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Get it for FREE @ withs2.com 3 00:00:04,427 --> 00:00:08,534 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:08,788 --> 00:00:10,752 While the Korean War was in full swing, 5 00:00:10,908 --> 00:00:13,911 Lee Jung Seop spent nearly a year in Sagwipo, Jeju Island, 6 00:00:11,427 --> 00:00:14,269 {\a6}~ Episode 16 ~ 7 00:00:13,993 --> 00:00:16,241 finding refuge there along with his family. 8 00:00:17,013 --> 00:00:20,280 He might have had refugee documents and was thus served rations, 9 00:00:20,596 --> 00:00:23,605 but it certainly wasn't enough food to feed his family. 10 00:00:23,757 --> 00:00:26,520 That is why he and his wife Masako would head to the beach... 11 00:00:26,614 --> 00:00:31,872 to catch sea squirt and crabs, overcoming the lack of rations. 12 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:38,159 However, this was the happiest period in Lee Jung Seop's life. 13 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:41,194 Shall we take a closer look at this painting? 14 00:00:44,211 --> 00:00:48,595 As small islets loom on the horizon, kids eat berries hanging from the tree... 15 00:00:48,774 --> 00:00:55,979 on the open beach, while two other children carry more fruits. 16 00:00:56,272 --> 00:00:59,491 Another gathers the fruits fallen from the trees, 17 00:00:59,643 --> 00:01:01,142 one lies down looking at the sky, 18 00:01:01,318 --> 00:01:06,212 and finally two children taking down branches full of fruits fill the bottom, 19 00:01:06,446 --> 00:01:09,206 while a child climbing the tree to grab fruits, 20 00:01:09,306 --> 00:01:13,947 and others riding on birds' backs dominate the middle portion. 21 00:01:14,757 --> 00:01:18,256 It is one of Lee Jung Seop's most beautiful works, 22 00:01:18,338 --> 00:01:21,956 brimming with vitality and painting what is akin to an utopia. 23 00:01:23,173 --> 00:01:25,774 "Sagwipo Landscape Showing Seop Island," 24 00:01:26,020 --> 00:01:30,948 one of the few realistic landscape paintings in Lee's career. 25 00:01:31,791 --> 00:01:36,879 {\a6}Boys on the Beach (1951) 26 00:01:31,791 --> 00:01:36,879 Seven boys fishing from a boat or a rock, together entangled. 27 00:01:37,125 --> 00:01:41,235 This was another painting brimming with energy and vitality. 28 00:01:43,369 --> 00:01:46,902 Lee Jung Seop might have gained notoriety for painting cows, 29 00:01:47,031 --> 00:01:50,040 but there were also quite the few interesting anecdotes regarding that. 30 00:01:50,462 --> 00:01:56,514 A farmer living near Lee's house in Sagwipo was raising a cow named Ibbeuni (Cutie), 31 00:01:56,630 --> 00:02:04,516 and so cute was this cow, Lee would stare at it every day on his way home. 32 00:02:04,972 --> 00:02:09,058 But the owner, thinking he might have been there to steal it, 33 00:02:09,163 --> 00:02:14,045 kept observing Lee's movements very closely. 34 00:02:19,631 --> 00:02:21,642 Drawn with pencils on paper, 35 00:02:21,759 --> 00:02:23,913 "Cow Drawn by the Fish." 36 00:02:24,627 --> 00:02:28,542 Lee Jung Seop's later works were confessing... 37 00:02:28,624 --> 00:02:31,511 that the cows he witnessed in Sagwipo... 38 00:02:31,624 --> 00:02:34,511 showed the same sense of stability and purity... 39 00:02:34,651 --> 00:02:40,213 of the cows from before the war, marking an important turning point in his style. 40 00:02:41,149 --> 00:02:42,215 However, 41 00:02:42,625 --> 00:02:45,118 from the moment he returned to Busan, 42 00:02:45,329 --> 00:02:49,268 his works started assuming a significantly darker tone. 43 00:02:52,428 --> 00:02:57,059 The pure and peaceful cows Lee witnessed on Jeju Island... 44 00:02:57,169 --> 00:03:02,040 started becoming ravaged by anger, anxiety and despair. 45 00:03:02,415 --> 00:03:05,646 Lee Jung Seop's cows, howling their angst at the world, 46 00:03:06,197 --> 00:03:09,182 cows rushing forward blinded by rage. 47 00:03:09,545 --> 00:03:15,757 So haggard and rough, so overcome with sadness, 48 00:03:16,237 --> 00:03:20,148 these cows represented Lee Jung Seop's own psyche. 49 00:03:25,943 --> 00:03:29,771 - This... this... - What?! 50 00:03:32,556 --> 00:03:34,710 - Ta... Tae Seong... - Yeah. 51 00:03:34,933 --> 00:03:40,927 He started school, and he's so likeable that he's made a lot of friends. 52 00:03:41,066 --> 00:03:43,234 Ahh... really?! 53 00:03:43,374 --> 00:03:45,205 - And... listen to this... - Yeah. 54 00:03:45,454 --> 00:03:48,856 She says she's working hard and saving money, 55 00:03:48,966 --> 00:03:52,108 to bring me to Japan with them. 56 00:04:12,778 --> 00:04:14,121 Lee Hyung! 57 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:16,659 Didn't I tell you not to serve him drinks?! 58 00:04:16,748 --> 00:04:18,868 Drinking is like poison to him, poison! 59 00:04:19,202 --> 00:04:20,911 Ahh... Lee Hyung! 60 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,209 Think of your health! 61 00:04:23,299 --> 00:04:26,524 Only then you'll be able to join your family in Japan. 62 00:04:27,543 --> 00:04:29,291 Just... just a sip. 63 00:04:29,381 --> 00:04:31,266 My throat is just killing me. 64 00:04:32,061 --> 00:04:33,606 Just one! 65 00:04:33,770 --> 00:04:35,058 I said no! 66 00:04:35,175 --> 00:04:36,652 Lee Hyung! 67 00:04:36,742 --> 00:04:38,418 Lee... Hyung! 68 00:04:46,434 --> 00:04:48,369 Have something to eat first, Lee Hyung. 69 00:04:49,364 --> 00:04:52,420 If you eat some, I'll give you a drink. 70 00:05:01,217 --> 00:05:02,572 Jung Seop... 71 00:05:15,278 --> 00:05:16,519 Jung Seop! 72 00:05:16,647 --> 00:05:19,129 What did you do to your hand? 73 00:05:19,258 --> 00:05:21,589 How are you going to paint now? 74 00:05:22,939 --> 00:05:25,336 I hate painting. 75 00:05:26,272 --> 00:05:28,485 I won't do that. 76 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:30,745 They're not paintings. 77 00:05:33,561 --> 00:05:37,085 I will burn them all to shreds. 78 00:05:37,721 --> 00:05:39,180 My paintings... 79 00:05:40,431 --> 00:05:41,744 are nothing. 80 00:05:42,671 --> 00:05:44,074 They're not paintings. 81 00:05:44,871 --> 00:05:46,239 They're not... 82 00:05:46,882 --> 00:05:48,347 They're not... 83 00:05:48,663 --> 00:05:49,892 They're not... 84 00:05:50,349 --> 00:05:51,789 They're not. 85 00:05:57,282 --> 00:05:58,593 Lee Hyung. 86 00:05:59,352 --> 00:06:01,338 There's something I was curious about. 87 00:06:01,467 --> 00:06:03,153 Can I ask you? 88 00:06:05,307 --> 00:06:08,040 Sometimes, when people speak to you, 89 00:06:08,438 --> 00:06:10,861 you don't seem to hear them. 90 00:06:11,681 --> 00:06:16,106 Is that really the case, or are you just pretending? 91 00:06:18,424 --> 00:06:21,725 Also, sometimes you don't recognize people. 92 00:06:22,030 --> 00:06:26,666 Is that really what happens, or are you just faking it? 93 00:06:26,994 --> 00:06:30,095 I don't mean anything by it... 94 00:06:30,189 --> 00:06:31,910 I was just curious. 95 00:06:33,607 --> 00:06:37,283 Curious whether I'm crazy or not? 96 00:06:37,389 --> 00:06:40,398 Listen to you... It's not that... 97 00:06:40,728 --> 00:06:42,169 I erase it. 98 00:06:43,579 --> 00:06:46,500 One by one, I erase it all. 99 00:06:47,239 --> 00:06:48,491 What? 100 00:06:50,469 --> 00:06:51,801 Attachment. 101 00:06:53,419 --> 00:06:55,029 To living... 102 00:06:55,529 --> 00:06:57,259 My wife... 103 00:06:57,619 --> 00:06:58,849 The kids... 104 00:06:59,143 --> 00:07:02,650 Paintings... Regret... 105 00:07:02,749 --> 00:07:04,072 Desire... 106 00:07:04,821 --> 00:07:06,203 Anger. 107 00:07:06,613 --> 00:07:09,071 What's that supposed to mean? 108 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,912 Only then I will be able to leave. 109 00:07:14,691 --> 00:07:16,167 I'll bury it all deep down. 110 00:07:16,249 --> 00:07:18,555 How can you say that? 111 00:07:21,041 --> 00:07:22,220 I really... 