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Get it for FREE @ withs2.com 2 00:00:00,061 --> 00:00:03,978 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 3 00:00:04,115 --> 00:00:06,048 EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG 4 00:00:06,283 --> 00:00:12,162 Dr. Jo (Byeong Ok) was the candidate for the Democratic Party... 5 00:00:10,203 --> 00:00:16,532 {\a6}~ Lee Man Seop ~ (former Assemblyman; DongA Ilbo reporter at the time) 6 00:00:12,672 --> 00:00:16,443 at the presidential elections. 7 00:00:16,869 --> 00:00:18,885 But, a mere few days before the vote, 8 00:00:18,957 --> 00:00:20,829 he suddenly died at Walter Reed Hospital in the US. 9 00:00:21,305 --> 00:00:22,772 He died there. 10 00:00:22,975 --> 00:00:25,675 So the elections were already a foregone conclusion. 11 00:00:26,015 --> 00:00:28,426 That was back in February 1960. 12 00:00:27,757 --> 00:00:33,126 {\a6}~ Seo Jung Seok ~ (Seonggyungwan History professor) 13 00:00:28,601 --> 00:00:30,881 The election took place in March of that year. 14 00:00:30,974 --> 00:00:33,514 Usually, they had elections either in May or April, 15 00:00:33,586 --> 00:00:37,484 but the Liberal Party just forced March upon everyone, 16 00:00:37,546 --> 00:00:41,556 in consideration of many issues which could arise. 17 00:00:41,669 --> 00:00:44,343 So Jo Byeong Ok passed away, 18 00:00:43,284 --> 00:00:49,619 {\a6}~ Hong Seok Ryul ~ (Seongshin University History professor) 19 00:00:44,446 --> 00:00:47,881 and the Democratic Party had no time to nominate another candidate. 20 00:00:48,004 --> 00:00:52,307 So, just like back in the 1956 elections, 21 00:00:52,482 --> 00:00:54,761 although I of course don't know if it was a coincidence or not, 22 00:00:54,812 --> 00:01:01,131 but Lee Seung Man once again found himself running for president alone, 23 00:01:01,306 --> 00:01:04,327 and was pretty much the only choice. 24 00:01:04,438 --> 00:01:05,881 With the situation as it was, 25 00:01:05,582 --> 00:01:11,260 {\a6}~ Park Tae Gyun ~ (SNU International Studies professor) 26 00:01:05,994 --> 00:01:08,421 the focus of both opposition and leading party was directed... 27 00:01:08,493 --> 00:01:10,005 at the vice-president's elections. 28 00:01:10,087 --> 00:01:13,218 The presidential elections were completely ignored in that sense, 29 00:01:13,328 --> 00:01:18,338 since there was only one candidate, and Lee Seung Man was going to win anyway, 30 00:01:18,438 --> 00:01:27,907 so the real competition moved towards the candidates for vice president. 31 00:01:27,999 --> 00:01:30,119 Congratulations, Mr. Speaker. 32 00:01:29,697 --> 00:01:33,749 {\a6}~ Lee Gi Bong ~ (National Assembly Speaker) 33 00:01:32,569 --> 00:01:33,809 How is word on the street? 34 00:01:33,909 --> 00:01:36,279 It's all proceeding smoothly. 35 00:01:36,495 --> 00:01:39,929 Since during the last elections we had president and V.P. from different parties, 36 00:01:37,894 --> 00:01:40,125 {\a6}~ Episode 20 ~ 37 00:01:40,059 --> 00:01:44,630 we had plenty of difficulties in dealing with state affairs, 38 00:01:44,816 --> 00:01:52,185 but the people clearly want both figures to come from the same party now. 39 00:01:52,339 --> 00:01:53,130 Is that so? 40 00:01:53,296 --> 00:01:54,191 Yes. 41 00:01:54,448 --> 00:01:56,104 You don't need to worry, 42 00:01:56,248 --> 00:01:57,400 Mr. Speaker. 43 00:02:03,232 --> 00:02:04,851 Come on in. 44 00:02:05,001 --> 00:02:06,235 This way, Lee Sajang. 45 00:02:06,379 --> 00:02:07,860 Aigoo... 46 00:02:08,331 --> 00:02:10,164 - Have a seat. - Yes. 47 00:02:11,162 --> 00:02:12,902 How is the film going? 