1 00:00:00,127 --> 00:00:04,429 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 2 00:00:00,127 --> 00:00:04,429 {\a6}Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 3 00:00:05,427 --> 00:00:09,934 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:10,475 --> 00:00:12,730 Episode 15 5 00:01:01,564 --> 00:01:02,545 Just let him go. 6 00:01:02,684 --> 00:01:04,293 He'll puke it all out, I guess. 7 00:01:04,774 --> 00:01:08,735 How can he drink as if it was the last thing he will do?! 8 00:01:27,625 --> 00:01:30,141 "Thirteen youngsters scurrying on the bare street," 9 00:01:30,252 --> 00:01:32,593 "A blind alley hampering their next step." 10 00:01:32,736 --> 00:01:34,947 "Fear colors the eyes of the first child," 11 00:01:35,087 --> 00:01:37,321 "Partaking in dread with the second child," 12 00:01:37,496 --> 00:01:40,425 "In daunted frenzy joining the third child." 13 00:01:42,022 --> 00:01:45,672 It is a passage from Lee Sang's "Crows Glazing Below." 14 00:01:46,092 --> 00:01:52,724 The same genial poet whose short life ended at a hospital in Japan back in 1939, 15 00:01:52,772 --> 00:01:54,029 Lee Sang. 16 00:01:54,873 --> 00:01:58,117 It was exactly the same Lee Sang who was embraced by Park In Hwan... 17 00:01:58,194 --> 00:01:59,824 as a spiritual "muse" of sorts. 18 00:02:03,259 --> 00:02:07,128 "Fear does the fourth child bemoan." 19 00:02:07,238 --> 00:02:10,967 "And in fear basks the fifth." 20 00:02:11,231 --> 00:02:15,444 "The sixth joins them in fearful despair." 21 00:02:29,097 --> 00:02:32,947 "Seventh is the name of he whom fear cannot vanquish." 22 00:02:33,087 --> 00:02:37,348 "Nor can the eighth free himself from their same destiny." 23 00:02:44,379 --> 00:02:46,599 Through the next two episodes, 24 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:52,010 we will depict the deaths of Park In Hwan and Lee Jung Seop. 25 00:02:52,289 --> 00:02:56,221 There are several theories concerning the cause of Park's death, 26 00:02:56,331 --> 00:02:59,001 but his drinking problems are the most likely culprit, 27 00:02:59,438 --> 00:03:03,541 while starvation is what killed Lee Jung Seop. 28 00:03:06,261 --> 00:03:09,070 Why? For what reason? 29 00:03:09,468 --> 00:03:16,123 Why did their lives have to end in such an extreme manner?! 30 00:03:50,729 --> 00:03:52,342 Listen to this. 31 00:03:57,039 --> 00:04:03,851 "Rebirth, excitement, passion and illusions are what you taught me." 32 00:04:04,581 --> 00:04:09,072 "Rescuing our literature from the bottomless pits of dissolution," 33 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,065 "O, muse and emperor of our minds." 34 00:04:14,095 --> 00:04:16,246 Were you commissioned to write something? 35 00:04:16,565 --> 00:04:21,058 I'm writing for the DongA Ilbo, celebrating Lee Sang's memory. 36 00:04:21,896 --> 00:04:24,756 Are you going to organize that ceremony this year as well? 37 00:04:24,958 --> 00:04:27,330 I must! Of course I should. 38 00:04:28,186 --> 00:04:29,547 When will it take place? 39 00:04:29,696 --> 00:04:31,526 Starting tomorrow evening, 40 00:04:31,636 --> 00:04:38,636 until the day after Lee Sang died, the 17th at 3.20 p.m. 41 00:04:41,071 --> 00:04:42,281 Why? 42 00:04:42,886 --> 00:04:45,768 So you won't come home for a few days?! 43 00:04:46,022 --> 00:04:47,262 Dear. 44 00:04:47,382 --> 00:04:50,004 Lee Sang died aged twenty-eight. 45 00:04:50,093 --> 00:04:53,693 Do you know how many works he published in that short time? 46 00:04:53,813 --> 00:04:56,826 No... that number might actually not be that impressive, after all. 47 00:04:56,946 --> 00:05:02,988 But the spiritual achievements he left behind to our literary circle... 48 00:05:05,488 --> 00:05:08,809 I am nothing compared to that. 49 00:05:09,059 --> 00:05:11,430 I couldn't get a single thing done, 50 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:14,079 even though I'm already past thirty. 51 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,241 The embalmed genius of Lee Sang. 52 00:05:20,341 --> 00:05:24,547 The reason why Park In Hwan drowned himself in alcohol... 53 00:05:24,611 --> 00:05:28,213 might just have been because he could not surpass Lee Sang's timeless legacy. 54 00:05:42,347 --> 00:05:44,628 ~ Pawn Shop ~ 55 00:05:48,529 --> 00:05:50,105 Park Seonsaengnim! 56 00:05:51,617 --> 00:05:54,519 He just put up that sign and nothing more. 57 00:05:54,609 --> 00:05:56,723 It's not open for business yet. 58 00:05:56,977 --> 00:05:59,572 Please come in. We're open. 59 00:05:59,830 --> 00:06:02,852 You can come in. You'll get your money's worth. 60 00:06:03,918 --> 00:06:06,392 Does seeing me make money annoy you that much?! 61 00:06:06,872 --> 00:06:07,843 Ahh... yes. 62 00:06:08,624 --> 00:06:10,955 Th...That! 63 00:06:11,184 --> 00:06:14,680 Money is all he thinks about. 64 00:06:17,445 --> 00:06:19,555 It was the same last year. 65 00:06:21,565 --> 00:06:26,277 He spent an entire month bedridden, after the event was over. 66 00:06:27,917 --> 00:06:31,088 He stopped eating and drinks all day... 67 00:06:31,488 --> 00:06:33,014 He probably doesn't even have the money, 68 00:06:33,157 --> 00:06:35,608 why would he organize that ceremony?! 69 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,223 I guess a few drinks will be enough. 70 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,572 If he had that money, he should bring it home. 71 00:06:45,763 --> 00:06:48,074 Help me out, Lee Seonsaengnim. 72 00:06:48,424 --> 00:06:51,975 He at least seems to listen to you. 73 00:06:54,074 --> 00:06:55,430 All right. 74 00:06:55,541 --> 00:06:57,372 Don't worry too much. 75 00:07:15,588 --> 00:07:18,127 Park Seonsaengnim... 76 00:07:18,565 --> 00:07:20,746 What happened to your coat? 77 00:07:22,657 --> 00:07:27,521 It's still cold out there, how can you pawn that coat? 78 00:07:27,788 --> 00:07:29,002 Go get it back. 79 00:07:29,097 --> 00:07:32,106 I'll just lend you a little money. 80 00:07:33,302 --> 00:07:36,629 Forsythias will bloom in a matter of days, what coat?! 81 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:40,068 If I leave it home, it will all get moldy during the rainy spell. 82 00:07:45,466 --> 00:07:47,981 - Aigoo... - Hey! 83 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:51,382 Do you even know from whom you got that coat? 84 00:07:51,511 --> 00:07:54,373 He's none other than a poet! 85 00:07:54,533 --> 00:07:56,403 So I paid him generously, didn't I?! 86 00:07:56,493 --> 00:07:58,624 You... dull-witted son of a miser! 