112 00:07:22,712 --> 00:07:24,819 wish I could go crazy. 113 00:07:25,581 --> 00:07:27,348 How nice would that be?! 114 00:07:27,691 --> 00:07:29,795 I'd forget about everything in the world, 115 00:07:30,134 --> 00:07:31,597 and just wander in madness... 116 00:07:31,808 --> 00:07:35,493 I see you're doing just fine, after all! 117 00:07:38,423 --> 00:07:42,497 Know what's the hardest thing in life? 118 00:07:43,804 --> 00:07:45,670 Pretending to be mad. 119 00:07:45,869 --> 00:07:50,868 So, because you were tired of people, you jumped off the second floor? 120 00:07:50,985 --> 00:07:52,589 To pretend you were crazy? 121 00:07:54,105 --> 00:07:57,060 My entire life is just a big excuse. 122 00:07:58,285 --> 00:08:01,053 I can't paint anything for real, 123 00:08:02,095 --> 00:08:04,363 so I use my wife as an excuse, 124 00:08:05,057 --> 00:08:06,482 my kids... 125 00:08:07,237 --> 00:08:08,706 poverty... 126 00:08:09,379 --> 00:08:11,551 What do you mean by that? 127 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:14,539 You don't even miss your family? 128 00:08:14,649 --> 00:08:16,432 Of course I do. 129 00:08:17,769 --> 00:08:19,839 I might miss them, but... 130 00:09:04,595 --> 00:09:05,590 Lee Hyung! 131 00:09:05,996 --> 00:09:06,960 Lee Hyung! 132 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:08,364 Lee Hyung! 133 00:09:08,481 --> 00:09:09,603 Lee Hyung, wake up! 134 00:09:09,827 --> 00:09:10,634 Lee Hyung! 135 00:09:11,037 --> 00:09:11,917 Lee Hyung!! 136 00:09:12,007 --> 00:09:12,857 Wake up! 137 00:09:12,947 --> 00:09:13,877 Lee Hyung! 138 00:09:14,005 --> 00:09:15,108 Lee Hyung, wake up! 139 00:09:15,188 --> 00:09:16,457 Lee Hyung! 140 00:09:17,028 --> 00:09:18,338 Lee Hyung! 141 00:09:20,788 --> 00:09:21,948 Ehh Ehh... 142 00:09:22,058 --> 00:09:23,290 Really... 143 00:09:26,108 --> 00:09:27,833 Ohh Ohh... 144 00:09:28,378 --> 00:09:29,935 Really. 145 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:35,016 Anyhow, he did send him to a mental institute in Cheongnyangni. 146 00:09:36,315 --> 00:09:38,809 Lee Jung Seop is not mad, is he? 147 00:09:39,137 --> 00:09:42,425 If you send him to Japan, he'll be as good as new. 148 00:09:43,841 --> 00:09:46,361 Is there really no way? 149 00:09:46,701 --> 00:09:50,175 Getting a visa to enter Japan seems to be quite difficult. 150 00:09:50,319 --> 00:09:56,173 And since President Lee keeps refusing to open the borders... 151 00:09:56,278 --> 00:09:59,065 Then, we could just smuggle him in. 152 00:09:59,573 --> 00:10:01,781 Not only is that not too easy either, 153 00:10:01,969 --> 00:10:04,392 but Han Mok tells a whole different story about him. 154 00:10:05,364 --> 00:10:07,105 Different how? 155 00:10:10,205 --> 00:10:13,107 He said that Lee Jung Seop's borderline behavior... 156 00:10:13,236 --> 00:10:17,462 doesn't necessarily stem from missing his family. 157 00:10:17,673 --> 00:10:19,525 It can't be. 158 00:10:19,635 --> 00:10:22,706 Nobody would just go crazy over that. 159 00:10:23,055 --> 00:10:26,265 How many people had to endure even worse separations?! 160 00:10:26,365 --> 00:10:28,841 Nobody would be that weak. 161 00:10:30,605 --> 00:10:33,006 It must be because of his paintings. 162 00:10:34,346 --> 00:10:37,010 Doesn't he paint well, Lee Jung Seop?! 163 00:10:38,576 --> 00:10:41,213 Not everybody thinks that. 164 00:10:41,670 --> 00:10:43,403 So it hurts his pride? 165 00:10:43,617 --> 00:10:44,940 That played a part. 166 00:10:45,069 --> 00:10:47,047 So you go crazy over that?! 167 00:10:48,327 --> 00:10:50,758 There must be several more complicated issues. 168 00:10:53,267 --> 00:10:55,237 I guess, it sure could be the case. 169 00:10:58,077 --> 00:11:00,840 You already have one in your mouth... 170 00:11:06,318 --> 00:11:07,911 You know?! 171 00:11:09,590 --> 00:11:12,804 When I was younger, I even thought about suicide a few times. 172 00:11:14,170 --> 00:11:17,805 Just about every scribe out there must have experienced that. 173 00:11:18,570 --> 00:11:20,299 Park In Hwan was the same. 174 00:11:20,685 --> 00:11:23,226 Wasn't that just like a suicide? 175 00:11:24,174 --> 00:11:26,702 Drinking what he couldn't even handle, 176 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:31,807 that was his way of asking for a quicker death. 177 00:11:32,158 --> 00:11:33,680 Ehh Ehh... 178 00:11:38,942 --> 00:11:41,929 They could just write and paint and that would be it. 179 00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:45,278 But some people just can't handle it. 180 00:11:46,073 --> 00:11:48,458 Just like Park In Hwan and Lee Jung Seop. 181 00:11:51,723 --> 00:11:57,086 So is that why you smoke so much, Seonsaengnim? 182 00:11:57,684 --> 00:12:00,328 I was talking about geniuses. 183 00:12:00,545 --> 00:12:02,939 Not dull-witted fools like me. 184 00:12:09,926 --> 00:12:13,786 Ahh... really. Let's go. I'll buy you a drink. 185 00:12:15,626 --> 00:12:18,389 I told you I will pay! You won't lose a penny. 186 00:12:18,448 --> 00:12:20,140 I have no intention of drinking. 187 00:12:20,503 --> 00:12:21,955 Why? 188 00:12:22,107 --> 00:12:24,882 Don't you know how much better things have gotten?! 189 00:12:25,026 --> 00:12:29,156 See? These days Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng's popularity is touching the sky. 190 00:12:29,286 --> 00:12:34,840 He will beat Lee Seung Man at the elections and become president. 191 00:12:36,701 --> 00:12:39,428 {\a6}Im Geung Jae (culture critic) 192 00:12:36,701 --> 00:12:39,428 Ahh... This time, they'll turn things upside down. 193 00:12:39,522 --> 00:12:43,167 Your past with the commies will vanish along with that. 194 00:12:45,961 --> 00:12:47,928 Ahh... I'm joking. 195 00:12:48,009 --> 00:12:51,030 If Kim Su Young is a commie, then even Lee Seung Man would be. 196 00:12:51,112 --> 00:12:52,681 Isn't that right? 197 00:12:53,079 --> 00:12:54,950 Ahh... really, let's just go. 198 00:12:55,050 --> 00:12:56,590 Let's go. 199 00:12:58,710 --> 00:13:02,462 Looks like Im Seonsaengnim is really interested in your sister. 200 00:13:03,031 --> 00:13:05,436 He might be a tad rash, but he's a decent man. 201 00:13:05,483 --> 00:13:07,650 And he and your sister are just the right age. 202 00:13:17,381 --> 00:13:18,751 Look... Su Young. 203 00:13:18,833 --> 00:13:21,456 Don't act like that, and just give me your sister. 204 00:13:21,555 --> 00:13:25,525 Whatever it takes, I'll turn her into the First Lady. 205 00:13:25,675 --> 00:13:27,176 Look at my face, will you? 206 00:13:27,255 --> 00:13:29,199 My future is written in the stars. 207 00:13:29,257 --> 00:13:31,480 It's Shin Ik Hee, Jo Byung Wook and then me! 208 00:13:31,550 --> 00:13:34,781 Korea's fifth president, Im Geung Jae! 209 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:35,929 Wait... 210 00:13:35,999 --> 00:13:38,619 Newspaper! Newspaper! 211 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:43,425 Newspaper! Breaking news! 212 00:13:43,506 --> 00:13:46,210 Here... give me one. 213 00:13:47,183 --> 00:13:48,295 Here you go. 214 00:13:48,459 --> 00:13:50,802 Newspaper! 215 00:13:50,907 --> 00:13:53,623 Aigoo... money is rotting away. 216 00:13:53,717 --> 00:13:55,485 If you have money to waste on newspapers, 217 00:13:55,532 --> 00:13:57,253 why don't you save it and buy some more meat instead? 218 00:13:57,381 --> 00:14:01,872 That's the reason why you'll keep fixing shoes for the rest of your days. 219 00:14:05,912 --> 00:14:07,480 What is this all about? 220 00:14:09,065 --> 00:14:09,832 Choi! 221 00:14:09,985 --> 00:14:11,050 Come here a moment. 222 00:14:11,237 --> 00:14:13,056 Read these Chinese characters for me. 223 00:14:13,427 --> 00:14:16,142 Why waste money on something you can't even read?! 224 00:14:16,271 --> 00:14:20,099 You fool... don't even talk to me, will you? 225 00:14:20,321 --> 00:14:24,243 I made up my mind not to ever associate with you again! 