriggle along. 89 00:07:19,082 --> 00:07:25,175 Those ties between people, which the war severed, slowly begin to emerge once again. 90 00:07:25,314 --> 00:07:28,935 What could have been responsible for making that possible? 91 00:07:29,175 --> 00:07:33,184 Wouldn't it be our music and literature, movies and theater, 92 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:36,396 and things like dancing? 93 00:07:36,506 --> 00:07:41,507 Today we will start with Kim Baek Bong's story. 94 00:07:45,908 --> 00:07:54,759 When I was six, my father would wake me up and show me some photos. 95 00:07:46,209 --> 00:07:49,691 {\a6}Kim Baek Bong (dancer) 96 00:07:54,968 --> 00:07:59,448 He'd say, "This is a great person, a treasure to our country." 97 00:07:59,689 --> 00:08:08,441 He also told me she wasn't just a dancer, but a great artist. 98 00:08:08,660 --> 00:08:12,191 So, seeing this sort of "cosmopolitan" artist... 99 00:08:12,192 --> 00:08:15,591 gave me the strength and passion to do the same. 100 00:08:15,711 --> 00:08:19,272 It eventually became what I promised my father, 101 00:08:19,331 --> 00:08:22,672 the determination which guided me for decades. 102 00:08:23,363 --> 00:08:27,403 Choi Seung Hee is the one who brought our traditional dance to the international stage. 103 00:08:27,613 --> 00:08:29,634 She was also one of the flagbearers... 104 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:32,634 who turned this traditional dance into a modern one. 105 00:08:32,764 --> 00:08:37,465 What's more, she was a pioneer coordinating our core dance traditions... 106 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,136 into a cohesive whole. 107 00:08:39,386 --> 00:08:42,555 She left for the US in 1938 and performed there, 108 00:08:42,666 --> 00:08:44,907 where she was lavishly praised. 109 00:08:45,127 --> 00:08:48,477 Yet, as she followed her husband Ahn Mak to the North, 110 00:08:48,607 --> 00:08:52,137 even just discussing Choi Seung Hee's dance in the South... 111 00:08:52,138 --> 00:08:54,037 was forbidden for a long time. 112 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:16,330 It's one in the morning, Dear. Why don't you take a break? 113 00:09:12,157 --> 00:09:14,498 {\a6}Ahn Je Seung (dancer) 114 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,660 I can't get rid of them. 115 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,160 What? 116 00:09:22,371 --> 00:09:25,490 Even if this is my dance, I can never escape from the feeling... 117 00:09:25,610 --> 00:09:27,971 this is nothing more than her dance. 118 00:09:28,091 --> 00:09:30,170 That's obvious, isn't it? 119 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,240 You learned it all from Choi Seung Hee. 120 00:09:33,910 --> 00:09:36,831 I want to outshine Choi Seung Hee! 121 00:09:37,051 --> 00:09:39,011 Is outshining Choi Seung Hee what you really want? 122 00:09:39,251 --> 00:09:44,293 Or do you just wish to hide the fact she was your teacher? 123 00:09:45,284 --> 00:09:46,634 My dear. 124 00:09:46,843 --> 00:09:52,545 You will never be able to hide, or erase your relationship with Choi Seung Hee. 125 00:09:52,755 --> 00:09:58,445 Choi Seung Hee is my sister-in-law, and everyone knows I'm Ahn Mak's brother. 126 00:09:58,645 --> 00:10:00,787 It's not that! 127 00:10:00,907 --> 00:10:03,459 I want to outmatch her. 128 00:10:03,569 --> 00:10:05,259 I don't want to make this a low-rate Choi Seung Hee dance, 129 00:10:05,479 --> 00:10:09,360 but my own Kim Baek Bong one! 130 00:10:10,790 --> 00:10:14,260 If that is what you wish, this is only the beginning. 131 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,180 Will you achieve that in one day? 132 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,201 Look at me dance. 133 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:22,471 Choi Seonsaeng's dance was famous for its speed. 134 00:10:22,672 --> 00:10:25,053 She combined it with elements of western ballet as well. 135 00:10:25,273 --> 00:10:27,643 I like fast tempo myself. 136 00:10:27,853 --> 00:10:33,004 But what I want to do is to emphasize our dance's strengths. 137 00:10:33,673 --> 00:10:36,343 Delicate... 138 00:10:36,564 --> 00:10:38,544 Fluttering away... 139 00:10:38,875 --> 00:10:41,375 I want to maintain those beautiful lines. 140 00:10:41,485 --> 00:10:44,095 Here, look at me. 141 00:10:55,625 --> 00:11:00,156 I didn't realize it until I saw her on the stage, 142 00:11:00,386 --> 00:11:05,556 but seeing Choi Seung Hee was like experiencing this Greek goddess, 143 00:11:05,716 --> 00:11:09,046 basking in elegance and beauty. 144 00:11:09,287 --> 00:11:15,807 But, for every performance she gave, she always conveyed something... 145 00:11:16,126 --> 00:11:21,427 different to different people. If five people saw her, you'd hear five different stories. 146 00:11:23,828 --> 00:11:29,368 The divide between North and South wasn't merely a matter of territory and population. 147 00:11:29,588 --> 00:11:38,049 Literature and music, theater, movies, dance and all the other arts were divided as well. 148 00:11:38,499 --> 00:11:41,049 Lee Tae Joon's novels are quite lyrical. 149 00:11:41,249 --> 00:11:46,483 You could say not a single one of his works oozed that smell of... 150 00:11:46,618 --> 00:11:48,960 the so called "proletarian revolution." 151 00:11:49,150 --> 00:11:52,709 But, simply because he crossed the border to the North, 152 00:11:52,929 --> 00:11:58,901 his novels suddenly became associated with proletarian literature. 