87 00:07:58,723 --> 00:08:00,136 Is money everything for you?! 88 00:08:00,231 --> 00:08:02,365 The alternative was some antique of a watch he was forcing on me, 89 00:08:02,412 --> 00:08:03,543 what else could I do? 90 00:08:03,622 --> 00:08:04,816 Should at least make it a coat! 91 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,863 Ahh... I really ought to... Listen. 92 00:08:07,076 --> 00:08:10,117 Don't ever do business with this skinflint! 93 00:08:13,717 --> 00:08:15,164 Thank you. 94 00:08:15,094 --> 00:08:17,985 {\a6}Kim Dong Geun (young businessman) 95 00:08:16,073 --> 00:08:17,985 I can't even pay you any rent, and you gave me this place with open arms. 96 00:08:18,065 --> 00:08:19,959 Aigoo... what rent?! 97 00:08:20,087 --> 00:08:22,634 I should be the one to help you out, on the contrary. 98 00:08:22,805 --> 00:08:24,035 What are you saying? 99 00:08:24,178 --> 00:08:27,378 By the way, there will be quite a crowd... 100 00:08:27,716 --> 00:08:31,388 My wife will take care of the side dishes, 101 00:08:31,508 --> 00:08:33,903 and I took care of the drinks. 102 00:08:34,858 --> 00:08:36,198 In Hwan. 103 00:08:36,309 --> 00:08:37,789 Let's have a word. 104 00:08:43,329 --> 00:08:45,749 It won't cost much. 105 00:08:46,322 --> 00:08:48,163 Money is not the problem. 106 00:08:48,283 --> 00:08:51,323 What's the point of doing this again, now? 107 00:08:52,644 --> 00:08:55,640 Lee Sang is my greatest inspiration. 108 00:08:55,751 --> 00:09:00,002 That's just an excuse to drown yourself in alcohol until you collapse, isn't it?! 109 00:09:01,954 --> 00:09:05,624 So I guess you had a little talk with my wife?! 110 00:09:08,075 --> 00:09:09,755 Don't worry. 111 00:09:10,285 --> 00:09:11,993 Once this ceremony is over, 112 00:09:12,089 --> 00:09:15,196 I'll retreat to some temple and only focus on writing. 113 00:09:15,617 --> 00:09:18,317 I've already lived three years longer than Lee Sang, 114 00:09:18,492 --> 00:09:20,708 so it's time I do something myself. 115 00:09:21,071 --> 00:09:23,395 You published an anthology already. 116 00:09:25,401 --> 00:09:27,681 That was garbage, nothing more. 117 00:09:29,591 --> 00:09:30,657 Lee Seonbae. 118 00:09:30,753 --> 00:09:32,361 You know? 119 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,353 I just covered mediocrity with a veil of sentimentalism. 120 00:09:37,523 --> 00:09:40,753 I might fool the world that way, 121 00:09:40,912 --> 00:09:43,434 but I'll never fool myself. 122 00:09:44,175 --> 00:09:46,643 You live in different worlds. 123 00:09:46,804 --> 00:09:49,891 Lee Sang lived during the gloom of our colonial period... 124 00:09:50,018 --> 00:09:52,422 That is why I am even more ashamed of myself. 125 00:09:52,645 --> 00:09:55,138 Despite living in such a beautlful world, 126 00:09:55,248 --> 00:09:58,662 I can't write a single tolerable piece of prose. 127 00:10:09,861 --> 00:10:12,172 Why do you keep staring at me? 128 00:10:12,281 --> 00:10:13,592 I'm just in awe. 129 00:10:13,692 --> 00:10:15,252 At what? 130 00:10:15,913 --> 00:10:19,563 Staring at you while you cook, 131 00:10:19,683 --> 00:10:22,514 I realize how remarkable life can be. 132 00:10:23,976 --> 00:10:25,503 I mean it. 133 00:10:26,586 --> 00:10:29,642 To me, life almost feels like a cursory parade, 134 00:10:29,737 --> 00:10:31,727 but you go to the market every day, 135 00:10:31,854 --> 00:10:36,678 and cook for me so meticulously. 136 00:10:37,398 --> 00:10:39,782 And what's so remarkable about that? 137 00:10:40,970 --> 00:10:44,603 Life might just as well be made of such simple things, 138 00:10:44,693 --> 00:10:47,519 but I keep making things more complex than they already are. 139 00:10:52,384 --> 00:10:54,731 You know what I mean? 140 00:10:55,034 --> 00:10:56,984 Not really. 141 00:10:58,725 --> 00:11:00,596 What I'm saying... 142 00:11:07,260 --> 00:11:10,443 I wish people could be something like the laundry. 143 00:11:13,868 --> 00:11:18,738 Like with laundry, if we could only cleanse all the stench and stains inside us... 144 00:11:21,551 --> 00:11:25,073 What is it that makes you struggle so much? 145 00:11:26,191 --> 00:11:27,303 Me? 146 00:11:28,003 --> 00:11:29,692 Sometimes I wonder. 147 00:11:29,792 --> 00:11:32,253 What is afflicting you so much. 148 00:11:33,943 --> 00:11:38,732 "Who could that man be, weeping before that graveyard?" 149 00:11:38,955 --> 00:11:43,852 "Whose tears drench the grievous, dusty rubble?" 150 00:11:44,718 --> 00:11:49,016 "Like clouds of smoke quenched by a crimson tide," 151 00:11:49,812 --> 00:11:54,136 "What is decaying inside a man's soul?" 152 00:11:55,218 --> 00:11:59,899 "What lies beyond the sunset of a twelvemonth?" 153 00:12:01,322 --> 00:12:06,617 "Where can I meet the cherished compeer the war stole from me?" 154 00:12:07,094 --> 00:12:10,294 "I will take demise, if this sorrow you can erase." 155 00:12:10,501 --> 00:12:15,102 "I will give you mankind, so you can swelter creation with punishing gales," 156 00:12:15,309 --> 00:12:21,408 "So that ghastly flowers shall never again bloom over those graves." 157 00:12:22,394 --> 00:12:27,694 "The days, the years, the painful memories of this war..." 158 00:12:27,869 --> 00:12:33,919 "They are the throeful vestiges you bring forth, O crimson sea of despair." 159 00:12:45,686 --> 00:12:48,422 Life is covered with doubts. 160 00:12:49,393 --> 00:12:55,012 Poets attempt to answer those doubts with countless questions, 161 00:12:55,187 --> 00:13:00,028 but there is no one who answers, no voice can be heard. 162 00:13:00,950 --> 00:13:07,047 Looks like that Lee Sang you so deeply admire couldn't find them, either. 163 00:13:08,194 --> 00:13:11,139 Have you read them, Lee Sang's works? 164 00:13:11,330 --> 00:13:14,163 They're in your room, all his books. 165 00:13:15,733 --> 00:13:18,750 Wow... my wife is quite clever! 166 00:13:18,973 --> 00:13:22,188 I thought you had no interest in literature whatsoever?! 167 00:13:22,523 --> 00:13:24,210 Let alone literature... 168 00:13:24,306 --> 00:13:26,511 I don't even know you. 169 00:13:26,606 --> 00:13:30,727 Neither this Lee Sang, nor Park In Hwan. 170 00:13:34,695 --> 00:13:39,655 ~ Lee Sang's Night ~ 171 00:13:39,735 --> 00:13:42,743 Inside the prisons of Fukuoka, 172 00:13:43,157 --> 00:13:47,551 the twenty-nine years of Yoon Dong Joo's short life... 173 00:13:48,427 --> 00:13:53,234 ended with a brief outcry. 