226 00:14:24,349 --> 00:14:25,786 Fine, as you wish. 227 00:14:28,177 --> 00:14:32,357 "Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng... Seo..." 228 00:14:32,623 --> 00:14:33,430 "geo?!" 229 00:14:33,536 --> 00:14:35,421 What's seogo?! 230 00:14:36,135 --> 00:14:37,372 Ajeosshi! 231 00:14:38,835 --> 00:14:41,990 This is "seogo," right? Seogo (demise). 232 00:14:43,366 --> 00:14:44,619 Indeed it is. 233 00:14:46,778 --> 00:14:49,120 Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng seogo?! 234 00:14:49,436 --> 00:14:50,326 What is this? 235 00:14:50,478 --> 00:14:53,604 Does this mean Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng passed away?! 236 00:14:53,662 --> 00:14:54,564 What?! 237 00:14:55,070 --> 00:14:56,765 This... this... 238 00:14:56,905 --> 00:14:58,825 What kind of tragedy is this? 239 00:14:58,848 --> 00:15:00,757 Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng is dead?! 240 00:15:04,023 --> 00:15:06,176 Newspaper! Breaking news! 241 00:15:06,234 --> 00:15:08,413 Breaking news! 242 00:15:09,430 --> 00:15:12,779 Thank you. Breaking news! 243 00:15:12,925 --> 00:15:16,105 ~ Hyueop (Closed) ~ 244 00:15:17,087 --> 00:15:21,426 Wow... they kept complaining it would close soon, it indeed happened?! 245 00:15:21,770 --> 00:15:23,632 Let's have a cup of tea and go our separate ways. 246 00:15:23,749 --> 00:15:28,046 Ehh... Will tea cut it?! We're future in-laws! 247 00:15:28,210 --> 00:15:30,038 Let's head to the Eunseong. 248 00:15:30,247 --> 00:15:31,189 Eunseong?! 249 00:15:31,341 --> 00:15:35,017 Next block from the Arts Theater, they opened this groggery called Eunseong. 250 00:15:35,158 --> 00:15:37,605 The owner is really something. 251 00:15:37,733 --> 00:15:41,517 If you tell her you're an artist, she just gives you credit on the spot?! 252 00:15:41,622 --> 00:15:43,086 Let's just go. 253 00:15:43,215 --> 00:15:44,549 Let's go. 254 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:47,535 Newspaper! 255 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,771 Breaking news! Breaking news! 256 00:15:49,876 --> 00:15:50,871 Give me one copy. 257 00:15:51,023 --> 00:15:54,713 Why buy it? It's all over the place. 258 00:15:57,455 --> 00:15:58,485 What is it about? 259 00:15:58,626 --> 00:15:59,574 What is this? 260 00:15:59,773 --> 00:16:01,986 Shin Ik Hee... is dead?! 261 00:16:03,805 --> 00:16:06,427 Did those bastards of the Liberal Party do it? 262 00:16:12,328 --> 00:16:14,290 What? Heart failure?! 263 00:16:14,781 --> 00:16:16,771 So his heart just suddenly stopped? 264 00:16:16,924 --> 00:16:21,279 Give me a break. Why would a healthy heart suddenly stop? 265 00:16:21,466 --> 00:16:24,107 They killed him, I'm sure! 266 00:16:24,224 --> 00:16:26,671 Those Liberal Party fools killed him! 267 00:16:29,164 --> 00:16:31,708 Aigoo... How could this happen? 268 00:16:32,290 --> 00:16:35,584 Of all the people who could die, Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng?! 269 00:16:36,052 --> 00:16:40,220 Ehh... You motherless vandals! 270 00:16:42,421 --> 00:16:45,918 First, Shin Ik Hee was quite popular in Seoul. 271 00:16:46,070 --> 00:16:49,383 So, when he had his campaign speech for the elections, 272 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:55,139 of the 600,000 people living in Seoul at the time, 273 00:16:55,350 --> 00:16:58,205 at least 200,000-300,000 were there to see him. 274 00:16:58,310 --> 00:17:05,408 This huge portion of the city was completely paralyzed. 275 00:17:05,544 --> 00:17:14,498 {\a6}*North/South Jeolla Province 276 00:17:05,544 --> 00:17:11,498 As he was traveling to Honam* for his campaign, 277 00:17:11,644 --> 00:17:14,498 he allegedly had a heart attack. 278 00:17:14,615 --> 00:17:21,089 That's how they described his death. It was really a huge issue at the time. 279 00:17:21,214 --> 00:17:25,347 The third presidential elections which took place in 1956... 280 00:17:25,581 --> 00:17:28,977 were a paramount survey which could have catapulted Korean democracy... 281 00:17:29,105 --> 00:17:30,826 a few decades forward. 282 00:17:31,576 --> 00:17:34,772 There is no "if" in history, 283 00:17:34,994 --> 00:17:38,119 but had Shin Ik Hee been alive then, 284 00:17:38,248 --> 00:17:41,058 and had he vanquished Lee Seung Man to become president, 285 00:17:41,269 --> 00:17:43,997 we would have achieved a touchstone of democracy, 286 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:46,925 such as a peaceful regime change through election. 287 00:17:47,838 --> 00:17:50,165 If you think of how long it took... 288 00:17:50,238 --> 00:17:53,165 before such a peaceful regime change actually happened, 289 00:17:53,891 --> 00:17:57,321 then Shin Ik Hee's death becomes all the more lamentable. 290 00:17:57,731 --> 00:18:00,405 ~ Eunseong ~ 291 00:18:00,558 --> 00:18:03,754 Amongst those in their fifties, 292 00:18:03,941 --> 00:18:07,383 many will recall the Eunseong. 293 00:18:07,804 --> 00:18:12,780 Opened in the spring of 1955 by Choi Buram's mother Lee Myung Sook, 294 00:18:12,944 --> 00:18:18,177 Eunseong was run by her for the sake of the artists she so dearly loved. 295 00:18:18,563 --> 00:18:21,927 {\a6}~ Photos of the Eunseong ~ 296 00:18:18,563 --> 00:18:21,927 That is why credit was a given, back then. 297 00:18:22,266 --> 00:18:28,389 As most regular customers came from theater, the musical or literary world, 298 00:18:28,529 --> 00:18:31,386 they mostly all knew each other. 299 00:18:31,561 --> 00:18:35,741 That is why anyone who had enough for the bill would pay, 300 00:18:36,010 --> 00:18:39,148 and the rest would be on credit. 301 00:18:39,405 --> 00:18:42,726 It was clear that this venture wouldn't be too profitable. 302 00:18:43,428 --> 00:18:47,241 Still, Eunseong was able to remain open, 303 00:18:47,382 --> 00:18:52,197 right here in front of the Arts Theater, until 1969. 304 00:18:52,314 --> 00:18:55,744 {\a6}~ Yu Hyun Mok (film director) ~ 305 00:18:52,314 --> 00:18:55,744 What most vividly comes to mind about Myeongdong... 306 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,467 was the Eunseong, I just wouldn't go anywhere else. 307 00:18:59,561 --> 00:19:05,118 We'd go there, and stuff ourselves with makgeolli like this. 308 00:19:05,259 --> 00:19:08,806 We'd get all excited and debate all night, that kind of mood. 309 00:19:08,947 --> 00:19:11,792 {\a6}~ Kim Si Cheol (poet) ~ 310 00:19:08,947 --> 00:19:11,792 The owner of the Eunseong, Choi Buram's mother, 311 00:19:12,061 --> 00:19:15,500 was such a generous person, you know? 312 00:19:15,594 --> 00:19:18,989 You could spend all night drinking for days on credit, 313 00:19:19,282 --> 00:19:22,107 and that smile on her face would never vanish. 314 00:19:22,217 --> 00:19:24,446 She must have loved all those poor artists. 315 00:19:24,575 --> 00:19:27,888 Choi Buram must have been in middle or high school, by then. 316 00:19:28,157 --> 00:19:30,704 But he was in and out of there all the time. 317 00:19:30,856 --> 00:19:35,000 {\a6}~ Lee Young Soon ~ (Lee Bong Gu's son) 318 00:19:30,856 --> 00:19:35,000 Whenever he didn't feel too good or tired, 319 00:19:35,176 --> 00:19:40,202 or those days when he just didn't want to go. 320 00:19:40,412 --> 00:19:45,564 If, say, he hadn't been in Myeongdong for a week straight, 321 00:19:45,692 --> 00:19:49,859 Madam Lee from the Eunseong would bring along his friends... 322 00:19:50,058 --> 00:19:54,649 and walk up the hills leading to our house to see how he was. 323 00:19:54,790 --> 00:19:58,162 I witnessed that kind of sight more than once, in my childhood. 324 00:20:00,035 --> 00:20:02,084 Why are you drinking so much today? 325 00:20:02,142 --> 00:20:04,754 Think of your health. 326 00:20:06,914 --> 00:20:07,904 Su Young... 