1 00:00:00,624 --> 00:00:04,729 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 2 00:00:00,624 --> 00:00:04,729 {\a6}Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 3 00:00:09,076 --> 00:00:11,816 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:09,076 --> 00:00:11,816 {\a6}Episode 5 5 00:00:28,542 --> 00:00:30,062 That motherless fool. 6 00:00:30,172 --> 00:00:33,912 Fools like this one should be taken to Gwanghwamun and beaten to a pulp. 7 00:00:34,102 --> 00:00:36,583 Who is the protagonist of your accusations, this time? 8 00:00:36,673 --> 00:00:40,492 Ahh... take a look at this photo, with that slimy look on his face. 9 00:00:40,573 --> 00:00:41,553 Who is it? 10 00:00:41,663 --> 00:00:43,963 Ahhh... this fool, he's called Park In Soo. 11 00:00:44,083 --> 00:00:45,886 He was seducing young maidens at this dance hall. 12 00:00:45,993 --> 00:00:50,483 Not just one or two, but what was it, seventy two or three, the scoundrel! 13 00:00:50,664 --> 00:00:52,765 He's got talent, all right! 14 00:00:52,884 --> 00:00:54,635 Ahhh... what is this all about?! 15 00:00:54,745 --> 00:00:57,347 Why are you getting angry for someone else's problems, Mr. Yoon? 16 00:00:57,457 --> 00:00:59,557 Someone else's problems?! How can you put it like that? 17 00:00:59,667 --> 00:01:02,027 It's because of those creepy scamps that our country is going to fall! 18 00:01:02,137 --> 00:01:05,017 That's quite the exaggeration! 19 00:01:05,157 --> 00:01:07,678 We are still on our feet after this war. 20 00:01:07,779 --> 00:01:11,809 Is some fella having fun with a few youngsters going to ruin us? 21 00:01:11,929 --> 00:01:16,328 There're college students, and even maidens from well-off families, it seems. 22 00:01:16,448 --> 00:01:19,809 Ahhh... it says he seduced those maidens at the dance hall. 23 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,770 Why would well-off damsels need to frequent those dance halls?! 24 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:28,151 Exactly! The problem is that... "Dans Hall" or something! 25 00:01:28,260 --> 00:01:32,712 Ahh... these days, even married women go there! 26 00:01:36,762 --> 00:01:40,723 Mr. Yoon, you're already headed home? 27 00:01:43,964 --> 00:01:46,324 How is he ever going to make any money, acting like that? 28 00:01:46,435 --> 00:01:48,265 If it only earns you another penny to feed your family, just... 29 00:01:48,385 --> 00:01:51,985 And what would that money do? The missus had an affair already. 30 00:01:52,105 --> 00:01:54,026 Why did you mention it when you knew about him?! 31 00:01:54,136 --> 00:01:56,466 Ahh... why bother trying to bring that kind of wench home? 32 00:01:56,587 --> 00:01:57,686 So, you'd abandon her? 33 00:01:57,797 --> 00:01:59,397 They used to say you shouldn't try to bring back... 34 00:01:59,517 --> 00:02:01,926 cats and wenches, when they leave home. 35 00:02:02,177 --> 00:02:03,696 What is that about? 36 00:02:03,796 --> 00:02:06,757 Are you saying Yoon's missus had an affair? 37 00:02:06,857 --> 00:02:10,598 Ahhh... she fell for the charms of the dance floor! 38 00:02:13,588 --> 00:02:14,770 That... that! 39 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,670 So Yoon left earlier to go look for her, is that it? 40 00:02:19,721 --> 00:02:22,180 Ehh... it's the end of the world. The end! 41 00:02:22,291 --> 00:02:25,341 Ever since the old times, if women fell into disorder, 42 00:02:25,451 --> 00:02:28,673 the country would fall. 43 00:02:32,913 --> 00:02:35,544 What's wrong with you? You give me the chills. 44 00:02:39,503 --> 00:02:45,194 Newsman Night 45 00:02:58,004 --> 00:03:01,995 Ironically, "revolution" and "war" are often synonyms. 46 00:03:02,115 --> 00:03:05,638 The history of mankind has gone through countless wars during its evolution. 47 00:03:05,848 --> 00:03:11,007 Wars get rid of the established system and values, and make new ones. 48 00:03:11,227 --> 00:03:16,208 It's in that sense that war and revolution become synonyms. 49 00:03:17,448 --> 00:03:21,819 It is clear the Korean War was a tragic event, 50 00:03:22,029 --> 00:03:27,160 but it changed our lives and consciousness just like a revolution would have. 51 00:03:27,610 --> 00:03:30,391 That feudalism which continued until the first years of the 20th century, 52 00:03:30,511 --> 00:03:32,141 and the Japanese colonial period. 53 00:03:32,351 --> 00:03:36,351 The chaos of the divide, which started alongside our liberation. 54 00:03:36,961 --> 00:03:38,061 That's right. 55 00:03:38,191 --> 00:03:42,352 It was through the war's lenses that we experienced those days of change. 56 00:03:42,572 --> 00:03:45,551 All the values and goals, the ethics and interpersonal relationships... 57 00:03:45,751 --> 00:03:50,212 which shaped our history and society up to that period. 58 00:03:50,691 --> 00:03:56,332 All those elements vanished like smoke, engulfed by the war. 59 00:03:56,512 --> 00:04:01,502 What we needed, then, were new values and goals, 60 00:04:01,732 --> 00:04:07,563 a new ethical consciousness and a different way to interact together. 61 00:04:07,782 --> 00:04:09,392 Yet... 62 00:04:09,523 --> 00:04:12,335 just like every other revolution, 63 00:04:12,336 --> 00:04:16,735 it was through the eyes of disorder that all this started. 64 00:04:22,835 --> 00:04:23,795 We'll see you later. 65 00:04:23,835 --> 00:04:26,625 - Oh... take some nice shots. - Yes. 66 00:04:34,565 --> 00:04:36,836 What are you reading? 67 00:04:37,076 --> 00:04:38,586 Madame Freedom. 68 00:04:38,715 --> 00:04:41,106 Seonsaengnim. This is quite fun?! 69 00:04:41,366 --> 00:04:43,366 Keep that newspaper down while reading. 70 00:04:43,586 --> 00:04:46,117 My eyesight wouldn't allow that. 71 00:04:46,387 --> 00:04:51,817 What I'm saying is, let's cover those legs a little with the newspaper. 72 00:04:54,027 --> 00:04:57,568 So you were staring at my legs all morning, Seonsaengnim?! 73 00:04:58,408 --> 00:05:00,329 Think of our Korean women's old customs, 74 00:05:00,568 --> 00:05:04,820 when they wore beoseon* even in the summer, afraid their ankles might show. 75 00:05:00,853 --> 00:05:04,453 {\a6}*Long Korean white socks 76 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,480 Wouldn't it be wise to avoid such excessive exposure? 77 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,611 Those weren't just our women's old customs. 78 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,711 It was their patience, and pain as well. 79 00:05:13,950 --> 00:05:16,141 Anyhow! 80 00:05:17,271 --> 00:05:22,901 So, you probably don't see Madame Freedom in a positive light, right? 81 00:05:24,801 --> 00:05:27,271 Which side are you on, Seonsaengnim? 