1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,188 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heaven Subbing Squad 2 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,188 {\a6}Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 3 00:00:03,362 --> 00:00:06,322 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:06,513 --> 00:00:07,763 Welcome, Sajangnim. 5 00:00:07,944 --> 00:00:10,734 {\a6}Episode 6 6 00:00:07,944 --> 00:00:11,734 Ohh... you're getting prettier by the day, Madam. 7 00:00:11,985 --> 00:00:16,165 You're just flattering me. Can I compete with the real beauties? 8 00:00:16,825 --> 00:00:18,205 What should I choose for you tonight? 9 00:00:18,315 --> 00:00:21,675 Ahh... just give us the best and the most expensive one. 10 00:00:21,875 --> 00:00:24,025 Wait! Wait! 11 00:00:28,856 --> 00:00:30,506 Why did you leave this out? 12 00:00:30,665 --> 00:00:37,436 Just give us the best and most expensive one, Madam! 13 00:00:38,587 --> 00:00:41,097 Is that better? 14 00:00:41,526 --> 00:00:42,886 Is it too over the top? 15 00:00:43,046 --> 00:00:45,597 Why don't we start a trend, since we're here? 16 00:00:45,956 --> 00:00:50,447 Just give us the best and most expensive one, Madam! 17 00:00:51,187 --> 00:00:53,677 It does suit Ju Seon Tae quite well?! 18 00:00:53,827 --> 00:00:56,307 Ahhh... why, you don't like it? 19 00:00:56,587 --> 00:00:59,248 I was wondering should we use something a little more dignified, you know? 20 00:00:59,458 --> 00:01:01,308 We need to attract people, Seonsaengnim! 21 00:01:01,517 --> 00:01:03,568 Didn't you say we risk closing shop? 22 00:01:03,678 --> 00:01:05,718 Then again, that's where the wind flows these days, right? 23 00:01:03,842 --> 00:01:05,542 {\a6}Lee Hae Rang (stage producer) 24 00:01:05,838 --> 00:01:07,158 Of course! 25 00:01:07,318 --> 00:01:10,808 Fine, since we're there, let's go all out! 26 00:01:11,058 --> 00:01:12,058 Should I do it again? 27 00:01:12,158 --> 00:01:13,168 By the way, Ju Hyung. 28 00:01:13,278 --> 00:01:15,128 You'll have to let your belly stick out a little. 29 00:01:15,248 --> 00:01:20,129 Just like a pregnant woman, let it stand out, and act all haughty. 30 00:01:20,249 --> 00:01:21,708 Yes. 31 00:01:22,008 --> 00:01:25,739 Just give us the best and most expensive one, Madam. Uh? 32 00:01:25,979 --> 00:01:27,709 Here! Let's try it again! 33 00:01:27,989 --> 00:01:31,559 Just give us the best and most expensive one! 34 00:01:33,899 --> 00:01:36,630 It was a new catchword created by Madame Freedom. 35 00:01:36,830 --> 00:01:39,901 The moment Madame Freedom passed from its serialized run in the Seoul Shinmun... 36 00:01:40,036 --> 00:01:42,310 to the novel format, it sold 70,000 copies right as it was published. 37 00:01:42,420 --> 00:01:46,550 For that time, such sale numbers were an incredible feat, hard to even imagine. 38 00:01:47,211 --> 00:01:49,831 Shin Hyeop, despite being severely hit by the economic crisis, 39 00:01:49,941 --> 00:01:52,341 adapted Madame Freedom for the stage, 40 00:01:52,441 --> 00:01:55,681 and the theater suddenly started to brim with people. 41 00:01:55,812 --> 00:01:58,941 Not too long after, Madame Freedom was made into a film, 42 00:01:59,051 --> 00:02:01,682 and even that was a phenomenal success. 43 00:02:01,782 --> 00:02:07,512 What could this novel possess, to drive people into such a frenzy? 44 00:02:07,842 --> 00:02:10,202 He's coming! Quick! 45 00:02:10,513 --> 00:02:13,037 Mr. Park In Soo. You were acquitted in your marriage fraud trial today. 46 00:02:13,173 --> 00:02:15,273 Tell us your feelings about the judge's sentence. 47 00:02:15,323 --> 00:02:17,693 My feelings? A foregone conclusion, of course! 48 00:02:17,803 --> 00:02:21,274 Are you telling us enticing over seventy women left you with no guilt whatsoever? 49 00:02:21,384 --> 00:02:25,264 Listen! Aren't women who frequent dance halls already out of their minds?! 50 00:02:25,354 --> 00:02:28,234 They fell for the charms of the dance, isn't that why they're there? 51 00:02:28,474 --> 00:02:30,995 Those women already abandoned their families! 52 00:02:31,105 --> 00:02:32,065 Ahhh... wait a minute. 53 00:02:32,185 --> 00:02:33,564 Let's forget about married ones, then. 54 00:02:33,675 --> 00:02:36,085 How about all the well-off maidens you falsely enticed with marriage? 55 00:02:36,195 --> 00:02:38,875 Why would well-off maidens frequent those dance halls?! 56 00:02:38,975 --> 00:02:42,106 My only fault is being an able dancer! 57 00:02:42,226 --> 00:02:44,555 All I did was teaching them the steps for free! 58 00:02:44,685 --> 00:02:48,377 And I had some fun with those women, who killed their boredom by dancing! 59 00:02:48,487 --> 00:02:50,646 But, you charge me?! 60 00:02:50,766 --> 00:02:52,157 I am the victim here!! 61 00:02:52,267 --> 00:02:54,537 Then... then, are you saying they just let you embrace them... 62 00:02:54,667 --> 00:02:56,338 like that, even without promising them marriage?! 63 00:02:56,447 --> 00:02:59,817 Listen to that! I would never force anything on a woman! 64 00:02:59,927 --> 00:03:02,149 There are lines of women out there waiting for an affair. 65 00:03:02,284 --> 00:03:04,288 Why should I bother with those who don't want anything to do with me?! 66 00:03:04,388 --> 00:03:08,678 All those women who pressed charges against me are nothing but trash! 67 00:03:08,878 --> 00:03:13,768 Don't forget what the judge's brilliant ruling was! 68 00:03:13,888 --> 00:03:19,848 "The law only protects the kind of chastity worthy of its attention."! 69 00:03:20,208 --> 00:03:24,360 I frequent those dance halls because I have no other job, 70 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:29,710 but those women only frequent them to kill the boredom of their lavish lives! 71 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,890 Who is at fault here, then?! 72 00:03:34,230 --> 00:03:36,620 Wait a moment, just another comment! 73 00:03:37,661 --> 00:03:40,811 Look at this! What kind of ruling is that? 74 00:03:40,921 --> 00:03:44,330 A libertine like that who should get shot, and they rule him not guilty?! 75 00:03:44,431 --> 00:03:47,111 Ehhh... it's the end of the world, I tell you! 76 00:03:47,221 --> 00:03:49,971 - Again with your fits? - Ahhh... 77 00:03:50,191 --> 00:03:51,761 Take a look at this, Hyungnim. 78 00:03:51,862 --> 00:03:56,132 What?! "The law only protects the kind of chastity worthy of its attention."? 79 00:03:56,422 --> 00:03:58,493 Does this make any sense?! 80 00:03:58,613 --> 00:04:01,353 Ohh... well, they do have a point, don't they? 81 00:04:01,522 --> 00:04:05,414 I certainly can't say Park In Soo did something commendable, 82 00:04:05,514 --> 00:04:09,744 but all those women who danced with him are on the same boat. 83 00:04:09,865 --> 00:04:12,245 So you still take Mr. Yoon's side, after saying that? 84 00:04:12,355 --> 00:04:13,974 Side? What side?! 85 00:04:14,084 --> 00:04:17,684 I just feel sorry for what happened with him and his wife. 86 00:04:17,865 --> 00:04:19,834 Ehhh... the end is coming, my friend. 