327 00:20:08,126 --> 00:20:09,894 Give it a rest. 328 00:20:10,058 --> 00:20:13,991 Who said he had no intention of drinking?! You've been gorging all night. 329 00:20:21,613 --> 00:20:23,474 Drowning all the anger with that?! 330 00:20:23,579 --> 00:20:24,902 Listen, Su Young. 331 00:20:25,125 --> 00:20:28,380 You shouldn't drink for that. 332 00:20:29,872 --> 00:20:32,354 Ehh Ehh... You're drunk already, Su Young?! 333 00:20:32,401 --> 00:20:34,016 You are. 334 00:20:35,129 --> 00:20:37,826 I've endured it quietly for years... 335 00:20:39,629 --> 00:20:41,526 Look at this, Im Hyung. 336 00:20:46,033 --> 00:20:49,184 Know why I have dentures at my age? 337 00:20:49,453 --> 00:20:50,823 You know? 338 00:20:52,146 --> 00:20:53,551 They're all dentures on this side, 339 00:20:53,867 --> 00:20:55,997 and I have no teeth on the other side, either. 340 00:20:56,715 --> 00:20:58,280 What's wrong with you, Su Young? 341 00:20:58,362 --> 00:20:59,977 You're really drunk. 342 00:21:00,118 --> 00:21:02,740 Those weren't rotten teeth. 343 00:21:03,232 --> 00:21:05,970 I took them out with my own hands! 344 00:21:07,422 --> 00:21:11,285 Then... you did it just like that?! 345 00:21:11,601 --> 00:21:13,381 Im Hyung. 346 00:21:13,966 --> 00:21:16,179 You don't know the POW camp on Geoje Island, do you? 347 00:21:16,471 --> 00:21:17,513 I know! 348 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,504 Why wouldn't I know that place? 349 00:21:19,550 --> 00:21:22,641 You know?! What the hell could you possibly know?! 350 00:21:22,899 --> 00:21:25,052 Know what kind of place that was?! 351 00:21:25,801 --> 00:21:28,576 People's lives were trampled on like flies on the wall. 352 00:21:29,044 --> 00:21:31,433 Sleep the night off, and you'd be surrounded by corpses. 353 00:21:31,561 --> 00:21:36,468 And the toilets were filled with the limbs of dead people. 354 00:21:37,124 --> 00:21:38,985 Calm down, Su Young. 355 00:21:39,114 --> 00:21:41,069 I've heard about that. 356 00:21:41,198 --> 00:21:43,528 I survived through that! 357 00:21:44,371 --> 00:21:47,784 The damned commies would beat you up because you weren't one of them, 358 00:21:48,030 --> 00:21:49,939 and because the commies entered our barracks, 359 00:21:50,676 --> 00:21:54,938 the anti-communists would try to strangle us. 360 00:21:55,331 --> 00:21:56,537 So what I did... 361 00:21:56,830 --> 00:21:58,949 was pulling out my teeth. 362 00:22:00,412 --> 00:22:03,070 I was so scared, afflicted and in pain... 363 00:22:03,456 --> 00:22:07,223 that I pulled out my own teeth. 364 00:22:08,862 --> 00:22:11,742 I thought that would make things a little better. 365 00:22:13,264 --> 00:22:16,132 If I at least pulled out my teeth, it would be better. 366 00:22:17,075 --> 00:22:18,492 But... 367 00:22:19,136 --> 00:22:20,786 Shin Ik Hee dies?! 368 00:22:22,496 --> 00:22:24,767 Lee Seung Man more than deserves the same fate, 369 00:22:25,060 --> 00:22:27,595 but it's Shin Ik Hee who dies?! 370 00:22:46,572 --> 00:22:47,603 Did... 371 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,181 Su Young get home all in one piece? 372 00:22:52,380 --> 00:22:53,457 My brother? 373 00:22:53,563 --> 00:22:57,321 Ahh... He scared me so much I left first. 374 00:22:57,473 --> 00:22:59,920 I was just wondering if he got home fine. 375 00:23:00,072 --> 00:23:01,629 I live with my mother. 376 00:23:01,734 --> 00:23:04,345 Why are you asking me about my brother? 377 00:23:05,281 --> 00:23:06,721 But... wait. 378 00:23:08,243 --> 00:23:10,233 Is that true? 379 00:23:10,526 --> 00:23:14,266 That Su Young pulled out his own teeth at the POW camp. 380 00:23:14,383 --> 00:23:15,413 I guess he did. 381 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:17,404 Being there must have been too hard for him. 382 00:23:19,008 --> 00:23:21,819 Still, you pull your own teeth?! 383 00:23:22,007 --> 00:23:23,833 You surely could. 384 00:23:23,973 --> 00:23:25,460 When people experience great distress, 385 00:23:25,507 --> 00:23:27,392 they tend to hurt themselves. 386 00:23:27,649 --> 00:23:31,366 Still, Seonsaengnim, how can you just pull out a tooth?! 387 00:23:31,495 --> 00:23:33,298 It sure is better than committing suicide! 388 00:23:33,426 --> 00:23:35,100 Isn't that right? 389 00:23:39,116 --> 00:23:40,041 Why? 390 00:23:40,650 --> 00:23:42,562 You didn't know? 391 00:23:43,335 --> 00:23:45,922 No... I didn't. 392 00:23:46,086 --> 00:23:47,889 You didn't know that? 393 00:23:48,029 --> 00:23:49,926 And you two are so close... 394 00:23:53,886 --> 00:23:55,372 Really... 395 00:23:56,227 --> 00:23:59,189 Kim Su Young is really something. 396 00:23:59,646 --> 00:24:00,921 Quite something... 397 00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:07,418 {\a6}~ Kim Hyun Gyeong ~ (Kim Su Young's wife) 398 00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:07,418 He was just exasperated, never knowing when he'd be released. 399 00:24:07,641 --> 00:24:12,500 It was so hard to endure, he just pulled out his teeth. 400 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,813 One by one, he just pulled them out. 401 00:24:15,930 --> 00:24:18,388 This whole thing was so afflicting, 402 00:24:18,505 --> 00:24:23,320 he wanted to find a way, any way to escape from that. 403 00:24:23,483 --> 00:24:28,728 So he ended up with dentures. 404 00:24:28,904 --> 00:24:35,626 Maybe because of all those theater sensibilities, 405 00:24:35,776 --> 00:24:38,714 he kept staring at himself. 406 00:24:38,889 --> 00:24:45,047 As a woman myself, all I did was checking my hair in the morning. 407 00:24:45,175 --> 00:24:47,739 But he'd keep staring at himself in the mirror, 408 00:24:47,927 --> 00:24:54,110 so I'd look at him and ask him why, all puzzled by his behavior. 409 00:24:54,239 --> 00:25:00,442 And he'd just say that, sometimes, it just worked. 410 00:25:00,770 --> 00:25:04,752 He had those days, when he thought he looked handsome himself. 411 00:25:09,423 --> 00:25:11,027 I'm sorry. 412 00:25:12,575 --> 00:25:16,505 I knew that you struggled there, 413 00:25:16,728 --> 00:25:20,380 but I never imagined it could be so bad. 414 00:25:20,731 --> 00:25:21,715 No... 415 00:25:22,312 --> 00:25:24,958 Perhaps I didn't even want to acknowledge the mere thought. 416 00:25:30,685 --> 00:25:33,448 I heard you visited In Hwan's grave. 417 00:25:35,239 --> 00:25:36,983 I'm glad you went. 418 00:25:40,027 --> 00:25:42,029 Wretched fool... 419 00:25:43,047 --> 00:25:45,119 Leaving us in such a pointless way... 420 00:25:46,581 --> 00:25:48,512 I am to blame as well. 421 00:25:49,016 --> 00:25:51,610 I should have stopped him from drinking. 422 00:25:52,516 --> 00:25:55,467 It's just because he acted like a wench. 423 00:26:03,523 --> 00:26:08,356 So you're forgiving me for spending your fees to pay my tab? 424 00:26:09,058 --> 00:26:10,697 Lee Seonbae... 425 00:26:11,107 --> 00:26:13,589 The moment I heard Shin Ik Hee Seonsaeng died, 426 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,317 I even thought of just taking some pesticides and giving it all up. 427 00:26:16,528 --> 00:26:17,816 Giving up?! 428 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,300 You could just pull out all the teeth left. 429 00:26:22,429 --> 00:26:24,559 What is this damned anti-communism?! 430 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:26,210 Is that another ideology? 431 00:26:27,346 --> 00:26:31,011 Is being against communism an ideology?! 432 00:26:31,866 --> 00:26:34,090 That thing called ideology, Lee Seonbae. 433 00:26:34,184 --> 00:26:38,175 Isn't it something like "This and that are nice, so let's do it"? 434 00:26:39,474 --> 00:26:45,827 "This is good, so let's try to achieve it." Isn't that ideology? 435 00:26:46,053 --> 00:26:47,071 But... 436 00:26:47,984 --> 00:26:52,164 "I have no stance of my own, I just oppose this." 437 00:26:52,386 --> 00:26:55,179 What damned ideology is that?! 438 00:26:55,788 --> 00:26:58,575 That is what moved Lee Seung Man's dictatorship. 