82 00:05:27,412 --> 00:05:31,491 Is this a revolution, or just decadence to you? 83 00:05:31,692 --> 00:05:34,982 A married woman having an affair, "revolution"?! 84 00:05:35,112 --> 00:05:37,962 Oh oh! Don't you know the real revolution in the West... 85 00:05:38,092 --> 00:05:40,792 started from under Lady Chatterley's skirt? 86 00:05:40,932 --> 00:05:43,872 And how about Tolstoy's Anna Karenina? 87 00:05:44,002 --> 00:05:48,924 Real freedom for the human mind is liberating oneself from the sexual divide. 88 00:05:49,193 --> 00:05:51,914 Ehhh... Lee Seonsaengnim, you're getting old. 89 00:05:52,374 --> 00:05:56,476 So, with a few trips to the dance hall, you become sexually liberated? 90 00:05:56,646 --> 00:06:00,957 Men have been sexually liberated for an eternity, 91 00:06:01,187 --> 00:06:04,487 while it's always been a taboo subject, when associated with women. 92 00:06:04,617 --> 00:06:06,747 And you know why? 93 00:06:06,907 --> 00:06:11,298 Even with an affair on the plate, men always come back home. 94 00:06:11,408 --> 00:06:15,598 But what women who have an affair and cats have in common is, at the end... Uh?! 95 00:06:15,738 --> 00:06:19,089 The reason why those women don't come back home... 96 00:06:19,250 --> 00:06:21,779 is because their men wouldn't accept them back. 97 00:06:21,909 --> 00:06:23,001 Ahh, that... 98 00:06:23,002 --> 00:06:24,499 As long as this discrimination continues, which gives men... 99 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:27,510 carte blanche to commit adultery but chastises women for the same thing, 100 00:06:27,511 --> 00:06:32,681 our Korean society will always remain a slave of its own feudalistic past. 101 00:06:32,811 --> 00:06:34,131 Hye Rin. 102 00:06:34,341 --> 00:06:36,701 You really think Europe is any different? 103 00:06:36,921 --> 00:06:40,452 What happened to Lady Chatterley and Anna Karenina? 104 00:06:40,672 --> 00:06:42,932 They both took their own lives. 105 00:06:43,071 --> 00:06:45,162 It wasn't suicide, Lee Seonsaengnim. 106 00:06:45,382 --> 00:06:46,782 It was murder. 107 00:06:46,902 --> 00:06:51,622 It was murder, committed by those barbaric, feudalistic men. 108 00:06:51,832 --> 00:06:54,822 Fine, I surrender. Let's give it a rest. 109 00:06:55,113 --> 00:06:56,722 Seonsaengnim. 110 00:06:56,852 --> 00:07:00,653 Do you really believe men and women are different? 111 00:07:00,893 --> 00:07:03,763 Ahhh... I said let's just give it a rest. I'm busy. 112 00:07:03,902 --> 00:07:07,513 I'll admit Jeon Hye Rin is smart, so enough of this. 113 00:07:07,783 --> 00:07:10,434 Sounds like sarcasm to me?! 114 00:07:10,724 --> 00:07:12,264 You're smart, Hye Rin. 115 00:07:12,384 --> 00:07:14,594 I really mean it. 116 00:07:14,775 --> 00:07:18,755 "You're smart, for a woman," that is. 117 00:07:18,975 --> 00:07:22,435 You're turning my battery against me once again! 118 00:07:29,358 --> 00:07:33,337 You know how miserable being a woman can feel like? 119 00:07:33,557 --> 00:07:37,998 From the moment we're born, we're abused as "wenches." 120 00:07:38,178 --> 00:07:40,968 If we even try to get an education, you scold us saying... 121 00:07:41,168 --> 00:07:44,108 the smarter a woman becomes, the harsher her life will be. 122 00:07:44,338 --> 00:07:46,999 If you get married and show your husband some charming affection, 123 00:07:47,119 --> 00:07:50,609 you get scolded for only coveting sex, and not paying attention to chores. 124 00:07:50,829 --> 00:07:53,710 If you devote your entire life to chores, 125 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,650 you go out and cheat on us because we feel like a stepmother to you. 126 00:07:57,860 --> 00:08:01,481 Rebuff for this, abuse for that. 127 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,420 You know what will earn a woman some compliments? 128 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:11,612 Bearing a few children, and dying early, nothing else. 129 00:08:11,982 --> 00:08:14,222 Of course, I agree that's a problem. 130 00:08:14,353 --> 00:08:15,384 But... 131 00:08:15,504 --> 00:08:19,765 I respect Jung Bi Seok Seonsaengnim. 132 00:08:20,346 --> 00:08:23,046 Because he understands the real liberation for us women... 133 00:08:23,286 --> 00:08:28,676 begins from stripping ourselves of sexual repression and discrimination. 134 00:08:36,017 --> 00:08:38,258 Jayu Buin (Madame Freedom) 135 00:08:38,568 --> 00:08:41,498 Madame Freedom is about the wife of a college professor who, 136 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:44,458 feeling the ennui and limitations of her life as a housewife, 137 00:08:44,609 --> 00:08:48,758 goes to work at a western suit shop, and begins learning to dance... 138 00:08:48,959 --> 00:08:53,258 from one of her husband's students. Her life starts derailing as a result, 139 00:08:53,493 --> 00:08:57,429 while her husband starts feeling an odd attachment for a typist. 140 00:08:58,950 --> 00:09:01,850 Filtered through the ethical consciousness of those days, 141 00:09:02,070 --> 00:09:05,600 it was certainly a very unconventional subject. 142 00:09:05,810 --> 00:09:09,130 But what created an even bigger controversy... 143 00:09:09,350 --> 00:09:12,381 was legitimizing that woman's derailment as something worth debating, 144 00:09:12,512 --> 00:09:15,102 and also her husband's profession. 145 00:09:15,942 --> 00:09:20,643 The Seoul Shinmun along with writer Jung Bi Seok... 146 00:09:16,278 --> 00:09:20,276 {\a6}Hwang San Deok (SNU jurisprudence professor) 147 00:09:20,893 --> 00:09:26,544 openly insulted a sacred profession like that of college professor... 148 00:09:26,704 --> 00:09:31,605 through their "Madame Freedom." Hence, we demand its immediate termination. 149 00:09:31,995 --> 00:09:36,737 Not reading a work in its entirety and demanding the termination of a novel... 150 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:36,447 {\a6}Jung Bi Seok (novelist) 151 00:09:36,977 --> 00:09:40,678 which is still being serialized, is the real insult. 152 00:09:40,838 --> 00:09:43,388 Nothing but intemperate and devious accusations... 153 00:09:43,389 --> 00:09:46,088 mired at the entire literary world. 154 00:09:46,218 --> 00:09:47,387 I shall ignore such chimerical complaints. 155 00:09:47,388 --> 00:09:49,568 Madame Freedom is not merely a construct of my imagination. 156 00:09:49,708 --> 00:09:53,908 It is just a work trying to portray one of today's trends realistically. 157 00:09:54,189 --> 00:10:01,519 Normally, serialized novels do show a propensity for worldly matters, 158 00:10:01,789 --> 00:10:04,659 so that readers will be able to relate to them. 159 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,751 But Madame Freedom takes things to a whole different level. 