1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,986 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 2 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,927 {\a6}Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 3 00:00:06,073 --> 00:00:08,428 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:08,827 --> 00:00:10,959 {\a6}Episode 11 5 00:00:08,827 --> 00:00:10,959 They called it Samuhwe. 6 00:00:11,069 --> 00:00:13,285 It was a special society formed when the gangs of... 7 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,263 Dongdaemun, Seodaemun and Jong-ro joined forces. 8 00:00:16,373 --> 00:00:20,758 The so-called Aomas, Shin Jong Hyeon was the Jong-ro gang's boss. 9 00:00:20,858 --> 00:00:22,839 Choi Chang Su led the Seodaemun gang, 10 00:00:22,948 --> 00:00:26,354 while Dongdaemun's boss was the infamous "political gangster," 11 00:00:26,505 --> 00:00:28,425 Lee Jung Jae. 12 00:00:29,056 --> 00:00:32,856 Choi Chang Su (Seodaemun gang) 13 00:00:36,716 --> 00:00:40,726 Not only Lee Jung Jae, but even Yu Ji Gwang is not here. 14 00:00:41,406 --> 00:00:43,486 But he at least sent his boys. 15 00:00:40,287 --> 00:00:43,387 {\a6}Shin Jong Hyeon (Jong-ro gang) 16 00:00:43,496 --> 00:00:46,767 We could end up with shit down our necks here! 17 00:00:46,877 --> 00:00:49,106 The reason Lee Jung Jae didn't come himself... 18 00:00:49,217 --> 00:00:51,007 is because he was waiting for movements from Seodaemun. 19 00:00:51,117 --> 00:00:53,197 Seodaemun?! 20 00:00:53,688 --> 00:00:55,859 President Lee Gi Bong. 21 00:00:55,989 --> 00:00:59,679 So he feels a little queasy about striking Myeongdong, is that it?! 22 00:00:59,819 --> 00:01:03,101 Wait a little more. He'll send word soon enough. 23 00:01:03,331 --> 00:01:05,751 Looked like they were trying to strike a deal, 24 00:01:05,861 --> 00:01:07,172 so we'll find out soon. 25 00:01:07,262 --> 00:01:10,052 Let's just make our move, what damned deal?! 26 00:01:10,162 --> 00:01:13,315 That's what needs to happen, if Lee Jung Jae is to be forced in. 27 00:01:13,445 --> 00:01:15,785 Isn't Lee Jung Jae the one who wants to kill Lee Hwa Ryong? 28 00:01:15,885 --> 00:01:18,405 All you need is to get your cabaret back, 29 00:01:18,535 --> 00:01:22,205 and all I need is to teach Boss Shin a lesson, end of story. 30 00:01:22,455 --> 00:01:24,555 Let's just wait. 31 00:01:37,716 --> 00:01:39,866 This is the Golden Cabaret. 32 00:01:39,976 --> 00:01:43,426 This man named Jo, who ran several cabarets in Myeongdong, 33 00:01:43,596 --> 00:01:46,666 opened a new one here in Jong-ro. 34 00:01:46,766 --> 00:01:50,806 {\a6}Jung Bo Seok 35 00:01:46,766 --> 00:01:50,806 The big diatribe between gangs over the cabaret's rights... 36 00:01:50,977 --> 00:01:53,367 was called "The Golden Cabaret Affair." 37 00:01:53,488 --> 00:01:57,278 It felt like something straight out of a western. 38 00:01:57,469 --> 00:02:01,070 We will start today's episode with their story. 39 00:02:01,180 --> 00:02:05,090 Talking about the underworld in a show devoted to 50s romanticism... 40 00:02:05,180 --> 00:02:07,211 might feel a little out of place, 41 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:13,000 but even in the world of 50s gangsters existed a certain sense of romanticism. 42 00:02:16,401 --> 00:02:19,382 Hey! Hey! Get the boys! 43 00:02:19,582 --> 00:02:23,341 Prepare everything as I told you, get moving! Now! 44 00:02:28,822 --> 00:02:30,883 Hurry up! 45 00:02:32,874 --> 00:02:36,224 You, there. You... you. 46 00:02:42,035 --> 00:02:44,535 Aomas Hyung. Let's just do it. 47 00:02:44,635 --> 00:02:47,786 Lee Jung Jae won't come. 48 00:02:48,066 --> 00:02:51,426 - Hey! - Yes. 49 00:02:54,416 --> 00:02:56,116 How many came from Dongdaemun? 50 00:02:56,226 --> 00:02:58,236 About fifty or sixty men. 51 00:02:58,346 --> 00:03:02,427 We have a hundred on my side alone. Let's just go! 52 00:03:02,637 --> 00:03:06,037 Let them drink a little more. We'll sweep away Myeongdong before sunset! 53 00:03:06,207 --> 00:03:07,888 Yes. 54 00:03:10,308 --> 00:03:11,618 Aomas Hyung. 55 00:03:11,709 --> 00:03:14,809 Let's begin with the Central Theater, and then head for Myeongdong. 56 00:03:14,928 --> 00:03:17,919 Boss Shin is not the problem, Lee Hwa Ryong is! 57 00:03:18,059 --> 00:03:20,179 He's been scheming behind the scenes all this time. 58 00:03:20,289 --> 00:03:23,271 He wants to gain control of our territory! 59 00:03:40,925 --> 00:03:43,515 What? Uh?! 60 00:03:43,735 --> 00:03:46,465 The meeting is not over yet?! 61 00:03:46,565 --> 00:03:48,555 Did you give him the memo? 62 00:03:48,665 --> 00:03:50,076 Yeah... 63 00:03:50,166 --> 00:03:51,246 Look, look. 64 00:03:51,376 --> 00:03:53,556 I told you it was urgent! 65 00:03:53,666 --> 00:03:57,527 I must talk with him right now. Yeah. 66 00:03:57,717 --> 00:04:00,617 All right... I'll wait. 67 00:04:02,047 --> 00:04:05,677 Is that damned meeting going to last the entire day? 68 00:04:06,387 --> 00:04:10,359 Let's just forget about that. Why don't you call Lee Jung Jae yourself? 69 00:04:10,549 --> 00:04:11,959 Lee Jung Jae?! 70 00:04:12,069 --> 00:04:13,789 And would he ever listen to me? 71 00:04:13,889 --> 00:04:15,359 You'll make us meet, and... 72 00:04:15,469 --> 00:04:17,650 Lee Jung Jae is not the issue. 73 00:04:17,780 --> 00:04:20,971 What if the Jong-ro boys make a move? 74 00:04:24,051 --> 00:04:28,983 Without Lee Gi Bong's consent, Lee Jung Jae is not going to touch you. 75 00:04:29,073 --> 00:04:33,403 You know how much he cares about you. 76 00:04:34,143 --> 00:04:37,293 Who is it?! I told you not to bother me. 77 00:04:37,573 --> 00:04:39,304 It's White Bear. 78 00:04:39,574 --> 00:04:41,595 Meet him. 79 00:04:41,815 --> 00:04:44,687 Without your arbitration, people will get hurt. 80 00:04:44,807 --> 00:04:46,626 And what's more, what will happen to Myeongdong... 81 00:04:46,736 --> 00:04:48,617 if a fight breaks out over there? 82 00:04:48,727 --> 00:04:51,517 People will start thinking Myeongdong is a cesspool full of gangsters! 