174 00:13:55,794 --> 00:14:00,510 The Lee Sang whose legacy we are gathered here to honor... 175 00:14:00,669 --> 00:14:05,997 confessed he wanted to once again taste lemon, before he left us. 176 00:14:09,249 --> 00:14:13,261 I reflected upon what I would have done, had I been in his shoes. 177 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,496 Would the very last moment of my existence... 178 00:14:17,911 --> 00:14:20,345 end with a brief outcry? 179 00:14:20,536 --> 00:14:22,112 Or... 180 00:14:22,670 --> 00:14:25,710 reminiscing on the lemon Lee Sang so dearly loved, 181 00:14:25,854 --> 00:14:28,815 would I breathe out my final moments?! 182 00:14:31,404 --> 00:14:33,702 It's suffocating. 183 00:14:34,179 --> 00:14:36,997 Yes! Indeed it is. 184 00:14:37,675 --> 00:14:41,028 This world we live in is suffocating me. 185 00:14:42,983 --> 00:14:44,241 Nice excuse! 186 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,319 Let's guzzle all night, is that it?! 187 00:14:47,088 --> 00:14:47,902 Yes! 188 00:14:48,093 --> 00:14:49,720 Let's drink the night away! 189 00:14:49,850 --> 00:14:52,280 Honoring Lee Sang's legacy while being sober... 190 00:14:52,401 --> 00:14:55,735 is nothing but an affront! 191 00:14:55,891 --> 00:14:57,772 Here... cheers! 192 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:00,208 Cheers! 193 00:15:05,302 --> 00:15:07,579 Can't you do that later? 194 00:15:07,817 --> 00:15:09,664 Jun needs to go to sleep. 195 00:15:09,839 --> 00:15:11,797 Dear! 196 00:15:11,941 --> 00:15:13,851 Don't get angry at me. 197 00:15:13,994 --> 00:15:16,334 I told you it's a tight deadline! 198 00:15:16,510 --> 00:15:18,499 Is that page empty because of me?! 199 00:15:18,691 --> 00:15:20,983 You keep making noise... 200 00:15:21,110 --> 00:15:23,419 You didn't even go to Park In Hwan's publication party. 201 00:15:23,466 --> 00:15:24,294 But... 202 00:15:24,374 --> 00:15:26,762 I don't even like Lee Sang. 203 00:15:26,873 --> 00:15:29,091 So why would I go to a party dedicated to him? 204 00:15:29,231 --> 00:15:31,665 Because Park In Hwan is waiting for you to go there. 205 00:15:31,776 --> 00:15:33,130 What's wrong with you? 206 00:15:33,193 --> 00:15:35,486 Why do you keep sticking to me with the same old routine? 207 00:15:35,602 --> 00:15:38,202 You're the one using the same old routine! 208 00:15:38,332 --> 00:15:40,484 Can't you live like everyone else? 209 00:15:40,613 --> 00:15:42,053 Listen well. 210 00:15:42,153 --> 00:15:44,496 That Park In Hwan has no endurance whatsoever. 211 00:15:44,623 --> 00:15:47,874 Just a moment of loneliness, and he's already wailing like a drama queen. 212 00:15:48,074 --> 00:15:50,825 He was mocking me with that haughty smile of his, 213 00:15:50,935 --> 00:15:52,742 asking me whether I went through this war alone, 214 00:15:52,806 --> 00:15:56,607 but what about him? I'm not giving up. 215 00:15:56,737 --> 00:16:00,241 I've never tried to escape from any difficulty this world has thrown at me. 216 00:16:00,352 --> 00:16:01,848 But, as for Park In Hwan, 217 00:16:01,944 --> 00:16:04,100 he runs away at the first sign of trouble. 218 00:16:04,220 --> 00:16:08,344 So why did someone who knows him so well end up turning his back on him?! 219 00:16:08,455 --> 00:16:10,413 Can't you show him a little warmth, for once? 220 00:16:10,493 --> 00:16:14,059 I've had enough of his acting like some damsel in distress. 221 00:16:14,154 --> 00:16:15,991 And what's wrong with lending him an ear?! 222 00:16:16,111 --> 00:16:20,615 I told you, didn't I? We live in different ways! 223 00:16:28,132 --> 00:16:30,931 Sometimes, you really scare me. 224 00:16:33,510 --> 00:16:37,125 Did you even forgive me for real?! 225 00:16:37,455 --> 00:16:39,796 What is it you're so afraid of? 226 00:16:40,257 --> 00:16:44,367 Are you afraid that something will melt that frozen soul of yours? 227 00:16:45,617 --> 00:16:47,424 Listen... 228 00:16:48,527 --> 00:16:50,417 You know?! 229 00:16:52,098 --> 00:16:55,813 I wish you could be a warmer person. 230 00:17:06,002 --> 00:17:07,723 I hate running away! 231 00:17:07,843 --> 00:17:10,684 I can't stand people who run away from their problems! 232 00:17:19,775 --> 00:17:23,736 "Do you know of a man's genius, embalmed by time?" 233 00:17:23,864 --> 00:17:26,745 "I am in awe!" 234 00:17:27,255 --> 00:17:31,318 "Even romance stirs me from within!" 235 00:17:31,458 --> 00:17:34,482 "My very flesh, endlessly wavering, 236 00:17:34,641 --> 00:17:39,640 "The mental clarity only that suffocating fatigue can give you." 237 00:17:40,977 --> 00:17:45,300 "As nicotine permeates every inch of my stomach like vengeful vermin," 238 00:17:45,421 --> 00:17:50,066 "White pages fill my mind, waiting to be freed from desolation." 239 00:17:51,632 --> 00:17:55,129 "And above that lonely white I throw wit and paradox!" 240 00:17:55,193 --> 00:17:58,647 "Like a game of baduk, raging in my thoughts." 241 00:17:58,838 --> 00:18:02,773 "Basking in the cursed lack of common sense drenching them!" 242 00:18:03,975 --> 00:18:06,185 That sounds nice. 243 00:18:06,585 --> 00:18:08,875 Park In Hwan should have become a stage actor. 244 00:18:08,970 --> 00:18:12,096 How about it, will Shinhyeop try to scout him out? 245 00:18:12,297 --> 00:18:16,484 He does show promise, but it's a bit on the tearjerker side. 246 00:18:17,067 --> 00:18:18,904 What's wrong with tearjerkers? 247 00:18:19,079 --> 00:18:22,502 Life is just as savory as a good old tearjerker. 248 00:18:22,868 --> 00:18:23,744 Here! 249 00:18:23,823 --> 00:18:25,331 Let's have a toast! 250 00:18:25,471 --> 00:18:29,045 {\a6}*A famous gisaeng Lee Sang met in Liaoning in the early 30s 251 00:18:25,471 --> 00:18:29,045 To Lee Sang, and to Geum Hong*! 252 00:18:29,124 --> 00:18:33,766 And, following in the footsteps of Lee Sang's embalmed genius, 253 00:18:33,925 --> 00:18:35,995 to another genius we've been blessed with, 254 00:18:36,138 --> 00:18:38,828 to our friend Park In Hwan! 255 00:18:38,972 --> 00:18:42,108 I might have been embalmed, 256 00:18:42,355 --> 00:18:44,575 but I'm no genius. 257 00:18:45,186 --> 00:18:48,826 What's with all this self-adulation, just for a good glass?! 