87 00:04:19,944 --> 00:04:22,286 They should castrate fools like Park In Soo, right on the spot, 88 00:04:22,376 --> 00:04:24,046 so he will not ever bother any woman again. 89 00:04:24,156 --> 00:04:29,447 These days, where would you find someone like Sung Chunhyang* out there? 90 00:04:24,241 --> 00:04:29,341 {\a6}*Famous Joseon folktale about a woman's unyielding loyalty to her husband 91 00:04:29,637 --> 00:04:34,607 Don't you see them out in the open, all stuck to their men like so? 92 00:04:34,768 --> 00:04:36,818 Then, are you telling me you'd have no problem if your missus... 93 00:04:36,938 --> 00:04:40,238 suddenly got the chills and headed for the dance hall like Mrs. Yoon? 94 00:04:40,488 --> 00:04:41,638 Look. 95 00:04:41,738 --> 00:04:46,708 You'll never see my wife act like that, never in a hundred years. 96 00:04:46,828 --> 00:04:49,209 The more you trust the axe, the worse it hurts when it hits you. 97 00:04:49,309 --> 00:04:54,109 Sure, you little fool. Want to see if that's true as you say? 98 00:05:04,499 --> 00:05:08,080 Do you plan to pack up your bags here?! 99 00:05:10,289 --> 00:05:12,288 Just let her do it. 100 00:05:12,470 --> 00:05:16,390 She's the mother of your children. When it's time she'll come back home! 101 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,691 That is why we need to get rid of fools like Park In Soo! 102 00:05:21,766 --> 00:05:23,252 Ehhh... really. 103 00:05:23,887 --> 00:05:28,322 Even this first trial for the Park In Soo affair, 104 00:05:28,457 --> 00:05:30,661 and its "the law only protects the kind of chastity worthy of its attention," 105 00:05:30,701 --> 00:05:34,131 became a sort of catchword of its time. 106 00:05:34,341 --> 00:05:38,651 But the appeal went the opposite way. 107 00:05:38,801 --> 00:05:40,822 On the premise that not all women frequenting dance halls were... 108 00:05:40,962 --> 00:05:44,605 breaking their oath of chastity, enticing them to a yeogwan* afterwards... 109 00:05:40,962 --> 00:05:44,605 {\a6}*Motel or hotel 110 00:05:44,722 --> 00:05:49,064 was indeed immoral, so the ruling changed to guilty, 111 00:05:49,172 --> 00:05:53,264 and Park In Soo spent one year in prison. 112 00:05:53,864 --> 00:05:57,214 This novel depicting the affair of a married woman, Madame Freedom, 113 00:05:57,335 --> 00:06:01,194 and the man who seduced seventy women, Korea's Don Juan Park In Soo. 114 00:06:01,285 --> 00:06:05,025 Both these two events brought significant changes to our 1950s. 115 00:06:05,145 --> 00:06:09,706 The liberation of the sexes, for starters. 116 00:06:14,596 --> 00:06:16,567 How could you break your promise? 117 00:06:16,677 --> 00:06:18,438 What's wrong, Mister Shin? 118 00:06:18,528 --> 00:06:20,738 What's wrong?! 119 00:06:21,037 --> 00:06:23,668 I waited outside for over an hour. 120 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:25,598 For me? 121 00:06:25,808 --> 00:06:30,018 Didn't you promise to come with me to the dance hall? 122 00:06:30,699 --> 00:06:32,819 I thought you were joking. 123 00:06:32,919 --> 00:06:35,519 How could I joke about that, Madam? 124 00:06:35,729 --> 00:06:38,068 I can't dance. 125 00:06:38,569 --> 00:06:40,279 So... 126 00:06:40,409 --> 00:06:42,539 Didn't I tell you I'd show you the steps? 127 00:06:42,789 --> 00:06:44,369 Come here a second. 128 00:06:44,569 --> 00:06:47,759 - Ahh... come on. - I said I can't dance. 129 00:06:47,970 --> 00:06:49,829 Look. 130 00:06:50,420 --> 00:06:53,319 Slow... slow... 131 00:06:53,430 --> 00:06:55,770 Quick... quick. 132 00:06:55,959 --> 00:07:01,250 - Slow... slow... - Quick... quick! 133 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,190 Ahhh... you're doing well already! 134 00:07:04,321 --> 00:07:06,761 It's not that hard, after all. 135 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:08,510 Here, follow my lead. 136 00:07:08,631 --> 00:07:11,991 Slow... slow... 137 00:07:12,181 --> 00:07:14,331 Quick! 138 00:07:23,262 --> 00:07:28,033 Don't do this, Mister Shin. 139 00:07:28,143 --> 00:07:29,713 Madam. 140 00:07:29,823 --> 00:07:32,093 Open your heart. 141 00:07:32,213 --> 00:07:36,663 This is nothing but dance, it's art! 142 00:07:46,585 --> 00:07:48,165 It tickles so much! I can't do this. 143 00:07:48,265 --> 00:07:50,455 Wait! 144 00:07:52,605 --> 00:07:54,445 Ahhh... what's wrong with you? 145 00:07:54,535 --> 00:07:58,165 Seonsaengnim. I can't really understand this scene. 146 00:07:58,326 --> 00:07:59,416 Why can't you? 147 00:07:59,516 --> 00:08:01,607 I'm the wife of a college professor. 148 00:08:01,747 --> 00:08:04,647 Going out with one of his young students is just... 149 00:08:04,767 --> 00:08:06,457 It's obvious she'd just hear insults all over the place. 150 00:08:06,567 --> 00:08:09,297 Would the audience understand and forgive her all this? 151 00:08:09,407 --> 00:08:11,947 Take a look at how things are out there. 152 00:08:12,217 --> 00:08:13,457 Seonsaengnim. 153 00:08:13,667 --> 00:08:16,467 Does Shin Hyeop really need to do this? 154 00:08:16,597 --> 00:08:19,617 Business is business, all right. But... 155 00:08:26,468 --> 00:08:30,128 Ohhh... welcome, Lee Seonsaengnim! 156 00:08:30,228 --> 00:08:31,468 Lee Bong Gu hasn't come yet? 157 00:08:31,588 --> 00:08:34,048 He's usually here around this time. 158 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,229 Madam. Have a seat. 159 00:08:40,008 --> 00:08:43,459 - What is it? - You're married, right? 160 00:08:43,569 --> 00:08:46,403 - I'm not. - You're not? 161 00:08:46,653 --> 00:08:50,260 I used to be, but I let him go. 162 00:08:50,350 --> 00:08:52,890 You're another Madame Freedom, Shin Madam?! 163 00:08:52,990 --> 00:08:55,940 You need to have an affair while you're still married, to be that. 164 00:08:56,030 --> 00:08:59,090 I'm on my own now, why Madame Freedom?! 165 00:08:59,210 --> 00:09:01,630 Then, are you going to remarry? 166 00:09:01,740 --> 00:09:05,250 And I barely got out of it. Should I fall for that again? 167 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,350 Then, you never had an affair, Shin Madam? 168 00:09:09,470 --> 00:09:11,591 That... you never know. 169 00:09:11,691 --> 00:09:13,831 Well, let's say you didn't so far. 170 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:17,461 You plan to, should the chance arise? 171 00:09:17,571 --> 00:09:21,531 Don't you first need a husband to cheat on him? 172 00:09:21,731 --> 00:09:23,201 Then, how about dating? 173 00:09:23,392 --> 00:09:26,851 If one finds someone nice, they should. 174 00:09:28,171 --> 00:09:29,872 Why? 175 00:09:30,082 --> 00:09:35,432 Just wanted to know what women think about Madame Freedom. 176 00:09:35,629 --> 00:09:39,814 So "A Doll's House"* is art, but "Madame Freedom" just crass melodrama? 