153 00:11:59,413 --> 00:12:01,883 Choi Seung Hee's dance was the same. 154 00:12:02,053 --> 00:12:05,822 Actually, if Choi Seung Hee had never gone to the North at all, 155 00:12:06,062 --> 00:12:10,263 her dance could have been denounced as "colonial art." 156 00:12:10,465 --> 00:12:12,116 In cooperation with the Japanese Empire, 157 00:12:12,117 --> 00:12:13,845 she danced in the US as a Japanese national, 158 00:12:13,846 --> 00:12:17,616 and that was certainly one of the reasons she went to the North. 159 00:12:17,807 --> 00:12:21,547 But the performance she unveiled in America... 160 00:12:21,548 --> 00:12:26,147 was quintessential Korean traditional dance. 161 00:12:26,337 --> 00:12:31,468 For that reason, the Japanese Empire prohibited her from performing in Japan. 162 00:12:31,968 --> 00:12:36,378 What is an artist's legacy based upon? 163 00:12:36,709 --> 00:12:40,260 Could it be the works of art they left with us? 164 00:12:40,390 --> 00:12:45,834 Or is it acceptable that the artistic result of their work can be distorted... 165 00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:48,310 simply by the life they decided to live? 166 00:12:48,530 --> 00:12:53,361 That wasn't merely Kim Baek Bong's problem. 167 00:12:54,161 --> 00:12:58,234 We'll now go back to Kim Su Young's story. 168 00:13:01,364 --> 00:13:04,685 Ahh... Seonsaengnim. Why are you all alone? 169 00:13:04,955 --> 00:13:07,205 Of course I'm alone. Have I ever been a twosome? 170 00:13:07,425 --> 00:13:09,165 Aren't you always surrounded by flowers*? 171 00:13:07,606 --> 00:13:08,822 {\a6}*From Joseon to the 60s, a sort of slang for "beautiful women" 172 00:13:09,365 --> 00:13:12,056 - Tell me about it. - So, why? 173 00:13:12,186 --> 00:13:15,247 Today I'm sitting near a brooklet instead. 174 00:13:15,467 --> 00:13:18,406 And you're not even smoking your beloved cigarettes. 175 00:13:18,617 --> 00:13:19,777 Did you quit? 176 00:13:19,907 --> 00:13:24,157 Why should I ever? I'd rather quit living. 177 00:13:24,307 --> 00:13:26,648 - Then, why aren't you smoking? - I don't have any. 178 00:13:26,888 --> 00:13:29,307 - Cigarettes? - Money as well. 179 00:13:29,508 --> 00:13:31,708 Isn't money always a problem? 180 00:13:31,918 --> 00:13:34,267 Have you brought me any essay to write, or something? 181 00:13:34,458 --> 00:13:38,610 I always hear you're the one to talk to when it comes to filling the blanks. 182 00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:41,540 Why, if I ask you for one, will you write it? 183 00:13:41,770 --> 00:13:42,840 I don't write! 184 00:13:42,950 --> 00:13:46,080 If I had enough energy to write, I'd spend it on those flowers instead. 185 00:13:46,250 --> 00:13:51,280 I knew you'd say that, so I brought you some cigarettes. 186 00:13:53,611 --> 00:13:56,991 Isn't this a bribe? So I'll write for you? 187 00:13:57,111 --> 00:13:59,662 - Write just a few pages for us. - I'm not! 188 00:13:59,882 --> 00:14:02,173 If a writer doesn't write, he'll just enter a slump! 189 00:14:02,283 --> 00:14:04,174 Why, am I a writer? 190 00:14:04,273 --> 00:14:09,184 I don't write for a living, my friend. I eat for a living. 191 00:14:09,314 --> 00:14:11,214 Seonsaengnim, don't do this to me. 192 00:14:11,424 --> 00:14:16,694 By the way, I saw Kim Su Young a few days ago. 193 00:14:17,294 --> 00:14:18,415 Oh... you did? 194 00:14:18,624 --> 00:14:20,954 Ahh, I was calling him, and he suddenly ran away?! 195 00:14:21,074 --> 00:14:24,134 He looked a little rough around the edges. 196 00:14:24,684 --> 00:14:26,204 He certainly has his reasons. 197 00:14:26,335 --> 00:14:29,235 Why don't you go ask Kim Su Young to write? 198 00:14:29,355 --> 00:14:32,095 A writer's block will only pass by writing. 199 00:14:32,235 --> 00:14:35,525 But, tell me. What are those reasons? 200 00:14:35,755 --> 00:14:38,186 It would be a little complicated to explain. 201 00:14:38,325 --> 00:14:40,016 What is so complicated? 202 00:14:40,125 --> 00:14:43,106 People just live all the same. 203 00:14:43,335 --> 00:14:45,736 You've attained spiritual enlightenment, Seonsaengnim. 204 00:14:45,847 --> 00:14:48,367 Spiritual nothing! 205 00:14:48,577 --> 00:14:50,627 Only these cigarettes are spiritual. 206 00:14:50,738 --> 00:14:53,907 - Seonsaengnim, I... - Eh eh! Let's stop prattling. 207 00:14:54,117 --> 00:14:57,267 You can go. Get up. 208 00:14:57,487 --> 00:15:00,357 Go, you can go. 209 00:15:06,018 --> 00:15:09,739 Take good care of Kim Su Young. 210 00:15:10,230 --> 00:15:15,909 You're much better handling people than the pen, Lee Bong Gu. 211 00:15:34,552 --> 00:15:38,832 Gongcho lived a poet's unyielding life, up to the end. 212 00:15:39,062 --> 00:15:42,541 He was one of the very few writers to never engage in any... 213 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:46,933 pro-Japanese activity during the colonial period. 214 00:15:51,802 --> 00:15:54,402 He was what you call a "free man." 215 00:15:52,051 --> 00:15:54,251 {\a6}Kwon Young Min (SNU Korean literature professor) 216 00:15:54,623 --> 00:16:01,400 He was one of our country's first real free men, 217 00:16:01,601 --> 00:16:04,200 that's how you could describe him. 218 00:16:04,419 --> 00:16:09,184 That was particularly because... 219 00:16:09,185 --> 00:16:19,184 he never was concerned with playing the elder of a literature group, 220 00:16:19,385 --> 00:16:25,041 or even organizing and publishing his works. 221 00:16:25,211 --> 00:16:31,112 Yet, at the same time, he always enjoyed encountering new readers every day. 222 00:16:31,312 --> 00:16:38,864 That is what made his legacy possible, you could say. 223 00:16:38,984 --> 00:16:40,214 That's what I think. 