160 00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:10,182 To cut matters short, 161 00:10:10,183 --> 00:10:13,082 it is not merely the depiction of reality which creates literature. 162 00:10:13,212 --> 00:10:21,073 It is the literary consciousness within that reality which does. 163 00:10:21,333 --> 00:10:23,734 The idea that only this kind of relationship between the sexes, 164 00:10:23,735 --> 00:10:25,234 that this kind of stance... 165 00:10:25,373 --> 00:10:27,565 is the only form of art in this country of ours... 166 00:10:27,795 --> 00:10:30,805 devours the scope of our true literary world's legacy, 167 00:10:30,806 --> 00:10:36,505 and cheapens, narrows the mainstream's outlook on it. 168 00:10:36,715 --> 00:10:43,087 Therefore, it is our esteemed Mister Jung who fails to understand literature. 169 00:10:43,217 --> 00:10:46,238 Blinded by the vulgar desire to gain notoriety... 170 00:10:46,498 --> 00:10:50,508 into writing such lowbrow, childish work of mundane erotism, 171 00:10:50,738 --> 00:10:53,098 which can only make him an enemy of our literature, 172 00:10:53,218 --> 00:10:56,839 a wrecker of our values, and just as vile and dangerous... 173 00:10:56,999 --> 00:11:03,919 as a half million Communist Chinese troops headed for our native soil! 174 00:11:04,420 --> 00:11:08,330 It generated completely polarized reactions, along... 175 00:11:04,847 --> 00:11:08,047 {\a6}Kwon Young Min (SNU Korean literature professor) 176 00:11:08,550 --> 00:11:13,940 with becoming the talk of the town in a quite impressive way, 177 00:11:14,170 --> 00:11:18,021 eventually making the novel a bestseller, and even making its way to theaters*. 178 00:11:14,408 --> 00:11:17,708 {\a6}Han Hyung Mo's "Madame Freedom" (1956) 179 00:11:18,141 --> 00:11:19,772 So, in that sense, 180 00:11:19,773 --> 00:11:23,572 it was criticized by the establishment... 181 00:11:23,573 --> 00:11:27,872 and caused them concern, 182 00:11:28,003 --> 00:11:31,212 moving them to strongly oppose its views from an ethical standpoint. 183 00:11:31,432 --> 00:11:34,500 They were afraid this one novel, on its own, could show the radical transformation... 184 00:11:34,732 --> 00:11:39,443 sexual morality was going through in our country, 185 00:11:39,653 --> 00:11:41,183 and become a symbol, 186 00:11:41,184 --> 00:11:44,183 a literary metaphor validating those changes on a mainstream level. 187 00:11:44,393 --> 00:11:47,273 Which was, so to speak, a sign of a certain fear people... 188 00:11:47,494 --> 00:11:51,414 were showing once presented with such changes, subconsciously speaking. 189 00:11:51,644 --> 00:11:53,904 It was just too hard to accept for them. 190 00:11:54,663 --> 00:11:58,455 But this event culminated in an absurd consequence, 191 00:11:58,665 --> 00:12:00,301 as Madame Freedom's writer was taken... 192 00:12:00,302 --> 00:12:02,401 to what was the top intelligence organ in the country, 193 00:12:02,636 --> 00:12:05,525 the Bureau of National Security, and investigated. 194 00:12:07,056 --> 00:12:09,185 Cognomen. 195 00:12:10,576 --> 00:12:13,736 I'm asking your name! 196 00:12:14,106 --> 00:12:16,986 It's Jung Bi Seok. 197 00:12:17,306 --> 00:12:18,206 Profession. 198 00:12:18,426 --> 00:12:20,856 Novelist. 199 00:12:24,576 --> 00:12:28,237 In 1936, your short novel "The Memorial Service"... 200 00:12:28,238 --> 00:12:31,237 won first prize at the DongA Ilbo Literary Contest. 201 00:12:31,467 --> 00:12:33,483 And again, in 1937, your short "The Guardian Deity"... 202 00:12:33,527 --> 00:12:37,047 was honored top prize at the Chosun Ilbo Literary Contest, 203 00:12:37,257 --> 00:12:41,487 after which you began your work as a novelist... 204 00:12:43,648 --> 00:12:45,428 That's more or less it, right? 205 00:12:45,617 --> 00:12:48,038 Right. 206 00:12:50,599 --> 00:12:55,419 What was your purpose for writing this Madame Freedom? 207 00:12:56,850 --> 00:12:58,950 Speak frankly with me. 208 00:12:59,180 --> 00:13:05,921 The higher-ups are taking a staunch stance regarding your antisocial activities. 209 00:13:06,112 --> 00:13:08,701 Antisocial activities?! 210 00:13:08,831 --> 00:13:11,111 Tell me. If exposing the ruling elite's misdeeds and therefore... 211 00:13:11,272 --> 00:13:17,782 damaging our national prestige is not antisocial, what is?! 212 00:13:18,263 --> 00:13:19,632 Listen to me. 213 00:13:19,852 --> 00:13:22,242 Why would a college professor and his wife having an affair... 214 00:13:22,422 --> 00:13:25,843 possibly have to do with matters of national prestige? 215 00:13:26,409 --> 00:13:28,933 The college professor is not the problem. 216 00:13:29,143 --> 00:13:32,294 On the pretext of portraying college professors' moral deviousness, 217 00:13:32,414 --> 00:13:34,884 you're drawing a parallel with our public servants' misconduct! 218 00:13:35,024 --> 00:13:38,765 Just as public servants are showing great spirit of self-sacrifice and patriotism... 219 00:13:38,955 --> 00:13:40,813 for our country and society by toiling for a pittance, 220 00:13:40,814 --> 00:13:42,274 you're drawing them all as thieves. 221 00:13:42,275 --> 00:13:44,795 How could this not be construed as antisocial?! 222 00:13:44,935 --> 00:13:47,296 Ahhh... that was... just an episode of... 223 00:13:47,535 --> 00:13:49,155 Sod what?! 224 00:13:49,375 --> 00:13:53,276 "Episode." In a word... 225 00:13:53,496 --> 00:13:56,226 Just for fun, as a diversion. 226 00:13:56,446 --> 00:13:59,287 Listen to this man. He's lost his soul. 227 00:13:59,407 --> 00:14:02,657 Is this really the time to depict public servants "just for fun"? 228 00:14:02,867 --> 00:14:07,347 Know how much their morale has fallen because of your novel?! 229 00:14:07,557 --> 00:14:09,527 That's unacceptable, what you're doing. 230 00:14:09,737 --> 00:14:12,628 You should be writing works that encourage their spirit and morale. 231 00:14:12,837 --> 00:14:15,787 How can you criticize public servants sacrificing themselves for a pittance?! 232 00:14:16,007 --> 00:14:18,408 Isn't that right, Jung Seonsaeng? 233 00:14:19,008 --> 00:14:20,788 Is it or is it not?! 234 00:14:20,958 --> 00:14:22,439 I apologize. 235 00:14:22,649 --> 00:14:26,799 If that is the result of my work, even if I didn't mean to cause it... 236 00:14:30,030 --> 00:14:32,419 Write that, then. 237 00:14:33,430 --> 00:14:36,072 That anything regarding public servants inside your novel is not reality, 238 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:41,130 but merely something "just for fun." Ah! Not for fun... 239 00:14:41,350 --> 00:14:44,350 Something that, by mistake... Ahh... that's not it either. 240 00:14:44,550 --> 00:14:46,271 How should we put it? 241 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,590 And what am I supposed to prove writing that? 242 00:14:49,790 --> 00:14:50,902 You egghead. 