83 00:04:51,627 --> 00:04:54,277 If that happens, the one and only cultural street in Seoul will... 84 00:04:54,358 --> 00:04:56,807 I know, I know that. Uh? 85 00:04:57,078 --> 00:04:59,107 Both President Lee and I know that very well. 86 00:04:59,218 --> 00:05:01,908 Isn't that the reason he likes you so much? 87 00:05:02,028 --> 00:05:06,238 He said you were the one who turned Myeongdong into the street of culture. 88 00:05:08,138 --> 00:05:09,259 What's with you? 89 00:05:09,369 --> 00:05:12,269 It's urgent, Aunim. 90 00:05:12,379 --> 00:05:14,570 Just speak. 91 00:05:15,869 --> 00:05:21,410 All the boys from Samuhwe got together for a drink, it seems. 92 00:05:21,830 --> 00:05:22,700 How many of them? 93 00:05:22,811 --> 00:05:26,831 At least a few hundred. 94 00:05:27,132 --> 00:05:30,702 If this were the military, that'd be enough for a regiment. 95 00:05:30,823 --> 00:05:33,063 Isn't that right, Lee Sajang? 96 00:05:33,602 --> 00:05:38,214 It takes at least ten privates to make a gangster. 97 00:05:39,384 --> 00:05:40,604 I'm just joking. 98 00:05:40,704 --> 00:05:42,594 It's a joke. 99 00:05:43,334 --> 00:05:45,964 Looks like they will come before sunset. 100 00:05:46,084 --> 00:05:48,264 Where is Shin Sang Hyun? 101 00:05:48,524 --> 00:05:50,754 He'll probably be gathering his boys near the Central Theater. 102 00:05:50,864 --> 00:05:53,805 Go tell him I'll be there soon. 103 00:05:54,105 --> 00:05:56,035 Yes. 104 00:05:59,225 --> 00:06:00,506 What are you waiting for? 105 00:06:00,695 --> 00:06:04,796 We must get prepared as well... 106 00:06:04,985 --> 00:06:09,216 Are you trying to have a fight in Myeongdong?! 107 00:06:09,867 --> 00:06:11,807 Just go. 108 00:06:15,798 --> 00:06:17,967 Why wouldn't we do that, Aunim?! 109 00:06:18,068 --> 00:06:23,098 Just a word, and all our boys will be prepared to die for this! 110 00:06:23,267 --> 00:06:25,328 Indeed, indeed they must! 111 00:06:25,418 --> 00:06:29,369 Uh? Take loyalty out of a gangster, and they're just corpses. 112 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:44,870 Yeah... Yeah. 113 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,101 Ahh... Who?! 114 00:06:46,212 --> 00:06:47,521 Madam Yang? 115 00:06:47,621 --> 00:06:51,093 Ahh... forget what? I'm just busy. 116 00:06:51,203 --> 00:06:53,313 Wha...What ticket?! 117 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:54,843 Im Chun Aeng?! 118 00:06:54,973 --> 00:06:56,134 Aigoo, don't get me started. 119 00:06:56,244 --> 00:06:59,744 Forget about invites, you couldn't get in even if you paid. 120 00:06:59,814 --> 00:07:03,185 All right. Yeah... Sure, we must meet. 121 00:07:03,295 --> 00:07:05,905 Uhh... Right. When? 122 00:07:06,006 --> 00:07:07,225 All right. 123 00:07:07,335 --> 00:07:09,225 Let's do that. 124 00:07:10,076 --> 00:07:12,387 All right. 125 00:07:30,928 --> 00:07:33,948 Looks like it won't work. 126 00:07:34,059 --> 00:07:37,369 Director Baek said he was going to arbitrate, 127 00:07:37,479 --> 00:07:40,990 but he's just pretending. Deep down... 128 00:07:46,860 --> 00:07:48,320 Lee Sajang. 129 00:07:48,420 --> 00:07:50,142 Don't act like this. 130 00:07:50,262 --> 00:07:53,822 Just leave them the Golden Cabaret. Uh? 131 00:07:54,012 --> 00:07:57,533 Ahh... How much are you going to make out of that anyway? 132 00:07:57,833 --> 00:08:00,254 Shin Sang Hyun is taking care of the Golden Cabaret. 133 00:08:00,354 --> 00:08:03,574 Whatever that means. 134 00:08:05,424 --> 00:08:08,096 People don't trust that. 135 00:08:08,227 --> 00:08:12,667 They think you're behind Shin Sang Hyun. 136 00:08:17,999 --> 00:08:20,978 What are you going to do, Boss Shin? 137 00:08:23,338 --> 00:08:26,609 Will you let them take the Golden Cabaret? 138 00:08:27,509 --> 00:08:30,229 We must protect it. 139 00:08:30,688 --> 00:08:34,790 Ohhh... Lee Sajang said he was coming! 140 00:08:48,771 --> 00:08:52,172 It's Im Chun Aeng! 141 00:09:04,146 --> 00:09:07,406 They just won't listen. 142 00:09:07,566 --> 00:09:12,446 Neither Lee Hwa Ryong nor Lee Jung Jae. 143 00:09:12,807 --> 00:09:16,868 Right. What did the president say? 144 00:09:17,097 --> 00:09:19,997 To just let them be? 145 00:09:20,107 --> 00:09:23,307 Ahh... This is going to turn into a big fight. 146 00:09:23,418 --> 00:09:25,929 Aigoo... Ehh. Aigoo! 147 00:09:51,433 --> 00:09:53,173 Aunim. 148 00:09:53,273 --> 00:09:57,984 If you don't make a move, Boss Shin will get killed! 149 00:09:59,034 --> 00:10:04,074 The fight is over in Jong-ro, why not send our boys as well?! 150 00:10:04,204 --> 00:10:06,474 Before the flames reach Myeongdong, 151 00:10:06,505 --> 00:10:10,865 let's put out the fire right at the Golden Cabaret! 152 00:10:12,364 --> 00:10:15,655 You must never do it in Myeongdong, though. 153 00:10:16,375 --> 00:10:18,545 Fine! 154 00:10:19,175 --> 00:10:23,625 Just in case, tell everyone in Myeongdong to close up shop for the day. 155 00:10:23,735 --> 00:10:28,626 Tell all the artists out there to go home, so they won't get hurt. 156 00:10:28,716 --> 00:10:31,287 All right! 157 00:10:31,467 --> 00:10:34,167 Don't worry about that, Aunim! 158 00:10:57,059 --> 00:10:59,900 What are you doing? 159 00:11:00,010 --> 00:11:01,739 The Samuhwe boys left Jahamun (Jong-ro). 160 00:11:01,939 --> 00:11:04,220 Uh? How many of them? 161 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:06,939 If it's numbers, we certainly lose out. 162 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:10,352 Get moving! 163 00:11:10,553 --> 00:11:13,352 What are you doing with those? 164 00:11:13,442 --> 00:11:15,922 I have a plan. 165 00:11:18,032 --> 00:11:19,383 What should our boys do? 166 00:11:19,492 --> 00:11:23,312 You just take good care of Myeongdong. We'll deal with them ourselves. 167 00:11:23,412 --> 00:11:26,293 But Lee Sajang sent me. 168 00:11:26,453 --> 00:11:29,333 I said don't worry about here. 169 00:11:30,763 --> 00:11:32,993 Hey... Hey! 170 00:11:34,954 --> 00:11:37,774 You boys remain here, and give Boss Shin a hand. 171 00:11:37,894 --> 00:11:40,175 - Yes. - Yes! 172 00:11:48,907 --> 00:11:50,388 Ahh... and what did I tell you? 173 00:11:50,497 --> 00:11:52,688 Didn't I say they'd go at each other?! 