224 00:16:40,504 --> 00:16:45,004 "O, undying stroll of the drifter, in forlornness thou loungeth." 225 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,732 {\a6}Oh Sang Soon's "One Glass of Wine" 226 00:16:45,224 --> 00:16:49,225 "O glass, thine dreamlike and consuming slothfulness." 227 00:16:49,435 --> 00:16:53,725 "How far away from thee, can that drifter's dream be?" 228 00:16:53,955 --> 00:16:55,425 A life stripped of any possession. 229 00:16:55,655 --> 00:17:00,616 It could have been exactly the kind of goal Oh Sang Soon wished to accomplish. 230 00:17:00,836 --> 00:17:05,577 To Oh Sang Soon, literature was merely an extravagance, 231 00:17:05,797 --> 00:17:10,317 one of life's luxuries he, at last, would have to abandon. 232 00:17:10,527 --> 00:17:14,159 It's for that reason that, during the 50s, Oh almost didn't write, 233 00:17:14,369 --> 00:17:20,269 and he was able to bid this world farewell just as he wished, leaving next to nothing. 234 00:17:20,519 --> 00:17:25,619 Stripped of any children or wives, his was a life of non possession. 235 00:17:37,870 --> 00:17:39,700 Why are you throwing it away? 236 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:44,270 Ahh... I didn't write it, I just scribbled it away. 237 00:17:46,010 --> 00:17:49,641 Written or scribbled, give it to me. 238 00:17:55,371 --> 00:18:00,361 Are you going to cut all ties with the outside world? 239 00:18:03,831 --> 00:18:06,312 Step outside for a change, why don't you? 240 00:18:06,533 --> 00:18:09,643 Don't always trap yourself here in darkness. 241 00:18:15,024 --> 00:18:22,076 Fine. I won't bother you with writing anymore, so let's just go out for drinks. 242 00:18:27,877 --> 00:18:29,307 Later. 243 00:18:29,566 --> 00:18:32,417 These days, I don't know what's wrong with me, 244 00:18:32,667 --> 00:18:35,398 but just going out makes me dizzy. 245 00:18:35,527 --> 00:18:37,587 Were you the only one?! 246 00:18:37,718 --> 00:18:40,437 Did this damned war trample on you alone? 247 00:18:40,658 --> 00:18:44,348 However big or small it is, this war caused everyone's suffering. 248 00:18:44,578 --> 00:18:50,278 It's exactly people like you who should become a model, by leading the way. 249 00:18:50,689 --> 00:18:54,079 Oppa, get up. 250 00:18:56,259 --> 00:18:58,629 Wear this. 251 00:19:00,670 --> 00:19:03,301 Ahh... come on. 252 00:19:10,392 --> 00:19:12,582 Come on... here, here! 253 00:19:16,004 --> 00:19:19,484 How is it? Not too bad coming out, right? 254 00:19:19,624 --> 00:19:23,554 Should we go get a coffee at the Applause Coffee Shop first? 255 00:19:26,906 --> 00:19:29,005 If you don't want coffee, let's have a wee-tee*. 256 00:19:27,275 --> 00:19:28,754 {\a6}*50~60s slang for whiskey+tea 257 00:19:29,215 --> 00:19:30,055 Wee... tee?! 258 00:19:30,205 --> 00:19:32,845 Oh, you mix whiskey with tea, it tastes quite good. 259 00:19:32,936 --> 00:19:34,845 Let's go there. 260 00:19:35,156 --> 00:19:37,055 And who will be there? 261 00:19:37,285 --> 00:19:40,006 Oh... by now, everyone should be there. 262 00:19:40,216 --> 00:19:41,846 Around three in the afternoon, 263 00:19:41,847 --> 00:19:44,646 all the magazines and newspapers come out with essay or article requests. 264 00:19:44,876 --> 00:19:48,496 You need to be around the Applause at that hour to get work. 265 00:19:48,616 --> 00:19:54,726 And if even one gets paid, they always move all to the room salons. 266 00:19:54,967 --> 00:19:57,128 It's fun! 267 00:20:00,288 --> 00:20:03,849 Then, should we go to the Mona Lisa? 268 00:20:04,179 --> 00:20:07,469 And who will be there? 269 00:20:07,609 --> 00:20:10,440 There're no writers. From time to time, 270 00:20:10,670 --> 00:20:13,150 Park In Hwan is there. 271 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,510 What's wrong with you and him? 272 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,390 Know how much In Hwan cares about you? 273 00:20:21,511 --> 00:20:23,280 Come on, let's go. Uh? 274 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,130 Here. Let's go. 275 00:20:31,241 --> 00:20:34,421 The coffee here is good as well, but the Madam is just... 276 00:20:34,631 --> 00:20:38,731 She has Mona Lisa's smile. 277 00:20:38,951 --> 00:20:41,891 Come on, let's go in. 278 00:20:43,141 --> 00:20:46,722 I'm not ready yet. 279 00:20:46,923 --> 00:20:49,292 Ready for what?! 280 00:20:49,413 --> 00:20:51,933 Meeting Park In Hwan. 281 00:20:52,073 --> 00:20:53,363 You really... 282 00:20:53,483 --> 00:20:56,023 Do you really resent In Hwan? 283 00:20:56,133 --> 00:20:57,454 It's not that... 284 00:20:57,584 --> 00:21:00,094 Then, tell me! 285 00:21:00,244 --> 00:21:02,794 Who knows about it? 286 00:21:02,905 --> 00:21:04,575 What? 287 00:21:05,245 --> 00:21:07,895 The POW camp. 288 00:21:08,645 --> 00:21:11,205 Everyone must know that. 289 00:21:11,645 --> 00:21:13,746 And Hyeon Kyung... 290 00:21:14,006 --> 00:21:15,666 That, only a few people know. 291 00:21:15,796 --> 00:21:18,667 Just In Hwan and me. 292 00:21:19,870 --> 00:21:22,271 Why, because your wife ran away, 293 00:21:22,272 --> 00:21:25,271 are you going to dig a rift between you and the rest of the world? 294 00:21:26,670 --> 00:21:29,321 Here. Let's go. 295 00:21:30,371 --> 00:21:33,082 Ahh... Su Yo... Su Young! 296 00:21:37,322 --> 00:21:40,214 Ahh... really. 297 00:21:49,264 --> 00:21:50,715 It's Kim Su Young! 298 00:21:50,934 --> 00:21:52,014 Seonsaengnim! 