439 00:26:59,394 --> 00:27:02,578 He ruled for eight years, and will rule another four. 440 00:27:02,637 --> 00:27:04,592 When he's done, Lee Gi Bong will take over... 441 00:27:04,639 --> 00:27:07,484 and continue this travesty, nothing can stop them. 442 00:27:09,590 --> 00:27:12,472 Because anti-communism is all it takes them. 443 00:27:16,124 --> 00:27:18,571 "Poets should just write poems." 444 00:27:19,355 --> 00:27:22,937 "Painters should just paint, what's with all those complaints?" 445 00:27:23,031 --> 00:27:28,580 But if you have no goal in life, what are you ever going to write about?! 446 00:27:29,341 --> 00:27:33,579 There is no tenet telling us how to live, nor the chance to voice one. 447 00:27:33,672 --> 00:27:38,364 If anti-communism is all you can do, what worthless poems could you ever write?! 448 00:27:42,507 --> 00:27:45,786 Park In Hwan was a coward. 449 00:27:48,128 --> 00:27:50,367 That living is even more painful than death is something... 450 00:27:50,508 --> 00:27:55,869 that he, and you and I, knew very well. 451 00:27:57,847 --> 00:27:59,861 And he leaves us like that?! 452 00:28:03,045 --> 00:28:04,297 That's right. 453 00:28:04,847 --> 00:28:07,469 Whatever happens, let's survive. 454 00:28:07,961 --> 00:28:10,771 Only then we'll be able to see a better world before the end. 455 00:28:16,743 --> 00:28:19,120 That better world could have come. 456 00:28:19,459 --> 00:28:21,672 If Shin Ik Hee hadn't died, 457 00:28:21,813 --> 00:28:25,444 back then, the world could have certainly changed for them. 458 00:28:27,258 --> 00:28:31,531 Most people were thinking Lee Gi Bong would be elected vice president. 459 00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:35,805 Lee Seung Man's win was pretty much an afterthought, 460 00:28:35,934 --> 00:28:37,914 after Shin Ik Hee's sudden death. 461 00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:40,747 But when Jang Myeon won the election, 462 00:28:40,864 --> 00:28:44,423 it put the Liberal Party in quite the tough spot. 463 00:28:44,716 --> 00:28:48,714 Jang Myeon as president was a rather problematic development... 464 00:28:48,878 --> 00:28:55,562 for the Liberal Party, particularly considering the president's age then. 465 00:28:55,681 --> 00:28:57,693 As succession rights would belong to him, 466 00:28:57,857 --> 00:29:00,429 and because Jang was elected to his post, 467 00:29:00,570 --> 00:29:04,476 the Democratic Party automatically gained momentum. 468 00:29:04,616 --> 00:29:10,504 This led to a few substantial assassination attempts directed at Jang, 469 00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:15,103 and since a vice-president who couldn't operate was pretty much a walking pariah, 470 00:29:15,278 --> 00:29:19,739 they eventually forced Jang out of any serious decision-making. 471 00:29:19,907 --> 00:29:23,009 The fact he at least got the chance to step out was a relief. 472 00:29:28,496 --> 00:29:31,856 Aigoo... Director, isn't that you?! 473 00:29:33,062 --> 00:29:35,531 Tell him to be careful, Lee Sajang! 474 00:29:36,034 --> 00:29:36,819 What? 475 00:29:37,884 --> 00:29:41,326 If you just tell him that, he'll understand. 476 00:29:47,067 --> 00:29:49,030 Director Baek said that? 477 00:29:50,201 --> 00:29:52,074 That surely makes sense. 478 00:29:52,273 --> 00:29:54,734 Lee Gi Bong must be enraged over all this. 479 00:29:54,979 --> 00:29:57,869 It's only natural. Think President Lee will last that long?! 480 00:29:58,047 --> 00:29:59,100 Careful what you say. 481 00:29:59,206 --> 00:30:02,378 They must already be staring down at you. 482 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:04,731 Should I start hanging out with the Seodaemun crowd, then?! 483 00:30:04,860 --> 00:30:06,206 Stop that. 484 00:30:06,546 --> 00:30:11,990 How old is President Lee?! If he dies, Jang Myeon will take over. 485 00:30:12,165 --> 00:30:14,963 Wouldn't that make this the Democratic Party's playing ground? 486 00:30:15,447 --> 00:30:17,039 Is that how it would turn?! 487 00:30:17,214 --> 00:30:20,539 That's why I'm wondering whether Lee Gi Bong is scheming something. 488 00:30:20,797 --> 00:30:23,595 Had Lee been elected instead, 489 00:30:23,958 --> 00:30:26,648 he would have become next in line for the presidency. 490 00:30:27,534 --> 00:30:28,720 There's people saying... 491 00:30:28,884 --> 00:30:35,030 that if Lee had won, Lee Seung Man would have stepped down in a couple of years... 492 00:30:35,182 --> 00:30:38,922 and handed over the reins to Lee Gi Bong. 493 00:30:39,238 --> 00:30:41,428 They're more than capable of that. 494 00:30:41,779 --> 00:30:44,401 By the way, stop going in and out of here. 495 00:30:44,846 --> 00:30:46,719 You're starting to influence business. 496 00:30:46,848 --> 00:30:48,311 All eyes are on you. 497 00:30:48,873 --> 00:30:50,969 Aigoo... All right! 498 00:30:51,273 --> 00:30:52,737 Be careful. 499 00:30:52,936 --> 00:30:55,511 Lee Jung Jae's mouth is watering. 500 00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:58,874 He might just take this chance to make Myeongdong his. 501 00:31:09,933 --> 00:31:11,408 What was the point... 502 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,571 Ahh... If something happened to you going by yourself... 503 00:31:16,712 --> 00:31:19,309 I can take care of myself alone. 504 00:31:19,472 --> 00:31:21,978 Stop wasting time, and take the boys back with you. 505 00:31:22,224 --> 00:31:24,155 Still, we should at least... 506 00:31:25,291 --> 00:31:26,251 You still... 507 00:31:26,813 --> 00:31:28,546 Are you trying to rile me up? 508 00:31:35,210 --> 00:31:36,744 Ahh... Director Baek. 509 00:31:36,849 --> 00:31:38,196 It's me. 510 00:31:38,652 --> 00:31:41,016 Aww... Who do you think?! 511 00:31:42,328 --> 00:31:44,904 I told him off so that he'll understand. 512 00:31:45,465 --> 00:31:49,844 What's wrong with you? Don't you know how he is?! 513 00:31:50,213 --> 00:31:52,602 Talk with the higher-ups, will you? 514 00:31:52,719 --> 00:31:56,524 I'll treat you instead, any time. 515 00:31:57,413 --> 00:31:58,502 Of course! 516 00:31:58,619 --> 00:32:01,395 It's Director Baek, after all! 517 00:32:09,929 --> 00:32:11,217 Madam Lee. 518 00:32:11,521 --> 00:32:13,055 You know who I am, right? 519 00:32:13,137 --> 00:32:14,448 Yes, of course I do. 520 00:32:14,530 --> 00:32:15,490 Who am I? 521 00:32:15,642 --> 00:32:18,920 Aren't you Daehanminguk Kim Gwan Shik Seonsaeng?! 522 00:32:19,705 --> 00:32:21,456 Then, that's it! 523 00:32:22,112 --> 00:32:26,479 But, no matter where I look, I seem to be out of money. 524 00:32:27,006 --> 00:32:28,247 On my tab. 525 00:32:28,422 --> 00:32:29,441 Sure. 526 00:32:31,244 --> 00:32:31,955 Hey! 527 00:32:32,072 --> 00:32:33,653 Drink all you want! 528 00:32:33,746 --> 00:32:36,017 It's all.. here... here... here and here... 529 00:32:36,088 --> 00:32:37,973 All on my tab! 530 00:32:39,951 --> 00:32:41,719 Madam Lee, I'll get going! 531 00:32:41,766 --> 00:32:44,047 Yes... careful. 532 00:32:46,015 --> 00:32:47,771 Out of the way, you fool! 533 00:32:58,411 --> 00:33:02,818 Why are the streets of Seoul so desolate?! 534 00:33:03,626 --> 00:33:06,693 Is it because Park In Hwan died? 535 00:33:07,723 --> 00:33:10,194 It's surely not that! 536 00:33:10,334 --> 00:33:17,383 So why... why is Seoul's Myeongdong so lonesome?! 537 00:33:17,793 --> 00:33:19,162 That... 538 00:33:20,380 --> 00:33:23,307 I have no idea myself. 539 00:33:29,027 --> 00:33:30,057 Oh?! 540 00:33:30,315 --> 00:33:32,785 You block the way again?! 541 00:33:33,019 --> 00:33:34,014 Hey... 542 00:33:34,401 --> 00:33:38,554 Why do you keep getting in the way? 543 00:33:38,674 --> 00:33:41,925 It's because of fools like you that Lee Seung Man became president... 