174 00:11:52,798 --> 00:11:55,168 Would gangsters even go after us? 175 00:11:55,278 --> 00:11:57,159 It's a fight for hegemony. 176 00:11:57,269 --> 00:12:00,869 Lee Jung Jae and Lee Hwa Ryong are clashing! 177 00:12:01,009 --> 00:12:02,759 Stop prattling that nonsense. 178 00:12:02,889 --> 00:12:05,999 - Lee Sajang is not the fighting type. - That's right! 179 00:12:06,089 --> 00:12:07,670 He's not a gangster. 180 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,430 Ahh... well, what is the big deal? You deal with fists, you're a gangster. 181 00:12:10,540 --> 00:12:12,411 Listen, Mr. Hong. 182 00:12:12,521 --> 00:12:15,720 Have you ever seen Lee Sajang use violence? 183 00:12:15,901 --> 00:12:17,951 Lee Sajang is not a gangster. 184 00:12:18,075 --> 00:12:21,693 Did he ever order his boys to bother us?! 185 00:12:21,703 --> 00:12:26,313 My wife works at the Dongdaemun market, and Lee Jung Jae's boys... 186 00:12:26,403 --> 00:12:31,794 keep bothering her to give them money. Those are gangsters. 187 00:12:32,114 --> 00:12:32,874 Right! 188 00:12:33,004 --> 00:12:35,564 Lee Sajangnim is just a businessman, he's no gangster! 189 00:12:35,654 --> 00:12:37,434 Ehh... You really are clueless. 190 00:12:37,574 --> 00:12:39,204 Unless he extorts money from other people, 191 00:12:39,334 --> 00:12:40,965 how would Lee Hwa Ryong possibly make any money?! 192 00:12:41,075 --> 00:12:43,587 Lee Sajangnim's sister runs this huge restaurant. 193 00:12:43,696 --> 00:12:44,906 Ahh... right, that's right! 194 00:12:45,026 --> 00:12:47,267 That Cheongungak is probably his sister's?! 195 00:12:47,386 --> 00:12:48,417 Mr. Hong. 196 00:12:48,547 --> 00:12:50,817 Be... Be careful with that tongue of yours. 197 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:55,478 Know how much we owe to Lee Sajang? How could you call him a gangster?! 198 00:12:55,588 --> 00:12:59,338 Ahh... well, he sure found Yoon's wife when she got the dance bug. 199 00:12:59,409 --> 00:13:02,618 Ahh... you little prick, always stab that old wound, will you?! 200 00:13:02,718 --> 00:13:04,789 Why, is it a lie or something?! 201 00:13:04,918 --> 00:13:08,179 Stop! Stop there! 202 00:13:08,268 --> 00:13:09,429 I'll deal with you once and for all, you prick! 203 00:13:09,540 --> 00:13:12,609 - Ahh... calm down! - What are you people doing? 204 00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:16,221 Close up shop and go home earlier. 205 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,710 Ajumma! Go back now! 206 00:13:22,011 --> 00:13:24,291 Did I get to my office too early? 207 00:13:24,462 --> 00:13:26,631 Seonsaengnim, we're not open today. 208 00:13:26,751 --> 00:13:29,052 How can a tavern close its doors? 209 00:13:29,182 --> 00:13:31,752 And how is a tippler like me going to survive? 210 00:13:31,882 --> 00:13:36,063 Looks like tonight gangsters will have a huge fight here in Myeongdong. 211 00:13:36,112 --> 00:13:38,183 Those motherless dolts. 212 00:13:38,293 --> 00:13:40,772 If they want to fight, they could do it near the riverbank. 213 00:13:40,893 --> 00:13:44,594 How dare they come all the way to Myeongdong to have their fight? 214 00:13:44,774 --> 00:13:48,235 Why don't you leave early as well, Seonsaengnim? 215 00:13:48,455 --> 00:13:50,205 What if something happens to you? 216 00:13:50,315 --> 00:13:52,805 Forget about that, and give me something to drink. 217 00:13:53,046 --> 00:13:55,846 I said we're closed! 218 00:13:57,296 --> 00:13:58,867 All the better. 219 00:13:58,986 --> 00:14:04,417 Keep the doors closed, and let's enjoy the evening here together. 220 00:14:04,507 --> 00:14:06,477 Isn't that nice, darling? 221 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,787 Seonsaengnim... 222 00:14:19,230 --> 00:14:21,850 Closed for Emergency 223 00:14:33,281 --> 00:14:34,710 What is happening today? 224 00:14:34,811 --> 00:14:36,192 Welcome, Lee Seonsaengnim. 225 00:14:36,282 --> 00:14:39,062 On my way here, I saw everyone rushing to close up shop. 226 00:14:39,152 --> 00:14:40,654 - What's wrong? - It looks like tonight... 227 00:14:40,764 --> 00:14:43,993 Lee Hwa Ryong and Lee Jung Jae will have a big fight here. 228 00:14:40,894 --> 00:14:43,894 {\a6}Kim Dong Geun (businessman) 229 00:14:44,333 --> 00:14:49,266 So, are they going to fight right here in Myeongdong? 230 00:14:49,366 --> 00:14:54,328 Yes. Looks like you'll have to go home as well, Lee Seongsaengnim. 231 00:14:54,678 --> 00:14:56,740 How could I?! 232 00:14:56,850 --> 00:15:01,280 The best spectacles in life are big fires and fights. 233 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,320 Still, should you get hurt... 234 00:15:04,661 --> 00:15:08,452 And who would ever bother scribes like me? 235 00:16:46,462 --> 00:16:48,753 What's with that crazy little prick? 236 00:16:48,942 --> 00:16:51,213 Let's crush him! 237 00:16:52,773 --> 00:16:54,613 Get him! 238 00:17:08,185 --> 00:17:10,295 You bastards... 239 00:17:14,156 --> 00:17:17,126 Pisses you off, doesn't it? Pricks. 240 00:17:23,596 --> 00:17:25,747 Get that fool! 241 00:17:42,709 --> 00:17:44,999 Don't run away! 242 00:18:08,042 --> 00:18:11,652 Don't let them scare you off! There's just a few of them! 243 00:19:20,667 --> 00:19:22,577 Open the door. 244 00:19:22,697 --> 00:19:25,437 I know you're inside! 245 00:19:25,727 --> 00:19:27,479 Must be Lee Bong Gu. 246 00:19:27,589 --> 00:19:28,898 Should I open? 247 00:19:29,008 --> 00:19:32,770 If the rumors spread, the whole neighborhood will be here! 248 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,781 Kim-gun. Be quiet! 249 00:19:39,181 --> 00:19:41,422 Why, did we commit any sin?! 250 00:19:41,532 --> 00:19:45,234 Ehh... I've had it with this, I can't even get drunk. 