258 00:18:49,256 --> 00:18:51,691 To drinking, cheers! 259 00:18:51,803 --> 00:18:53,028 Cheers! 260 00:18:53,123 --> 00:18:54,652 Cheers! 261 00:18:58,504 --> 00:18:59,730 Ahh... by the way. 262 00:18:59,826 --> 00:19:01,529 What was that song again? 263 00:19:01,752 --> 00:19:05,636 The one Park In Hwan wrote, and was turned into melody by Lee Jin Seop. 264 00:19:05,716 --> 00:19:12,848 "I have now forgotten that name." 265 00:19:13,134 --> 00:19:23,546 "But those eyes and lips still linger in my soul." 266 00:19:23,674 --> 00:19:25,472 It's nice... 267 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:27,674 It's a tearjerker, all right. 268 00:19:27,828 --> 00:19:29,454 Look, Gwan Shik. 269 00:19:29,714 --> 00:19:33,272 Let's drink quietly tonight, shall we? 270 00:19:33,448 --> 00:19:38,462 "Even when the wind blows, when rain drenches us all!" 271 00:19:38,606 --> 00:19:42,288 "I still gaze at the street lamp outside the window..." 272 00:19:42,459 --> 00:19:54,711 {\a6}Lee Jin Seop (composer, playwright) 273 00:19:42,459 --> 00:19:54,711 "Unable to forget the shadows of that night." 274 00:19:54,859 --> 00:20:02,533 "Might love abandon us, the past will remain." 275 00:20:02,643 --> 00:20:10,731 "A summer day's shore, that autumn garden," 276 00:20:10,843 --> 00:20:14,424 "Sitting on that bench." 277 00:20:14,488 --> 00:20:23,546 "Leaves fall, their warm embrace drenched in mud." 278 00:20:23,690 --> 00:20:25,887 Why do you drink, if you have to puke it all out?! 279 00:20:25,998 --> 00:20:27,096 What a waste! 280 00:20:27,192 --> 00:20:40,582 "Covered by other leaves, should our love vanish," 281 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:51,915 "It will linger inside this cold heart of mine." 282 00:20:51,986 --> 00:20:54,589 Bravo! 283 00:20:58,398 --> 00:21:00,416 You need to come out, something's happened. 284 00:21:00,558 --> 00:21:03,329 Park In Hwan fell down the stairs! 285 00:21:13,454 --> 00:21:15,172 Maybe he was too drunk, 286 00:21:15,282 --> 00:21:17,864 but he suddenly fell down the stairs at the Orient. 287 00:21:18,007 --> 00:21:19,383 What?! 288 00:21:19,913 --> 00:21:22,178 Thankfully, it looks like he didn't get hurt, 289 00:21:22,289 --> 00:21:25,155 so I just took a taxi and brought him here. 290 00:21:25,266 --> 00:21:28,387 Here, Park Hyung... careful. Let's go in. 291 00:21:58,093 --> 00:22:00,054 Where... am I? 292 00:22:00,242 --> 00:22:01,643 Dear. 293 00:22:07,262 --> 00:22:09,475 Why am I here? 294 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,614 You got drunk, and fell down the stairs. 295 00:22:13,741 --> 00:22:15,546 You don't remember? 296 00:22:20,189 --> 00:22:21,787 What time is it? 297 00:22:22,067 --> 00:22:23,908 Almost eleven. 298 00:22:29,242 --> 00:22:31,137 Where are you going? 299 00:22:31,471 --> 00:22:34,432 Put on something to warm you up before you leave! 300 00:22:37,389 --> 00:22:39,921 He didn't hurt himself, did he? 301 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,044 He was just a little drunk, but could even walk on his own. 302 00:22:44,187 --> 00:22:47,116 We'll have to stop Park In Hwan from drinking, from now on. 303 00:22:47,211 --> 00:22:49,740 That is out of the question! 304 00:22:49,966 --> 00:22:51,880 You... 305 00:22:52,179 --> 00:22:54,360 I knew it! 306 00:22:54,471 --> 00:22:59,470 I was sure you'd bring me back home, and then come back for more! 307 00:22:59,601 --> 00:23:02,612 Seonsaengnim... Allow me to apologize. 308 00:23:02,765 --> 00:23:05,233 Here... Here, let's just call it a night. 309 00:23:05,997 --> 00:23:06,729 Ajumma! 310 00:23:06,856 --> 00:23:08,894 Bring us something more to drink. 311 00:23:10,423 --> 00:23:12,439 I need to close up shop in a moment! 312 00:23:12,503 --> 00:23:14,445 It's almost curfew time. 313 00:23:14,541 --> 00:23:17,974 So just close the doors, and turn off the lights! 314 00:23:18,094 --> 00:23:20,399 We're spending the night here! 315 00:23:27,274 --> 00:23:29,255 Did In Hwan come back? 316 00:23:29,365 --> 00:23:31,154 He wasn't with you? 317 00:23:32,989 --> 00:23:34,708 He wanted to spend the night drinking, 318 00:23:34,788 --> 00:23:37,016 but we used the curfew as an excuse and all parted ways. 319 00:23:37,144 --> 00:23:40,073 I then grabbed a taxi for him... 320 00:23:40,184 --> 00:23:43,246 I was a little worried, so I came back to check. 321 00:23:43,384 --> 00:23:46,185 He didn't come back home last night. 322 00:23:47,141 --> 00:23:50,659 Here you are, let's start. 323 00:23:52,029 --> 00:23:53,796 The chair. 324 00:23:55,021 --> 00:23:58,651 Aigoo... you're up early this morning. 325 00:24:01,651 --> 00:24:05,202 He'll open up much later. 326 00:24:05,312 --> 00:24:06,883 Yes. 327 00:24:22,849 --> 00:24:25,523 She said he hasn't been home in two days. 328 00:24:25,635 --> 00:24:27,848 Where on earth is he wandering?! 329 00:24:27,991 --> 00:24:31,207 Maybe we should have spent the night there?! 330 00:24:32,416 --> 00:24:36,247 If he comes looking for you, don't let him go. 331 00:24:36,396 --> 00:24:40,233 He must be trapped somewhere guzzling the day away, I guess. 332 00:25:01,833 --> 00:25:02,983 There he is! 333 00:25:03,193 --> 00:25:04,554 Where? 334 00:25:07,423 --> 00:25:09,095 Park Seonsaengnim! 335 00:25:09,205 --> 00:25:10,765 Seonsaengnim! 336 00:25:11,775 --> 00:25:14,858 Aigoo... Seonsaengnim, I've been looking for you all over. 337 00:25:14,922 --> 00:25:16,848 Here, wear your hat. 338 00:25:16,998 --> 00:25:19,140 And.. this, too. 339 00:25:19,284 --> 00:25:20,223 Put it on. 340 00:25:20,302 --> 00:25:23,428 Ahh... it's still quite cold, isn't it?! 341 00:25:24,069 --> 00:25:27,221 {\a6}*Old northern (around Pyeongyang) diminutive for overcoat 342 00:25:24,069 --> 00:25:27,221 This is your oba*, Seonsaengnim. Just keep it. 343 00:25:28,019 --> 00:25:29,559 And... 344 00:25:29,699 --> 00:25:31,719 Don't you worry about the money. 345 00:25:31,940 --> 00:25:34,910 I paid the pawn shop instead. 346 00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:37,805 Thank you. 347 00:25:38,378 --> 00:25:39,811 What are you saying... 348 00:25:39,951 --> 00:25:42,119 You can get a really nasty cold if you don't dress warm. 349 00:25:42,215 --> 00:25:45,947 So just keep these on, will you? 350 00:25:46,473 --> 00:25:47,905 Wait... 351 00:25:48,084 --> 00:25:50,043 How much would this make me? 352 00:25:50,734 --> 00:25:53,444 You need some more money? 