177 00:09:35,749 --> 00:09:39,723 {\a6}*1879 play by Henrik Ibsen, considered to be the first "feminist" play 178 00:09:40,103 --> 00:09:43,113 Ohh... why are you so smart? 179 00:09:43,232 --> 00:09:45,693 I'm just saying, people are making a fuss... 180 00:09:45,694 --> 00:09:48,093 about Shin Hyeop adapting Madame Freedom. 181 00:09:48,173 --> 00:09:50,573 I'll have to see you in a new light, Shin Madam?! 182 00:09:50,673 --> 00:09:52,544 You're smart, all right. Clever! 183 00:09:52,634 --> 00:09:55,914 Think it's that easy to be a Madam in a place like Myeongdong? 184 00:09:56,034 --> 00:09:59,565 Isn't this the mecca of culture, our Myeongdong? 185 00:09:59,776 --> 00:10:04,185 So, Madame Freedom and A Doll's House deserve the same attention? 186 00:10:04,295 --> 00:10:08,015 So Nora leaves home in A Doll's House, and Madame Freedom's Seon Young... 187 00:10:08,125 --> 00:10:10,946 has an affair. What is so different? 188 00:10:11,056 --> 00:10:13,166 How could that be the same? 189 00:10:13,276 --> 00:10:16,297 Sexual liberation was you men's exclusive possession, 190 00:10:16,316 --> 00:10:18,856 while women were merely slaves of your freedom. 191 00:10:18,986 --> 00:10:20,367 Lee Seonsaengnim. 192 00:10:20,477 --> 00:10:23,408 Don't look down on Madame Freedom. 193 00:10:23,528 --> 00:10:28,688 Know how elated we women feel about that novel? 194 00:10:31,658 --> 00:10:33,148 What? 195 00:10:33,268 --> 00:10:36,419 Did things change that much? 196 00:10:36,538 --> 00:10:38,059 They need to change even more! 197 00:10:38,298 --> 00:10:44,219 We need to have a second and third Madame Freedom soon. 198 00:10:47,449 --> 00:10:54,470 Nam In Soo's "Railroad of Breakup in Busan" 199 00:11:04,070 --> 00:11:07,270 Nam In Soo (singer) 200 00:11:39,814 --> 00:11:41,394 What's with you? 201 00:11:41,504 --> 00:11:43,344 Is this woman your wife? 202 00:11:43,454 --> 00:11:45,104 And why would you mind? 203 00:11:45,215 --> 00:11:46,774 We urge you to go back. 204 00:11:46,884 --> 00:11:48,624 Listen to this little prick! 205 00:11:48,725 --> 00:11:52,805 You little fool. You know who you're talking to? 206 00:11:53,303 --> 00:12:00,025 Dear sir. Before you regret it, leave quietly. 207 00:12:01,386 --> 00:12:03,215 Look at this parade of fools. 208 00:12:03,405 --> 00:12:05,406 Think this is the only night club in Myeongdong? 209 00:12:05,506 --> 00:12:07,826 Let's go somewhere else, Miss Kim. 210 00:12:09,176 --> 00:12:13,066 Ehh... really. A grown-up man like him... 211 00:12:13,176 --> 00:12:15,496 How can you seduce someone who could be your daughter?! 212 00:12:20,288 --> 00:12:24,237 {\a6}Hyeon In (singer) 213 00:12:20,288 --> 00:12:24,237 "The Nights of Shilla" 214 00:12:55,139 --> 00:12:56,919 What are you doing? 215 00:12:57,039 --> 00:13:00,009 Let me go! What's wrong with you? 216 00:13:04,370 --> 00:13:06,380 - Let me go! - Get moving! 217 00:13:06,580 --> 00:13:09,340 Who are you people? 218 00:13:13,761 --> 00:13:16,151 Baek Hyung, what's wrong with you? 219 00:13:16,271 --> 00:13:18,941 Do you plan to send me out of business? 220 00:13:19,051 --> 00:13:20,981 And how would I know? 221 00:13:21,091 --> 00:13:26,281 I'm just following what Lee Sajang* tells me to do. (*director/boss) 222 00:13:26,471 --> 00:13:30,221 How can you send all my customers away?! 223 00:13:30,471 --> 00:13:32,212 Look, Lee Sajang. 224 00:13:32,322 --> 00:13:34,651 Money is good, all right. 225 00:13:34,771 --> 00:13:37,471 But select your clientele a little, will you? 226 00:13:37,562 --> 00:13:41,212 Keep doing business like this, and you'll just become a criminal destroying families! 227 00:13:42,292 --> 00:13:48,412 And who would bring his wife to a night club? Make some sense! 228 00:13:48,512 --> 00:13:51,153 Go complain to Lee Sajang, then! 229 00:13:52,725 --> 00:13:58,343 Nam In Soo's "Serenade of Sadness" 230 00:14:20,246 --> 00:14:22,605 The owner of Newsman was complaining. 231 00:14:22,715 --> 00:14:23,906 Really? 232 00:14:23,907 --> 00:14:26,116 He says you're sending him out of business. 233 00:14:26,306 --> 00:14:28,296 He's just talking. 234 00:14:28,616 --> 00:14:33,386 Is a night club some kind of YMCA hostel, prohibiting illicit affairs and all? 235 00:14:33,496 --> 00:14:36,046 Ahh... stop saying that nonsense and give me some money. 236 00:14:36,156 --> 00:14:38,523 I can't. If you complain about adultery, 237 00:14:38,627 --> 00:14:42,016 why are you asking money from someone who owns a room salon? 238 00:14:42,456 --> 00:14:46,288 I protect Myeongdong my own way. 239 00:14:46,558 --> 00:14:48,008 Is Myeongdong all yours? 240 00:14:48,118 --> 00:14:50,418 When did you ever start controlling that place? 241 00:14:50,518 --> 00:14:53,858 Then, should I act like a proper gangster? 242 00:14:54,058 --> 00:14:56,440 Ehhh... use the gangster excuse once again, will you? 243 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,619 What's so different between Lee Jeong Jae feeding off merchants, 244 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:01,360 and Lee Hwa Ryong getting money from a room salon owner? 245 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,670 And who said you need to do that? 246 00:15:03,779 --> 00:15:06,780 You just said I live off my sister, who owns a room salon. 247 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,470 Ehhh... look at you, twisting my words around. 248 00:15:09,570 --> 00:15:10,470 Nui.* 249 00:15:09,570 --> 00:15:10,470 {\a6}*Slightly "passe" version of "Nuna" 250 00:15:10,580 --> 00:15:12,180 Myeongdong is a nice place. 251 00:15:12,290 --> 00:15:16,581 If it turns into a mess, it will take the entire country along with it. 252 00:15:16,691 --> 00:15:19,032 Don't just throw big words around. 253 00:15:19,242 --> 00:15:21,042 Are you giving me the money or not?! 254 00:15:21,151 --> 00:15:23,542 I said I won't! 255 00:15:25,692 --> 00:15:28,042 If you keep this up, you'll become Hong Gil Dong. 256 00:15:28,152 --> 00:15:30,422 The valorous thief, Hong Gil Dong. 257 00:16:01,285 --> 00:16:02,915 Here's Lee Hwa Ryong. 258 00:16:03,025 --> 00:16:05,555 The same Lee Hwa Ryong who loved Myeongdong... 259 00:16:05,556 --> 00:16:08,155 just as much as Lee Bong Gu did. 260 00:16:10,037 --> 00:16:12,907 Is there anything you wish to tell me? 261 00:16:23,888 --> 00:16:24,769 Shin Sang Hyeon 262 00:16:24,869 --> 00:16:27,648 I came alone. 263 00:16:28,019 --> 00:16:30,400 So, you beat up that innocent man. 264 00:16:30,510 --> 00:16:33,401 I was mistaken. 265 00:16:34,881 --> 00:16:37,651 I am that Lee Hwa Ryong. 266 00:16:39,841 --> 00:16:42,711 I'm alone just like you. Isn't this the perfect opportunity? 267 00:16:42,961 --> 00:16:46,331 I came to apologize. 268 00:16:47,941 --> 00:16:50,942 I don't fight for no reason. 269 00:16:51,142 --> 00:16:55,763 I bear no grudge against you, Lee Sajangnim. 270 00:16:57,964 --> 00:17:00,835 Why did you change your mind? 271 00:17:03,416 --> 00:17:08,205 I'll tell you, one day. If we get the chance. 