251 00:19:46,034 --> 00:19:49,375 Come on in! We're all here. 252 00:19:49,495 --> 00:19:51,995 Kim Gwan Shik, it's you?! 253 00:19:52,115 --> 00:19:53,885 Gongcho Seonsaengnim is here too, 254 00:19:53,985 --> 00:19:55,926 along with Lee Hae Rang... 255 00:19:56,016 --> 00:19:59,165 Aigoo! Even Park In Hwan Seonbaenim* is here! 256 00:19:56,016 --> 00:19:59,165 {\a6}*Older colleague 257 00:19:59,486 --> 00:20:00,915 Will you keep quiet? 258 00:20:01,025 --> 00:20:02,697 Just go open the door, darling. 259 00:20:02,797 --> 00:20:05,698 The waters have broken already. 260 00:20:18,402 --> 00:20:23,692 Wow... you completely fooled them! Uh?! 261 00:20:24,472 --> 00:20:26,973 Boss Shin, that was something. Uh? 262 00:20:27,093 --> 00:20:30,273 I just used a few strategies I learned in the army. 263 00:20:31,073 --> 00:20:34,613 Aomas, that fool put all his trust in Lee Jung Jae and came, 264 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:38,504 but it'll be the last time he prances his ugly mug around here. 265 00:20:40,005 --> 00:20:41,974 - Let's get going. - Yes. 266 00:20:42,064 --> 00:20:44,145 - Hey! Let's leave! - Yes. 267 00:20:44,334 --> 00:20:46,725 You're leaving?! 268 00:20:46,945 --> 00:20:50,095 He just came with a few dozen men because he looked down on us, 269 00:20:50,215 --> 00:20:53,427 but it'll be hundreds next time. 270 00:20:54,777 --> 00:20:56,417 Tell Lee Sajangnim. 271 00:20:56,538 --> 00:20:59,469 For the time being, we'd all better lie low. 272 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,040 - Let's go. - Yes. 273 00:21:08,590 --> 00:21:12,541 Keep it down, will you? What if gangsters come here? 274 00:21:12,601 --> 00:21:14,682 It's so noisy in here! 275 00:21:14,792 --> 00:21:16,332 Tell them to come if they want! 276 00:21:16,452 --> 00:21:19,202 I'll serve them with a nice headbutt! 277 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:23,934 Nice! Let's all trust Kim Gwan Shik, and drink the night away! 278 00:21:24,194 --> 00:21:27,375 - Cheers! - Let's drink! 279 00:21:47,429 --> 00:21:51,040 Ahh... and what is this?! I told them to close! 280 00:21:54,201 --> 00:21:58,431 Ajumma! Didn't you hear when I told you to close? 281 00:21:58,590 --> 00:21:59,721 I did. 282 00:21:59,810 --> 00:22:02,221 So why are you still open? 283 00:22:03,901 --> 00:22:06,382 Ahh... why aren't you talking to me?! 284 00:22:06,552 --> 00:22:08,843 Do I just close up shop because of a few hoodlums?! 285 00:22:08,942 --> 00:22:11,373 Ahh... this damned wench! 286 00:22:11,553 --> 00:22:14,764 You're much scarier than that Lee Jung Jae anyway. 287 00:22:14,864 --> 00:22:17,383 Wha...What?! 288 00:22:17,644 --> 00:22:20,984 Anyhow! If they get in, don't blame me! 289 00:22:21,184 --> 00:22:23,215 Let's go! 290 00:22:26,955 --> 00:22:31,537 Afraid of the wolf in front and the tiger behind*?! 291 00:22:27,438 --> 00:22:31,438 {\a6}*Old Chinese saying about hesitation 292 00:22:33,366 --> 00:22:36,387 Aigoo... got to be quite tasty tonight. 293 00:22:36,597 --> 00:22:38,327 What did I tell you? 294 00:22:38,458 --> 00:22:40,918 I told you to leave them that Golden Cabaret. 295 00:22:41,029 --> 00:22:44,630 Stop with the nonsense and pour me another round. 296 00:22:44,752 --> 00:22:47,131 Do I even have to serve you drinks now?! 297 00:22:47,252 --> 00:22:50,052 What is it that you want? 298 00:22:50,322 --> 00:22:51,572 Fine. 299 00:22:51,882 --> 00:22:54,812 If I serve you a drink, will you fulfill my wishes? 300 00:22:54,921 --> 00:22:56,832 Let's do that. 301 00:22:57,112 --> 00:22:58,164 Hwa Ryong. 302 00:22:58,263 --> 00:23:00,234 Ahh... first the drink. 303 00:23:00,424 --> 00:23:03,154 Aigoo... listen to him. 304 00:23:05,196 --> 00:23:09,136 - Here, have one yourself. - No way, I don't drink. 305 00:23:09,246 --> 00:23:11,125 Come on. 306 00:23:11,366 --> 00:23:13,756 Just one cup. 307 00:23:21,337 --> 00:23:23,077 Aww... so bitter! 308 00:23:23,197 --> 00:23:26,257 Why are you drinking something so bitter? 309 00:23:26,927 --> 00:23:28,797 Nui... (archaic version of Nuna) 310 00:23:28,857 --> 00:23:30,507 What? 311 00:23:30,727 --> 00:23:34,778 Nui... You know? 312 00:23:34,878 --> 00:23:38,628 I wanted to become an artist. 313 00:23:38,809 --> 00:23:40,939 Things turned out this way, 314 00:23:41,169 --> 00:23:44,446 and now I have to live hearing people call me gangster, 315 00:23:44,669 --> 00:23:48,199 but my dream was that of becoming a film director. 316 00:23:49,551 --> 00:23:54,621 Of course I know that. You weren't the violent type. 317 00:23:54,802 --> 00:23:58,642 That's why I always gave you money, and told you to live like a decent person. 318 00:23:58,752 --> 00:24:01,852 Nui... Nui... 319 00:24:01,962 --> 00:24:05,694 - Nui! - Come on, that's enough. You're drunk. 320 00:24:05,894 --> 00:24:08,985 Nui... you know? I really... 321 00:24:09,125 --> 00:24:11,886 wanted to become an artist. 322 00:24:12,066 --> 00:24:16,676 But I didn't have the talent and ended up this way. 323 00:24:17,036 --> 00:24:21,836 That's why I like Myeongdong so much. Think of how great Myeongdong is! 324 00:24:22,056 --> 00:24:26,876 Scribes, painters... actors, directors! 325 00:24:27,016 --> 00:24:30,837 All these people treating Myeongdong as their second home, 326 00:24:30,957 --> 00:24:33,478 I love it, let me tell you! 327 00:24:33,838 --> 00:24:35,459 Nui... 328 00:24:35,569 --> 00:24:38,329 I love Myeongdong. 329 00:24:38,549 --> 00:24:41,179 I love it. 330 00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:48,512 I will make Myeongdong into our culture street! Nui... 331 00:24:49,151 --> 00:24:51,781 Myeongdong... 332 00:24:52,002 --> 00:24:54,463 Myeongdong... 333 00:24:58,983 --> 00:25:03,673 What's so great about Myeongdong? Money is all you need to love. 334 00:25:09,295 --> 00:25:14,274 The fight between the Samuhwe boys and the united Myeongdong gang... 335 00:25:14,309 --> 00:25:18,050 spread all the way here to Myeongdong. 