243 00:14:51,112 --> 00:14:53,532 You need to publish an apology in that newspaper. 244 00:14:53,632 --> 00:14:56,463 Only then will the public servants' anger be placated. 245 00:14:56,773 --> 00:15:01,423 Write it! Don't just make things difficult. 246 00:15:07,353 --> 00:15:09,204 Welcome. 247 00:15:48,059 --> 00:15:51,230 Oh... Seonsaengnim! Those are cigarettes. 248 00:15:51,439 --> 00:15:54,300 And you have one already. 249 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,129 This won't do it. 250 00:15:58,369 --> 00:16:00,040 Oh oh! Seonsaengnim! Seonsaengnim. 251 00:16:00,290 --> 00:16:04,220 Don't do that. It's been so long since you've written anything. 252 00:16:04,450 --> 00:16:07,731 The act of writing itself is childish by nature, 253 00:16:07,941 --> 00:16:10,022 this is even worse. 254 00:16:10,231 --> 00:16:12,342 What did you write about? 255 00:16:12,502 --> 00:16:14,243 Ohh... will you give this a listen? 256 00:16:14,453 --> 00:16:15,962 Yes. 257 00:16:17,133 --> 00:16:20,823 "But a simple organism I am, amoeba." 258 00:16:21,024 --> 00:16:26,164 "Unbeknownst to thine naked eye, a most piddling bacillus." 259 00:16:26,304 --> 00:16:28,265 "I, spermatozoon." 260 00:16:28,494 --> 00:16:30,182 "The most precise of all microscopes, my only perfunctory companion." 261 00:16:30,256 --> 00:16:33,658 "Barely gladdened by thine ministration, I the microbe." 262 00:16:33,836 --> 00:16:35,136 It's nice?! 263 00:16:35,346 --> 00:16:37,105 In what way? 264 00:16:37,306 --> 00:16:39,347 Well, it's quite good. 265 00:16:39,537 --> 00:16:41,467 Ehh! 266 00:16:42,518 --> 00:16:46,418 Seonsaengnim, don't throw it away. I like it. 267 00:16:48,077 --> 00:16:50,268 Ahhh... Seonsaeng... Seonsaengnim! 268 00:16:50,519 --> 00:16:52,898 I'll head home and think about it. 269 00:16:53,079 --> 00:16:56,649 We need veteran writers like you to produce, 270 00:16:56,650 --> 00:16:59,149 so that our dilapidated literary... 271 00:16:59,369 --> 00:17:02,920 Stop blabbering. Tell me, what is the occasion? 272 00:17:03,049 --> 00:17:07,270 Ahh... yes. You know, Jung Bi Seok? 273 00:17:07,491 --> 00:17:08,501 Madame Freedom! 274 00:17:08,730 --> 00:17:09,720 Have you read it? 275 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:10,841 Yes. And? 276 00:17:10,951 --> 00:17:15,091 He was taken to the Bureau for questioning, it seems. 277 00:17:15,201 --> 00:17:17,291 Ohh... and why? 278 00:17:17,501 --> 00:17:21,442 Because, they say, Madame Freedom is antisocial. 279 00:17:21,551 --> 00:17:26,842 Romance and mankind are like chicken and egg. Antisocial?! 280 00:17:27,052 --> 00:17:28,403 Exactly what I was saying. 281 00:17:28,533 --> 00:17:29,903 Ohh. So?! 282 00:17:30,143 --> 00:17:36,843 Whatever the case, isn't this infringing on a writer's freedom of expression? 283 00:17:36,963 --> 00:17:38,103 Of course it is. 284 00:17:38,213 --> 00:17:41,403 So I was thinking of going to the Bureau to protest, 285 00:17:41,524 --> 00:17:43,904 but, go figure, the writers' reactions are all over the place?! 286 00:17:44,033 --> 00:17:46,124 Divided into what? 287 00:17:46,304 --> 00:17:49,984 Some call it unreasonable, while some wonder what's the point... 288 00:17:50,114 --> 00:17:52,235 of raising all this ruckus over a mainstream novel. 289 00:17:52,444 --> 00:17:54,545 Not much of a division, I see. 290 00:17:54,664 --> 00:17:56,434 Seen from a purist literature's standpoint... 291 00:17:56,645 --> 00:17:59,125 Are mainstream novels sodden with manure?! 292 00:17:59,334 --> 00:18:02,555 So you'd rather protest about this, Seonsaengnim? 293 00:18:02,675 --> 00:18:03,857 What protest?! 294 00:18:03,967 --> 00:18:06,687 The fact they're trying to question anyone if they don't like what they read. 295 00:18:06,787 --> 00:18:10,678 Let them do as they please. Scribes and scholars should endure that, 296 00:18:10,797 --> 00:18:12,827 if this world is to change in any way. 297 00:18:12,968 --> 00:18:15,749 These days young scribes have no ambitious spirit. 298 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,240 Jung Gun scored a good one, this time. 299 00:18:19,409 --> 00:18:22,400 But we need an elder writer like you... 300 00:18:22,401 --> 00:18:25,100 to protest for the sake of freedom of expression. 301 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,251 What is Kim Su Young doing these days? 302 00:18:27,471 --> 00:18:29,900 Still trapped at home doing nothing? 303 00:18:30,130 --> 00:18:33,311 No, it seems he's scribbling something. 304 00:18:33,421 --> 00:18:34,882 He should write. 305 00:18:34,991 --> 00:18:39,031 He must have had it really bad during the war, with the guerrillas taking him and all. 306 00:18:39,243 --> 00:18:41,513 He needs to use the pen to stab that pain away. 307 00:18:41,623 --> 00:18:44,573 So why aren't you writing, Seonsaengnim? 308 00:18:44,703 --> 00:18:49,123 Me?! My lifetime wish was Joseon's independence. 309 00:18:49,343 --> 00:18:51,793 That wish is now fulfilled, what else could I write about? 310 00:18:51,913 --> 00:18:54,113 Weren't we divided into north and south? 311 00:18:54,343 --> 00:18:56,904 That's why I'm saying Kim Su Young should write. 312 00:18:57,134 --> 00:19:00,014 He faced dishonor being taken up and down. 313 00:19:00,234 --> 00:19:01,655 Seonsaengnim, about Madame Freedom... 314 00:19:01,865 --> 00:19:05,924 Ehhh... forget about all that noise. Don't waste your time. 315 00:19:06,144 --> 00:19:09,925 If we don't react in any way, we'll look weak. 316 00:19:10,144 --> 00:19:12,304 Does banding together strengthen you? 317 00:19:12,525 --> 00:19:17,345 A writer's best friend is loneliness. 318 00:19:17,455 --> 00:19:19,576 - Uh? - But... 319 00:19:19,706 --> 00:19:22,926 Ohh! Here you are. 320 00:19:23,026 --> 00:19:25,127 Have a seat. 321 00:19:25,377 --> 00:19:27,758 - You can go. - Yes. 322 00:19:29,448 --> 00:19:30,879 - Have you been well? - Of course, of course. 323 00:19:30,999 --> 00:19:35,509 Ohh... our little fairy! How have you been? 324 00:19:38,311 --> 00:19:40,821 Ahh... Lee Hyung! Let me borrow your time. 325 00:19:41,071 --> 00:19:43,913 Ahh... it's been a while, Lee Seonsaengnim. 326 00:19:44,042 --> 00:19:47,064 I really liked that "A Streetcar Named Desire" you produced last time. 327 00:19:47,193 --> 00:19:50,574 Lee Hyung, what do you think of Madame Freedom? 328 00:19:50,704 --> 00:19:52,214 Madame Freedom? Why, all of a sudden? 329 00:19:52,434 --> 00:19:57,055 At our theater troupe, we're debating adapting it for the stage. 330 00:19:57,155 --> 00:19:59,066 I was wondering what you think. 331 00:19:59,176 --> 00:20:01,505 Shinhyeop* wants to do Madame Freedom? 332 00:19:59,375 --> 00:20:01,375 {\a6}*Theater group founded in 1950, famous for Shakespeare and Broadway adaptations 333 00:20:01,726 --> 00:20:03,725 Will it suit us? 334 00:20:03,976 --> 00:20:08,036 Well, doesn't it clash with Shinhyeop's image? 