272 00:17:33,657 --> 00:17:37,838 Shin Sang Hyeon, who was more famous through his moniker "Boss Shin," 273 00:17:37,947 --> 00:17:41,488 was able to command a bevy of hoodlums who controlled territory all the way... 274 00:17:41,598 --> 00:17:45,789 from Myeongdong to Chungmuro. 275 00:17:52,980 --> 00:17:56,750 So you made up with Lee Hwa Ryong? 276 00:17:57,930 --> 00:17:59,620 Boss Shin. 277 00:17:59,730 --> 00:18:02,520 You're not trying to put your foot in two shoes at once, are you? 278 00:18:03,170 --> 00:18:05,360 Two shoes?! 279 00:18:05,470 --> 00:18:09,670 I don't answer to anybody. 280 00:18:11,431 --> 00:18:14,250 So are you the cock o' the walk, is that it? 281 00:18:16,611 --> 00:18:20,101 "Manwon Sarye (No vacancy)" 282 00:18:20,211 --> 00:18:22,741 Ohhh! We hit the jackpot, Lee Seonsaengnim! 283 00:18:22,851 --> 00:18:26,602 It's been such a long time since we sold out all tickets! 284 00:18:27,241 --> 00:18:30,601 On the lobby card: Jayu Buin (Madame Freedom) 285 00:18:33,622 --> 00:18:37,162 The government is trying to prohibit dance halls. Would they ever succeed? 286 00:18:37,272 --> 00:18:39,533 It's selling out like hot cakes. 287 00:18:39,663 --> 00:18:40,727 Theater needs to survive as well. 288 00:18:40,873 --> 00:18:43,444 They've been upstaged by female classical opera for so long. 289 00:18:43,635 --> 00:18:47,334 In Seodaemun, they're praising you all the time. Uh? 290 00:18:47,555 --> 00:18:51,845 They say that, thanks to you, Myeongdong has cleaned up. 291 00:18:52,394 --> 00:18:56,425 Lee Sajang. Make a film this time, will you? 292 00:18:56,935 --> 00:18:57,795 A film?! 293 00:18:57,895 --> 00:19:00,955 Oh, Director Lee Gyu Hwan's "Tale of Chunhyang"*... 294 00:19:00,956 --> 00:19:02,455 brought 300,000 people to the theater! 295 00:18:57,913 --> 00:19:02,213 {\a6}*1955 film which revitalized postwar Korean cinema 296 00:19:02,566 --> 00:19:04,836 They're just inundated with money. 297 00:19:04,966 --> 00:19:07,656 And society settles down as well, you know? 298 00:19:07,766 --> 00:19:11,626 If plays and films do well, uh? 299 00:19:12,256 --> 00:19:14,796 The higher-ups, you know? They say that, thanks to Jung Bi Seok, 300 00:19:14,906 --> 00:19:18,036 the atmosphere is getting better, and they praised him. 301 00:19:18,156 --> 00:19:23,977 People need to be on the spree, so that politics can get on with its business. 302 00:19:24,246 --> 00:19:26,177 Not when it's deranged material. 303 00:19:26,297 --> 00:19:28,556 What is that supposed to mean? 304 00:19:28,957 --> 00:19:31,097 We're people who came down south abandoning our hometowns, 305 00:19:31,098 --> 00:19:33,417 because we couldn't stand commies. 306 00:19:33,527 --> 00:19:35,758 Anti-communism?! We need to do that. 307 00:19:35,857 --> 00:19:38,988 How long has it been since the war ended, to all be in such a frolic? 308 00:19:39,098 --> 00:19:41,588 Ahhh... I just said we need to encourage anti-communism! 309 00:19:41,627 --> 00:19:44,418 If you wish to achieve that, then politics should be done properly. 310 00:19:44,518 --> 00:19:46,228 Why, what's wrong with today's politics? 311 00:19:46,328 --> 00:19:51,048 President Lee must be doing well, and all the people under him as well. 312 00:19:51,158 --> 00:19:53,329 Uh?! What's the problem?! 313 00:19:53,439 --> 00:19:56,699 Madame Freedom is nothing but garbage! 314 00:19:56,980 --> 00:19:59,800 It's just a transitory fad, Lee Sajang! 315 00:19:59,990 --> 00:20:01,629 Why, just because women have a little fun outside, 316 00:20:01,740 --> 00:20:03,320 would our country end up in ruins? 317 00:20:03,460 --> 00:20:05,460 It certainly will. 318 00:20:05,850 --> 00:20:08,930 If women betray their integrity, the family will go into tatters, 319 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,441 and with the family in tatters, our entire country will be ruined! 320 00:20:13,091 --> 00:20:15,481 Ehhh... really. 321 00:20:30,222 --> 00:20:31,633 Ohhh... Samonim*! 322 00:20:30,222 --> 00:20:34,033 {\a6}*Deferential address for wife of someone higher on the social ladder 323 00:20:31,851 --> 00:20:34,192 Yes, yes. It's me, Director Baek! 324 00:20:34,373 --> 00:20:36,212 Ahh... yes, yes. 325 00:20:36,322 --> 00:20:41,253 Don't worry about the artists. Yes. We're giving them the best treatment. 326 00:20:41,353 --> 00:20:42,474 Yes, yes. Yes! 327 00:20:42,684 --> 00:20:44,524 The director of the Arts Theater, Baek Sun Seong, 328 00:20:44,654 --> 00:20:48,265 was very close with the wife of Lee Gi Bong, Park Maria. 329 00:20:48,375 --> 00:20:52,145 He did get close with Lee Gi Bong, whom Lee Jeong Jae and Im Hwa Su... 330 00:20:52,265 --> 00:20:56,076 of the Dongdaemun gang self-proclaimed as Lee Seung Man's successor. 331 00:20:56,186 --> 00:21:00,267 But the first to reach out to Seodaemun was not Lee Jeong Jae, 332 00:21:00,377 --> 00:21:01,966 it was Lee Hwa Ryong. 333 00:21:02,186 --> 00:21:06,067 Ohh... someone like Lee Jeong Jae... Yes! Ahhh, he's so stubborn, that man! 334 00:21:06,156 --> 00:21:07,846 Yes, yes. Samonim. 335 00:21:07,966 --> 00:21:09,747 We need to get Myeongdong as well, indeed! 336 00:21:09,857 --> 00:21:13,536 Only then all the artists... Yes, yes! Of course! 337 00:21:13,637 --> 00:21:15,787 Ahh... of course arts and culture are important! 338 00:21:15,897 --> 00:21:19,387 Indeed they are. Yes. Yes, yes. 339 00:21:22,127 --> 00:21:28,768 The leading players of the 5.16 coup d'etat* found their just cause in anti-communism. 340 00:21:22,340 --> 00:21:28,540 {\a6}*Park Jung Hee's coup d'etat in 1961, ending the 2nd Republic 341 00:21:29,188 --> 00:21:33,080 They used anti-communism as the governmental guideline... 342 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:38,190 Just because we were dealing with the 50s, nothing was different. 343 00:21:38,299 --> 00:21:43,539 I mentioned before that anti-communism was a matter of survival. 344 00:21:43,649 --> 00:21:45,989 But unlike the post-liberation period, 345 00:21:45,990 --> 00:21:50,089 when we were engulfed by severe ideological chaos, 346 00:21:50,205 --> 00:21:51,790 the South neatly packaged... 347 00:21:51,791 --> 00:21:54,690 all ideological conflict under the banner of anti-communism, 348 00:21:54,860 --> 00:21:57,100 right from the immediate postwar. 349 00:21:57,211 --> 00:22:03,511 The bigger problem was the hunger and ethical disorder of the time. 350 00:22:03,651 --> 00:22:06,541 Sexual liberation! 351 00:22:07,011 --> 00:22:09,702 There was this peculiar happening. 352 00:22:11,387 --> 00:22:17,492 We warn you in advance, but all the names we use here are pseudonyms. 353 00:22:11,591 --> 00:22:14,291 {\a6}Government Subcommittee 354 00:22:23,092 --> 00:22:27,663 Mrs. Song Chang Ju? Look up. 355 00:22:29,513 --> 00:22:34,834 Do that, and look at the man sitting next to you. 356 00:22:38,964 --> 00:22:42,484 I said look at his face. 357 00:22:47,925 --> 00:22:51,044 I... don't know this man. 358 00:22:51,165 --> 00:22:53,505 You've lived together for thirty years! 