336 00:25:18,285 --> 00:25:22,100 The Seodaemun and Jong-ro gang aided by the Dongdaemun boys, 337 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,532 this Samuhwe might have "invaded" Myeongdong, 338 00:25:25,652 --> 00:25:32,753 but both gangsters and merchants had already covered their tracks. 339 00:25:33,002 --> 00:25:36,233 Lee Hwa Ryong just avoided the fight. 340 00:25:36,572 --> 00:25:41,253 The gangsters back then were much different than today's ones. 341 00:25:41,423 --> 00:25:44,693 With the advent of the 1960s, this world once dominated by fists... 342 00:25:44,814 --> 00:25:47,345 passed the torch to sashimi knives and the like, 343 00:25:47,496 --> 00:25:50,367 turning those gangs into full-fledged organized crime societies. 344 00:25:50,507 --> 00:25:55,390 Still, the 50s gangsters weren't certainly "knights of the town," 345 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,969 as many films portrayed them. 346 00:25:59,169 --> 00:26:02,110 Gangsters were just gangsters. 347 00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:05,830 But the gangsters of Myeongdong were different. 348 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:12,652 These hoodlums, on the contrary, were something the merchants here needed. 349 00:26:13,262 --> 00:26:18,172 Openly political activists like Lee Jung Jae and their gangs, 350 00:26:18,307 --> 00:26:22,933 that is something the merchants here didn't want to see. 351 00:26:23,593 --> 00:26:28,203 For instance, the man who had close ties to so-called political gangsters, 352 00:26:28,324 --> 00:26:34,433 Lee Gi Bong preferred the gentleman-like Lee Hwa Ryong... 353 00:26:34,563 --> 00:26:39,957 instead of all the criticism surrounding someone like Lee Jung Jae. 354 00:26:41,537 --> 00:26:45,067 Was my praise for Lee Hwa Ryong too excessive? 355 00:26:45,167 --> 00:26:49,428 Because, after all, Lee Hwa Ryong was a gangster himself. 356 00:26:50,428 --> 00:26:53,738 We'll now move on with our story. 357 00:27:07,768 --> 00:27:09,649 Hyun Gyeong. 358 00:27:10,229 --> 00:27:12,889 Oh my... Park Seonsaengnim! 359 00:27:13,098 --> 00:27:15,808 You've become as good as a farmer now. 360 00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:17,969 We live like this. 361 00:27:18,219 --> 00:27:20,389 It's nice to see that. 362 00:27:20,599 --> 00:27:21,819 You didn't have lunch yet, right? 363 00:27:21,939 --> 00:27:24,749 I'll make you some fresh ssam (boiled rice wrapped in lettuce). 364 00:27:24,939 --> 00:27:26,879 Su Young... 365 00:27:27,289 --> 00:27:30,740 Go ahead, he should be in the backyard. 366 00:27:48,794 --> 00:27:51,303 Su Young! 367 00:27:59,764 --> 00:28:02,094 It's me, Su Young. 368 00:28:08,796 --> 00:28:13,616 I still remember your face, choosing books at the Marie. 369 00:28:13,896 --> 00:28:19,186 But... now you're choosing eggs in the hencote? 370 00:28:27,178 --> 00:28:30,237 Can't all be as stylish as you. 371 00:28:31,318 --> 00:28:34,559 How can you get muddy all day?! Uh? 372 00:28:34,689 --> 00:28:38,812 What did Mommy tell you? Told you not to play with mud, didn't I? 373 00:28:39,073 --> 00:28:44,014 What is all this? Uh? You just changed, and look at this mess. 374 00:28:44,144 --> 00:28:47,555 How many clothes do you have to change every day? 375 00:28:47,665 --> 00:28:49,476 Nose... 376 00:28:49,846 --> 00:28:54,007 Hyun Gyeong feels like an ajumma from the countryside already. 377 00:28:56,468 --> 00:28:57,848 Su Young. 378 00:28:57,968 --> 00:28:59,677 Come back to Myeongdong, will you? 379 00:28:59,807 --> 00:29:02,987 Everyone misses you. 380 00:29:03,358 --> 00:29:05,948 I talked with Oh Sang Soon Seonsaengnim, 381 00:29:06,068 --> 00:29:09,878 and we decided to publish some kind of collection together. 382 00:29:10,038 --> 00:29:14,748 Isn't it time we write something ourselves? 383 00:29:16,018 --> 00:29:18,209 Write it yourself. 384 00:29:19,819 --> 00:29:23,219 I'll just keep writing essays. 385 00:29:24,519 --> 00:29:26,920 "The Age of Bronze," how does it sound? 386 00:29:27,189 --> 00:29:30,500 Oh Seonsaeng's hideout is at the Bronze Coffee Shop, 387 00:29:30,610 --> 00:29:32,560 so calling our collection The Age of Bronze... 388 00:29:32,681 --> 00:29:35,170 I said you write that. 389 00:29:37,491 --> 00:29:40,170 You'll stop writing poems? 390 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,853 I'm no poet, I'm just a translator. 391 00:29:51,065 --> 00:29:52,406 You know? 392 00:29:52,515 --> 00:29:55,356 Going to the States gave me a lot to think about. 393 00:29:55,657 --> 00:30:00,199 It made me shed tears, out of rage. 394 00:30:01,299 --> 00:30:04,200 Those people live so well, but what about us? 395 00:30:04,529 --> 00:30:06,639 The war destroyed and broke everything around us, 396 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,100 people died and had to separate. 397 00:30:09,609 --> 00:30:12,421 It enrages me! 398 00:30:12,781 --> 00:30:16,620 So, isn't it time we live a decent life ourselves? 399 00:30:16,741 --> 00:30:21,603 If we are to achieve that, we scribes must raise our voices. 400 00:30:24,013 --> 00:30:25,634 I... 401 00:30:25,944 --> 00:30:27,184 Go ahead. 402 00:30:27,304 --> 00:30:29,674 What is it, Su Young? 403 00:30:30,254 --> 00:30:33,764 I have a hard time feeding us three already. 404 00:30:35,654 --> 00:30:38,814 You can go. I have to work. 405 00:30:41,394 --> 00:30:44,204 Think about it. 406 00:30:44,485 --> 00:30:46,464 Are you leaving already? 407 00:30:46,615 --> 00:30:49,484 - I'll come by often. - There's no need. 408 00:30:49,945 --> 00:30:51,754 Park Seonsaengnim, forgive him. He's just... 409 00:30:51,885 --> 00:30:54,765 Who told you to barge in like that? 410 00:30:58,895 --> 00:31:00,665 I apologize. 411 00:31:00,785 --> 00:31:03,517 He's doing that because of me, I guess. 412 00:31:03,657 --> 00:31:06,777 And what did you ever do wrong? 413 00:31:06,977 --> 00:31:11,967 I made a hole this big in his heart. 414 00:31:15,949 --> 00:31:18,069 How are you? 415 00:31:18,370 --> 00:31:20,660 It's Su Myeong! 