335 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:11,536 I guess so, but things are so hard these days for theater groups. 336 00:20:11,747 --> 00:20:14,906 Didn't your latest "The Origins of the Gayageum" do well? 337 00:20:15,126 --> 00:20:16,226 Who said that? 338 00:20:16,227 --> 00:20:17,775 The atmosphere wasn't great, with all those empty seats. 339 00:20:17,776 --> 00:20:22,467 Classical opera and movies are getting all the attention these days. 340 00:20:22,986 --> 00:20:24,447 So, we shouldn't? 341 00:20:24,567 --> 00:20:26,447 Well... 342 00:20:26,847 --> 00:20:30,537 Make up your mind, Lee Hyung. I'll follow your advice. 343 00:20:30,767 --> 00:20:32,868 Hmmm... Well! 344 00:20:33,078 --> 00:20:38,527 I'm asking around what people think of Madame Freedom, and opinions are split. 345 00:20:38,748 --> 00:20:42,379 Some call it literature, others just a populist novel. 346 00:20:42,499 --> 00:20:44,389 It's all over the place. 347 00:20:44,599 --> 00:20:47,970 Take one side. Which one will it be? 348 00:20:48,159 --> 00:20:51,099 Well, I can't really say much. 349 00:20:51,209 --> 00:20:56,641 Ahh... this is trouble. I barely got a spot at the Arts Theater. 350 00:20:56,851 --> 00:20:59,561 Lee Hyung, let's have a beer together some time. Uh? 351 00:20:59,711 --> 00:21:01,851 Ahh... yes. 352 00:21:04,491 --> 00:21:07,072 Madame Freedom?! 353 00:21:09,132 --> 00:21:13,453 "As vile and dangerous to our motherland as a half million enemy troops." 354 00:21:13,663 --> 00:21:16,964 That is how Professor Hwang San Deok labeled Madame Freedom. 355 00:21:17,174 --> 00:21:20,134 It's certainly a colorful expression, coarse and even a little laughable. 356 00:21:20,374 --> 00:21:23,114 But the influence this novel had on our society at the time... 357 00:21:23,235 --> 00:21:26,714 even surpassed those half million enemy troops. 358 00:21:26,924 --> 00:21:31,876 Ahhh... it's all about Madame Freedom anywhere you go. 359 00:21:32,406 --> 00:21:34,807 What do you think? 360 00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:36,937 I'm envious, what else? 361 00:21:37,057 --> 00:21:39,487 You see it as literature? 362 00:21:39,637 --> 00:21:41,798 That will be up to our descendants to decide. 363 00:21:41,918 --> 00:21:44,348 It's true it's a tad populist, isn't it? 364 00:21:44,459 --> 00:21:46,809 And so is "Lady Chatterley's Lover." 365 00:21:46,919 --> 00:21:49,309 It was prohibited in the United Kingdom for a long time, 366 00:21:49,419 --> 00:21:52,460 as it depicted sex in a demotic way. But hasn't that become one of... 367 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,750 contemporary literature's most acclaimed masterpieces? 368 00:21:54,870 --> 00:21:57,900 Who would ever call D.H. Lawrence a populist writer? 369 00:21:58,110 --> 00:22:01,730 Madame Freedom is an insult to the purity of literature! 370 00:22:01,850 --> 00:22:07,782 It's revolting to see such vulgar erotic tripe being considered a novel. 371 00:22:07,952 --> 00:22:10,661 What is this "literature," really? 372 00:22:10,962 --> 00:22:14,072 It's certainly not about scholars in Joseon or Buddhist monks practicing... 373 00:22:14,292 --> 00:22:16,273 living a life of isolation in the mountains, 374 00:22:16,274 --> 00:22:19,673 repeating sutras among clean water and skies? 375 00:22:19,803 --> 00:22:24,423 Literature should give one's contemporaries a sense of joy and hope. 376 00:22:24,624 --> 00:22:28,946 These days, I'm completely immersed in Sowol*'s poems. 377 00:22:24,831 --> 00:22:28,448 {\a6}*Poet Kim Jeong Shik's pen name 378 00:22:29,076 --> 00:22:31,297 Poems and novels should be easy to read, 379 00:22:31,496 --> 00:22:37,196 so that anyone can appreciate them. 380 00:22:37,787 --> 00:22:41,138 "When in disgust you leave me." 381 00:22:37,787 --> 00:22:41,138 {\a6}*Kim Sowol's "Azaleas" 382 00:22:41,348 --> 00:22:45,568 "I shall tacitly allow you to go." 383 00:22:45,788 --> 00:22:48,868 "The Azaleas of Mount Yak, in Yeongbyeon," 384 00:22:49,078 --> 00:22:52,458 "Shall sparkle your parting path with their beauty." 385 00:22:52,658 --> 00:22:55,458 How easy is this?! 386 00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:59,911 "Unforgotten, memories shall embrace you." 387 00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:59,911 {\a6}*Kim Sowol's "Unforgotten" 388 00:23:00,041 --> 00:23:03,791 "Time will pass as world commands." 389 00:23:03,901 --> 00:23:09,212 "If lived you have, away will time such embrace take." 390 00:23:09,481 --> 00:23:12,382 I don't really know why I used to despise Sowol's poems. 391 00:23:12,511 --> 00:23:17,243 It's like every single word makes the right sound in your mind. 392 00:23:19,073 --> 00:23:24,584 Oh! Look at me. Give me a moment. 393 00:23:24,843 --> 00:23:26,905 Where are you going, Park Hyung? 394 00:23:27,424 --> 00:23:29,644 I'm late! 395 00:23:57,457 --> 00:23:59,108 I'm the one who's late, today. 396 00:23:59,328 --> 00:24:01,398 Aren't you always? 397 00:24:01,509 --> 00:24:03,139 Am I?! 398 00:24:04,108 --> 00:24:08,239 Actually, today I discovered something truly important. 399 00:24:08,690 --> 00:24:12,440 You like Kim Sowol's poems, Miss Shin? 400 00:24:14,721 --> 00:24:16,733 You don't like them? 401 00:24:16,902 --> 00:24:21,333 All I've eyes for are your poems, Seonsaengnim. 402 00:24:22,473 --> 00:24:25,254 They're all fake. 403 00:24:25,463 --> 00:24:27,575 Why? 404 00:24:28,085 --> 00:24:30,745 Why would you tell me something so scary? 405 00:24:30,985 --> 00:24:32,234 What I'm saying... 406 00:24:32,455 --> 00:24:36,585 Writing my poems, I tried to use difficult words on purpose, 407 00:24:36,735 --> 00:24:40,766 to embellish my prose. 408 00:24:41,996 --> 00:24:46,036 That is why I couldn't honestly convey my feelings. 409 00:24:46,386 --> 00:24:51,476 Like your feelings for me? 410 00:24:53,106 --> 00:24:54,586 Seonsaengnim. 411 00:24:54,716 --> 00:24:57,696 You don't like me, do you? 412 00:24:57,817 --> 00:24:59,617 Ahhh... what are you saying? 413 00:24:59,837 --> 00:25:02,978 It's because there's something nice between us that we meet. 414 00:25:03,158 --> 00:25:07,898 I know you're a devoted husband, Seonsaengnim. 415 00:25:10,778 --> 00:25:13,048 Still, I'm fine with it. 416 00:25:13,288 --> 00:25:20,220 I'm happy just meeting you like this, Seonsaengnim. 417 00:25:37,955 --> 00:25:40,555 Seonsaengnim. 418 00:25:42,976 --> 00:25:44,255 What is this? 419 00:25:44,476 --> 00:25:47,876 I bought a shirt for you, Seonsaengnim. 420 00:25:48,116 --> 00:25:49,706 I have a lot of clothes already. 