353 00:25:53,604 --> 00:25:54,724 No... 354 00:25:55,244 --> 00:25:56,775 If you do, then just tell me. 355 00:25:56,852 --> 00:26:00,871 If it's someone like you, I'll be glad to help you out. 356 00:26:03,148 --> 00:26:05,016 Where... 357 00:26:05,329 --> 00:26:07,366 Seonsaengnim! 358 00:26:07,430 --> 00:26:09,495 Park Seonsaengnim! 359 00:26:17,949 --> 00:26:19,500 You... 360 00:26:19,590 --> 00:26:21,641 Where have you been? 361 00:26:22,646 --> 00:26:25,671 I hear you asked Kim Cha Yong for some money?! 362 00:26:27,251 --> 00:26:28,628 Lee Seonbae... 363 00:26:28,707 --> 00:26:30,742 Go ahead. Tell me. 364 00:26:30,852 --> 00:26:32,209 What? 365 00:26:35,273 --> 00:26:37,208 Just speak to me! 366 00:26:42,362 --> 00:26:43,975 I'll get going. 367 00:26:46,533 --> 00:26:47,823 In Hwan! 368 00:26:47,966 --> 00:26:50,496 Go back home at least! 369 00:26:50,704 --> 00:26:54,228 Do you realize how worried your wife is? 370 00:27:09,510 --> 00:27:11,277 Jin Seop Hyung! 371 00:27:14,047 --> 00:27:15,767 Ohh... Isn't this In Hwan?! 372 00:27:15,862 --> 00:27:17,252 Let's have a drink. 373 00:27:17,362 --> 00:27:19,313 Just go home. 374 00:27:19,943 --> 00:27:21,227 Jin Seop Hyung. 375 00:27:21,355 --> 00:27:22,692 Have a drink with me. 376 00:27:22,803 --> 00:27:24,453 Aigoo... that smell. 377 00:27:24,563 --> 00:27:26,799 Have you been drinking all day? 378 00:27:26,954 --> 00:27:31,336 I'm still sober! Let's have a drink. 379 00:27:32,203 --> 00:27:33,975 Ahh... really. 380 00:27:36,214 --> 00:27:38,006 All right, I got it. 381 00:27:38,102 --> 00:27:40,567 Then, we'll only have a drink and leave. 382 00:27:40,711 --> 00:27:41,920 - Ajumma. - Yes. 383 00:27:41,968 --> 00:27:44,213 - Give us something to drink. - Yes. 384 00:27:47,618 --> 00:27:50,404 Promise, just this and we go. 385 00:27:50,738 --> 00:27:52,629 All right... 386 00:27:53,365 --> 00:27:55,594 An emergency order has been issued to everyone in Myeongdong. 387 00:27:55,657 --> 00:27:56,867 That, should anyone meet Park In Hwan, 388 00:27:56,931 --> 00:27:59,160 they should neither give him money nor pay him a drink. 389 00:27:59,351 --> 00:28:01,197 What on earth is wrong with you? 390 00:28:17,594 --> 00:28:20,253 "This exhausting life." 391 00:28:20,317 --> 00:28:24,496 "Falling down, brick by brick." 392 00:28:24,679 --> 00:28:26,923 "And in this trend I join," 393 00:28:27,576 --> 00:28:31,849 "Walking the last few steps towards the dark," 394 00:28:32,161 --> 00:28:37,446 "Yet gasping in frantic urge, for those last few breaths." 395 00:28:37,717 --> 00:28:41,872 "Yet witnessing a limpid stream of consciousness, trapping me." 396 00:28:43,782 --> 00:28:45,904 "O!" 397 00:28:47,185 --> 00:28:51,420 "Witness the scene behind my last spectacle's curtains." 398 00:28:52,582 --> 00:29:02,516 "Money for drinks, shoes, books is what only yesterday they wanted back," 399 00:29:02,656 --> 00:29:05,938 "Those compeers now witnessing the final show." 400 00:29:22,512 --> 00:29:23,972 You puked it all out? 401 00:29:24,677 --> 00:29:27,622 I had some jjajangmyeon earlier today, 402 00:29:27,717 --> 00:29:29,246 and it seems like that messed me up. 403 00:29:29,453 --> 00:29:31,170 Then, it's time to stop. 404 00:29:31,425 --> 00:29:34,211 We'll finish this another time, so let's just get up. 405 00:29:34,322 --> 00:29:37,363 Aigoo... we said we'd first finish this. 406 00:29:37,474 --> 00:29:40,388 Only this can make my indigestion go away. 407 00:29:52,017 --> 00:29:54,216 Jin Seop Hyung. 408 00:29:54,517 --> 00:29:58,576 I only recently found out about the essence of life. 409 00:29:58,703 --> 00:30:00,996 Should I tell what that is? 410 00:30:01,539 --> 00:30:02,749 What is it? 411 00:30:02,909 --> 00:30:06,010 Is it something comparable to Buddha's enlightenment?! 412 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,009 I might not be cultivating my mind under lime trees, 413 00:30:11,455 --> 00:30:15,482 but it is quite a striking and significant truth about life. 414 00:30:18,132 --> 00:30:23,617 "If money falls in our pockets, let us first buy some food!" 415 00:30:23,824 --> 00:30:27,295 If money falls in our pockets, let us first buy some food... 416 00:30:28,664 --> 00:30:30,224 And what is that?! 417 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,509 Listen to that... Are you kidding me? 418 00:30:32,883 --> 00:30:33,551 Why? 419 00:30:33,647 --> 00:30:36,385 You're telling me you only realized that now? 420 00:30:36,496 --> 00:30:38,948 That noble and sacred essence of life you talked about. 421 00:30:39,060 --> 00:30:40,370 Indeed. 422 00:30:40,869 --> 00:30:44,133 There is nothing more special than that mantra. 423 00:30:44,683 --> 00:30:47,715 Hunger is not what creates art. 424 00:30:47,984 --> 00:30:52,955 You first need to put something on the table, and then worry about art and whatnot. 425 00:30:53,055 --> 00:30:53,935 Of course! 426 00:30:54,085 --> 00:30:56,625 If you begin starving, just living as a normal human being is hard, 427 00:30:56,745 --> 00:30:58,987 so what would art ever matter?! 428 00:30:59,908 --> 00:31:02,079 You're right. 429 00:31:02,780 --> 00:31:05,645 That is why Su Young is raising chickens. 430 00:31:05,788 --> 00:31:08,190 Wh...What's that supposed to mean? 431 00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:11,997 By enduring the extreme hardships the war put him through, 432 00:31:12,156 --> 00:31:15,467 he must have discovered that simple but important philosophy of life. 433 00:31:17,298 --> 00:31:20,052 Facing the horror of death, 434 00:31:20,236 --> 00:31:22,747 the pain of starvation, 435 00:31:22,887 --> 00:31:26,898 that is exactly the kind of truth Su Young found. 436 00:31:27,218 --> 00:31:29,986 Perhaps art is merely a lie! 437 00:31:30,578 --> 00:31:35,033 Equally pretentious and mendacious. 438 00:31:38,871 --> 00:31:44,442 How childish would I have looked to Su Young's eyes, then?! 439 00:31:45,476 --> 00:31:47,059 Yes! 440 00:31:47,896 --> 00:31:51,446 I am nothing but a poseur. 441 00:31:58,808 --> 00:32:01,196 Can you really get home by yourself? 442 00:32:01,323 --> 00:32:03,079 Should I come along? 443 00:32:03,179 --> 00:32:04,959 No worries... 444 00:32:05,287 --> 00:32:11,050 I could find the way home from Myeongdong even blindfolded. 