48 00:02:13,056 --> 00:02:14,682 Not as well as I'd like. 49 00:02:14,772 --> 00:02:16,162 Why is that? 50 00:02:16,612 --> 00:02:20,552 Seems like it's not something you can just throw money at to see it built. 51 00:02:20,642 --> 00:02:22,422 Indeed, indeed. 52 00:02:22,532 --> 00:02:24,463 Films are art, after all. 53 00:02:24,583 --> 00:02:28,483 So, tell me, you've completely moved over to that industry now? 54 00:02:28,563 --> 00:02:30,283 It has its interesting points as well. 55 00:02:30,373 --> 00:02:34,542 Thanks to you, Lee Jung Jae is gaining all sorts of opportunities. 56 00:02:35,441 --> 00:02:38,273 Isn't Im Hwa Soo doing much better, these days? 57 00:02:38,356 --> 00:02:39,993 Ohh... That... 58 00:02:40,113 --> 00:02:43,004 They made peace. 59 00:02:43,093 --> 00:02:46,474 Lee Jung Jae went to Seodaemun and got on his knees... 60 00:02:46,604 --> 00:02:50,614 before Lee Gi Bong, and he was forgiven, all right. 61 00:02:51,904 --> 00:02:55,495 - Is that so? - Ehh... Lee Jung Jae made a mistake. 62 00:02:55,701 --> 00:02:58,914 Isn't it obvious he should have conceded the electorate? 63 00:02:59,048 --> 00:03:01,535 He ended up fighting over that with Seodaemun... 64 00:03:01,625 --> 00:03:04,489 Still, stealing someone else's electorate... 65 00:03:04,581 --> 00:03:06,865 No matter how wretched our politics have become, 66 00:03:06,974 --> 00:03:10,576 can some hoodlum enter our House of Representatives? 67 00:03:12,869 --> 00:03:18,846 At the May 1958 elections, candidate Lee Gi Bong... 68 00:03:16,994 --> 00:03:20,758 {\a6}~ Lee Wan Beom ~ (Academy of Korean Studies professor) 69 00:03:18,955 --> 00:03:24,446 knew that winning in his district of Seodaemun was impossible, 70 00:03:24,586 --> 00:03:32,619 simply because the opposition party was gaining consensus in the city. 71 00:03:32,711 --> 00:03:43,308 So what suddenly came to mind was Lee Jung Jae and his district. 72 00:03:43,411 --> 00:03:48,579 Lee Gi Bong and the Liberal Party just flat out asked for his electorate, 73 00:03:48,641 --> 00:03:55,068 but no matter what kind of relationship the two had enjoyed up to then, 74 00:03:55,167 --> 00:03:56,713 it certainly wasn't something you could just ask for. 75 00:03:56,806 --> 00:03:58,818 So he clearly showed some opposition. 76 00:03:58,908 --> 00:04:01,581 Eventually, Kwak Young Joo played the middle man, 77 00:04:00,368 --> 00:04:05,346 {\a6}~ Im Heon Young ~ (culture critic) 78 00:04:02,332 --> 00:04:04,778 and although I don't really know the details, 79 00:04:04,868 --> 00:04:15,501 but he promised him an even better position, eventually convincing him. 80 00:04:16,108 --> 00:04:17,415 Lee Sajang. 81 00:04:18,038 --> 00:04:20,624 Do you have any intentions of joining the political circle? 82 00:04:21,639 --> 00:04:26,069 If Lee Gi Bong manages to be elected vice president, 83 00:04:26,159 --> 00:04:29,506 in a one-two year span... it's this! 84 00:04:29,712 --> 00:04:31,739 He's going up the ladder for sure! 85 00:04:31,892 --> 00:04:35,214 Dr. Lee (Seung Man) will be eighty-five this year. 86 00:04:35,306 --> 00:04:37,879 What could possibly be different between Lee Jung Jae and me? 87 00:04:37,990 --> 00:04:40,305 Ahh... Of course you are! 88 00:04:41,652 --> 00:04:44,810 I'm thinking of entering the film industry in full force. 89 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:49,108 It's just that in Seodaemun they still want you on their team. 90 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:51,731 Isn't it going well even without me? 91 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:57,839 Well, I guess... That Im Hwa Soo is not your average fellow. 