421 00:25:49,935 --> 00:25:52,266 You're a stylish man, aren't you? 422 00:25:52,436 --> 00:25:55,836 So, I had a hard time choosing the right one. 423 00:25:56,056 --> 00:26:04,598 Which color could suit you. Red?! Or maybe blue? 424 00:26:06,058 --> 00:26:07,477 I am certainly thankful for this. 425 00:26:07,687 --> 00:26:11,888 Next time we meet, you must wear this. 426 00:26:12,058 --> 00:26:18,210 If you don't like it, I'll replace it. 427 00:26:51,785 --> 00:26:53,904 Park In Hwan was a devoted husband. 428 00:26:54,114 --> 00:26:59,815 Contrary to popular belief, this was Park In Hwan's relationship with women. 429 00:27:05,815 --> 00:27:08,015 Park In Hwan was the epitome of style. 430 00:27:08,285 --> 00:27:14,986 Wearing a suit like nobody else's business, he looked like a fashion model. 431 00:27:15,236 --> 00:27:18,026 He wore different clothes according to the seasons. 432 00:27:18,216 --> 00:27:21,046 He donned a milkwhite raincoat during spring and summer. 433 00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:23,525 In winter, just like the trend in Russia at the time, 434 00:27:23,526 --> 00:27:26,826 he wore a dark grey overcoat with a very large collar. 435 00:27:27,067 --> 00:27:31,676 To make matters worse, he even changed his drinking habits according to seasons. 436 00:27:31,807 --> 00:27:33,787 Gin fizz in spring, eyeball in autumn, 437 00:27:33,917 --> 00:27:38,847 Johnnie Walker in winter, and so on. 438 00:27:39,478 --> 00:27:43,578 He never forgot to wear a full suit, even in the scorching summer. 439 00:27:43,718 --> 00:27:48,518 "I can't wait for winter. Summer is a populist lie." 440 00:27:48,648 --> 00:27:51,764 "It's winter you need, to don a thick Burberry*... 441 00:27:48,899 --> 00:27:51,458 {\a6}*Ever since the 50s, Koreans called any thick jacket regardless of brand, "Burberry" 442 00:27:51,930 --> 00:27:55,582 and let your muffler and hat shine as they should." 443 00:27:57,912 --> 00:27:59,042 Yes. 444 00:27:59,172 --> 00:28:02,704 To Park In Hwan, those weren't merely seasons for season's sake. 445 00:28:02,913 --> 00:28:05,683 It was all about fashion. 446 00:28:06,033 --> 00:28:11,953 He was a noble at least mentally, and a "Dandy Boy." 447 00:28:15,754 --> 00:28:18,484 Honey! I'm back. 448 00:28:20,004 --> 00:28:22,215 You're home earlier, today?! 449 00:28:22,495 --> 00:28:25,294 I didn't even drink. 450 00:28:25,764 --> 00:28:28,024 Right? Not even a glass. 451 00:28:25,764 --> 00:28:28,024 {\a6}Lee Jeong Suk (Park In Hwan's wife) 452 00:28:28,234 --> 00:28:30,506 But, what is this smell? 453 00:28:30,755 --> 00:28:32,216 Try again. 454 00:28:32,456 --> 00:28:34,156 I said I didn't drink. 455 00:28:34,396 --> 00:28:36,497 You ate western, didn't you? 456 00:28:36,507 --> 00:28:38,398 Hamburg Steak? 457 00:28:38,638 --> 00:28:42,938 Wow! Her nose is more sensitive than a dog's. 458 00:28:43,158 --> 00:28:45,468 Who did you have dinner with? 459 00:28:45,798 --> 00:28:48,079 With this American ambassador I know. 460 00:28:48,199 --> 00:28:50,669 Doesn't like dwenjang*. (*soybean paste) 461 00:28:50,889 --> 00:28:55,279 I could smell perfume from your clothes. Was your friend a woman? 462 00:28:55,439 --> 00:28:59,500 Wow! Clairvoyance as well! 463 00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:02,880 I can't lie to you, can I? 464 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,470 We'll go back to Kim Su Young's story from here. 465 00:29:20,101 --> 00:29:22,260 Are you going out? 466 00:29:22,491 --> 00:29:24,011 Yes. 467 00:29:24,241 --> 00:29:25,891 Do you have any money? 468 00:29:26,021 --> 00:29:27,471 I don't really need any. 469 00:29:27,602 --> 00:29:28,661 Wait a moment. 470 00:29:28,771 --> 00:29:30,771 I'll be going. 471 00:29:31,191 --> 00:29:35,632 Give a hug to your son at least once, will you? 472 00:29:40,742 --> 00:29:43,792 Did he do anything wrong? 473 00:29:44,042 --> 00:29:48,022 Tell Daddy, "Have a good day." 474 00:30:28,887 --> 00:30:30,779 Why are you giving me so much? 475 00:30:30,909 --> 00:30:33,989 Yesterday was my pay day. I gave our mother half, 476 00:30:34,199 --> 00:30:37,229 and left the other half at the office, before I brought it to you. 477 00:30:37,489 --> 00:30:40,620 I don't really need all this money. 478 00:30:40,850 --> 00:30:43,910 Don't always ask her for money like a middle schooler. 479 00:30:44,140 --> 00:30:46,540 Just use this whenever you need it. 480 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:47,780 And you? 481 00:30:47,990 --> 00:30:51,350 I kept enough for me already. 482 00:30:53,250 --> 00:30:55,250 Thanks. 483 00:30:55,651 --> 00:30:59,820 I wrote your wife a letter. 484 00:31:02,481 --> 00:31:05,012 You don't want to hear it? 485 00:31:05,222 --> 00:31:08,362 Are you giving up on her for good? 486 00:31:11,562 --> 00:31:14,853 Should I stop writing to her? 487 00:31:18,003 --> 00:31:20,543 I'll get going. 488 00:31:34,594 --> 00:31:37,355 I can't now. 489 00:31:37,785 --> 00:31:41,725 I can't follow you now. 490 00:31:45,746 --> 00:31:48,665 I'm sorry. 491 00:31:48,886 --> 00:31:53,226 I can't follow you now. I am sorry. 492 00:31:53,556 --> 00:31:55,936 I'm sorry. 493 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:27,683 - I think it would suit you really well. - Ahh... really? 494 00:32:23,869 --> 00:32:27,369 {\a6}Noh Bong Shik 495 00:32:27,803 --> 00:32:34,536 - This is even cheaper. Try it once. - It looks pretty nice. 496 00:32:36,198 --> 00:32:38,234 How much is this? Look, Miss. 497 00:32:38,454 --> 00:32:40,704 Ohh... I'm sorry. Do you like this? 498 00:32:40,934 --> 00:32:44,495 Ahh... I do like it. But... 499 00:33:05,768 --> 00:33:08,688 Go ahead first, I'll see you tomorrow. 500 00:33:08,718 --> 00:33:10,658 We're going. 501 00:33:33,501 --> 00:33:35,561 Seonsaengnim. 502 00:34:02,824 --> 00:34:04,544 I'll dirty it. 503 00:34:04,754 --> 00:34:07,444 I'll wash it later. 504 00:34:11,794 --> 00:34:15,025 Have you been there all day? 505 00:34:17,565 --> 00:34:20,066 You didn't have anything to eat? 506 00:34:20,196 --> 00:34:22,857 These days, I skip meals pretty often. 507 00:34:23,017 --> 00:34:24,358 Why? 508 00:34:24,538 --> 00:34:29,888 Monks say you should fast when you don't work all day. 509 00:34:31,588 --> 00:34:35,829 I'm sorry, Miss Noh. I'm always bothering you. 510 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:43,241 You know, not long after you were released, 511 00:34:43,470 --> 00:34:47,772 I left the POW camp and came here to Seoul. 512 00:34:47,982 --> 00:34:50,662 - And... - I know. 513 00:34:50,892 --> 00:34:52,522 About you getting married. 514 00:34:52,762 --> 00:34:55,102 How did you find out? 515 00:34:55,372 --> 00:35:00,763 You must have been avoiding me because of that. 516 00:35:05,573 --> 00:35:07,804 Just use it. 517 00:35:09,484 --> 00:35:13,674 I'll wash it at home, Miss Noh. 518 00:35:14,314 --> 00:35:21,205 Don't "Miss" me. I don't want to meet like this. 519 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,140 I... 520 00:36:17,205 --> 00:36:19,425 Seonsaengnim! 