299 00:21:52,254 --> 00:21:54,555 You're out! 300 00:21:56,664 --> 00:21:59,905 I'm happy, thankful and glad to meet you!* 301 00:21:56,664 --> 00:21:59,905 {\a6}*He's quoting a poem by Gu Seong 302 00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:05,845 {\a6}*Continuation of poem 303 00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:05,845 You're sitting on a field of flowers*. 304 00:22:06,105 --> 00:22:09,386 Keep being so pessimistic and hate this world, 305 00:22:09,527 --> 00:22:13,838 then this world will hate you as well, and destroy you. 306 00:22:14,247 --> 00:22:17,307 Is your mother doing well? 307 00:22:17,558 --> 00:22:19,188 Yes. 308 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:22,599 When your mother had that bar in Chungmuro, 309 00:22:22,729 --> 00:22:26,009 I had so many bindae ddeok (mung bean pancake) and free drinks. 310 00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:31,269 Ahh... I'll have to repay your favor today. 311 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,271 You don't have a certificate yet, do you? 312 00:22:44,921 --> 00:22:46,891 This is a citizen card. 313 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,882 You'll be all right even if they inspect you, carrying this. 314 00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:51,661 Where did you... 315 00:22:51,892 --> 00:22:53,872 It's a fake. 316 00:22:54,092 --> 00:22:58,894 There's this boy who had a favor to pay back, and he's just phenomenal with these. 317 00:22:59,033 --> 00:23:03,413 Go take a photo, and stick it here. 318 00:23:08,664 --> 00:23:10,454 Seonsaengnim. 319 00:23:10,624 --> 00:23:13,314 If you bring me another few of your photos, 320 00:23:13,544 --> 00:23:20,425 I can make you certificates of residence, transit, anything you want. 321 00:23:28,977 --> 00:23:32,958 If you show that at any bar, they'll also give you credit. 322 00:23:51,213 --> 00:23:55,044 Did he really come all the way here, and then ran away? 323 00:23:55,233 --> 00:23:59,084 I guess he was ashamed, after all. 324 00:23:59,294 --> 00:24:02,224 About his wife and all. 325 00:24:05,915 --> 00:24:07,715 What could he possibly have against you? 326 00:24:07,966 --> 00:24:12,045 Don't you know how shy he can be? 327 00:25:27,350 --> 00:25:29,430 Let's leave together! 328 00:25:29,690 --> 00:25:31,540 Dear. 329 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,241 I can't now. 330 00:25:36,532 --> 00:25:40,573 I can't follow you now. 331 00:25:41,933 --> 00:25:44,813 I'm sorry. 332 00:25:45,073 --> 00:25:47,543 I can't follow you now. 333 00:25:47,783 --> 00:25:49,793 I am sorry. 334 00:25:49,933 --> 00:25:52,485 I'm sorry... 335 00:26:14,717 --> 00:26:16,899 Here! 336 00:26:20,949 --> 00:26:22,939 Oh... what now? 337 00:26:23,169 --> 00:26:25,520 I forgot to buy a table. 338 00:26:25,670 --> 00:26:27,539 Ahh... 339 00:26:27,889 --> 00:26:29,999 Wait a moment. 340 00:26:33,590 --> 00:26:35,630 Here. 341 00:26:36,092 --> 00:26:37,351 What's that? 342 00:26:37,482 --> 00:26:39,062 Our new table. 343 00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:42,884 Ehh... That?! 344 00:26:57,106 --> 00:27:00,187 I'm sorry for all this. 345 00:27:00,392 --> 00:27:02,687 It's what I wanted anyway. 346 00:27:02,827 --> 00:27:05,327 Living in this place... 347 00:27:05,597 --> 00:27:09,217 I told you, all we need are two spoons. 348 00:27:09,497 --> 00:27:14,258 I'm just happy seeing you write. 349 00:27:14,468 --> 00:27:17,860 I expect nothing else. 350 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:21,641 Hyeon Kyung. Come here. 351 00:27:21,990 --> 00:27:23,030 What? 352 00:27:23,270 --> 00:27:26,681 I said just come here. 353 00:27:26,860 --> 00:27:29,032 Why? 354 00:27:29,261 --> 00:27:30,942 Give me a kiss. 355 00:27:31,052 --> 00:27:32,902 Here. 356 00:28:42,989 --> 00:28:47,129 "Even without you, I shall live." 357 00:28:47,239 --> 00:28:51,650 "Where millions of tears your absence stole from me end." 358 00:28:51,891 --> 00:28:53,990 "Even when I take a million steps away from you." 359 00:28:54,137 --> 00:28:58,246 "Every step shall remind me of your derision." 360 00:29:17,993 --> 00:29:21,874 As if a larva was crawling its way out to the world, 361 00:29:22,003 --> 00:29:27,895 Kim Su Young slowly started to reacquaint himself with the outside world. 362 00:29:33,154 --> 00:29:35,255 Buy flowers! 363 00:29:36,356 --> 00:29:39,466 The nights of Myeongdong were full of pleasures. 364 00:29:39,606 --> 00:29:42,205 The writers who spent the day in these coffee shops... 365 00:29:42,206 --> 00:29:44,805 writing or waiting for job offers, 366 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:52,279 according to their wallets, spent the night at stand-up bars or cafes. 367 00:29:52,779 --> 00:29:54,529 It wasn't just scribes. 368 00:29:54,749 --> 00:30:00,092 Theater actors, or even people crazed over cinema, came from Chungmuro... 369 00:30:00,212 --> 00:30:04,262 and wandered around chasing their personal chimera. 370 00:30:04,482 --> 00:30:08,423 During the day, the commercial quarters of Myeongdong attracted... 371 00:30:08,621 --> 00:30:12,604 the stylish, and even youngsters looking for some sightseeing, 372 00:30:12,824 --> 00:30:14,226 while rich married women... 373 00:30:14,227 --> 00:30:18,226 transformed into fashion icons passing through the Songok Boutique. 374 00:30:18,445 --> 00:30:23,778 Merchants were storming to Myeongdong to make money. 375 00:30:24,197 --> 00:30:28,378 Here at the Arts Theater, a rush of performances and concerts was flowing. 