92 00:04:58,188 --> 00:05:04,483 Go see if you find any artist willing to join an anti-communist group. 93 00:05:05,820 --> 00:05:08,632 Then, found a literary group yourself. 94 00:05:08,742 --> 00:05:10,452 Why, are scribes all that important? 95 00:05:10,562 --> 00:05:13,606 Heard of the "Mansong* Clique"? 96 00:05:10,562 --> 00:05:13,606 {\a6}*Lee Gi Bong's moniker 97 00:05:13,712 --> 00:05:17,472 Writings praising Lee Gi Bong are piling up by the minute. 98 00:05:17,562 --> 00:05:19,872 I haven't heard any such thing. 99 00:05:19,972 --> 00:05:22,182 They're the weakest of them all, those scribes. 100 00:05:22,327 --> 00:05:24,857 All it takes is a few pennies, uh? 101 00:05:25,155 --> 00:05:28,753 I am aware that none of the scribes from Myeongdong would do that. 102 00:05:28,863 --> 00:05:32,090 Scribes in Myeongdong are just small fries, 103 00:05:32,182 --> 00:05:34,723 the big shots don't even sniff in that direction. 104 00:05:34,823 --> 00:05:37,181 If you'll excuse me, I'll have to go. 105 00:05:37,453 --> 00:05:39,214 Lee Sajang! 106 00:05:39,313 --> 00:05:41,704 This will soon become Lee Gi Bong's world. 107 00:05:41,824 --> 00:05:45,166 Help him out while you still can. 108 00:05:46,102 --> 00:05:48,005 I will think about it. 109 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,282 Think about it for real! 110 00:06:10,546 --> 00:06:12,617 - Aigoo. - Aigoo! 111 00:06:13,665 --> 00:06:15,280 I hear you're producing movies? 112 00:06:15,424 --> 00:06:16,473 Yes. 113 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:18,839 You're really something, Lee Sajang. 114 00:06:19,449 --> 00:06:22,117 Even a dog can learn something if he hangs out with the best, 115 00:06:22,227 --> 00:06:25,855 so I guess staring at you folks from afar helped me out a little. 116 00:06:26,404 --> 00:06:28,154 You made a wise decision, Lee Sajangnim. 117 00:06:28,244 --> 00:06:29,363 Thank you. 118 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,003 But I always kept prattling about knowing you'd be behind me, 119 00:06:33,136 --> 00:06:34,823 from now on I guess I'll have to be careful? 120 00:06:35,008 --> 00:06:39,584 From what I hear, the gang from Dongdaemun is headed this way. 121 00:06:40,525 --> 00:06:42,585 Ahh... Would it get to that point? 122 00:06:42,675 --> 00:06:43,845 Right, Lee Sajang? 123 00:06:43,955 --> 00:06:47,295 This place is still under your control, right? 124 00:06:48,735 --> 00:06:50,785 I'll have to get going. 125 00:06:51,687 --> 00:06:52,746 Yes. 126 00:06:56,926 --> 00:06:58,980 Who is that? 127 00:06:59,102 --> 00:07:00,193 Have you never seen him? 128 00:07:00,297 --> 00:07:02,526 Isn't that Lee Hwa Ryong? 129 00:07:02,696 --> 00:07:04,483 Lee Hwa Ryong?! 130 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,976 He looks like a proper fella?! 131 00:07:07,069 --> 00:07:08,479 So you've never met him? 132 00:07:08,602 --> 00:07:10,802 Even if I had, would I know? 133 00:07:10,962 --> 00:07:12,741 As if he looked like your average gangster. 134 00:07:12,844 --> 00:07:17,603 Thanks to that man, all we scribes have had it easy. 135 00:07:19,649 --> 00:07:22,169 {\a6}~ Gyeongmudae Presidential Office ~ 136 00:07:20,876 --> 00:07:24,793 Opinion polls are quite promising. 137 00:07:24,906 --> 00:07:26,289 Yes, Mr. President. 138 00:07:26,194 --> 00:07:28,498 {\a6}~ Lee Seung Man (President) ~ 139 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:32,160 Seems like Mansong (Lee Gi Bong) has been gaining consensus. 