359 00:22:53,615 --> 00:22:57,165 Does it make any sense you wouldn't recognize him?! 360 00:22:59,826 --> 00:23:02,216 Look again. 361 00:23:09,347 --> 00:23:12,086 I don't know him. 362 00:23:12,356 --> 00:23:16,567 So you've never heard the name Kim Young Seok as well, I suppose. 363 00:23:16,707 --> 00:23:18,227 Never. 364 00:23:18,427 --> 00:23:21,857 You don't even know your husband's name? 365 00:23:27,849 --> 00:23:32,079 Why don't you speak instead, General Kim Young Seok? 366 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:37,639 You don't know who this woman sitting next to you is? 367 00:23:39,109 --> 00:23:41,159 I have never seen her before. 368 00:23:41,269 --> 00:23:47,510 Your wife is recorded here as Song Chang Ju, but you don't know her? 369 00:23:47,710 --> 00:23:50,370 Didn't I tell you Song Chang Ju died? 370 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:53,770 And again, do I look like the type who would abandon his wife... 371 00:23:54,090 --> 00:23:57,881 to marry someone else? 372 00:23:58,081 --> 00:24:01,530 Then, who is the Song Chang Ju sitting next to you? 373 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,120 Song Chang Ju is dead! During the war. 374 00:24:05,221 --> 00:24:09,651 Is there only one Song Chang Ju in the world? 375 00:24:09,761 --> 00:24:15,782 You know? I understand you're trying to get me sacked out of personal resentment, 376 00:24:15,905 --> 00:24:17,671 but I don't know this woman. 377 00:24:17,791 --> 00:24:21,372 Didn't she say she's never seen me before?! 378 00:24:21,572 --> 00:24:25,672 If you keep this up, I won't take it lying down! 379 00:24:25,882 --> 00:24:28,623 What do you take the military forces for?! 380 00:24:28,753 --> 00:24:31,622 - What is that? - How can he just get up? 381 00:24:40,623 --> 00:24:44,453 I will ask one last time. 382 00:24:44,664 --> 00:24:48,983 You really don't know who General Kim Young Seok is? 383 00:24:51,474 --> 00:24:57,934 I'll deal with your husband, so answer honestly. 384 00:25:07,436 --> 00:25:10,386 I... 385 00:25:10,807 --> 00:25:13,946 have never seen him before. 386 00:25:14,396 --> 00:25:16,547 During the so-called "Liberal Party" era, 387 00:25:16,656 --> 00:25:19,347 the matter of public servants or other public figures... 388 00:25:19,467 --> 00:25:23,488 having a mistress became a controversial issue. 389 00:25:23,627 --> 00:25:28,487 Under President Lee Seung Man's strict order to fire anyone who had a mistress, 390 00:25:28,608 --> 00:25:31,628 quite a few regrettable happenings took place. 391 00:25:32,908 --> 00:25:36,508 Mom. Why did you lie like that? 392 00:25:37,108 --> 00:25:41,478 It's because you act like this that Dad went to live with a younger woman. 393 00:25:41,618 --> 00:25:46,369 Then, what am I supposed to do? It could end your father's career. 394 00:25:46,568 --> 00:25:47,931 Then, let it end! 395 00:25:48,019 --> 00:25:52,209 Dad needs to pay a price for abandoning his wife and daughter like that. 396 00:25:52,569 --> 00:25:55,929 Mom. It's not too late. 397 00:25:56,239 --> 00:25:59,019 Go tell them General Kim Young Seok is your husband. 398 00:25:59,219 --> 00:26:03,120 And that Song Chang Ju is General Kim's faithful wife. 399 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:05,320 Tell them, Mom! 400 00:26:05,420 --> 00:26:08,290 Even if I do, your father won't be back. 401 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,541 Then, all the better! He's not coming back anyway. 402 00:26:11,651 --> 00:26:13,852 Why let him get away with this? 403 00:26:14,691 --> 00:26:16,552 You're not even angry about this? 404 00:26:16,652 --> 00:26:18,342 Then, what am I supposed to do, you silly? 405 00:26:18,483 --> 00:26:21,072 Is your father the only one who has a mistress? 406 00:26:21,193 --> 00:26:23,203 Even when we had nothing to eat, 407 00:26:23,322 --> 00:26:25,873 men always had to have a mistress to save face. 408 00:26:25,983 --> 00:26:27,973 Why do you blame your father alone? 409 00:26:28,073 --> 00:26:30,083 That's all in the past. 410 00:26:30,183 --> 00:26:35,493 What year is this, to still try to shelter him after he abandoned you?! 411 00:26:36,183 --> 00:26:38,374 We need to wait. 412 00:26:38,484 --> 00:26:44,225 When he's too old to go anywhere, he'll come back home. 413 00:26:57,406 --> 00:26:58,797 Do you remember Park In Hwan, 414 00:26:58,816 --> 00:27:05,037 throwing the gift he received from a young woman off this bridge? 415 00:27:05,137 --> 00:27:11,247 What Park In Hwan did was not a common custom in those days. 416 00:27:11,677 --> 00:27:17,667 Simply because having a mistress or an affair was more something to brag about, 417 00:27:17,897 --> 00:27:22,629 than a misdeed to be chastised for. 418 00:27:24,531 --> 00:27:29,411 We'll go back to Park In Hwan and Kim Su Young's story. 419 00:27:34,631 --> 00:27:36,331 Lee Seonsaengnim. 420 00:27:36,951 --> 00:27:38,591 You've gotten prettier?! 421 00:27:38,711 --> 00:27:39,661 What's the occasion? 422 00:27:39,771 --> 00:27:41,502 Ohh... I was just passing by and wanted a word. 423 00:27:41,711 --> 00:27:44,792 - With me? - How is your brother doing? 424 00:27:44,961 --> 00:27:46,451 He always stays home. 425 00:27:46,562 --> 00:27:47,912 And never leaves it? 426 00:27:48,032 --> 00:27:49,752 Sometimes, he does. 427 00:27:49,862 --> 00:27:52,862 I haven't seen him in Myeongdong in ages?! 428 00:27:53,072 --> 00:27:55,902 Oppa must be dating. 429 00:27:56,192 --> 00:27:57,233 Really? 430 00:27:57,353 --> 00:27:59,743 It's nothing serious, though. 431 00:27:59,952 --> 00:28:01,032 That's good to hear. 432 00:28:01,132 --> 00:28:04,005 You need some romance to feel the vibes again. 433 00:28:04,265 --> 00:28:06,163 When you see him, tell him to come to Myeongdong sometime. 434 00:28:06,288 --> 00:28:08,635 Gongcho Seonsaengnim really misses him. 435 00:28:08,735 --> 00:28:10,235 Yes. 436 00:28:10,435 --> 00:28:12,806 Ahhh... right, Su Myeong! 437 00:28:13,246 --> 00:28:14,275 Yes? 438 00:28:14,395 --> 00:28:16,645 Shouldn't you get married? 439 00:28:16,755 --> 00:28:22,516 I hear there's a line of scribes head over heels for you around here? 440 00:28:22,766 --> 00:28:24,996 I'll see you again. 441 00:28:28,907 --> 00:28:33,926 So he's dating, Kim Su Young. 442 00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:09,244 Seonsaengnim. 443 00:29:09,453 --> 00:29:12,394 Have you read this? 444 00:29:13,083 --> 00:29:16,944 I wanted to read it, but it's so hard I can't understand a thing. 445 00:29:17,054 --> 00:29:19,934 Will you read it? 446 00:29:25,194 --> 00:29:29,186 There's a coffee shop on the other side of the road. 447 00:29:58,028 --> 00:30:00,739 Were you stood up? 448 00:30:01,059 --> 00:30:04,128 - What time is it? - Eight. 