416 00:31:21,739 --> 00:31:25,280 - Just a second, Eonni. - Yes. 417 00:31:28,710 --> 00:31:30,840 Take this for starters. 418 00:31:30,980 --> 00:31:35,290 This is the fee from Taeyang, this is for the Seoul Shinmun translation... 419 00:31:35,380 --> 00:31:37,991 Anyhow... all the last month's fees have been paid. 420 00:31:38,038 --> 00:31:40,281 Tell Oppa I came. 421 00:31:40,432 --> 00:31:42,422 Thank you. 422 00:31:42,652 --> 00:31:44,933 I'll have to get going now. 423 00:31:45,024 --> 00:31:46,233 Is he doing okay? 424 00:31:46,463 --> 00:31:48,653 Yes. 425 00:31:55,605 --> 00:31:58,115 He might have always been a little obstinate, 426 00:31:58,224 --> 00:32:01,845 but it looks like his wounds still haven't healed yet. 427 00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:05,938 Try to understand him, Park Seonsaengnim. 428 00:32:06,198 --> 00:32:09,629 He's doing perfectly fine. 429 00:32:10,989 --> 00:32:13,809 That miser. 430 00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:18,622 {\a6}Kim Shi Cheol (poet) 431 00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:18,622 He went, "I offered drinks to that fool for years, 432 00:32:18,742 --> 00:32:20,192 but one day I go visit him at his house to see if, 433 00:32:20,251 --> 00:32:21,512 for once, I could get some nice chicken in return. 434 00:32:21,612 --> 00:32:23,353 But he has the guts to refuse. 435 00:32:23,453 --> 00:32:25,083 How can one be such a miser?!" 436 00:32:25,183 --> 00:32:27,193 So I'd tell him this. 437 00:32:27,203 --> 00:32:34,995 "Look, that's how he makes a living. It would be like asking me for a poem." 438 00:32:35,242 --> 00:32:39,755 That's what I always told people when they badmouthed Kim Su Young. 439 00:32:39,884 --> 00:32:42,905 And then Kim Ju Young said he just crossed the line asking him that, 440 00:32:43,035 --> 00:32:47,336 that he had to make a living, so it couldn't be helped. 441 00:32:47,456 --> 00:32:51,187 But he really did put that much effort to feed his family. 442 00:32:51,287 --> 00:32:54,177 It's just that, in our literary circles, 443 00:32:54,346 --> 00:32:56,527 he was famous for never offering people drinks. 444 00:32:56,637 --> 00:33:00,006 He would certainly accept one, but paying for you... No way. 445 00:33:00,156 --> 00:33:04,598 {\a6}Jang Seok Ju (poet/critic) 446 00:33:00,156 --> 00:33:04,598 It's not that Kim Su Young was stingy with people. 447 00:33:04,628 --> 00:33:10,358 He thought of literature as his own form of labor, 448 00:33:10,478 --> 00:33:16,949 and wasting the fruit of such labor over drinks is something... 449 00:33:17,059 --> 00:33:21,829 that went against some kind of ethical principle of his, I think. 450 00:33:21,969 --> 00:33:26,010 For someone with such a staunch literary consciousness, 451 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,230 he just thought something like that would belittle his work. 452 00:33:31,110 --> 00:33:33,509 Do you think that's the reason he's not coming to Myeongdong? 453 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:36,480 He just doesn't want to pay for drinks, what else could it be? 454 00:33:36,590 --> 00:33:39,082 He makes money raising chickens, then he's got his translations and essays. 455 00:33:39,192 --> 00:33:42,462 Kim Su Myeong brought back an armful of envelopes full of money! 456 00:33:42,653 --> 00:33:44,232 That wretched fool... 457 00:33:44,353 --> 00:33:46,472 Why act like that when you feel otherwise? 458 00:33:46,583 --> 00:33:49,234 It's you who can't live without Kim Su Young, of all people. 459 00:33:49,344 --> 00:33:50,374 Who needs him?! 460 00:33:50,505 --> 00:33:52,947 I explained myself enough, so he could give it a rest already. 461 00:33:53,207 --> 00:33:55,857 Ahhh... what did I ever do wrong to Kim Su Young?! 462 00:33:55,957 --> 00:33:59,089 Here... have some. 463 00:34:12,281 --> 00:34:14,621 You wretched fool... 464 00:34:14,741 --> 00:34:18,471 I drink even more because of you! 465 00:34:20,032 --> 00:34:22,203 You can't even handle all those drinks, 466 00:34:22,313 --> 00:34:25,413 so why do you keep it up? 467 00:34:27,054 --> 00:34:29,924 You heartless man... 468 00:34:30,054 --> 00:34:34,086 How can you ignore people's feelings so much? 469 00:34:34,196 --> 00:34:36,976 Wretched fool... 470 00:34:43,538 --> 00:34:47,409 Park In Hwan was never someone known for handling his liquor well. 471 00:34:47,549 --> 00:34:49,749 He would get drunk right away, on the contrary. 472 00:34:49,889 --> 00:34:53,791 But, exactly because he didn't want people to make him face that reality, 473 00:34:53,910 --> 00:34:55,821 he forced himself to drink even more. 474 00:34:56,061 --> 00:34:58,991 If he ever got drunk, he would furtively head out and puke, 475 00:34:59,091 --> 00:35:02,491 after which he'd come back in and continue drinking. 476 00:35:02,632 --> 00:35:05,992 Drinking like that is what seemed to have caused... 477 00:35:06,153 --> 00:35:09,762 Park In Hwan's own death. 478 00:35:17,745 --> 00:35:21,267 You were too harsh with him today. 479 00:35:22,566 --> 00:35:26,708 Park In Hwan sincerely considers you... 480 00:35:31,798 --> 00:35:34,968 You're doing this because of me, aren't you? 481 00:35:35,138 --> 00:35:36,338 Is it because of me? 482 00:35:36,448 --> 00:35:38,738 It's not. 483 00:35:39,118 --> 00:35:43,000 Then, why are you driving a rift between people and you? 484 00:35:45,433 --> 00:35:48,243 If you feel embarrassed because of me, then I... 485 00:35:48,443 --> 00:35:51,414 I said it's not that. 486 00:35:56,934 --> 00:36:00,415 It's not that, Hyun Gyeong. 487 00:36:00,736 --> 00:36:05,346 That's not the reason I'm not meeting anyone. 488 00:36:05,746 --> 00:36:08,637 It's because I can't write. 489 00:36:08,857 --> 00:36:12,668 I don't know what I should write, that's why. 490 00:36:12,969 --> 00:36:17,618 In this age... what kind of literature this period needs, 491 00:36:17,848 --> 00:36:23,240 what can I write to make people happy... 