376 00:30:28,588 --> 00:30:31,939 The Arts Theater featured all sorts of arts. 377 00:30:32,159 --> 00:30:34,709 It had classical opera along with traditional theater, 378 00:30:34,959 --> 00:30:38,031 musical plays and even pop music. The singers' shows, along with... 379 00:30:38,201 --> 00:30:45,871 concerts, ballets, and traditional dance, alluring people from all walks of life. 380 00:30:46,701 --> 00:30:47,713 Yes. 381 00:30:47,902 --> 00:30:51,115 People might have been trying to forget the horror and pain of the war... 382 00:30:51,325 --> 00:30:54,785 through the pleasure and excitement of those nights. 383 00:30:54,906 --> 00:30:59,966 And wherever pleasure was thriving, money was to be made. 384 00:31:00,186 --> 00:31:05,766 And, obviously, where you had money to be made, you'd also have gangsters. 385 00:31:05,946 --> 00:31:09,426 We'll have to talk about Lee Hwa Ryong. 386 00:31:12,851 --> 00:31:17,261 Near the Savoy Hotel was a nightclub called Newsman. 387 00:31:17,431 --> 00:31:19,723 It was Lee Hwa Ryong's stronghold. 388 00:31:21,493 --> 00:31:23,252 Who did? 389 00:31:23,362 --> 00:31:25,992 Sirasoni. 390 00:31:27,122 --> 00:31:31,454 He went to Lee Jung Jae to borrow some money, and they hit him. 391 00:31:31,834 --> 00:31:33,354 So? 392 00:31:33,484 --> 00:31:36,274 We can't just stand here and do nothing! 393 00:31:37,704 --> 00:31:40,175 Just forget it. 394 00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:44,435 Aunim! (deferential for "younger brother/intimate friend") 395 00:31:44,664 --> 00:31:48,095 Lee Jung Jae needs to be taught a lesson! 396 00:31:48,414 --> 00:31:51,875 If you let him go, his hands will reach Myeongdong. 397 00:31:52,005 --> 00:31:54,845 Let him. 398 00:31:55,675 --> 00:31:56,905 Aunim! 399 00:31:57,025 --> 00:31:58,657 Aunim, let me finish! 400 00:31:58,876 --> 00:32:00,367 Aunim! 401 00:32:01,706 --> 00:32:02,847 Aunim. 402 00:32:02,967 --> 00:32:05,107 I said, listen to me. 403 00:32:05,317 --> 00:32:07,087 Are you people just scummy gangsters? 404 00:32:07,197 --> 00:32:09,387 Why do you always go around in packs? 405 00:32:09,597 --> 00:32:12,167 If you keep this up, we'll lose customers. 406 00:32:12,277 --> 00:32:15,947 Who would ever come here, if all they see are gangsters at the door? 407 00:32:16,188 --> 00:32:20,688 Just lie low for a while. Come out when I tell you. 408 00:32:20,819 --> 00:32:22,869 Understood? 409 00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:27,399 If you ignore the fact Sirasoni was hit, 410 00:32:27,509 --> 00:32:29,439 Lee Jung Jae will start looking down on you. 411 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,781 Do you know how much he'd love to get his hands on Myeongdong? 412 00:32:34,932 --> 00:32:39,424 All those people in Dongdaemun are ruthless. All they need is a good bait. 413 00:32:39,544 --> 00:32:40,724 Look at Lee Jung Jae. 414 00:32:40,944 --> 00:32:43,614 When he was about to die at the hands of those gangsters in Busan, 415 00:32:43,824 --> 00:32:45,374 it was Sirasoni who saved him. 416 00:32:45,494 --> 00:32:47,224 He's the man who saved his life. 417 00:32:47,444 --> 00:32:50,524 Just because he asked him for a few pennies, you beat him to a pulp? 418 00:32:50,634 --> 00:32:54,584 Lee Jung Jae, that fool has no loyalty nor respect. 419 00:32:54,684 --> 00:32:56,205 Uh? 420 00:32:57,255 --> 00:32:59,095 The hell are you? 421 00:32:59,235 --> 00:33:01,835 My apologies. 422 00:33:02,065 --> 00:33:03,475 Watch what you're walking into! 423 00:33:03,685 --> 00:33:06,495 Ah... My apologies. 424 00:33:06,616 --> 00:33:08,115 Are you a gangster? 425 00:33:08,316 --> 00:33:10,365 Ahhh... I'm not. 426 00:33:10,406 --> 00:33:14,326 Then, what? I'm Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik. 427 00:33:14,446 --> 00:33:18,216 Ahh... yes, my name is Lee Hwa Ryong. 428 00:33:18,646 --> 00:33:21,376 I'm a poet... 429 00:33:21,496 --> 00:33:24,296 What is it that you do for a living, I'm asking. 430 00:33:24,417 --> 00:33:26,856 I'm just playing around. 431 00:33:27,097 --> 00:33:28,938 Wouldn't that be the life of a gangster? 432 00:33:29,148 --> 00:33:32,808 Ahhh... this little prick! Not just once... 433 00:33:33,028 --> 00:33:38,659 My apologies. I'll look where I'm walking from now on. 434 00:33:39,428 --> 00:33:42,529 Stick another eye behind your back. 435 00:33:42,739 --> 00:33:45,979 So you can see behind as well, understood? 436 00:33:46,140 --> 00:33:49,819 Ahh... yes, well understood. 437 00:33:50,740 --> 00:33:51,990 My apologies. 438 00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:56,080 Oh oh! Little insolent rascal. 439 00:33:57,850 --> 00:34:01,061 Let's go. 440 00:34:01,282 --> 00:34:08,084 You need to show fools like him who owns this place, so they'll learn their lesson. 441 00:34:08,204 --> 00:34:09,724 Didn't he say he's a poet? 442 00:34:09,834 --> 00:34:13,954 If poets disappear from Myeongdong, business will suffer as well. 443 00:34:14,184 --> 00:34:18,646 Want to make Myeongdong another Dongdaemun? 444 00:34:21,866 --> 00:34:23,896 Ahhh... really. 445 00:34:29,647 --> 00:34:32,448 What are you doing, little bastard? 446 00:34:34,590 --> 00:34:36,359 Give me that camera. 447 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,309 I shot a snap photography. 448 00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:39,870 You shot what?! 449 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,410 He said he shot a photo. 