140 00:07:32,299 --> 00:07:33,850 That is indeed true, Mr. President. 141 00:07:32,637 --> 00:07:34,292 ~{\a6}~ Choi In Gyu (Minister of Domestic Affairs) 142 00:07:34,518 --> 00:07:39,250 Then, we won't have to worry about these elections. 143 00:07:39,350 --> 00:07:41,055 Indeed, Mr. President. 144 00:07:46,152 --> 00:07:48,830 What did the president say? 145 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,521 To give our all without a blemish. 146 00:07:53,911 --> 00:07:56,681 So, what did you tell him? 147 00:07:56,791 --> 00:08:01,204 I reported to him that you were beating Jang Myeon by a wide margin. 148 00:08:01,336 --> 00:08:03,142 How wide? 149 00:08:03,241 --> 00:08:05,212 About 7 to 3. 150 00:08:05,462 --> 00:08:08,542 Ahh... Am I that much ahead of him? 151 00:08:13,672 --> 00:08:16,022 The same goes for last time, 152 00:08:16,122 --> 00:08:19,102 but we should never underestimate Jang Myeon. 153 00:08:19,223 --> 00:08:21,583 Distractions are forbidden, that's the point. 154 00:08:22,346 --> 00:08:23,112 Yes. 155 00:08:23,187 --> 00:08:26,102 That is why, just in case, 156 00:08:26,243 --> 00:08:30,353 we prepared safeguard plans to deal with the situation. 157 00:08:32,453 --> 00:08:36,717 I might not be allowed to divulge this in detail, but... 158 00:08:37,225 --> 00:08:38,334 Anyhow. 159 00:08:38,748 --> 00:08:40,363 Just trust me. 160 00:08:41,034 --> 00:08:44,764 This is our last chance. Make sure you make no mistakes. 161 00:08:45,383 --> 00:08:47,784 Yes, you needn't worry. 162 00:08:47,904 --> 00:08:52,533 We're building our stone bridge step by step as we go along. 163 00:08:56,566 --> 00:08:58,841 From the Liberal Party's point of view, 164 00:08:58,935 --> 00:09:00,854 the presidential elections were pretty much a foregone conclusion. 165 00:09:01,174 --> 00:09:05,453 But the real issue was the vice presidential election. 166 00:09:09,915 --> 00:09:14,707 If we did like the Americans and put together VP and president, 167 00:09:14,782 --> 00:09:16,386 we wouldn't have to worry. 168 00:09:16,550 --> 00:09:19,051 This electoral law of ours is the real problem! 169 00:09:19,323 --> 00:09:23,151 Having to vote for the two posts separately is just... 170 00:09:24,834 --> 00:09:26,267 Don't worry. 171 00:09:26,489 --> 00:09:30,485 No matter what happens, you will win these elections. 172 00:09:32,394 --> 00:09:38,007 This wasn't just your average electoral fraud, 173 00:09:38,097 --> 00:09:42,387 it was deliberate and predetermined from the start. 174 00:09:43,075 --> 00:09:48,031 That is, before people got to vote, the result was already confirmed. 175 00:09:48,210 --> 00:09:52,776 At the time, 30-40% of the electorate voted in advance, they said. 176 00:09:52,908 --> 00:09:56,679 This would mean that many people went to vote, 177 00:09:56,792 --> 00:09:59,479 and found out their vote had already been registered. 178 00:09:59,789 --> 00:10:01,999 They just wouldn't give them access to the voting booth. 179 00:10:02,601 --> 00:10:04,952 Wouldn't people be enraged by that? 180 00:10:05,093 --> 00:10:14,309 And people close to the Liberal Party would closely observe the proceedings. 181 00:10:14,509 --> 00:10:22,501 Essentially, people had to vote under their control and intimidation. 182 00:10:22,623 --> 00:10:27,974 Not to mention the fact that they used what you could call vigilante corps, 183 00:10:28,078 --> 00:10:29,801 and although cops were responsible for this as well, 184 00:10:29,884 --> 00:10:31,449 most of them were just gangsters trying to intimidate people. 