544 00:33:41,999 --> 00:33:44,295 and Shin Ik Hee died. 545 00:33:44,525 --> 00:33:49,474 It's because of fools like you that democracy doesn't work in this country! 546 00:33:52,377 --> 00:33:53,512 You... 547 00:33:54,179 --> 00:33:55,771 You really want some?! 548 00:33:57,551 --> 00:33:58,593 Fine. 549 00:33:59,401 --> 00:34:02,604 I'll teach you a lesson once and for all! 550 00:34:08,305 --> 00:34:10,155 The crowded and jubilant streets of the elections... 551 00:34:10,225 --> 00:34:12,544 quickly returned to their grim old days, 552 00:34:13,106 --> 00:34:15,857 vanishing like a propitious wind, 553 00:34:15,939 --> 00:34:19,591 fleetingly illuding people with the alluring scents of change. 554 00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:30,695 ~ Byeon Yeong No (poet) ~ 555 00:34:35,804 --> 00:34:37,958 From the famous saying, "Nobody can beat Gongcho at smoking," 556 00:34:38,122 --> 00:34:42,876 and "Nobody will top Suju at drinking," Suju Byeon Yeong No himself. 557 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,427 After returning from his studies in America, 558 00:34:45,533 --> 00:34:48,108 poet cum English literature scholar Byeon Yeong No... 559 00:34:48,167 --> 00:34:50,403 became professor of English Literature at the Seongyungwan... 560 00:34:50,508 --> 00:34:53,458 and wrote for the DongA Ilbo, along with his drinking-related eccentric behavior. 561 00:34:54,161 --> 00:34:57,194 His collection of essays "Four Drunken Decades" was about, 562 00:34:57,382 --> 00:35:02,065 as the title suggests, his forty-year relationship with the bottle. 563 00:35:02,568 --> 00:35:06,657 Here's one anecdote with Gongcho Oh Sang Soon. 564 00:35:10,474 --> 00:35:12,183 It was a quiet autumn night. 565 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:16,693 - It's cold. - Tell me about it. 566 00:35:19,327 --> 00:35:21,645 Can we still get a boat ride at this hour? 567 00:35:22,359 --> 00:35:25,979 Ever seen a tavern host refuse to serve drinks?! 568 00:35:39,031 --> 00:35:41,373 Where to shall we row? 569 00:35:44,007 --> 00:35:46,384 Row?! Row where?! 570 00:35:46,618 --> 00:35:52,732 Our boat neither flows nor goes anywhere, let alone walk. 571 00:35:52,907 --> 00:35:55,612 Just bring us where the tide leads. 572 00:35:55,729 --> 00:35:57,954 This is not a fishing boat. 573 00:35:58,176 --> 00:35:59,885 Looks like you rode the wrong one. 574 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,548 Ohh Ohh... Listen to him! 575 00:36:01,688 --> 00:36:03,807 Do we look like fishermen? 576 00:36:04,018 --> 00:36:06,114 Well, we do fish for something indeed. 577 00:36:06,254 --> 00:36:08,872 For instants in the ocean of time! 578 00:36:09,325 --> 00:36:11,608 Now that I think about it, you're right! 579 00:36:12,486 --> 00:36:15,705 We're in for a little taste of the good old communion with nature. 580 00:36:15,846 --> 00:36:20,110 But since he threw the poetic gauntlet calling us fishermen, 581 00:36:20,356 --> 00:36:26,935 looks like our kind boatman fellow more than earned rowing rights. 582 00:36:32,811 --> 00:36:35,726 Ahh Ahh! Indeed! 583 00:36:37,845 --> 00:36:41,423 "One glass, another. No end is in sight." 584 00:36:41,914 --> 00:36:46,457 "Ever tasted the limpid water of the creek down the deep valley," 585 00:36:47,077 --> 00:36:51,482 "Or the roborant waterways deep down underground?" 586 00:36:53,730 --> 00:36:57,734 "Valley or soil, any place in nature where nectars flow..." 587 00:36:57,815 --> 00:37:01,476 "Are my gardens of Arcadia, utopia for my tongue." 588 00:37:02,752 --> 00:37:05,386 "Out sprouts the nectars' scent!" 589 00:37:12,141 --> 00:37:16,063 Here... It is time I give you my response. 590 00:37:16,168 --> 00:37:17,749 Indeed. 591 00:37:21,015 --> 00:37:26,032 {\a6}Spring Drizzle by Byeon Yeong No 592 00:37:21,015 --> 00:37:26,032 "I knew of a sound so deep and quiet," 593 00:37:26,138 --> 00:37:29,826 "Along the way, along the way." 594 00:37:30,645 --> 00:37:35,470 "The dormant spell of the milky white clouds." 595 00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:40,633 "Deep as indifferent, languid like the early morn," 596 00:37:40,844 --> 00:37:44,286 "They saunter along the quiet blue skies." 597 00:37:45,317 --> 00:37:47,883 "O, so displeasing is my heart," 598 00:37:47,977 --> 00:37:51,524 "For in the clouds I lost nothing worth remembering." 599 00:37:52,903 --> 00:37:56,950 "I knew of a sound so deep and quiet," 600 00:37:56,997 --> 00:38:00,755 "Along the way, along the way." 601 00:38:01,516 --> 00:38:05,498 "Like memories of yesteryear feebly flickering in the dim," 602 00:38:05,955 --> 00:38:10,931 "Like the breathing splendor of all flowers we cannot see," 603 00:38:11,984 --> 00:38:17,295 "Withering in the clouds of such ambrosial excess." 604 00:38:19,098 --> 00:38:25,078 "O, so grieving is my heart, with nary a hint of fatigue." 605 00:38:27,993 --> 00:38:31,201 "I knew of a sound so deep and quiet," 606 00:38:31,248 --> 00:38:34,269 "Along the way, along the way." 607 00:38:34,631 --> 00:38:43,126 "Only relics of the splendid scent and languid clouds maunder my soul," 608 00:38:43,442 --> 00:38:47,775 "Silver drizzle blushing the doves' feet," 609 00:38:48,396 --> 00:38:51,486 "In quiet and charming surrender." 610 00:38:52,201 --> 00:38:59,014 "Melancholic spring drizzle I shed for her," 611 00:39:01,016 --> 00:39:08,751 "O! Memories of sights the fleeting clouds took away." 612 00:39:37,315 --> 00:39:43,088 How many packs did you take today? 613 00:39:44,270 --> 00:39:47,759 About five cartons, probably?! 614 00:39:48,274 --> 00:39:51,935 But there are only a few packs left. 615 00:39:53,036 --> 00:39:56,279 And only one bottle. 616 00:39:57,695 --> 00:39:58,562 But, tell me. 617 00:39:58,749 --> 00:40:03,758 Is the bottle your best companion, 618 00:40:03,805 --> 00:40:06,474 or do you prefer cigarettes? 619 00:40:06,685 --> 00:40:10,569 Which is the best companion between drinks and smoking?! 620 00:40:11,482 --> 00:40:15,602 Aren't women a man's best companion?! 621 00:40:16,668 --> 00:40:18,401 That is for sure. 622 00:40:18,541 --> 00:40:22,990 But, if we had to strike a favorite after that, 623 00:40:23,093 --> 00:40:29,874 would you choose cigarettes over drinks? 624 00:40:30,787 --> 00:40:32,883 Looks like I'd have to think about it?! 625 00:40:33,117 --> 00:40:35,259 It's no easy answer for sure. 626 00:40:35,458 --> 00:40:38,420 This Italian poet wrote... 627 00:40:39,088 --> 00:40:43,125 "Smoke, nectars, and passion." 628 00:40:43,851 --> 00:40:50,512 "Thus does the fleeting dream called life turn into ashes." 629 00:40:51,812 --> 00:40:56,867 And Persia's Omar Khayyam wrote... 630 00:40:57,803 --> 00:41:02,334 "A book of verse underneath the bough," 631 00:41:02,697 --> 00:41:05,765 "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread." 632 00:41:06,011 --> 00:41:09,430 "And you, beside me singing in the wilderness." 633 00:41:09,582 --> 00:41:16,493 "O, wilderness were Paradise enow!" 634 00:41:19,362 --> 00:41:22,147 Smoke. A cigarette in my hand. 635 00:41:22,405 --> 00:41:23,377 Nectars! 636 00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:25,240 Wine filling my cup. 637 00:41:25,556 --> 00:41:27,793 Passion. After experiencing love, 638 00:41:28,062 --> 00:41:31,270 thus does my fleeting dream turn into ashes?! 639 00:41:31,820 --> 00:41:38,706 Ahh... Living and dying that way is my dream and hope. 640 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:46,587 In the former, nectars come after cigarettes. 641 00:41:47,045 --> 00:41:54,417 The latter describes drinking in the worst possible way, 642 00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:58,066 but I don't seem to agree. 643 00:41:58,968 --> 00:42:03,452 There is nothing better than a good drink. 