445 00:32:11,337 --> 00:32:14,310 I guess... rain or snow, 446 00:32:14,410 --> 00:32:17,300 it's the road you take 365 days a year. 447 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,901 All right, then. Be careful. 448 00:32:20,013 --> 00:32:24,192 You needn't worry about me. 449 00:32:26,142 --> 00:32:27,941 Bye Bye... 450 00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:10,429 {\a6}~ Bronze Coffee Shop ~ 451 00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:10,429 Seonsaengnim. 452 00:33:13,741 --> 00:33:18,373 Those cigarettes you so fervently enjoy. 453 00:33:18,660 --> 00:33:23,022 That fervor instantly vanishing into smoke, 454 00:33:23,181 --> 00:33:26,190 capturing your everyday imagination... 455 00:33:27,018 --> 00:33:30,329 I think I can finally understand its beauty. 456 00:33:32,889 --> 00:33:35,198 Seonsaengnim! 457 00:33:35,452 --> 00:33:38,465 I wish you good health. 458 00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:11,383 Dear! 459 00:34:14,742 --> 00:34:16,888 What's wrong with you? 460 00:34:18,162 --> 00:34:19,866 It's suffocating me... 461 00:34:20,366 --> 00:34:22,057 What is?! 462 00:34:23,316 --> 00:34:24,567 Here... 463 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:29,454 It suffocates me. 464 00:34:35,854 --> 00:34:37,127 Dear! 465 00:34:37,334 --> 00:34:38,687 Dear! 466 00:34:38,799 --> 00:34:40,518 Dear! 467 00:34:40,773 --> 00:34:42,556 Dear!! 468 00:35:07,373 --> 00:35:11,403 ~ Mourning Lantern ~ 469 00:35:25,449 --> 00:35:27,280 He just... 470 00:35:27,853 --> 00:35:30,878 collapsed in front of our gates. 471 00:35:32,915 --> 00:35:34,441 But even after bringing him in, lying down, he said, 472 00:35:34,521 --> 00:35:35,921 "It's suffocating." 473 00:35:38,596 --> 00:35:42,369 "My heart is suffocating me." 474 00:35:44,170 --> 00:35:45,521 So... 475 00:35:46,938 --> 00:35:49,167 I went to the pharmacy, 476 00:35:49,374 --> 00:35:52,860 and bought him some digestives and tranquilizers. 477 00:35:56,187 --> 00:35:58,432 "It's suffocating me." 478 00:36:00,438 --> 00:36:02,428 "Suffocating." 479 00:36:21,912 --> 00:36:24,449 It's Johnny Walker, In Hwan. 480 00:36:25,716 --> 00:36:29,521 Your favorite, Johnny Walker. 481 00:36:31,902 --> 00:36:33,708 Why did he... 482 00:36:33,947 --> 00:36:36,351 drink his life away?! 483 00:36:51,538 --> 00:36:53,416 In Hwan... 484 00:36:56,935 --> 00:36:58,988 Coming home... 485 00:36:59,975 --> 00:37:02,538 puking it all out the entire night. 486 00:37:06,610 --> 00:37:07,924 Drink. 487 00:37:09,055 --> 00:37:13,910 Drink all you want, and then you can go. 488 00:37:17,890 --> 00:37:20,811 If you'd always end up puking it out, 489 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,065 why even drink so much?! 490 00:37:31,961 --> 00:37:34,938 Didn't they say that those with a beautiful spirit... 491 00:37:35,113 --> 00:37:37,754 are the first to leave?! 492 00:37:40,584 --> 00:37:44,005 Is that really true? 493 00:37:45,604 --> 00:37:47,292 He was only... 494 00:37:48,422 --> 00:37:49,823 barely... 495 00:37:50,786 --> 00:37:52,975 thirty-one years old. 496 00:37:56,652 --> 00:37:58,626 Drink! 497 00:38:06,857 --> 00:38:10,416 "You were the shiniest of our stars," 498 00:38:10,591 --> 00:38:12,645 "Your prose resplendent with beauty." 499 00:38:12,788 --> 00:38:17,644 "You spent your life with the spontaneous joy of a playful child." 500 00:38:18,089 --> 00:38:20,286 "In Hwan, all the people who loved you," 501 00:38:20,414 --> 00:38:21,926 "Cherished your company," 502 00:38:22,117 --> 00:38:25,890 "Who will forever remember that happiness money couldn't buy," 503 00:38:26,065 --> 00:38:30,744 "They are all gathered before you, lamenting this loss." 504 00:38:31,509 --> 00:38:34,625 "As if betraying our long-lasting friendship," 505 00:38:34,736 --> 00:38:37,713 "You are the first to leave us all." 506 00:38:41,979 --> 00:38:44,097 "The buoyant prose gracing your lips," 507 00:38:44,208 --> 00:38:48,204 "The burning fire caressing the pages with your poems and critiques," 508 00:38:48,331 --> 00:38:51,770 "The passion drenching your loneliness and despair," 509 00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:56,986 "They have now taken the last ride on that Wooden Horse." 510 00:39:04,570 --> 00:39:08,900 The elegy Jo Byung Hwa wrote for him. 511 00:39:09,711 --> 00:39:10,937 Yes. 512 00:39:11,749 --> 00:39:13,755 Park In Hwan left behind... 513 00:39:13,946 --> 00:39:20,712 all his cherished friends and family, and abandoned Myeongdong. 514 00:39:22,686 --> 00:39:24,548 He abandoned the cruelties of life, 515 00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:31,855 of the war and poverty altogether, and bid us farewell. 516 00:39:34,674 --> 00:39:37,873 Couldn't a poison named alcohol be what his feeble and sentimental soul... 517 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,906 chose to write the final passage of his glorious life with? 518 00:40:05,207 --> 00:40:07,485 You wretched fool. 519 00:40:08,327 --> 00:40:11,909 You don't even show up at the funeral of an inseparable friend like him?! 520 00:40:12,036 --> 00:40:13,596 Who the hell are you?! 521 00:40:13,692 --> 00:40:17,019 What is so great about you, to act so haughty and indifferent?! 522 00:41:51,024 --> 00:41:53,730 I thought you would endure it all as well. 523 00:41:54,542 --> 00:41:56,055 I... 524 00:41:57,790 --> 00:42:00,846 thought you would put all that in the past. 525 00:42:03,775 --> 00:42:06,752 Even someone as inflexible as me made it... 526 00:42:07,214 --> 00:42:09,156 In Hwan. 527 00:42:10,016 --> 00:42:13,009 Didn't you hold this world in your hands, 528 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,446 with your smiles, your romanticism, your glamorous gestures and... 529 00:42:15,494 --> 00:42:17,404 all that wonderful talent of yours?! 530 00:42:21,113 --> 00:42:22,726 But... 531 00:42:23,204 --> 00:42:26,404 But you're the first to fall down?! 532 00:42:42,403 --> 00:42:48,967 "A drink in hand, we converse on the life of Virginia Woolf." 533 00:42:49,556 --> 00:42:55,650 "And of that lady's skirt, she who left riding the wooden horse." 534 00:42:59,776 --> 00:43:02,674 "Time, coming and going." 535 00:43:02,833 --> 00:43:06,622 "Avoiding isolation, and then withering." 536 00:43:06,988 --> 00:43:12,270 "It's indeed time, we should part ways." 537 00:43:38,747 --> 00:43:46,150 {\a6}3rd Presidential Elections (May 1956) 538 00:43:40,371 --> 00:43:45,386 May 15, 1956 marked the start of the third presidential elections. 