185 00:10:31,543 --> 00:10:35,596 So they'd change your vote before it was registered. 186 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:40,044 And, this also happened in the 1956 elections, 187 00:10:40,148 --> 00:10:43,183 they even threatened entire electoral districts. 188 00:10:43,293 --> 00:10:48,621 That is, if one district was overwhelmingly supporting the opposition, 189 00:10:48,724 --> 00:10:52,637 or it had a long history of supporting them. 190 00:10:52,722 --> 00:10:56,427 They just kept pestering those people to "convince" them against voting. 191 00:10:56,594 --> 00:11:02,491 They essentially forced all opposition inspectors out. 192 00:10:57,375 --> 00:11:00,581 {\a6}~ Lee Yi Hwa (historian) ~ 193 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,352 Because their tactics could eventually be exposed, 194 00:11:06,474 --> 00:11:10,344 they pushed out all opposing forces who could create problems. 195 00:11:10,431 --> 00:11:14,785 The police itself was creating this atmosphere of intimidation, 196 00:11:14,955 --> 00:11:18,145 and since even that wasn't working, 197 00:11:18,227 --> 00:11:20,289 as their very last option, 198 00:11:20,374 --> 00:11:27,493 they summarized the total number of voters and polling booths, 199 00:11:27,596 --> 00:11:32,743 and without even counting votes, they just announced their "results." 200 00:11:35,504 --> 00:11:38,294 What are you waiting for? Hurry and come out. 201 00:11:38,384 --> 00:11:40,342 Go ahead first. 202 00:11:40,445 --> 00:11:42,295 Hurry up. 203 00:11:43,934 --> 00:11:46,121 Wow... Take a look at yourself, Yoon! 204 00:11:46,234 --> 00:11:48,284 Where are you going, all dressed so nicely? 205 00:11:48,378 --> 00:11:49,495 Ahh... Yes, 206 00:11:49,585 --> 00:11:52,065 I need to drop by my in-laws. 207 00:11:52,165 --> 00:11:53,265 Your in-laws?! 208 00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:57,790 Yes. It's been so long since we visited her parents... 209 00:11:57,945 --> 00:12:00,056 Of all days, why go there today? 210 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,588 Today is a holiday. 211 00:12:02,870 --> 00:12:04,816 Holiday?! 212 00:12:04,946 --> 00:12:06,696 It's election day! 213 00:12:06,796 --> 00:12:08,814 They made it a holiday so you could go vote, 214 00:12:08,917 --> 00:12:12,087 not to have you go visit your in-laws. 215 00:12:12,472 --> 00:12:15,587 Ahh... We'll go vote on our way there. 216 00:12:16,019 --> 00:12:16,937 Right. 217 00:12:17,046 --> 00:12:19,847 Go vote for sure. 218 00:12:20,047 --> 00:12:21,173 Yes, Hyungnim. 219 00:12:21,248 --> 00:12:22,747 Let's go, dear. 220 00:12:23,157 --> 00:12:25,088 What are you doing in there? 221 00:12:25,408 --> 00:12:28,107 Wait... Yoon! Wait a moment. 222 00:12:28,220 --> 00:12:30,778 Just a second. Let's have a word. 223 00:12:30,938 --> 00:12:34,004 So who are you going to vote for? 224 00:12:35,837 --> 00:12:39,903 Don't just laugh, and whisper it to my ears. 225 00:12:39,978 --> 00:12:42,648 Why are you asking him? 226 00:12:42,748 --> 00:12:45,208 It's not something you should prance about telling people. 227 00:12:45,329 --> 00:12:47,118 All right, fine. 228 00:12:47,230 --> 00:12:48,707 Still, go for Lee Gi Bong. 229 00:12:48,801 --> 00:12:51,227 Candidate No. 1, Lee Gi Bong. 230 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:52,600 All right? 231 00:12:52,694 --> 00:12:54,519 I'll vote Jang Myeon? 232 00:12:54,603 --> 00:12:57,194 What are you saying? 233 00:12:57,297 --> 00:13:00,626 If Jang Myeon becomes VP, we'll be infested by commies! 234 00:13:00,702 --> 00:13:03,278 And if Lee Gi Bong becomes VP, it'll become a dictatorship. 