521 00:36:25,045 --> 00:36:27,015 I do, too. 522 00:36:27,245 --> 00:36:30,625 I like you too, Seonsaengnim. 523 00:36:46,747 --> 00:36:50,868 Lee Mi Ja's "Spring Days Are Gone" 524 00:37:39,025 --> 00:37:40,355 Hey!! 525 00:37:40,566 --> 00:37:42,956 You... damn... 526 00:37:48,348 --> 00:37:52,538 Let me go! Let me go! You bastard! 527 00:37:52,698 --> 00:37:56,539 I said let me go! Let me go! 528 00:37:57,108 --> 00:38:00,499 - Take him out! - Let me go! 529 00:38:00,698 --> 00:38:06,201 Hey, you bastards! I ought to... 530 00:38:08,512 --> 00:38:13,373 You bastards. 531 00:38:34,177 --> 00:38:38,878 If there's anyone who can show composure even in the middle of chaos, that's women. 532 00:38:39,048 --> 00:38:40,718 Should we call it maternal instinct? 533 00:38:40,828 --> 00:38:43,118 Just like the instinct of Korean mothers, 534 00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:45,334 who strive to protect their children no matter what. 535 00:38:45,335 --> 00:38:50,239 Even the war couldn't make that instinct fade away. 536 00:38:51,489 --> 00:38:54,429 Whenever there's a war, men take their weapons... 537 00:38:54,649 --> 00:38:57,709 and go risk their lives on the battlefield, to protect their countries. 538 00:38:57,939 --> 00:39:02,329 But, it was the women left behind who protected our families. 539 00:39:02,659 --> 00:39:08,520 Many women entered that battlefield called survival, as the war continued. 540 00:39:09,561 --> 00:39:15,972 The same women who, before the war, saw the family's harmony as a virtue, 541 00:39:16,107 --> 00:39:21,633 did everything they could to protect their families during the war. 542 00:39:21,872 --> 00:39:26,072 They did it as if it was the last thing they'd do while still alive. 543 00:39:26,683 --> 00:39:29,652 This is what Kim Su Young wrote. 544 00:39:31,303 --> 00:39:33,972 "Even in our house, drenched in its time-honored patina." 545 00:39:33,973 --> 00:39:37,043 "Its billows and breeze made their presence felt." 546 00:39:37,173 --> 00:39:41,043 "Fresh and energetic, they engulfed us all." 547 00:39:41,413 --> 00:39:48,538 "So many voices and faces, facing the rising sun in the morning." 548 00:39:48,732 --> 00:39:52,955 "Bidding farewell to the day, filling that place like thick dust in the desert." 549 00:39:53,345 --> 00:39:56,666 "How long must the day have been." 550 00:39:56,887 --> 00:40:00,827 "Like a wave guiding our path, a beautifully shining color." 551 00:40:01,047 --> 00:40:05,628 "All together pointing at layers of our generation." 552 00:40:06,238 --> 00:40:10,639 It's one of Kim Su Young's poems, entitled "My Family." 553 00:40:10,849 --> 00:40:14,650 And this is how he ends it. 554 00:40:15,359 --> 00:40:18,449 "Drowning the coarse slopes of our household," 555 00:40:18,649 --> 00:40:23,490 "Of endless benevolence and ambiguity, my breeze and billows." 556 00:40:23,751 --> 00:40:26,011 "Is this love?" 557 00:40:26,221 --> 00:40:31,351 "That which basks in old age, is this but man's privilege?" 558 00:40:32,661 --> 00:40:34,832 What is that which we truly craved for, 559 00:40:35,053 --> 00:40:38,292 in this land which endured the pains of war? 560 00:40:38,663 --> 00:40:43,683 Fear of the conflict, the starving, our reversed morality, 561 00:40:43,893 --> 00:40:47,663 mistrust for our neighbors, a rootless sense of anger. 562 00:40:47,873 --> 00:40:51,203 What we needed was a new goal in life, which would leave behind... 563 00:40:51,414 --> 00:40:53,974 all those demons of the past. 564 00:40:54,254 --> 00:40:57,615 But we wouldn't need to look far to find it. 565 00:40:57,825 --> 00:41:00,265 It wasn't somewhere in the faraway universe, 566 00:41:00,485 --> 00:41:03,486 or only what the gods' providence would allow entrance into. 567 00:41:03,726 --> 00:41:06,146 It was looking for what we lost during the war, 568 00:41:06,356 --> 00:41:11,627 the vestiges of our past. 569 00:41:11,856 --> 00:41:15,357 Just like in Kim Su Young's poem, the kind of love which can still be beautiful with age. 570 00:41:15,547 --> 00:41:18,087 No, even better, the love which improves with age. 571 00:41:18,297 --> 00:41:22,097 Finding our past roots was such a goal. 572 00:41:26,007 --> 00:41:27,598 What are you doing? 573 00:41:27,727 --> 00:41:30,508 Hurry up and tell him. 574 00:41:35,038 --> 00:41:37,249 You don't need to be scared about Lee Sajangnim. 575 00:41:37,469 --> 00:41:41,869 If you tell him everything, he'll help you out. 576 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,839 Please, tell me. 577 00:41:49,741 --> 00:41:52,771 A grown up man like you is crying?! 578 00:41:52,902 --> 00:41:56,993 Because of this fella, the owner of the Newsman was... 579 00:41:57,123 --> 00:41:59,813 tearing the house down with his tongue, complaining we're sending him bust. 580 00:42:00,033 --> 00:42:03,924 What can you do about that?! His wife was taken by this... 581 00:42:04,154 --> 00:42:07,324 How am I going to find you someone who doesn't exist? 582 00:42:07,534 --> 00:42:10,684 I saw it with my two eyes! 583 00:42:10,804 --> 00:42:14,425 My wife was embracing some young fool! 584 00:42:14,644 --> 00:42:17,055 Why are you here complaining, when you can't keep a check on the missus?! 585 00:42:17,264 --> 00:42:19,416 Give it a rest. 586 00:42:19,656 --> 00:42:21,825 Do you have a photo of your wife? 587 00:42:22,046 --> 00:42:23,556 - Yes?! - Ohh... Yes. 588 00:42:23,665 --> 00:42:26,827 Come on, show it to him. 589 00:42:27,778 --> 00:42:29,827 It's here. 590 00:42:33,087 --> 00:42:34,598 Have a look. 591 00:42:35,118 --> 00:42:36,998 Isn't she comely? 592 00:42:37,108 --> 00:42:41,018 That's why all those youngsters are hanging around her. 593 00:42:42,758 --> 00:42:43,859 Find her. 594 00:42:43,989 --> 00:42:46,619 Ahhh... really, Aunim. 595 00:42:46,838 --> 00:42:50,609 Do I need to find someone else's wife, now? 596 00:42:50,819 --> 00:42:54,876 What are neighbors good for, then? We need to find her. 597 00:42:55,107 --> 00:42:58,132 - Don't worry about a thing. - Yes. 598 00:42:58,433 --> 00:43:00,681 I'm so grateful. 599 00:43:02,492 --> 00:43:03,962 Sajangnim! 600 00:43:04,091 --> 00:43:09,292 Many thanks. We won't forget this! 601 00:43:09,802 --> 00:43:11,421 Let's go. 602 00:43:14,073 --> 00:43:17,533 Ehhh... you pathetic... 603 00:43:17,732 --> 00:43:19,193 Hey! 604 00:43:19,383 --> 00:43:25,073 Here. Show this around, and visit all the dance halls in town. 605 00:43:25,203 --> 00:43:27,233 Yes! 606 00:43:32,564 --> 00:43:34,406 Sold anything? 