539 00:43:45,545 --> 00:43:48,889 The Liberal Party's candidate was the current president, Lee Seung Man, 540 00:43:48,985 --> 00:43:52,022 while their candidate for vice-president was Lee Gi Bong. 541 00:43:52,153 --> 00:43:54,311 Contending with them was the Democratic Party, 542 00:43:54,411 --> 00:43:56,832 with Shin Ik Hee and Jang Myeon as their respective candidates, 543 00:43:56,912 --> 00:44:01,513 right as Shin Ik Hee's popularity was touching the sky. 544 00:44:04,251 --> 00:44:07,832 Democracy, my ass. Will democracy feed you?! 545 00:44:07,932 --> 00:44:12,990 Without freedom of the press, people can't live, you moron. 546 00:44:13,094 --> 00:44:15,697 What I'm asking is whether your mouth feeds you! 547 00:44:15,814 --> 00:44:17,846 Why, are you using something else to eat other than your mouth?! 548 00:44:17,925 --> 00:44:21,415 - Shut your mouth! - Can't people even speak?! 549 00:44:21,638 --> 00:44:25,538 Keep acting like that, and you can forget about setting up a shop. 550 00:44:25,729 --> 00:44:28,022 Don't even dream of borrowing money from me. 551 00:44:28,149 --> 00:44:30,446 Aigoo... look at that, look! 552 00:44:30,596 --> 00:44:33,737 Uh?! He makes a little money, and he's already blackmailing people! 553 00:44:33,832 --> 00:44:36,236 - Aigoo... - Can't take this anymore! Let's change! 554 00:44:36,363 --> 00:44:38,735 Think anything will really change? 555 00:44:38,847 --> 00:44:41,537 Mr. Hwang. Say something, will you? 556 00:44:41,665 --> 00:44:46,711 Didn't this country get rid of communism thanks to Lee Seung Man?! 557 00:44:46,839 --> 00:44:50,166 Still, you need to change every now and then. 558 00:44:50,325 --> 00:44:52,611 First time I see a northern fella take the commies' side. 559 00:44:52,751 --> 00:44:54,001 What are you prattling about? 560 00:44:54,121 --> 00:44:55,982 Are you saying Shin Ik Hee Seonsaengnim is a commie? 561 00:44:56,112 --> 00:45:00,529 Jo Bong Am... Jo Bong Am is one, you idiot. 562 00:45:00,912 --> 00:45:02,343 Listen, Hong. 563 00:45:03,462 --> 00:45:05,464 Don't even mention such nonsense. 564 00:45:05,624 --> 00:45:07,582 Stagnation will only bring stench. 565 00:45:07,757 --> 00:45:11,724 And also, Lee Seung Man doing two terms is enough already. 566 00:45:11,824 --> 00:45:15,510 Lee Gi Bong is no president material. Uh?! 567 00:45:15,621 --> 00:45:18,716 If the Liberal Party wins again, 568 00:45:18,887 --> 00:45:23,326 Lee Seung Man will eventually leave his post to Lee Gi Bong, 569 00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:25,475 that's the issue. 570 00:45:25,571 --> 00:45:28,755 That's why we must vote for Shin Ik Hee Seonsaengnim! 571 00:45:28,866 --> 00:45:29,614 Indeed! 572 00:45:29,726 --> 00:45:31,843 Yes, that's right! No doubt! 573 00:45:31,954 --> 00:45:35,218 Listen to them prattle like ninnies. 574 00:45:35,313 --> 00:45:38,879 That's why you keep sitting on boards and dream about setting up stores. 575 00:45:38,975 --> 00:45:41,140 I can't take this anymore, let's change! 576 00:45:41,267 --> 00:45:43,655 Changing is no use, you ass. 577 00:45:56,598 --> 00:45:57,871 Ajumma. 578 00:45:57,983 --> 00:45:59,543 Come over here. 579 00:46:03,204 --> 00:46:04,176 I said come here! 580 00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,344 Close an eye, I need to make a living as well. 581 00:46:08,824 --> 00:46:12,486 White Bear Ajeosshi asks for too much. 582 00:46:23,935 --> 00:46:25,014 Ajeosshi. 583 00:46:25,094 --> 00:46:28,535 Come here as well while I'm just talking. 584 00:46:29,845 --> 00:46:32,635 Think about it, Lee Sajang. 585 00:46:32,795 --> 00:46:36,317 This time, you need to take a stand. 586 00:46:37,288 --> 00:46:39,639 I have no interest in politics. 587 00:46:39,749 --> 00:46:42,605 And who asked you to get involved in politics?! 588 00:46:42,731 --> 00:46:44,742 Look at Lee Jung Jae. 589 00:46:44,872 --> 00:46:47,502 See how he's getting all involved in this election. 590 00:46:47,671 --> 00:46:50,772 What could he possibly be scheming? Uh? 591 00:46:50,953 --> 00:46:55,452 That is exactly Myeongdong! To gain control of Myeongdong, 592 00:46:55,596 --> 00:46:58,816 he's sticking to Lee Gi Bong all the time, that's what! 593 00:47:26,177 --> 00:47:29,743 Looks like Sirasoni has joined the Democratic Party. 594 00:47:30,606 --> 00:47:33,387 It seems he's acting as an escort to Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng. 595 00:47:35,299 --> 00:47:37,389 What are you going to do? 596 00:47:38,409 --> 00:47:39,772 Well... 597 00:47:39,963 --> 00:47:43,709 Shouldn't I choose one side, whichever it is?! 598 00:47:45,392 --> 00:47:47,334 Listen, Boss Shin. 599 00:47:47,812 --> 00:47:49,180 Yes, Sajangnim. 600 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,495 A caterpillar lives off pine needles, 601 00:47:54,132 --> 00:47:58,220 and should a crow tit start walking like a stork, its crotch will tear apart. 602 00:47:58,391 --> 00:48:01,343 Gangsters should live by the fist. 603 00:48:01,471 --> 00:48:04,018 If they start smelling the taste of power and politics, 604 00:48:04,241 --> 00:48:06,645 it could easily ruin them. Understood? 605 00:48:07,186 --> 00:48:09,399 I am certainly aware of that, 606 00:48:09,797 --> 00:48:11,977 but with all those detectives harassing us... 607 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,667 You can't just let any burden like that get to you. 608 00:48:14,811 --> 00:48:17,167 You'll regret it later. 609 00:48:19,556 --> 00:48:22,882 Yes, I understand, Lee Sajangnim. 610 00:49:00,744 --> 00:49:01,954 Looking for me?! 611 00:49:02,054 --> 00:49:03,636 Aigoo... 612 00:49:03,922 --> 00:49:05,817 Keep this up, and see what happens. 613 00:49:05,928 --> 00:49:07,711 Do as you please. 614 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:18,441 Welcome. 615 00:49:20,788 --> 00:49:22,429 - Welcome. - Yes. 616 00:49:24,858 --> 00:49:27,899 Aigoo... business is going well. 617 00:49:28,025 --> 00:49:31,304 Money always follows all elections. 618 00:49:31,463 --> 00:49:35,682 Once this election is over, why you don't you call it quits? 619 00:49:35,859 --> 00:49:36,859 Listen to him. 620 00:49:36,969 --> 00:49:40,728 I can pile up money just by sitting here, why should I? 621 00:49:41,413 --> 00:49:43,801 Know who came here tonight? 