235 00:13:03,363 --> 00:13:04,191 Dear... 236 00:13:04,285 --> 00:13:07,178 Dictatorships are unacceptable. 237 00:13:07,893 --> 00:13:11,128 You've been prattling about dictatorship this and that, 238 00:13:11,250 --> 00:13:14,194 but do you even know what that means? 239 00:13:14,316 --> 00:13:15,910 This dictatorship you refer to... 240 00:13:16,112 --> 00:13:18,350 What Kim Il Sung is doing is true dictatorship. 241 00:13:18,425 --> 00:13:19,140 Indeed. 242 00:13:19,234 --> 00:13:20,644 An absolute dictatorship. 243 00:13:20,889 --> 00:13:24,039 The communist party is all they have up north. 244 00:13:24,152 --> 00:13:28,081 But look at us! Liberal Party, Democratic Party... 245 00:13:28,171 --> 00:13:30,226 Enough with the lecture, and let's just go. 246 00:13:30,301 --> 00:13:32,935 - Ahh yes, let's go. - Wait. 247 00:13:33,367 --> 00:13:36,809 What on earth did you wear? 248 00:13:36,941 --> 00:13:38,213 What's wrong with this? 249 00:13:38,307 --> 00:13:41,307 Can you wear those pants at the electoral booth? 250 00:13:41,401 --> 00:13:43,630 I need to go to work after I vote. 251 00:13:43,715 --> 00:13:46,480 Listen, forget work today. 252 00:13:46,658 --> 00:13:51,742 Let's vote, and then go for some fresh naengmyeon (cold noodles). 253 00:13:52,749 --> 00:13:55,100 Then, you're treating us as well? 254 00:13:55,231 --> 00:13:57,328 Sure, sure I will! 255 00:13:58,551 --> 00:13:59,914 Just a moment. 256 00:14:00,130 --> 00:14:02,547 Candidate No. 1, is that clear? 257 00:14:02,660 --> 00:14:03,488 Lee Gi Bong. 258 00:14:03,582 --> 00:14:05,481 Let's get going! 259 00:14:05,622 --> 00:14:06,995 Let's go. 260 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:13,564 I think that's the only way. 261 00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:16,555 Yes, let's do that, then. 262 00:14:21,251 --> 00:14:22,540 What are you doing there? 263 00:14:22,643 --> 00:14:24,935 I told you to fetch me some water. 264 00:14:25,615 --> 00:14:27,157 I'm coming. 265 00:14:27,251 --> 00:14:28,455 I'll get going, then. 266 00:14:28,530 --> 00:14:29,546 Yes... 267 00:14:30,063 --> 00:14:32,182 - Have a safe return. - Yes. 268 00:14:40,081 --> 00:14:42,445 Why are you always so tactless? 269 00:14:42,535 --> 00:14:43,792 What is it? 270 00:14:43,952 --> 00:14:46,725 He's from the district council. 271 00:14:46,825 --> 00:14:50,093 Know how noxious they can get, if you rile them up? 272 00:14:50,206 --> 00:14:52,044 So do I need to act all sweet with a town officer... 273 00:14:52,091 --> 00:14:53,680 just because of a chicken coop? 274 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,809 He's saying we built a storage in the backyard. 275 00:14:57,931 --> 00:15:01,420 I barely managed to convince him not to force us to demolish it. 276 00:15:01,806 --> 00:15:04,147 So, he came here for that? 277 00:15:04,853 --> 00:15:06,339 He said to go vote. 278 00:15:06,555 --> 00:15:07,834 Vote?! 279 00:15:08,624 --> 00:15:11,041 It's election day. 280 00:15:11,177 --> 00:15:12,597 So, you said you'd go? 281 00:15:12,697 --> 00:15:13,977 No. 282 00:15:14,087 --> 00:15:16,490 And he just left, despite that? 283 00:15:17,299 --> 00:15:20,237 I said that, since you would have voted for Jang Myeon, 284 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:22,039 keeping you at home would be better. 285 00:15:22,105 --> 00:15:25,588 He agreed, and then just left. 286 00:15:29,287 --> 00:15:30,638 Where are you going? 287 00:15:30,748 --> 00:15:31,823 To vote. 288 00:15:40,884 --> 00:15:42,360 Want some makgeolli? 