450 00:34:42,670 --> 00:34:45,371 How much is it? 451 00:34:47,751 --> 00:34:51,991 Here! Get it. 452 00:34:52,151 --> 00:34:54,021 How have you been? 453 00:34:54,251 --> 00:34:56,352 So, did you find your kids? 454 00:34:56,592 --> 00:35:02,022 I still haven't. My wife is looking around at orphanages all day. 455 00:35:02,232 --> 00:35:05,382 Don't just look inside Seoul, search outside as well. 456 00:35:05,582 --> 00:35:07,894 Yes, I'll do that. 457 00:35:08,233 --> 00:35:09,793 - Oh oh! - Oh... yes. 458 00:35:09,894 --> 00:35:11,513 How is business going? 459 00:35:11,794 --> 00:35:14,434 Dollars cost like gold. 460 00:35:14,544 --> 00:35:16,374 I wish you good luck. 461 00:35:16,434 --> 00:35:19,284 Have a good night! 462 00:35:19,553 --> 00:35:22,404 I'm mortified, Sir. I'll have to shoot another one. 463 00:35:22,664 --> 00:35:24,395 What did you say? 464 00:35:24,685 --> 00:35:28,655 Fofo... For real. 465 00:35:31,946 --> 00:35:36,577 What the hell is this? Are you shooting photos without film? 466 00:35:36,797 --> 00:35:38,187 It's not that. 467 00:35:38,297 --> 00:35:40,807 If I shoot a photo, but then you don't pay, 468 00:35:41,007 --> 00:35:43,508 how am I ever going to buy other film? 469 00:35:43,787 --> 00:35:45,468 - Ehhh... - So... 470 00:35:45,658 --> 00:35:47,067 Here, here. 471 00:35:47,247 --> 00:35:49,208 Let's shoot it for real. 472 00:35:49,328 --> 00:35:51,758 Ahh... yes, thank you. 473 00:35:51,988 --> 00:35:53,978 Come here, Hyungnim. 474 00:35:54,088 --> 00:35:56,859 - Yes! - Ehh... 475 00:36:00,329 --> 00:36:01,809 Here. 476 00:36:02,180 --> 00:36:03,979 Here, I'm shooting. 477 00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:06,359 One... Two... 478 00:36:06,490 --> 00:36:07,630 Three! 479 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:17,041 No matter how hard I try, I can't figure you out. 480 00:36:17,270 --> 00:36:19,010 Didn't you hear the merchants in Myeongdong? 481 00:36:19,241 --> 00:36:22,801 They'll happily pay for protection, so build up a gang. 482 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:27,591 Will you let Lee Jung Jae steal all that from you? 483 00:36:28,751 --> 00:36:31,602 - Wait here. - Uh?! 484 00:36:35,583 --> 00:36:38,624 Ahhh... really. 485 00:36:39,094 --> 00:36:42,774 - How much? - Just a 100,000 won will do. 486 00:36:42,914 --> 00:36:47,115 Is 100,000 won your cat's name? It's enough to get a decent house. 487 00:36:47,334 --> 00:36:50,204 If it's too much of a waste for you, then forget it. 488 00:36:50,484 --> 00:36:52,995 Where are you going to use that money? 489 00:36:51,517 --> 00:36:52,797 {\a6}Lee Hwa Ryong's sister 490 00:36:53,105 --> 00:36:56,625 If you want to give it to me, just do it. Why the questions? 491 00:36:56,815 --> 00:36:59,875 I always hear Lee Jung Jae's gang is filled to the brim with money. 492 00:36:59,995 --> 00:37:03,385 How can you keep just spending like that? 493 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:06,055 Then, should I become a gangster, too? 494 00:37:06,256 --> 00:37:08,575 Who said you need to get your hands dirty? 495 00:37:08,605 --> 00:37:09,546 Hwa Ryong. 496 00:37:09,656 --> 00:37:11,835 You can't use violence for no reason. 497 00:37:11,955 --> 00:37:15,515 He who kills by the sword dies by the sword, you know? 498 00:37:19,756 --> 00:37:23,186 Ahh... just give it to me. Always counting! 499 00:37:23,296 --> 00:37:27,757 Listen to that! Know how hard it is to make money? 500 00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:47,180 What's this, Aunim? 501 00:37:47,339 --> 00:37:50,600 Use half for Sirasoni's hospital bills and to get him back on track. 502 00:37:50,730 --> 00:37:53,700 The other half is for our boys. 503 00:37:54,550 --> 00:37:56,971 Tell them to stay out of Myeongdong for a while. 504 00:37:57,181 --> 00:38:00,322 They can just lie low for the time being. 505 00:38:00,522 --> 00:38:03,211 Aunim... Aunim! 506 00:38:03,472 --> 00:38:07,532 Until things quiet down, tell them to lie low. 507 00:38:08,762 --> 00:38:10,322 Aunim! 508 00:38:10,542 --> 00:38:12,962 Aunim! 509 00:38:13,162 --> 00:38:15,862 Aunim. 510 00:38:19,674 --> 00:38:25,895 Lee Hwa Ryong was a real man's man, who never used his fist even once. 511 00:38:26,045 --> 00:38:29,226 The real "fist" of Myeongdong, so to speak, 512 00:38:29,345 --> 00:38:32,926 was the man known as "Boss Shin," Shin Sang Hyeon. 513 00:38:33,365 --> 00:38:41,226 He controlled Myeongdong from around 1965 to 1985. 514 00:38:33,862 --> 00:38:36,462 {\a6}Jang Ho Geun (novelist) 515 00:38:41,466 --> 00:38:43,592 So you could say just about everything important... 516 00:38:43,593 --> 00:38:45,726 which happened during those days... 517 00:38:45,727 --> 00:38:49,217 had something to do, or even started from him. 518 00:38:49,386 --> 00:38:58,808 The thing is, no matter what people say, Shin Sang Hyeon was a "boss." 519 00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:02,221 He never worked under anyone. 520 00:39:02,222 --> 00:39:05,521 Of course he did run "errands" on occasion... 521 00:39:05,741 --> 00:39:14,632 whenever his fists were needed, but in all truth, he should be considered... 522 00:39:14,872 --> 00:39:17,012 the real boss of Myeongdong. 523 00:39:17,462 --> 00:39:19,762 Should I serve you a coffee? 524 00:39:20,402 --> 00:39:23,732 Welcome. 525 00:39:20,402 --> 00:39:23,732 {\a6}Shin Sang Hyeon 526 00:39:35,452 --> 00:39:37,603 Stop there! 