622 00:49:43,922 --> 00:49:45,886 Kwak Young Ju came. 623 00:49:46,042 --> 00:49:47,860 He's this over at Gyeongmudae (Blue House). 624 00:49:47,988 --> 00:49:50,583 You're starting to lust over politics as well? 625 00:49:50,853 --> 00:49:54,117 People are political and social animals. 626 00:49:54,308 --> 00:49:55,661 Whichever trade you work in, 627 00:49:55,744 --> 00:49:58,383 you must get in touch with politicians, if you want it easy. 628 00:49:58,877 --> 00:49:59,943 Hwa Ryong. 629 00:50:00,134 --> 00:50:02,092 Why don't you work as escort for Lee Gi Bong? 630 00:50:02,172 --> 00:50:04,234 Don't let Lee Jung Jae steal your spot. 631 00:50:04,364 --> 00:50:06,852 Did Kwak Young Ju come here to ask that? 632 00:50:06,964 --> 00:50:08,349 Aigoo... listen. 633 00:50:08,476 --> 00:50:11,317 Someone much higher up asked me. 634 00:50:11,469 --> 00:50:15,528 Aigoo! My sister's flying up high, it seems! 635 00:50:15,751 --> 00:50:17,311 Are you out of money? 636 00:50:17,407 --> 00:50:19,094 Don't worry. 637 00:50:19,476 --> 00:50:21,578 I can make a decent living, now. 638 00:50:21,849 --> 00:50:22,947 Hwa Ryong. 639 00:50:23,058 --> 00:50:24,810 Swim in a big pond. 640 00:50:24,905 --> 00:50:29,681 When are you ever going to make it big, trapped down there in Myeongdong?! 641 00:50:35,699 --> 00:50:38,660 In a political atmosphere where anti-communism was the be all and end all, 642 00:50:38,771 --> 00:50:42,553 a democratic slogan became the rage. 643 00:50:45,139 --> 00:50:47,766 Through the 1954 parliamentary elections, 644 00:50:47,861 --> 00:50:56,665 {\a6}Park Tae Gyun (SNU professor) 645 00:50:47,861 --> 00:50:52,665 a relatively solid party system was established, 646 00:50:52,861 --> 00:50:56,665 leading to the 1956 presidentials. 647 00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:02,014 The 1948 elections favored candidates without party affiliations, 648 00:51:02,157 --> 00:51:08,349 but in 1954, party affiliations started making their mark, 649 00:51:08,413 --> 00:51:11,151 after which the Democratic Party was formed in 1955. 650 00:51:11,247 --> 00:51:16,803 With the Liberal Party's presence in the parliament through the 1954 elections, 651 00:51:16,851 --> 00:51:22,406 we essentially moved to a bipartisan political system. 652 00:51:22,550 --> 00:51:24,826 {\a6}Hong Seok Ryul (Seongshin Univ. History professor) 653 00:51:22,550 --> 00:51:24,826 Back then, president and vice president... 654 00:51:24,874 --> 00:51:26,514 were elected separately. 655 00:51:26,641 --> 00:51:34,139 But, because Lee Seung Man was already way past his seventies, 656 00:51:34,314 --> 00:51:37,339 and because the vice-president had rights of succession, 657 00:51:37,450 --> 00:51:39,982 that election was tremendously important as well. 658 00:51:40,109 --> 00:51:45,983 So the election for vice-president saw the Liberal Party's Lee Gi Bong... 659 00:51:46,127 --> 00:51:52,510 square off against the Democratic Party's Jang Myeon, 660 00:51:52,601 --> 00:51:56,341 with Jang Myeon winning by a really wide margin. 661 00:51:56,461 --> 00:52:00,712 {\a6}Seo Jung Seok (Seonggyungwan History professor) 662 00:51:56,461 --> 00:52:00,712 At the time, a really popular slogan emerged: 663 00:52:00,822 --> 00:52:02,476 "We can't take it anymore, let's change!" 664 00:52:02,587 --> 00:52:06,763 It went more or less like this, and was incredibly popular. 665 00:52:06,822 --> 00:52:09,554 The Liberal Party responded with a "Changing will be of no use." 666 00:52:09,664 --> 00:52:16,606 They did try to counter with that, but it didn't make much of an impact. 667 00:52:16,772 --> 00:52:22,180 The Democratic Party's slogan was effective in attracting people, 668 00:52:22,248 --> 00:52:27,470 disenchanted with the Liberal Party's corruption and tyranny, 669 00:52:27,581 --> 00:52:33,869 and the fact that Lee Seung Man was once again candidate for presidency. 670 00:52:33,949 --> 00:52:36,719 All these factors put together made a big impact. 671 00:52:37,165 --> 00:52:39,336 It's Lee Jung Seop. 672 00:52:44,312 --> 00:52:45,204 Lee Hyung. 673 00:52:45,284 --> 00:52:47,051 What are you doing? 674 00:52:48,428 --> 00:52:50,158 Lee Hyung. 675 00:52:56,171 --> 00:52:57,462 Ahh... Will you stop him? 676 00:52:57,510 --> 00:53:00,901 He's been doing that all day. 677 00:53:01,092 --> 00:53:03,050 Really? 678 00:53:06,743 --> 00:53:08,606 He's completely out of his mind. 679 00:53:08,669 --> 00:53:13,891 The soil is all battered, what is he trying to do?! 680 00:53:16,603 --> 00:53:17,919 Lee Hyung. 681 00:53:18,014 --> 00:53:18,937 Ahh... Lee Hyung! 682 00:53:19,017 --> 00:53:22,111 Lee Hyung, that's enough. 683 00:53:22,813 --> 00:53:25,645 Ahh... it's done! 684 00:53:25,975 --> 00:53:26,743 Lee Hyung. 685 00:53:26,903 --> 00:53:29,536 I bought some bean jam for you, let's go in. 686 00:53:29,615 --> 00:53:31,246 It's clean, uh? 687 00:53:33,256 --> 00:53:35,184 It's dirty again?! 688 00:53:36,092 --> 00:53:37,956 Lee Hyung! 689 00:53:38,192 --> 00:53:41,656 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 690 00:53:41,741 --> 00:53:45,272 Main Translator and Timer: MisterX 691 00:53:45,391 --> 00:53:48,892 Timing QC: wichitawx 692 00:53:48,991 --> 00:53:52,489 Editor/QC: thunderbolt 693 00:53:52,582 --> 00:53:56,099 Coordinators: mily2, ay_link 694 00:53:56,380 --> 00:53:58,400 That's enough, Lee Hyung! 695 00:53:59,462 --> 00:54:01,733 I said give it a rest! 696 00:54:04,454 --> 00:54:07,207 You're bleeding! 697 00:54:08,210 --> 00:54:10,104 My wife... 698 00:54:11,145 --> 00:54:15,182 My wife abandoned me. 699 00:54:16,662 --> 00:54:19,055 I want to kill her. 700 00:54:22,568 --> 00:54:25,466 Why didn't she bring me along? 701 00:54:26,587 --> 00:54:28,093 Balgarak (toes). 702 00:54:28,707 --> 00:54:30,274 My Balgarak. 703 00:54:30,592 --> 00:54:32,120 My Balgarak... 704 00:54:32,502 --> 00:54:33,808 I hate her. 705 00:54:33,948 --> 00:54:35,369 I hate her! 706 00:54:35,498 --> 00:54:36,620 I want to kill her. 707 00:54:36,699 --> 00:54:40,695 On the next episode, following Park In Hwan, 708 00:54:40,854 --> 00:54:43,768 we will bid farewell to Lee Jung Seop. 709 00:54:44,579 --> 00:54:50,537 Please do NOT hardsub and/or stream this episode using our English subtitles. 710 00:54:50,779 --> 00:54:56,246 This is a FREE fansub. 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