289 00:15:42,445 --> 00:15:44,142 Ahh... No. 290 00:15:44,358 --> 00:15:48,045 I was just passing by, and I thought I'd rest my legs a little. 291 00:15:48,158 --> 00:15:50,321 You're not working at the paper, these days? 292 00:15:51,195 --> 00:15:52,851 I quit there. 293 00:15:52,954 --> 00:15:56,482 Isn't that the reason why I'm sitting here at this hour? 294 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,379 Aigoo... And I thought I could get you to pay some of your tab, 295 00:15:59,445 --> 00:16:01,222 guess that's out of the question now. 296 00:16:01,740 --> 00:16:03,602 How much is it? 297 00:16:03,733 --> 00:16:05,820 Your tab is over there. 298 00:16:06,170 --> 00:16:09,040 ~ Lee Bong Gu ~ 299 00:16:09,690 --> 00:16:12,423 Those are all credit registers? 300 00:16:12,582 --> 00:16:14,021 Think that's all? 301 00:16:14,134 --> 00:16:16,945 There are more piled up under there. 302 00:16:17,901 --> 00:16:20,180 You shouldn't do business that way. 303 00:16:20,274 --> 00:16:21,328 Why not? 304 00:16:21,525 --> 00:16:25,259 Know what's the average lifespan of a bar in Myeongdong? 305 00:16:25,372 --> 00:16:27,699 If you go past the first year, it's already long. 306 00:16:27,831 --> 00:16:31,851 If you keep giving credit to everyone, you'll have to close up shop. 307 00:16:32,213 --> 00:16:36,182 Then, I endured it for three years, so that must be something. 308 00:16:37,341 --> 00:16:41,167 Actually, I was a little curious myself. 309 00:16:41,402 --> 00:16:44,232 What's the secret that's kept you open all this time? 310 00:16:44,752 --> 00:16:46,086 Tell me about it. 311 00:16:46,189 --> 00:16:48,185 I don't know myself. 312 00:16:48,523 --> 00:16:50,752 Anyhow, if I'm not closing anytime soon, 313 00:16:50,865 --> 00:16:53,893 and manage to make a decent living, isn't that enough? 314 00:16:56,293 --> 00:16:57,853 That's right. 315 00:16:59,683 --> 00:17:04,656 And on that note, Myeongdong sure has changed a lot. 316 00:17:05,606 --> 00:17:07,769 Half the people I meet are strangers. 317 00:17:07,854 --> 00:17:09,928 Same goes for all the people coming here, 318 00:17:10,004 --> 00:17:12,232 not to mention all the youngsters who've appeared as of late. 319 00:17:12,327 --> 00:17:15,364 Since they can meet famous artists if they come here, 320 00:17:15,444 --> 00:17:17,464 they're probably coming to take a peek. 321 00:17:18,364 --> 00:17:22,305 Right, have you ever met Park In Hwan? 322 00:17:26,144 --> 00:17:27,855 Not even Lee Jung Seop? 323 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:30,486 I guess I've heard about them. 324 00:17:31,985 --> 00:17:34,315 What kind of people were they? 325 00:17:36,835 --> 00:17:39,574 The reason Myeongdong feels so lonesome... 326 00:17:40,006 --> 00:17:44,897 is because Park In Hwan and Lee Jung Seop are no longer here. 327 00:17:52,486 --> 00:17:54,426 Would that be enough to understand? 328 00:17:57,188 --> 00:17:59,068 I've had a good rest, guess I'll get going. 329 00:17:59,158 --> 00:18:00,788 Yes, have a safe return. 330 00:18:26,953 --> 00:18:28,354 Seonsaengnim! 331 00:18:34,060 --> 00:18:36,480 What's a mother like you doing here? 332 00:18:36,630 --> 00:18:37,713 I graduated. 333 00:18:37,798 --> 00:18:38,691 In what? 334 00:18:38,973 --> 00:18:40,168 Motherhood. 335 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:42,801 Did anything happen to the kid? 336 00:18:42,970 --> 00:18:44,842 No. She's growing well. 337 00:18:44,955 --> 00:18:46,080 So? 338 00:18:47,747 --> 00:18:51,584 I've been told she'll grow even better away from me. 339 00:18:52,961 --> 00:18:54,913 Who could ever say that? 340 00:18:55,355 --> 00:18:56,761 My husband. 