449 00:30:04,338 --> 00:30:06,129 PM?! 450 00:30:06,619 --> 00:30:10,369 So you did, all right. Why didn't you call me? 451 00:30:10,489 --> 00:30:12,849 She never said she would come. 452 00:30:12,959 --> 00:30:15,519 Then, you can't call it a date. 453 00:30:15,699 --> 00:30:18,459 It must be one-sided, I guess. 454 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:20,239 I'd love to see her. 455 00:30:20,370 --> 00:30:24,360 How pretty is she, to run you through the guts? 456 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:27,281 She's married. 457 00:30:27,481 --> 00:30:29,751 Married?! 458 00:30:33,952 --> 00:30:37,981 Let's go. I've been reading all day. 459 00:30:38,181 --> 00:30:40,482 What is it? 460 00:30:47,623 --> 00:30:49,262 It's fun! 461 00:30:49,362 --> 00:30:51,883 It's not the type you would like. 462 00:30:51,993 --> 00:30:54,872 Instead, she does. 463 00:31:01,423 --> 00:31:03,553 Oppa. 464 00:31:05,253 --> 00:31:08,864 Do you like her because it's forbidden? 465 00:31:10,293 --> 00:31:13,823 Of all women, why a married one? 466 00:31:14,143 --> 00:31:16,703 When I met her on Geoje Island, she wasn't. 467 00:31:16,803 --> 00:31:19,433 But now she's someone else's wife. 468 00:31:19,724 --> 00:31:21,504 I just like her, that's all. 469 00:31:21,624 --> 00:31:24,954 She's giving you the cold shoulder. 470 00:31:25,104 --> 00:31:28,105 That's just because she got married. 471 00:31:29,765 --> 00:31:33,545 It's your father. Go greet him. 472 00:31:33,645 --> 00:31:36,465 Dad! 473 00:31:48,745 --> 00:31:51,516 Always worrying for nothing. 474 00:31:51,656 --> 00:31:54,446 Su Young is just putting on airs. 475 00:31:54,636 --> 00:31:56,946 Still, go ahead and meet him once. 476 00:31:57,076 --> 00:31:59,416 You're the only friend he's got. 477 00:31:59,538 --> 00:32:01,997 Was he the only one who suffered? 478 00:32:02,097 --> 00:32:04,397 Was war something he experienced alone?! 479 00:32:04,507 --> 00:32:08,609 We all experienced it, and all suffered together. 480 00:32:08,829 --> 00:32:12,209 But, why is he making such a fuss? 481 00:32:12,329 --> 00:32:14,759 Just shake it all off and come out! 482 00:32:14,879 --> 00:32:20,980 Do we need to set up some kind of major welcoming ceremony to see him again? 483 00:32:21,251 --> 00:32:22,480 What's wrong with you? 484 00:32:22,590 --> 00:32:26,961 Was there something between you two? 485 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,182 He can't act like that with me. 486 00:32:30,302 --> 00:32:33,823 I went all the way to Geoje Island to meet him, 487 00:32:33,943 --> 00:32:36,793 did all my best to go find his wife after she left home. 488 00:32:36,803 --> 00:32:40,563 Uh? But I go look for him at home, and he leaves me out of the door? 489 00:32:40,664 --> 00:32:44,154 - Su Young... - I don't need any of this! 490 00:32:44,264 --> 00:32:49,565 I can live perfectly well without him. 491 00:32:49,935 --> 00:32:54,605 Seonsaengnim, they're acting just like kids. 492 00:32:55,335 --> 00:32:59,316 Look at you. Make up with him! 493 00:32:59,435 --> 00:33:02,656 Kim Su Young disliked me right from the beginning. 494 00:33:02,766 --> 00:33:06,226 I was the one who went around trying to win his graces. 495 00:33:06,446 --> 00:33:09,456 How obvious. 496 00:33:09,566 --> 00:33:12,378 Scribes should be different. 497 00:33:12,487 --> 00:33:16,867 Oh oh... say again? She just spits it out?! 498 00:33:16,978 --> 00:33:22,499 People who sell their souls for a living, and you can't even take a little jest. 499 00:33:22,619 --> 00:33:26,489 Ahh... well said, Hye Rin. 500 00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:28,709 Look, In Hwan. 501 00:33:28,849 --> 00:33:32,669 Even if you're a little disappointed by what Su Young did to you. Uh? 502 00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:37,290 Of all people, you should shake it off, uh?! 503 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,730 Where are you going? 504 00:33:42,110 --> 00:33:46,461 Scribes don't sell their souls. 505 00:33:46,861 --> 00:33:50,362 They dive into its bottom. 506 00:33:52,852 --> 00:33:57,733 Seonsaengnim is still here... Look! In Hwan! In Hwan! 507 00:34:01,343 --> 00:34:05,254 The hell are you?! Another gangster? 508 00:34:07,053 --> 00:34:12,234 Isn't this Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik Seonsaengnim?! 509 00:34:12,344 --> 00:34:18,604 I'm not a gangster. My name is Park In Hwan. 510 00:34:19,064 --> 00:34:22,224 The Lady and the Wooden Horse. That Park In Hwan?! 511 00:34:22,334 --> 00:34:24,054 Yes. 512 00:34:24,985 --> 00:34:29,595 That was quite good. But it's too sentimental. 513 00:34:29,705 --> 00:34:31,575 My apologies. 514 00:34:31,684 --> 00:34:34,885 A poet can be sentimental all he wants, 515 00:34:35,006 --> 00:34:38,345 but his work shouldn't reek of sentimentalism. 516 00:34:38,575 --> 00:34:41,606 Careful, Park Gun. 517 00:34:42,736 --> 00:34:46,505 I'll keep that in mind. 518 00:34:52,576 --> 00:34:55,466 Nice personality?! 519 00:34:55,666 --> 00:34:57,626 Nice, isn't it? 520 00:34:57,726 --> 00:34:59,537 Seonsaengnim, my apologies. 521 00:34:59,667 --> 00:35:02,997 He must have had too much to drink, again. 522 00:35:11,667 --> 00:35:15,617 Lee Gun! Let's have a word! 523 00:35:16,037 --> 00:35:17,928 Come here and have a drink. 524 00:35:18,208 --> 00:35:19,507 Lee Gun. 525 00:35:19,637 --> 00:35:22,498 Why don't you ever ask me for work? 526 00:35:22,608 --> 00:35:27,038 Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik feels bad about this! 527 00:35:27,148 --> 00:35:31,058 Seonsaengnim, just ignore him. 528 00:35:36,849 --> 00:35:38,989 Ahh... look at you. 529 00:35:44,899 --> 00:35:46,300 Gongcho Seonsaengnim. 530 00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:50,299 My name is Kim Gwang Shik. 531 00:35:51,209 --> 00:35:54,290 I respect you, Gongcho Seonsaengnim. 532 00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:10,110 Looks like that boorish fella recognized you, Seonsaengnim. 533 00:36:17,711 --> 00:36:21,611 Kim Gwang Shik's representative work was "The Path to Exile." 534 00:36:21,811 --> 00:36:24,053 His youthful excitement and peculiar behavior... 535 00:36:24,054 --> 00:36:26,553 made him famous in literary circles, 536 00:36:26,653 --> 00:36:31,232 and after 4.19*, he even ran in the elections. 537 00:36:26,814 --> 00:36:31,014 {\a6}*April 1960 revolution overthrowing the Lee Seung Man regime 538 00:36:31,653 --> 00:36:34,563 Seo Jeong Ju, Kim Dong Ri, Park Mok Wol! 539 00:36:34,693 --> 00:36:39,534 You're all rubbish! Why?! 540 00:36:39,854 --> 00:36:42,974 You're literary relics, that's why! 541 00:36:43,084 --> 00:36:44,983 What is literature, after all? 542 00:36:45,103 --> 00:36:47,620 It is no mental amusement. 543 00:36:47,984 --> 00:36:51,274 Shouldn't it give hope and courage to all our people, 544 00:36:51,384 --> 00:36:55,274 who are so tired of how things are going?! 