644 00:42:10,013 --> 00:42:11,489 A great drink, 645 00:42:11,535 --> 00:42:13,467 the most beautiful of moonlights, 646 00:42:13,772 --> 00:42:16,732 and even the gentle breeze caressing the river. 647 00:42:16,990 --> 00:42:20,220 This is paradise. 648 00:42:23,652 --> 00:42:25,841 I certainly agree. 649 00:42:26,368 --> 00:42:30,067 Another time, the two were sitting together at the Bronze Coffee Shop. 650 00:42:33,298 --> 00:42:38,732 Remember what that boatman told us? 651 00:42:39,271 --> 00:42:40,641 What did he tell us again? 652 00:42:40,781 --> 00:42:43,275 I remember hearing this and that... 653 00:42:44,387 --> 00:42:48,257 "How could two gentlemen reciting prose about beautiful rivers and valleys..." 654 00:42:48,421 --> 00:42:53,264 "stain this limpid river with cigarette butts?" 655 00:42:53,607 --> 00:42:54,591 Right! 656 00:42:54,766 --> 00:42:56,571 That's what he said indeed. 657 00:42:59,205 --> 00:43:02,869 We smoked almost all of the five cartons I brought. 658 00:43:03,010 --> 00:43:06,472 So we were surrounded half by water, the other half by cigarette butts. 659 00:43:09,094 --> 00:43:10,183 By the way... 660 00:43:10,651 --> 00:43:13,297 I heard that you quit drinking?! 661 00:43:13,356 --> 00:43:15,791 Didn't you quit yourself? 662 00:43:16,212 --> 00:43:20,503 I remember this piece of yours championing abstinence from drinking?! 663 00:43:21,522 --> 00:43:23,828 I failed at that as well. 664 00:43:24,449 --> 00:43:25,139 Again?! 665 00:43:25,186 --> 00:43:26,298 Yes. 666 00:43:26,509 --> 00:43:30,218 I wore that "no drinks" tag for six years, 667 00:43:30,346 --> 00:43:33,648 but I guess not quitting it altogether was the source of calamity. 668 00:43:33,788 --> 00:43:38,001 When you used to carry that tag around, it was really a sight. 669 00:43:39,981 --> 00:43:40,978 Yes. 670 00:43:49,521 --> 00:43:52,998 The misery and pain you have to endure when sober... 671 00:43:53,127 --> 00:43:56,838 is nothing that simple prose could ever convey. 672 00:43:57,026 --> 00:44:01,136 Even suicide crossed my thoughts more than once. 673 00:44:01,417 --> 00:44:05,189 While I spent 365 days a year savoring the bittersweet taste of wine, 674 00:44:05,293 --> 00:44:07,132 there wasn't a single morning spent without sobering up... 675 00:44:07,237 --> 00:44:09,696 and pledging to myself I would finally call it quits. 676 00:44:09,977 --> 00:44:15,299 But that determination only ever lasted until sunset. 677 00:44:21,632 --> 00:44:26,593 There was thus no way to restrain that brewing, 678 00:44:26,815 --> 00:44:29,578 mounting distress and struggle afflicting me. 679 00:44:30,152 --> 00:44:33,475 I thought to myself, "Ohh... This can't go on." 680 00:44:33,662 --> 00:44:38,146 "I'll have to finally put an end to it," another shred of pathetic resolution. 681 00:44:38,743 --> 00:44:43,473 More than anything, having to find excuses with my drinking buddies... 682 00:44:43,614 --> 00:44:46,037 was one of the things which most afflicted me. 683 00:44:48,086 --> 00:44:52,315 And so I finally found a way. 684 00:44:56,219 --> 00:45:01,066 ~ Geum Ju (No Drinking) ~ 685 00:45:11,413 --> 00:45:12,443 Come on in. 686 00:45:12,537 --> 00:45:15,219 - Ohh... How have you been? - Fine. 687 00:45:15,628 --> 00:45:19,222 Good night. 688 00:45:22,196 --> 00:45:24,046 Ohh... Here you are... 689 00:45:24,210 --> 00:45:26,425 Long time no see. Have a seat. 690 00:45:26,893 --> 00:45:28,754 Let me pour you one. 691 00:45:38,727 --> 00:45:40,038 Geum Ju?! 692 00:45:40,132 --> 00:45:42,239 When did you quit drinking? 693 00:45:43,141 --> 00:45:44,795 Ehh... you fool... 694 00:45:46,431 --> 00:45:50,463 What are you trying to accomplish by not drinking?! 695 00:45:50,650 --> 00:45:51,762 Also... 696 00:45:51,867 --> 00:45:55,694 If you didn't plan to drink, why even come here? 697 00:45:58,234 --> 00:46:00,904 Because I missed you! 698 00:46:01,372 --> 00:46:02,881 I ought to... 699 00:46:04,075 --> 00:46:05,843 Give it to me! 700 00:46:05,937 --> 00:46:11,303 This is real silver! It's expensive, you people! 701 00:46:11,579 --> 00:46:17,315 I've heard of eunuchs carrying dictum tags during the Joseon dynasty, 702 00:46:17,425 --> 00:46:21,099 but it's the first time I hear of any tags against drinking. 703 00:46:21,989 --> 00:46:25,870 It's just that I don't want to end up croaking on the street like a dog. 704 00:46:26,011 --> 00:46:28,352 Will you let it go?! Really... 705 00:46:28,434 --> 00:46:30,998 Well said, uh?! 706 00:46:31,138 --> 00:46:35,206 Take a look, how can this be a proper tag?! It's a dog tag. 707 00:46:35,312 --> 00:46:39,451 Also, some people might believe a dog saying that it won't shit anymore, 708 00:46:39,667 --> 00:46:45,279 but nobody will ever believe Byeon Yeong No has quit drinking. 709 00:46:46,872 --> 00:46:50,395 You endured those six years despite all that humiliation, 710 00:46:50,524 --> 00:46:53,510 so what made you start drinking again? 711 00:46:56,553 --> 00:47:00,743 I was in low spirits after going to America, 712 00:47:00,803 --> 00:47:05,287 and a single drink tore down a castle of cards I was building for six years. 713 00:47:09,397 --> 00:47:18,227 Ironically, that was right when America was under prohibition law. 714 00:47:18,391 --> 00:47:21,378 So I even had to pay a fine. 715 00:47:23,215 --> 00:47:29,195 Upon my return home, I spent the following five to six years drinking. 716 00:47:31,302 --> 00:47:35,400 So why are you trying to quit again, this time by writing? 717 00:47:35,587 --> 00:47:37,902 Why don't you use that tag again? 718 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,805 That was the very first thing I sold once I started drinking again! 719 00:47:52,431 --> 00:47:56,328 "My lifelong journey has gone past the meridian sun," 720 00:47:56,387 --> 00:47:58,861 "and is now heading into the sunset." 721 00:47:59,048 --> 00:48:02,710 "All the innumerable lost opportunities and unfulfilled desires..." 722 00:48:02,780 --> 00:48:05,566 "which vanished inside the sweet nectars of oblivion..." 723 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:10,003 "are now but a heavy burden on my soul." 724 00:48:10,366 --> 00:48:13,988 "Be it my motherland, abroad or wherever the path leads me," 725 00:48:14,187 --> 00:48:17,711 "never again shall I make acquaintance with the bottle." 726 00:48:44,674 --> 00:48:50,782 So here it is, my very last cup. 727 00:48:52,995 --> 00:48:58,835 I remarried and even had a son. 728 00:48:59,819 --> 00:49:06,403 My wife told me she married me thinking I had quit drinking. 729 00:49:08,194 --> 00:49:11,998 Complaining that it was a scam, a sly excuse, 730 00:49:12,057 --> 00:49:15,029 she not only resented me, 731 00:49:16,247 --> 00:49:23,957 but one inebriating night, I even made big mistakes in front of her friends. 732 00:49:25,198 --> 00:49:26,978 Because of that, 733 00:49:27,833 --> 00:49:33,206 she even started mentioning divorce, 734 00:49:37,093 --> 00:49:41,823 so I can no longer spend time with you. 735 00:49:46,058 --> 00:49:52,256 For having been the best friend I could imagine, 736 00:49:53,106 --> 00:49:54,562 thank you. 737 00:49:56,156 --> 00:49:57,665 So long. 738 00:50:13,929 --> 00:50:17,865 By the way, what is this smell? 739 00:50:17,982 --> 00:50:20,113 This is alcohol for sure. 740 00:50:24,035 --> 00:50:27,384 After that day, I endured it well for quite some time. 741 00:50:27,805 --> 00:50:30,299 But then, what do you know, the war breaks out. 742 00:50:32,266 --> 00:50:34,244 You started drinking because of the war?! 743 00:50:34,771 --> 00:50:38,557 Was it the cruelties, or just fear? 744 00:50:39,657 --> 00:50:42,092 Of course that was one of the reasons, 745 00:50:42,678 --> 00:50:44,832 but the most important... 746 00:50:46,658 --> 00:50:51,193 was that sense of relief from having survived through that. 747 00:50:53,499 --> 00:50:54,811 Right... 