607 00:43:34,675 --> 00:43:37,116 - What happened? - It all went well. 608 00:43:37,336 --> 00:43:39,236 - He said he'll find her? - Ahhh... of course. 609 00:43:39,466 --> 00:43:41,487 It's Lee Sajangnim, after all. 610 00:43:41,488 --> 00:43:44,887 He's not one of those scoundrels like Lee Jung Jae. 611 00:43:45,097 --> 00:43:47,838 - He's a good man. - That's good to hear. 612 00:43:48,058 --> 00:43:49,049 Right! 613 00:43:49,169 --> 00:43:51,899 Mr. Yoon, keep an eye on your wife, from now on. 614 00:43:52,019 --> 00:43:54,169 It's all because of you! 615 00:43:54,399 --> 00:43:57,589 It's because of all your rumors... 616 00:43:57,590 --> 00:44:02,089 that my wife felt too embarrassed to come home, you fool! 617 00:44:02,269 --> 00:44:03,949 Ehhh... that's an excuse. 618 00:44:04,049 --> 00:44:05,899 She must have had some complaints with you under the covers, 619 00:44:06,009 --> 00:44:08,049 otherwise why would she have an affair? 620 00:44:08,259 --> 00:44:10,660 What?! This fool! 621 00:44:10,781 --> 00:44:12,681 What's wrong with you? 622 00:44:12,731 --> 00:44:17,152 Right, you fool! Write it in the newspaper! 623 00:44:17,262 --> 00:44:23,454 That I couldn't make her happy at night, so she left me! 624 00:44:24,694 --> 00:44:26,575 The higher-ups are worrying as well. 625 00:44:26,794 --> 00:44:30,495 Dance halls are popping up everywhere these days. 626 00:44:31,665 --> 00:44:35,585 But you know, it's all because of that Madame Freedom or something, the novel. 627 00:44:35,795 --> 00:44:37,555 It'll pass, eventually. 628 00:44:37,755 --> 00:44:42,535 The Newsman nightclub thing, are you controlling that? 629 00:44:42,746 --> 00:44:43,885 Ahhh... no way. 630 00:44:44,025 --> 00:44:49,086 Ohh, I knew it. You would never be the type. 631 00:44:49,236 --> 00:44:51,868 What money could I possibly have? 632 00:44:51,987 --> 00:44:55,718 Listen, how does this sound? Will you come with me to Seodaemun? 633 00:44:55,959 --> 00:44:57,539 Seodaemun? 634 00:44:57,769 --> 00:45:01,149 Ahhh... Lee Gi Bong wants to meet you. 635 00:45:01,269 --> 00:45:03,749 Ahh. Later. 636 00:45:03,859 --> 00:45:06,340 Again, later? 637 00:45:07,370 --> 00:45:09,709 I said not to make any more dance halls in Myeongdong, 638 00:45:09,929 --> 00:45:11,950 as things would get even more chaotic. 639 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,922 You need that kind of place to make some decent money. 640 00:45:17,132 --> 00:45:19,262 I can just ask my sister for that. 641 00:45:19,382 --> 00:45:24,114 So, your sister is rich, I hear? 642 00:45:24,644 --> 00:45:28,864 I must thank you for helping out my boys at the Arts Theater. 643 00:45:29,094 --> 00:45:32,204 Let's go to Seodaemun together sometime soon, uh? 644 00:45:32,404 --> 00:45:35,146 He's a really decent man, if you get to know him. 645 00:45:35,325 --> 00:45:39,867 Yes. I'll see. Here. 646 00:45:51,937 --> 00:45:56,387 Dear. You can't have an affair. 647 00:45:56,607 --> 00:45:58,998 Don't waste time with that nonsense. 648 00:45:59,118 --> 00:46:02,087 I even went to the state council today. 649 00:46:02,118 --> 00:46:07,638 Would they find them? It's not like there're only a couple of orphanages. 650 00:46:07,869 --> 00:46:12,870 Who cares if there's a thousand? I'l find them at all costs. 651 00:46:18,021 --> 00:46:21,962 If I think of those poor little things suffering so much, 652 00:46:22,162 --> 00:46:25,212 my tears become drenched in blood. 653 00:46:30,043 --> 00:46:32,454 Again with the crying. 654 00:46:32,693 --> 00:46:35,606 It's my fault. 655 00:46:35,825 --> 00:46:37,291 No matter how urgently I needed to escape, 656 00:46:37,427 --> 00:46:41,057 I should have taken them with me. 657 00:46:44,868 --> 00:46:47,999 Why would that be your fault? 658 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,060 With the bridge over the Han River ending that way... 659 00:46:51,209 --> 00:46:57,951 Think about it. How hard was it passing the 38th Parallel? 660 00:46:58,201 --> 00:47:07,442 Back then, we took both along and went through all that. 661 00:47:07,781 --> 00:47:12,232 But how could we think of ourselves alone, and run away? 662 00:47:21,493 --> 00:47:24,023 Stop crying. 663 00:47:25,904 --> 00:47:27,734 I said stop! 664 00:47:27,944 --> 00:47:30,725 Why do you keep acting like this? They're alive! 665 00:47:30,855 --> 00:47:36,487 Why would they die? We're all here alive and well! 666 00:47:40,567 --> 00:47:45,849 Let's go. We need to have a meal and some good sleep, 667 00:47:46,058 --> 00:47:50,039 if we are to get up in the morning. 668 00:48:04,860 --> 00:48:09,720 Dear. You can't let the dance seduce you. 669 00:48:09,940 --> 00:48:14,330 You'll see if I hear any rumor about you! 670 00:48:14,530 --> 00:48:18,080 Who is ever going to do that?! 671 00:48:22,641 --> 00:48:25,562 It's just because I love you, Dear. 672 00:48:25,792 --> 00:48:30,762 I can't live without you. 673 00:48:38,545 --> 00:48:41,345 Be careful, you almost hit me! 674 00:48:55,276 --> 00:48:59,777 The ramifications of Madame Freedom's influence aren't over yet. 675 00:48:59,906 --> 00:49:03,677 We'll continue our story in the next episode. 676 00:49:03,945 --> 00:49:07,279 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 677 00:49:07,412 --> 00:49:10,775 Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 678 00:49:10,914 --> 00:49:13,930 Main Translator & Timer: MisterX 679 00:49:14,165 --> 00:49:17,121 Timing QC: Victory 680 00:49:17,356 --> 00:49:20,353 Editor/QC: thunderbolt 681 00:49:20,588 --> 00:49:23,577 Coordinators: mily2, ay_link 682 00:49:23,881 --> 00:49:28,622 Don't forget what the judge ruled! 683 00:49:28,843 --> 00:49:33,434 "The law only protects the kind of chastity worth protecting."?! 684 00:49:33,664 --> 00:49:37,885 Know what Madame Freedom means to us women? 685 00:49:38,095 --> 00:49:43,164 It's really great, Lee Sajangnim. We hit the jackpot this time. 686 00:49:46,595 --> 00:49:50,305 I don't work for anyone. 687 00:49:50,675 --> 00:49:53,395 He must be dating, Oppa. 688 00:49:53,525 --> 00:49:58,246 He's dating?! Kim Su Young? 689 00:50:00,425 --> 00:50:03,156 Su Young is just putting on airs. 690 00:50:03,596 --> 00:50:06,266 We're quite stingy, aren't we? 691 00:50:06,646 --> 00:50:08,947 Scribes should be different. 692 00:50:09,156 --> 00:50:12,036 Isn't this Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik Seonsaengnim? 693 00:50:12,226 --> 00:50:18,037 Seo Jeong Ju, Kim Dong Ri, Park Mok Wol! It's all rubbish! 694 00:50:18,227 --> 00:50:22,786 I'd like to have a letter of recommendation from you, Seonsaengnim. 695 00:50:23,237 --> 00:50:28,628 There's a library in Jongro. I run it, come there sometime. 696 00:50:28,934 --> 00:50:32,025 This is a FREE fansub. NOT for SALE!!! Get it for FREE @ d-addicts.com