492 00:36:27,090 --> 00:36:30,641 You're already writing that. 493 00:36:30,941 --> 00:36:35,752 I read that poem you wrote a few days ago. 494 00:36:37,303 --> 00:36:39,973 "Give me energy," 495 00:36:40,083 --> 00:36:43,153 "More energy is what I need." 496 00:36:43,283 --> 00:36:47,244 "On the luxurious fields of greens," 497 00:36:47,354 --> 00:36:49,834 "Give me energy." 498 00:36:49,923 --> 00:36:53,215 "Give me energy." 499 00:36:53,995 --> 00:36:58,256 "Before the wind gorges you away from me..." 500 00:37:02,026 --> 00:37:05,167 You're a genius. 501 00:37:05,437 --> 00:37:09,929 Who could ever write better poems than yours? 502 00:37:14,770 --> 00:37:18,661 Are you happy? Living this way. 503 00:37:23,272 --> 00:37:29,834 Yes, let's live this way. All three of us, for the rest of our lives. 504 00:37:29,943 --> 00:37:33,576 Right, Hyun Gyeong?! 505 00:37:33,846 --> 00:37:37,896 Let's just worry about ourselves. 506 00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:56,092 Every poet knows loneliness. 507 00:37:59,462 --> 00:38:02,072 Shouldn't that loneliness pierce your every bone, 508 00:38:02,203 --> 00:38:06,023 before that majestic prose can be born? 509 00:38:09,844 --> 00:38:13,524 And loneliness doesn't merely visit poets' gates. 510 00:38:26,746 --> 00:38:29,307 I don't know why I always end up stopping here. 511 00:38:29,427 --> 00:38:32,247 {\a6}Ahn Je Seung (Kim Baek Bong's husband) 512 00:38:30,447 --> 00:38:33,177 It's because of Choi Seung Hee. 513 00:38:33,966 --> 00:38:35,597 What did I tell you? 514 00:38:35,757 --> 00:38:38,367 Don't always try to surpass her achievements, 515 00:38:38,427 --> 00:38:41,067 just use them as a springboard. 516 00:38:41,177 --> 00:38:43,877 Make Choi Seung Hee's style yours. 517 00:38:44,047 --> 00:38:46,648 And only then you will find your own path. 518 00:38:46,748 --> 00:38:48,488 And who is ever going to acknowledge that? 519 00:38:48,617 --> 00:38:52,178 Whatever my dance turns out to be, they will call me a poor man's Choi Seung Hee! 520 00:38:52,298 --> 00:38:56,909 You are Kim Baek Bong! Why can't you believe in yourself? 521 00:38:59,490 --> 00:39:01,830 Let's try again. 522 00:39:09,803 --> 00:39:12,814 Don't think of anything else, just dance. 523 00:39:13,355 --> 00:39:16,355 Move as you wish. 524 00:39:17,045 --> 00:39:21,127 If it feels like Choi Seung Hee's style, I will tell you. 525 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:30,000 This was the lonely struggle of Kim Baek Bong, 526 00:39:30,111 --> 00:39:32,792 trying to surpass the legacy of her teacher Choi Seung Hee. 527 00:39:32,923 --> 00:39:35,633 Because Choi's achievements were an almost impenetrable fortress to break, 528 00:39:35,753 --> 00:39:40,973 Kim Baek Bong's despair drenched her bones just like a poet's pathos would. 529 00:39:43,483 --> 00:39:47,634 When I finally found my own footing by going solo, 530 00:39:47,803 --> 00:39:49,864 {\a6}Kim Baek Bong (dancer) 531 00:39:47,803 --> 00:39:49,864 I thought I had reached a level where I could speak with my own "voice," 532 00:39:50,074 --> 00:39:52,874 and although I told you earlier I did, it was terrifying to endure it. 533 00:39:52,921 --> 00:39:57,195 Your mentor is no longer by your side, 534 00:39:57,305 --> 00:40:00,256 so you can't help but question every single thing you do on your own, 535 00:40:00,365 --> 00:40:02,496 and neither did I know what kind of art I was creating with my work. 536 00:40:02,525 --> 00:40:08,884 So her absence and the precious advice I lost. 537 00:40:09,059 --> 00:40:11,247 That was my biggest fear, 538 00:40:11,387 --> 00:40:14,148 but what I did... 539 00:40:14,338 --> 00:40:17,154 was trying my very best so that, if I ever got the chance to meet her again, 540 00:40:17,210 --> 00:40:19,494 I would hear her praise me. 541 00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:28,270 And then there were people criticizing me without even seeing my work, 542 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:35,134 so all I wanted was to reach her level, that would have sufficed. 543 00:40:35,254 --> 00:40:36,454 That was my wish. 544 00:40:36,573 --> 00:40:41,933 Thinking back now, working so hard as I did, 545 00:40:42,053 --> 00:40:45,759 our styles weren't too different. It was the same dance at the root. 546 00:40:45,924 --> 00:40:55,690 But I also think that my own style of dance, 547 00:40:55,725 --> 00:41:03,697 my view of what dance represents, could be felt there as well. 548 00:41:04,677 --> 00:41:09,858 Between January 18 and 27 of 1955, an exhibition of Lee Jung Seop's works... 549 00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:12,168 took place at the Seoul Midopa Gallery. 550 00:41:12,277 --> 00:41:14,308 Lee Jung Seop's hope was one and one only, 551 00:41:14,417 --> 00:41:16,166 that of selling as many paintings as possible, 552 00:41:16,201 --> 00:41:20,088 and later going to meet his family in Japan. 553 00:41:23,778 --> 00:41:25,880 Nam Deok. 554 00:41:26,210 --> 00:41:28,450 I'm coming. 555 00:41:28,881 --> 00:41:30,750 My dear! 556 00:41:31,171 --> 00:41:34,521 I'm coming to meet you. 557 00:41:36,272 --> 00:41:38,023 Tae Hyeon... 558 00:41:38,233 --> 00:41:40,713 Tae Seong! 559 00:41:41,003 --> 00:41:43,715 Daddy is coming! 560 00:41:43,895 --> 00:41:46,896 Daddy will sell all these paintings, 561 00:41:47,006 --> 00:41:48,486 and come... 562 00:41:48,606 --> 00:41:51,936 come to meet you all. 563 00:42:14,350 --> 00:42:18,980 Tokyo - 1953 564 00:42:26,770 --> 00:42:30,181 {\a6}Lee Nam Deok (Lee Jung Seop's wife) 565 00:42:26,770 --> 00:42:30,181 Don't worry about me and go, dear. 566 00:42:30,230 --> 00:42:33,214 I'll take good care of our kids. 567 00:42:40,325 --> 00:42:43,066 Dear! 568 00:42:45,378 --> 00:42:49,841 Can't I... just remain here with you? 569 00:42:50,011 --> 00:42:52,932 Make yourself a regular passport and then come back. 570 00:42:53,063 --> 00:42:56,832 How can you just smuggle yourself here like this? 571 00:42:58,082 --> 00:42:59,683 I don't want to go. 572 00:42:59,892 --> 00:43:03,363 If you endure the next couple of months, we can get back together. 