748 00:50:54,939 --> 00:50:56,904 Meeting again alive and well like this, 749 00:50:57,314 --> 00:51:00,534 I'm glad, thankful and happy. 750 00:51:02,533 --> 00:51:03,449 Indeed. 751 00:51:04,854 --> 00:51:08,203 It's something to be glad, thankful and happy about. 752 00:51:09,152 --> 00:51:11,013 But, on the other hand, 753 00:51:12,992 --> 00:51:15,262 it's also full of sadness as well. 754 00:51:16,187 --> 00:51:17,920 Many people... 755 00:51:19,266 --> 00:51:21,865 left our side, didn't they? 756 00:51:26,223 --> 00:51:31,081 I talked about my sense of relief earlier, 757 00:51:31,959 --> 00:51:34,582 but, actually, 758 00:51:35,565 --> 00:51:39,383 calling it the bittersweet sadness of survival would be better. 759 00:51:41,678 --> 00:51:44,043 Unless the bottle paves the way, 760 00:51:45,237 --> 00:51:48,410 you can't overcome that sadness and rise again. 761 00:51:49,487 --> 00:51:50,599 Fine. 762 00:51:51,114 --> 00:51:54,381 I'll buy you a drink today, let's go. 763 00:51:55,317 --> 00:51:59,582 Didn't you say that you quit drinking? 764 00:51:59,758 --> 00:52:01,994 Still, I get drunk easily. 765 00:52:02,392 --> 00:52:06,980 Sometimes I get so drunk, I even collapse on the spot! 766 00:52:09,216 --> 00:52:12,207 - Thanks for the drinks. - Yes, good night. 767 00:52:19,328 --> 00:52:20,772 Lee Madam! 768 00:52:21,018 --> 00:52:22,517 Aigoo... come on in. 769 00:52:22,716 --> 00:52:26,291 {\a6}*From the Japanese oden (fish cakes) 770 00:52:22,716 --> 00:52:26,291 This used to be an odeng* house, since when did it change so much?! 771 00:52:26,361 --> 00:52:28,105 Maybe half a year? 772 00:52:28,293 --> 00:52:31,702 It's all nice and cosy. 773 00:52:31,828 --> 00:52:33,886 I like it. 774 00:52:33,968 --> 00:52:35,701 Aigoo, Seonsaengnim. 775 00:52:35,771 --> 00:52:37,832 I was still dealing with the radish... 776 00:52:37,913 --> 00:52:41,184 I brought a drinking buddy to improve business for the night. 777 00:52:42,144 --> 00:52:46,155 I might drink a lot indeed, but I don't know about improving business. 778 00:52:46,291 --> 00:52:48,808 Afraid it'll have to be on credit?! 779 00:52:49,241 --> 00:52:52,882 If it's someone like you, credit is a given. 780 00:52:52,987 --> 00:52:54,392 You know who he is? 781 00:52:54,533 --> 00:52:56,746 He's Suju Seonsaengnim. 782 00:52:58,835 --> 00:53:00,240 Have you ever met him? 783 00:53:00,462 --> 00:53:05,145 If one doesn't know you two, you're not from Myeongdong for sure. 784 00:53:06,497 --> 00:53:10,533 But, before it was an odeng house, this used to be a coffee shop. 785 00:53:10,639 --> 00:53:13,156 Yes, that's right. You remember?! 786 00:53:13,542 --> 00:53:16,416 Coming here in winter and having some odeng with soup and drinks on top... 787 00:53:16,474 --> 00:53:18,933 was just a dainty. 788 00:53:19,226 --> 00:53:23,089 Then, I'll have to prepare odeng for the winter. 789 00:53:23,456 --> 00:53:24,993 So which side dishes shall we go for? 790 00:53:25,142 --> 00:53:26,465 Bindae Ddeok (mung bean pancake). 791 00:53:26,628 --> 00:53:30,223 It's a bit rough and brings out that savory mung bean flavor, 792 00:53:30,363 --> 00:53:31,522 it's a wonder. 793 00:53:31,686 --> 00:53:35,316 Odeng might be free, but what if she asks us to pay for the pancakes?! 794 00:53:35,468 --> 00:53:38,500 I'll give them free of charge to you. 795 00:53:38,676 --> 00:53:39,940 Lee Madam! 796 00:53:40,565 --> 00:53:41,790 You shouldn't. 797 00:53:41,895 --> 00:53:42,586 What? 798 00:53:42,914 --> 00:53:45,114 That odeng house and the coffee shop went belly up, 799 00:53:45,195 --> 00:53:47,139 so you shouldn't be so generous. 800 00:53:47,677 --> 00:53:53,320 If you keep with that free-of-charge tirade, you'll end up in the red. 801 00:53:53,538 --> 00:53:57,020 Thanks to you, the Bronze Coffee Shop is still in business, 802 00:53:57,148 --> 00:53:59,431 so I'd love for Suju Seonsaengnim to do the same here. 803 00:53:59,572 --> 00:54:04,292 If he comes here often, more people will come to see him. 804 00:54:04,398 --> 00:54:07,320 So it surely should be free of charge. 805 00:54:08,917 --> 00:54:10,837 Madam, well said indeed! 806 00:54:11,001 --> 00:54:13,926 That's like having the bottle full and your husband drunk! 807 00:54:14,008 --> 00:54:17,298 Wait a moment... 808 00:54:18,117 --> 00:54:21,452 I'll have to make Eunseong my new hideout. 809 00:54:22,355 --> 00:54:27,066 I'll leave the Bronze to you, Gongcho Seonsaeng. 810 00:54:27,195 --> 00:54:32,335 I'll be here taking care of the Eun~seong instead! 811 00:54:32,499 --> 00:54:35,192 After that day, whenever Suju Byeon Yeong No visited Myeongdong, 812 00:54:35,251 --> 00:54:36,913 he would habitually head to the Eunseong first, 813 00:54:37,089 --> 00:54:40,593 and it appears that he always chose the same spot. 814 00:54:41,456 --> 00:54:43,165 We're running out of time. 815 00:54:43,540 --> 00:54:46,923 We'll have to say a final word about Lee Jung Seop. 816 00:54:47,654 --> 00:54:50,567 {\a6}~ 1956 Seoul Red Cross Hospital ~ 817 00:54:49,701 --> 00:54:51,902 Han Hyung, what happened? 818 00:54:54,559 --> 00:54:58,082 Speak to me! What happened to Lee Jung Seop? 819 00:54:59,299 --> 00:55:00,599 You knew that... 820 00:55:01,325 --> 00:55:05,563 Jung Seop was released from the mental institute in Cheongnyangni, right? 821 00:55:06,394 --> 00:55:09,086 He wasn't there because of any mental problems, 822 00:55:09,449 --> 00:55:15,700 but because of malnutrition and hepatitis making him collapse all the time. 823 00:55:16,344 --> 00:55:18,293 That all considered... 824 00:55:18,621 --> 00:55:22,882 So, after he was released, 825 00:55:23,479 --> 00:55:27,698 he kept raising a ruckus and refused to eat, 826 00:55:27,908 --> 00:55:29,723 so I brought him here. 827 00:55:29,863 --> 00:55:31,163 It's been a few months. 828 00:55:31,222 --> 00:55:32,533 So, what happened? 829 00:55:32,673 --> 00:55:35,389 What is this about Lee Jung Seop dying?! 830 00:55:37,895 --> 00:55:42,067 I was busy so I couldn't come for about two weeks, 831 00:55:42,593 --> 00:55:48,130 but he wasn't here in the morning, and they didn't even release him. 832 00:55:48,387 --> 00:55:50,904 So when I asked them where he went, 833 00:55:51,513 --> 00:55:53,211 they said he's dead. 834 00:55:57,314 --> 00:56:01,306 "Dead?! Where is Lee Jung Seop?!" I said, 835 00:56:02,617 --> 00:56:05,216 and this doctor just told me... 836 00:56:05,614 --> 00:56:11,430 "Was that Lee Jung Seop the famous painter?!" 837 00:56:52,358 --> 00:56:56,150 We risked to see him cremated with no one present, 838 00:56:56,349 --> 00:56:58,763 after being labeled as an unidentified patient. 839 00:57:05,085 --> 00:57:06,806 Lee Hyung... 840 00:57:20,296 --> 00:57:23,670 What do we need any history book for? 841 00:57:25,098 --> 00:57:27,861 If you only look at Lee Jung Seop's paintings, 842 00:57:28,915 --> 00:57:31,840 you'll see our entire generation roaring inside. 843 00:57:33,362 --> 00:57:34,919 Lee Hyung... 844 00:57:36,221 --> 00:57:41,213 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 845 00:57:41,497 --> 00:57:46,340 This is a FREE fansub. NOT for SALE! Get it for FREE @ withs2.com 846 00:57:46,597 --> 00:57:50,505 Main Translator and Timer: MisterX 847 00:57:50,789 --> 00:57:54,709 Timing QC: wichitawx 848 00:57:54,905 --> 00:57:58,914 Editor/QC: thunderbolt 849 00:57:59,197 --> 00:58:03,118 Coordinators: mily2, ay_link 850 00:58:04,432 --> 00:58:09,665 You might even consider Lee Jung Seop not to be the best painter of his generation. 851 00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:10,988 However, 852 00:58:11,550 --> 00:58:13,762 you could never separate the life and works of Lee Jung Seop... 853 00:58:13,973 --> 00:58:18,059 from the generation he lived in. 854 00:58:18,375 --> 00:58:42,936 Watch dramas legally @ dramafever.com