545 00:36:57,154 --> 00:37:02,024 Especially you, Seo Jeong Ju! I hate your prose. 546 00:37:02,164 --> 00:37:05,025 It's antiquated, that's what I'm saying! 547 00:37:05,135 --> 00:37:09,855 And exactly that, Kim Gwang Shik went looking for Seo Jeong Ju. 548 00:37:20,846 --> 00:37:23,026 Seo Jeong Ju (poet) 549 00:37:35,878 --> 00:37:38,008 Please, help me out, Seonsaengnim. 550 00:37:38,128 --> 00:37:41,028 And what would someone like me help you with? 551 00:37:41,148 --> 00:37:45,878 I'd like to make my debut in the literary world, with your recommendation. 552 00:37:45,988 --> 00:37:48,858 Let me importune you with this favor, Midang* Seonsaengnim. 553 00:37:46,028 --> 00:37:48,637 {\a6}*Seo Jeong Ju's pen name 554 00:37:48,978 --> 00:37:51,088 What Midang Seonsaeng?! 555 00:37:51,198 --> 00:37:57,008 You seem to ardently enjoy calling me Seo Gun, so why bother? 556 00:37:57,118 --> 00:37:58,319 What? 557 00:37:58,428 --> 00:38:02,929 Ahhh... what are you talking about? 558 00:38:03,069 --> 00:38:10,140 Don't you go around saying Seo Gun, Park Gun, Kim Gun all the time? 559 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:16,480 Ahh... that. I must have been a little drunk. 560 00:38:16,841 --> 00:38:20,881 So you're telling me you're sober now, instead? 561 00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:25,221 How would I dare drink on the day I meet you, Seonsaengnim? 562 00:38:25,421 --> 00:38:28,912 - So you were just drunk? - Yes. 563 00:38:29,861 --> 00:38:32,752 Ahh... by the way. Sit comfortably. 564 00:38:32,881 --> 00:38:36,642 No, Seonsaengnim. I'm just fine this way. 565 00:38:40,692 --> 00:38:43,053 My handwriting is a little messy. 566 00:38:43,163 --> 00:38:45,703 So you already published an anthology? 567 00:38:45,873 --> 00:38:49,613 Yes, called "The House of Fallen Blossoms," I published it right as I graduated. 568 00:38:49,743 --> 00:38:52,352 The preface was written by Jo Ji Hoon Seonsaengnim. 569 00:38:52,443 --> 00:38:59,203 Ohh... "Jo Gun" wrote your preface? 570 00:38:59,604 --> 00:39:00,793 My apologies. 571 00:39:00,903 --> 00:39:03,954 That should be enough. Why would you need my recommendation? 572 00:39:04,074 --> 00:39:08,074 I want to debut officially, take the rostrum the proper way. 573 00:39:08,194 --> 00:39:10,744 Please give me your consent, Midang Seonsaengnim. 574 00:39:10,884 --> 00:39:13,544 - Ahh... whomever recommends you... - Seonsaengnim. 575 00:39:13,704 --> 00:39:16,754 It's been two years already since I published my first anthology. 576 00:39:16,864 --> 00:39:20,805 Read it now, and it's nothing but childish tripe which... 577 00:39:20,945 --> 00:39:23,766 doesn't deserve to be called poetry. 578 00:39:23,976 --> 00:39:27,666 And, during the time, my outlook on life and society, 579 00:39:27,776 --> 00:39:30,139 even the way I write my poetry, changed. 580 00:39:30,316 --> 00:39:33,527 So I wanted to be judged again on these terms. 581 00:39:33,647 --> 00:39:38,876 Fine. I'll read it, and give you a call. 582 00:39:40,197 --> 00:39:42,147 Seo... 583 00:39:50,097 --> 00:39:54,477 Wow... did you write that, Seonsaengnim? 584 00:39:57,728 --> 00:40:01,988 Wow! Pardon me, but what did you write? 585 00:40:04,389 --> 00:40:07,518 My sister-in-law wrote it. 586 00:40:08,218 --> 00:40:11,439 Your sister-in-law?! 587 00:40:12,988 --> 00:40:15,490 "Bang Ok Rye." 588 00:40:15,620 --> 00:40:20,332 How old is she, to write so well? 589 00:40:20,452 --> 00:40:23,832 Wow... it's as if I was seeing a work by Chusa*. 590 00:40:20,641 --> 00:40:23,690 {\a6}*Calligrapher Kim Jung Hee's alias 591 00:40:24,332 --> 00:40:28,632 Ohhh... well written! 592 00:40:37,264 --> 00:40:39,585 Are you going already? 593 00:40:43,935 --> 00:40:47,895 At least have a drink before you leave. 594 00:40:44,115 --> 00:40:47,627 {\a6}Bang Ok Rye (Seo Jeong Ju's sister-in-law) 595 00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:21,329 I told him to have a drink, and he left without a word?! 596 00:41:21,449 --> 00:41:23,239 His technique is really something. 597 00:41:23,359 --> 00:41:25,510 Is he a poet? 598 00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:29,571 His cursing is much more famous than his prose. 599 00:41:29,861 --> 00:41:30,551 Cursing?! 600 00:41:30,672 --> 00:41:32,271 He said my poetry... 601 00:41:32,272 --> 00:41:36,271 isn't even as worth as dirt between his thumbs, compared to his. 602 00:41:36,411 --> 00:41:37,701 He said that to you?! 603 00:41:37,832 --> 00:41:43,742 That's nothing. He goes around cursing this and that?! 604 00:41:43,871 --> 00:41:49,682 Ohh... and he still comes here to ask you favors? 605 00:41:49,822 --> 00:41:52,323 That's so shameless of him. 606 00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:55,352 He's eccentric, all right. 607 00:41:56,613 --> 00:42:01,823 But, his grammar is a tad clumsy. 608 00:42:01,932 --> 00:42:05,683 Then again, all young fellas writing poems are the same, these days. 609 00:42:05,803 --> 00:42:08,424 They were educated in Japanese*. 610 00:42:05,803 --> 00:42:08,424 {\a6}*In the colonial era, classes were in Japanese, 611 00:42:08,425 --> 00:42:11,267 {\a6}from which grammar heavily adapted, i.e. no->eui as Saxon genitive 612 00:42:11,484 --> 00:42:16,483 Many of those aspiring scribes read Midang's works, 613 00:42:16,484 --> 00:42:19,918 and even tried to imitate them. 614 00:42:11,653 --> 00:42:14,446 {\a6}Oh Se Young 615 00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:27,590 So it was natural it would be an honor to be recognized by the same Midang... 616 00:42:27,735 --> 00:42:31,664 whom they loved to read, and whose prose they copied. 617 00:42:31,885 --> 00:42:37,115 In the 50s and 60s, Seo Jeong Ju was the one who led the biggest number of "pupils," 618 00:42:32,088 --> 00:42:36,088 {\a6}Yeom Mu Woong (critic) 619 00:42:37,235 --> 00:42:42,375 and he wrote recommendations for countless of those aspiring authors. 620 00:42:42,585 --> 00:42:45,006 Also, while having so much influence, 621 00:42:45,115 --> 00:42:51,693 he did show caution against any adherence to regimes like the Liberal Party... 622 00:42:51,728 --> 00:42:54,596 or Park Jung Hee's junta. And also, what he showed as... 623 00:42:54,805 --> 00:43:04,729 a poet conveying the beauty and harmony of our language, 624 00:43:04,869 --> 00:43:07,519 certainly made him a trendsetter. 625 00:43:08,458 --> 00:43:10,782 He saw him as a man of talent right away. 626 00:43:08,617 --> 00:43:10,581 {\a6}Bang Ok Rye (Kim Gwang Shik's wife) 627 00:43:10,949 --> 00:43:15,519 You could just talk of anything, literature or anything else, 628 00:43:15,795 --> 00:43:18,199 and you'd hear this liturgy of knowledge from him, so he couldn't help thinking that. 629 00:43:18,385 --> 00:43:20,535 So he (Seo Jeong Ju) must have thought he was worth giving him... 630 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,959 consent to marry his own sister-in-law. 631 00:43:23,059 --> 00:43:28,900 So his building a family was accidental, but at the end... 632 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,510 he only had eyes for his poetry. Everything else he was out of his sphere. 