573 00:43:03,493 --> 00:43:06,114 You can't even wait for that? 574 00:43:06,565 --> 00:43:09,326 What if I can never meet you again? 575 00:43:09,446 --> 00:43:14,586 What if war breaks out again, and we never get to see each other anymore? 576 00:43:31,758 --> 00:43:34,999 Before the end of the war, Lee Jung Seop smuggled himself into Japan, 577 00:43:35,109 --> 00:43:38,459 and spent a week there with his family. 578 00:43:38,559 --> 00:43:40,665 That ever so brief meeting and their final breakup... 579 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,640 is what must be populating his dreams once again. 580 00:43:51,651 --> 00:43:59,032 Gu Sang told him to just go there once, since he missed them so much. 581 00:43:51,733 --> 00:43:58,833 {\a6}Lee Young Jin (Lee Jung Seop's nephew) 582 00:43:59,312 --> 00:44:03,971 So he left for Japan, with a temporary certificate of sojourn. 583 00:44:04,106 --> 00:44:12,052 Then, his in-laws wrote a pledge so he could enter the country. 584 00:44:12,214 --> 00:44:16,994 Once there, they told him to come back with proper documents, 585 00:44:17,124 --> 00:44:24,577 since he was an artist, and he didn't need to run away. 586 00:44:24,796 --> 00:44:32,758 And one of his wife's relatives signed a document vouching for him, 587 00:44:32,893 --> 00:44:37,247 proving they wished him to come back. 588 00:44:37,477 --> 00:44:41,898 It might have been hard to endure, but he was forced to go back, 589 00:44:42,018 --> 00:44:47,939 and the manner in which he returned back home... 590 00:44:48,174 --> 00:44:55,728 could only disappoint him, considering what he did to get there. 591 00:44:55,980 --> 00:45:02,170 So all this situation sent him into a deep despair, inevitably. 592 00:45:04,250 --> 00:45:06,019 Come on in. 593 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:09,860 - Ohh... Park Hyung! - Park Hyung. 594 00:45:11,210 --> 00:45:13,112 It's quite a nice work, you know? 595 00:45:13,232 --> 00:45:14,341 Isn't it?! 596 00:45:14,471 --> 00:45:15,861 Title is great as well. 597 00:45:16,012 --> 00:45:18,962 "A Streetcar Named Desire." It's nice. 598 00:45:19,102 --> 00:45:20,972 It will be a huge hit! 599 00:45:21,103 --> 00:45:23,583 - Is Shin Hyeop going to do it? - We must. 600 00:45:23,752 --> 00:45:26,553 But Blanche is the problem. 601 00:45:26,683 --> 00:45:28,373 Will we find the right actress to play her? 602 00:45:28,493 --> 00:45:30,783 Have a seat, Park Hyung. 603 00:45:34,783 --> 00:45:40,084 Today, we'll close with an anecdote about Kim Gwan Shik. 604 00:45:44,014 --> 00:45:47,135 How can you not be sober yet at this hour? 605 00:45:47,355 --> 00:45:50,345 It's better than drinking straight from the morning. 606 00:45:50,465 --> 00:45:53,896 How are you going to teach anyone in this state? 607 00:45:54,076 --> 00:45:55,235 No worries! 608 00:45:55,345 --> 00:45:58,106 I'll sober up on my way to school. 609 00:45:58,216 --> 00:46:02,886 And you even promised you'd never drink again if we married. 610 00:46:04,816 --> 00:46:07,436 I'll keep all the promises in the world. 611 00:46:07,546 --> 00:46:12,108 Save for the one asking me to stop drinking. 612 00:46:13,381 --> 00:46:16,103 Ohhh... it smells... 613 00:47:01,510 --> 00:47:04,340 On the next episode, we'll once again put the spotlight... 614 00:47:04,460 --> 00:47:06,538 on Kim Gwan Shik's eccentric behavior. 615 00:47:06,861 --> 00:47:10,885 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 616 00:47:11,058 --> 00:47:14,390 Main Translator and Timer: MisterX 617 00:47:14,578 --> 00:47:17,834 Timing QC: Victory 618 00:47:18,078 --> 00:47:21,334 Editor/QC: thunderbolt 619 00:47:21,580 --> 00:47:25,838 Coordinators: mily2, ay_link 620 00:47:26,002 --> 00:47:30,463 Drink whatever you want after work, but make sure you come here sober. 621 00:47:30,573 --> 00:47:32,163 Is that clear, Kim Seonsaeng? 622 00:47:32,293 --> 00:47:35,392 But those exciting lessons from Kim Gwan Shik Seonsaeng... 623 00:47:35,502 --> 00:47:40,293 cannot compare with what you can witness yourselves out there! 624 00:47:40,623 --> 00:47:43,497 "It's that unforgettable shack..." 625 00:47:43,664 --> 00:47:47,915 "Gyeongsang Province accent..." 626 00:47:48,105 --> 00:47:50,895 I'm just irresponsible as the head of a family. 627 00:47:51,025 --> 00:47:55,498 I often feel too embarrassed to face her. 628 00:48:01,069 --> 00:48:05,508 I'm neither on this nor that side! I'm just Lee Jung Seop! 629 00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:08,650 I have no damned ideology! 630 00:48:19,862 --> 00:48:22,782 So you've become like a farmer now, Su Young. 631 00:48:22,972 --> 00:48:24,292 It's nice to see that. 632 00:48:24,322 --> 00:48:28,022 I'm particularly happy to see you in such good health. 633 00:48:28,913 --> 00:48:31,693 Still, you will continue writing, right?! 634 00:48:31,793 --> 00:48:34,575 I keep writing about raising chickens. 635 00:48:34,704 --> 00:48:38,664 Really? That has got to be fun. 636 00:48:40,635 --> 00:48:44,406 When you write, that's the real you. 637 00:48:44,626 --> 00:48:48,927 And what I want to see from you. 638 00:48:49,648 --> 00:48:53,048 I just didn't write them down, 639 00:48:53,268 --> 00:48:56,450 but I already created countless poems already. 640 00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,140 Inside me... They all live inside me. 641 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,090 I will write. 642 00:49:04,230 --> 00:49:06,391 But not about this rotten despair. 643 00:49:06,501 --> 00:49:10,022 I'll sing my prose about fireworks of life exploding around me. 644 00:49:10,152 --> 00:49:12,514 I'm just... 645 00:49:12,774 --> 00:49:16,975 a poor sentimentalist living in sadness. 646 00:49:17,293 --> 00:49:21,280 Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 647 00:49:21,404 --> 00:49:25,411 This is a FREE fansub. NOT for SALE!!! Get it for FREE @ d-addicts.com