527 00:39:37,813 --> 00:39:41,534 Use that phone, and I'll kill you right here. 528 00:39:43,665 --> 00:39:46,415 What did he do wrong, to deserve being hit like that? 529 00:39:46,625 --> 00:39:50,406 How can you hit an elder like that? 530 00:39:50,605 --> 00:39:54,816 You must not know what laws mean. 531 00:39:55,236 --> 00:39:57,696 Who are you? 532 00:39:57,806 --> 00:40:00,076 He runs the radio station on the other side of the road. 533 00:40:00,286 --> 00:40:03,767 What is wrong with you, in the middle of the day?! 534 00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:11,619 Hey, you! 535 00:40:18,659 --> 00:40:21,400 This is for him. 536 00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:24,930 I'm sorry. I've mistaken you. 537 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,721 He looked like Lee Hwa Ryong from behind. 538 00:40:51,052 --> 00:40:55,132 I should have just asked him if he was Lee Hwa Ryong before hitting him. 539 00:40:55,642 --> 00:40:58,353 He thought he was Lee Hwa Ryong?! 540 00:40:58,473 --> 00:41:00,863 Yes! 541 00:41:02,513 --> 00:41:05,313 Madam! How does he look like? 542 00:41:07,845 --> 00:41:09,794 Oh... Sajangnim*! 543 00:41:07,845 --> 00:41:09,794 {\a6}*Usually means "director," but here it's more a glorified version of "boss" 544 00:41:09,904 --> 00:41:12,615 Why did you send out so much money? 545 00:41:12,755 --> 00:41:13,785 Our boys didn't cause any ruckus, did they? 546 00:41:13,895 --> 00:41:15,774 Ohhh... ruckus?! 547 00:41:15,984 --> 00:41:18,465 I treated all our employees to a nice party, thanks to you. 548 00:41:18,695 --> 00:41:20,485 I've heard you're doing well these days. 549 00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:21,935 Ahh... don't even tell me about it. 550 00:41:22,045 --> 00:41:23,775 We had so many people coming yesterday, 551 00:41:23,806 --> 00:41:26,156 I had to open the theater windows to let people in the corridors see. 552 00:41:26,276 --> 00:41:28,447 Isn't Im Chun Aeng the best these days? 553 00:41:28,637 --> 00:41:32,047 - Is Director Baek inside? - Yes, come on in. 554 00:41:32,247 --> 00:41:34,667 Yes, there you go. 555 00:41:35,026 --> 00:41:37,007 Oh! It's Im Chun Aeng! 556 00:41:43,361 --> 00:41:45,461 In a period when very few movies were being made, she was... 557 00:41:45,511 --> 00:41:50,672 Im Chun Aeng*, the most popular star of the 50s. (*traditional opera actress) 558 00:41:50,832 --> 00:41:55,413 No, since the role played by Im Chun Aeng was a man, 559 00:41:55,633 --> 00:41:58,303 should we just call her "hero"? 560 00:41:58,542 --> 00:42:01,932 {\a6}Classical opera's heroine, Im Chun Aeng 561 00:42:04,303 --> 00:42:08,064 So that's what happened? 562 00:42:04,511 --> 00:42:07,711 {\a6}Baek Sun Seong (Arts Theater director) 563 00:42:08,394 --> 00:42:13,735 Looks like I was the target, and he hit someone else by mistake. 564 00:42:14,266 --> 00:42:18,165 Things are getting quite ugly, I see. 565 00:42:18,305 --> 00:42:23,346 There is nothing to worry. Would he do that again? 566 00:42:24,746 --> 00:42:27,256 Who could it be? 567 00:42:30,296 --> 00:42:32,196 It can't be Lee Jung Jae. 568 00:42:32,317 --> 00:42:35,886 He was warned already. 569 00:42:36,107 --> 00:42:38,777 Warned by whom? 570 00:42:39,057 --> 00:42:42,006 Pretending you don't know?! 571 00:42:42,837 --> 00:42:45,577 Is it true Lee Gi Bong is behind Lee Jung Jae? 572 00:42:45,687 --> 00:42:50,948 Ahh... why would someone like him help out a gangster? 573 00:42:51,038 --> 00:42:55,412 He might end up in Gyeongmudae* in a few years. 574 00:42:51,243 --> 00:42:55,243 {\a6}*Between 1948 and 1960, the old name of Cheongwadae, the Blue House 575 00:42:55,612 --> 00:42:58,252 Is Lee Gi Bong that powerful? 576 00:42:58,492 --> 00:43:03,284 He was a secretary of President Lee when he was in America, wasn't he? 577 00:43:03,384 --> 00:43:04,934 They're really close. 578 00:43:05,154 --> 00:43:10,724 That's why I'm always telling you to have a meeting with him, Lee Sajang. 579 00:43:10,934 --> 00:43:15,064 I think Lee Jung Jae is behind this. 580 00:43:15,264 --> 00:43:17,175 What? 581 00:43:17,375 --> 00:43:21,395 I asked around, and the guy who was trying to get me was this "Boss Shin." 582 00:43:21,505 --> 00:43:27,007 He's working for Jung Pal, but he and I would never have to resort to that, 583 00:43:27,138 --> 00:43:32,197 so there must be another reason. 584 00:43:32,378 --> 00:43:36,708 Nah, it's not that. It's not that, Lee Sajang. 585 00:43:37,018 --> 00:43:39,079 It's a rather tangled matter. 586 00:43:39,299 --> 00:43:42,442 I'll explain it to you later, 587 00:43:42,443 --> 00:43:46,442 but from now on, nothing like that is ever going to happen. 588 00:43:47,921 --> 00:43:54,293 The cover is blown all right. And I tried to feign ignorance. 589 00:43:55,593 --> 00:43:57,083 Lee Sajang. 590 00:43:57,293 --> 00:44:01,293 You need to keep Myeongdong in your hands. 591 00:44:02,904 --> 00:44:07,184 Even from above, I'm hearing a lot of praise directed at you. 592 00:44:07,314 --> 00:44:10,433 That you're a gentleman who respects artists, 593 00:44:10,764 --> 00:44:19,284 and that the way you treat merchants made this place like our own Ginza*. 594 00:44:11,034 --> 00:44:17,835 {\a6}*Upscale commercial district in Chuo, Tokyo 595 00:44:19,455 --> 00:44:24,465 Try to let someone like Lee Jung Jae get a hold of this place, instead. 596 00:44:24,685 --> 00:44:26,885 Lee Jung Jae might know the market like the palm of his hands, 597 00:44:27,095 --> 00:44:29,285 but he's just a simpleton, uh? 598 00:44:29,475 --> 00:44:31,976 Think of what would happen with him ruling this place. 599 00:44:32,076 --> 00:44:34,346 Would those artists like the idea? 600 00:44:34,456 --> 00:44:38,462 They wouldn't spare complaints. 