633 00:43:33,710 --> 00:43:36,802 He had this deep insight about life and our period, 634 00:43:33,937 --> 00:43:36,698 {\a6}Jang Seok Ju (poet, critic) 635 00:43:36,980 --> 00:43:47,922 enough to study the Chinese classics and write poetry at the same time. 636 00:43:48,042 --> 00:43:52,914 What he did was showing resentment for the level literature had fallen into... 637 00:43:53,004 --> 00:43:54,901 in his own unique ways, which manifested themselves after drinking. 638 00:43:55,064 --> 00:44:07,992 So you'd get his eccentric behavior and ill-advised bravery... 639 00:44:08,127 --> 00:44:14,392 as a sort of reaction to such an environment. 640 00:44:14,466 --> 00:44:18,987 We now go back to Kim Su Young and Park In Hwan's story. 641 00:44:25,448 --> 00:44:30,059 Theater group Cheongpodo (Green Grapes) 642 00:44:38,789 --> 00:44:40,489 We'll have to take another brief look at... 643 00:44:40,490 --> 00:44:44,289 Park In Hwan and Kim Su Young's relationship. 644 00:44:44,399 --> 00:44:48,302 The first time the two met was right after liberation. 645 00:44:48,391 --> 00:44:50,735 After following his mother to Manchuria, 646 00:44:50,862 --> 00:44:54,061 he made a name as a stage actor in Jilin*, after which he came back to Seoul. 647 00:44:50,862 --> 00:44:52,361 {\a6}*South Manchuria (home to many ethnic Koreans, 648 00:44:52,362 --> 00:44:54,061 {\a6}due to old historical ties between Manchuria and Korea) 649 00:44:54,259 --> 00:44:59,282 So, as he came to the Cheongpodo offices to meet his friend Park Sang Jin, 650 00:44:59,382 --> 00:45:02,782 he was introduced to Park In Hwan for the first time. 651 00:45:04,032 --> 00:45:07,402 Kim Hyung, introduce yourself. He's a poet friend of mine. 652 00:45:09,102 --> 00:45:11,453 I'm Park In Hwan. 653 00:45:12,573 --> 00:45:14,613 So you're a stage actor? 654 00:45:14,713 --> 00:45:16,913 Ahh... yes. I... 655 00:45:17,063 --> 00:45:20,543 Park Hyung. You know, about Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel? 656 00:45:20,663 --> 00:45:23,844 You know Jean Cocteau, right? You acted on the stage in Manchuria, 657 00:45:23,944 --> 00:45:25,723 so you probably know him well. 658 00:45:25,844 --> 00:45:29,084 He's not a stage actor. He writes poems just like you. 659 00:45:29,193 --> 00:45:30,424 Is that so? 660 00:45:30,534 --> 00:45:34,124 Ohh... so let's officially give it a shake again. 661 00:45:34,574 --> 00:45:36,724 My name is Kim Su Young. 662 00:45:37,954 --> 00:45:42,014 Whatever you did in Manchuria, Kim Hyung, let's work together. 663 00:45:42,154 --> 00:45:47,755 - Ahh... excuse me, your name? - Park In Hwan. 664 00:45:49,505 --> 00:45:55,045 Park. In. Hwan. Do you have hearing problems? 665 00:45:55,305 --> 00:45:59,145 I don't really know who Jean Cocteau is. 666 00:45:59,236 --> 00:46:02,276 I just wanted to see stage actors practice in Jilin, 667 00:46:02,396 --> 00:46:11,578 and they told me playing a priest... would suit me, so I ended up playing it. 668 00:46:11,749 --> 00:46:14,579 The play was entitled "Like Spring Water," 669 00:46:14,649 --> 00:46:19,179 and it was translated from the German original. 670 00:46:19,389 --> 00:46:25,379 It's about a city boy who, during summer vacation, goes back to the countryside, 671 00:46:25,489 --> 00:46:33,460 and falls in love with a local, and the priest there strongly opposes their union. 672 00:46:34,259 --> 00:46:35,800 Ahh... but, there's more. 673 00:46:36,010 --> 00:46:42,310 This boy was played by Im Hyeon Tae, someone who lived in Cheonan, 674 00:46:42,430 --> 00:46:47,781 while the girl was played by a local elementary school teacher. 675 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:51,992 They couldn't find someone who'd suit the priest role, 676 00:46:52,112 --> 00:46:54,022 so in the end they cast me. 677 00:46:54,132 --> 00:46:55,252 Really? 678 00:46:55,462 --> 00:46:59,692 I really couldn't act, but the play was a big success. 679 00:46:59,782 --> 00:47:02,873 We ran it at the Public Arts Hall in Jilin for two days, 680 00:47:02,973 --> 00:47:06,203 and the place was filled to the brim with people. 681 00:47:07,263 --> 00:47:09,083 Park... 682 00:47:09,613 --> 00:47:11,564 Park... 683 00:47:11,883 --> 00:47:14,074 Park In Hwan. 684 00:47:14,573 --> 00:47:19,734 I do know who this Jean Cocteau is, more or less. 685 00:47:19,944 --> 00:47:25,407 So you write poems and act as well, Park In Hwan? 686 00:47:25,537 --> 00:47:29,828 Be it acting or producing, I want to give it a shot. 687 00:47:30,128 --> 00:47:34,738 You really look like an actor, Park In Hwan. 688 00:47:35,288 --> 00:47:37,408 Ahh... many thanks, Kim Hyung. 689 00:47:37,518 --> 00:47:40,948 Down in Jongro, you'll find a bookstore called Marie. 690 00:47:41,048 --> 00:47:44,398 I run it, come by sometime. 691 00:47:44,669 --> 00:47:46,390 Kim Hyung. 692 00:47:46,841 --> 00:47:47,661 I'll get going. 693 00:47:47,860 --> 00:47:50,231 Here, see you again! 694 00:47:54,531 --> 00:47:58,333 You'll become friends right away. Meet him often. 695 00:47:58,473 --> 00:48:02,213 Ohh... his name was... 696 00:48:02,323 --> 00:48:04,893 Oh. Park In Hwan. 697 00:48:06,115 --> 00:48:10,526 Park In Hwan. 698 00:49:31,089 --> 00:49:36,032 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 699 00:49:36,267 --> 00:49:41,218 Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles 700 00:49:41,453 --> 00:49:45,482 Main Translator & Timer: MisterX 701 00:49:45,617 --> 00:49:49,653 Timing QC: Victory 702 00:49:49,808 --> 00:49:53,862 Editor/QC: thunderbolt 703 00:49:54,027 --> 00:49:58,078 Coordinators: mily2, ay_link 704 00:50:15,839 --> 00:50:21,199 Everyone! My friend Kim Su Young is here! 705 00:50:21,399 --> 00:50:24,929 He's been living like a mole trapped at home, 706 00:50:25,049 --> 00:50:29,199 and today he's finally back in Myeongdong! 707 00:50:29,309 --> 00:50:31,999 I was paid for my translation today. 708 00:50:32,109 --> 00:50:34,430 Will you come to the movies with me? 709 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,269 The film was nice, right? 710 00:50:37,389 --> 00:50:47,050 "If you could only love me," 711 00:50:47,260 --> 00:51:00,200 "What would it matter?" 712 00:51:00,461 --> 00:51:07,752 All this fear that fills your eyes. Who made you this way? 713 00:51:07,911 --> 00:51:13,891 All we do in life is wander in search of that lost love, 714 00:51:13,992 --> 00:51:16,131 us "strangers." 715 00:51:16,241 --> 00:51:19,972 His name is Lee Joong Seop, he's a painter. 716 00:51:20,631 --> 00:51:26,902 Where are you, Tae Hyeon... Tae Seong! 717 00:51:27,182 --> 00:51:30,553 This is a FREE fansub. NOT for SALE!!! 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