601 00:44:38,697 --> 00:44:43,418 Writers, directors, journalists... Are they afraid of running their tongues? 602 00:44:43,658 --> 00:44:48,579 Myeongdong is the perfect fit for you. 603 00:44:48,749 --> 00:44:50,489 It's made for you, uh? 604 00:44:50,860 --> 00:44:54,151 The man in charge of the Arts Theater, Director Baek Sun Seong. 605 00:44:54,361 --> 00:44:55,651 There were rumors... 606 00:44:55,652 --> 00:44:57,451 he became a "blood brother" with Lee Jung Jae and Lee Gi Bong, 607 00:44:57,590 --> 00:45:00,640 something only a political veteran like him could achieve. 608 00:45:08,803 --> 00:45:11,444 You fools aren't even people! 609 00:45:11,544 --> 00:45:14,124 Who took care of you when you had nowhere to go? 610 00:45:14,343 --> 00:45:16,663 Lee Sajang saved your lives! 611 00:45:16,874 --> 00:45:20,836 But some rat bastard infiltrates Myeongdong to harm him, 612 00:45:21,184 --> 00:45:24,814 and you can't even stop that? 613 00:45:25,084 --> 00:45:28,365 Where have you been? Uh? 614 00:45:28,574 --> 00:45:31,886 Didn't I say to protect him like a shadow? 615 00:45:34,826 --> 00:45:36,417 Enough. 616 00:45:36,667 --> 00:45:39,006 What is this disgrace?! 617 00:45:39,117 --> 00:45:44,227 Think what the boys in Dongdaemun* and Jongro* will think of us. 618 00:45:39,296 --> 00:45:43,916 {\a6}*"Three Kingdoms" of organized crime (with Myeongdong) during first half of 1900s 619 00:45:45,398 --> 00:45:47,718 I said that's enough! 620 00:45:51,398 --> 00:45:53,848 Everyone, get up. 621 00:45:54,648 --> 00:45:57,027 Ahhh... you fools! 622 00:45:57,368 --> 00:45:59,788 I said stop! 623 00:45:59,918 --> 00:46:02,189 I can't take this anymore! 624 00:46:02,289 --> 00:46:05,859 You suffered that kind of humiliation... 625 00:46:06,450 --> 00:46:10,059 Stay out of Myeongdong for the time being. 626 00:46:10,189 --> 00:46:17,212 If we fight them with violence, we'll all be treated as vile gangsters. 627 00:46:18,262 --> 00:46:23,452 Don't spend all that money foolishly, and take good care of yourselves. 628 00:46:27,804 --> 00:46:31,254 On your faces, you pricks! 629 00:46:40,206 --> 00:46:42,897 Our story about the gang world is getting longer. 630 00:46:43,038 --> 00:46:46,388 But, if you truly wish to talk about the Myeongdong of the 1950s, 631 00:46:46,508 --> 00:46:49,848 you can't possibly leave Lee Hwa Ryong out. 632 00:46:50,068 --> 00:46:54,109 To understand how much he loved and respected all those artists, 633 00:46:54,329 --> 00:46:58,979 all one needs is a look at the films he ended up producing. 634 00:46:59,428 --> 00:47:02,479 Directed by Kang Dae Jin and starring Kim Seung Ho, "A Coachman"... 635 00:47:02,690 --> 00:47:05,250 won the Silver Bear at Berlin, 636 00:47:05,251 --> 00:47:08,950 a monumental achievement for Korean cinema. 637 00:47:09,070 --> 00:47:13,381 Among the films produced before this, you could find "Madame Freedom." 638 00:47:13,552 --> 00:47:15,551 Jung Bi Seok's "Madame Freedom," 639 00:47:15,552 --> 00:47:18,653 serialized in the Seoul Shinmun from January 1954, 640 00:47:18,813 --> 00:47:25,613 represented the turning point in washing away the painful vestiges of the war. 641 00:47:25,874 --> 00:47:29,112 It was the first novel to truly expose that clash of the sexes... 642 00:47:29,336 --> 00:47:32,288 which had lain dormant for years, forbidden by the establishment. 643 00:47:32,498 --> 00:47:37,028 It told the story of a woman's escapades, in a way which was... 644 00:47:37,148 --> 00:47:39,677 almost impossible to imagine at the time, completely shaking our... 645 00:47:39,798 --> 00:47:42,958 ethical values which had collapsed along with the war. 646 00:47:43,088 --> 00:47:44,410 We'll tell her story in our next episode. 647 00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:48,680 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 648 00:47:48,835 --> 00:47:52,020 Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles 649 00:47:52,223 --> 00:47:55,226 Main Translator & Timer: MisterX 650 00:47:55,444 --> 00:47:58,456 Timing QC: Victory 651 00:47:58,644 --> 00:48:01,696 Editor/QC: thunderbolt 652 00:48:01,876 --> 00:48:04,899 Coordinators: mily2, ay_link 653 00:48:05,142 --> 00:48:09,052 These days, married women are filling dance halls. 654 00:48:09,252 --> 00:48:12,102 You're saying Mr. Yoon's wife had an affair? 655 00:48:12,332 --> 00:48:15,515 His wife fell for the charms of dance! 656 00:48:16,715 --> 00:48:18,926 Keep an eye on your wife. 657 00:48:19,136 --> 00:48:20,257 What? 658 00:48:20,897 --> 00:48:23,158 You fool! 659 00:48:23,468 --> 00:48:28,710 We call for an immediate suspension of the "Madame Freedom" series. 660 00:48:28,939 --> 00:48:31,851 "Madame Freedom" is not a fantasy I created, 661 00:48:31,939 --> 00:48:35,851 but merely a reenactment of today's trends. 662 00:48:36,011 --> 00:48:38,031 Don't you know the West's first real revolution... 663 00:48:38,032 --> 00:48:40,531 started from Lady Chatterley's skirt? 664 00:48:40,752 --> 00:48:44,612 They're talking about adapting "Madame Freedom" into a play. 665 00:48:44,822 --> 00:48:46,511 What is Kim Su Young doing these days? 666 00:48:46,722 --> 00:48:51,303 He must have suffered a lot in the war. 667 00:49:02,345 --> 00:49:06,657 I'm sorry, Miss Noh. I'm always bothering you. 668 00:49:06,807 --> 00:49:09,117 Seonsaengnim. 669 00:49:09,727 --> 00:49:13,087 I like you, too. 670 00:49:13,338 --> 00:49:19,191 This is a FREE fansub. NOT for SALE!!! Get it for FREE @ d-addicts.com