341 00:18:57,431 --> 00:18:59,221 Professor Kim? 342 00:19:00,402 --> 00:19:03,111 The first few months, it was interesting. 343 00:19:03,432 --> 00:19:05,104 Being a mother as well. 344 00:19:05,751 --> 00:19:13,010 But then I kept thinking, did I go to Germany to do this? 345 00:19:13,838 --> 00:19:16,866 Looking after the kid all day, doing laundry, 346 00:19:17,252 --> 00:19:20,802 well... guess the housemaid took care of the laundry. 347 00:19:21,175 --> 00:19:22,388 Anyhow... 348 00:19:22,566 --> 00:19:26,911 Doing the same exact things every day, and then my husband would... 349 00:19:27,005 --> 00:19:28,318 Hye Rin! 350 00:19:29,070 --> 00:19:31,798 All women live like that. 351 00:19:38,664 --> 00:19:45,204 Why is it that my husband, my parents, friends and even seonbae... 352 00:19:45,314 --> 00:19:47,110 all say the exact same thing? 353 00:19:47,260 --> 00:19:49,820 - "All women live like that"?! - What I'm saying... 354 00:19:49,914 --> 00:19:52,341 Were you just like them? 355 00:19:53,074 --> 00:19:56,385 The type who hangs out and drinks with women, 356 00:19:56,770 --> 00:20:00,058 but then points a finger at them, saying no proper woman would do that. 357 00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:04,469 I played with fire once again. 358 00:20:04,582 --> 00:20:07,884 You got married and even had a child, so I thought you'd change. 359 00:20:07,974 --> 00:20:09,634 But you're still a hornets' nest, all right. 360 00:20:09,734 --> 00:20:13,570 So, when they marry and have a child, a woman's life is over?! 361 00:20:16,532 --> 00:20:19,269 You disappoint me, Lee Bong Gu Seonsaengnim. 362 00:20:21,828 --> 00:20:25,523 Know why I always kept arguing with Park In Hwan? 363 00:20:26,323 --> 00:20:29,966 Because his poems were wonderful, 364 00:20:30,085 --> 00:20:31,466 he was always a fine dresser, 365 00:20:31,570 --> 00:20:36,225 a great talker, enough to make you believe he was enlightened. 366 00:20:36,335 --> 00:20:40,551 But deep inside, he still considered women inferior. 367 00:20:40,926 --> 00:20:42,718 I surrender. 368 00:20:42,878 --> 00:20:47,280 In that sense, I respect Kim Su Young a lot more. 369 00:20:47,703 --> 00:20:50,816 Because he embraced his wife's return, even after she cheated on him. 370 00:20:52,746 --> 00:20:55,587 Shouldn't a man be open-minded enough to accept that? 371 00:20:55,690 --> 00:20:56,866 Let's have a cup of tea. 372 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,339 It's too interesting a diatribe to waste it on the street. 373 00:21:00,054 --> 00:21:02,477 I have no time to spare drinking tea with you. 374 00:21:02,706 --> 00:21:04,337 I made her all sulky, now... 375 00:21:04,427 --> 00:21:06,707 Since I haven't been in Myeongdong for a while, 376 00:21:07,047 --> 00:21:09,342 I'll get myself some records, 377 00:21:09,797 --> 00:21:14,158 some books, and try out a few dresses as well. 378 00:21:14,258 --> 00:21:17,856 Well... Might head to the Dolce, and listen to some music. 379 00:21:18,327 --> 00:21:22,068 And if, after strolling about, I find a man I like, 380 00:21:22,168 --> 00:21:24,586 I might even have a few cocktails. 381 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,740 Then, guess I'll just go home. 382 00:22:08,461 --> 00:22:09,811 You're back? 383 00:22:10,501 --> 00:22:12,341 Where's my son? 384 00:22:12,851 --> 00:22:15,219 Yes... He went to vote. 385 00:22:15,304 --> 00:22:16,581 Vote?! 386 00:22:16,671 --> 00:22:19,501 What do I have to hear, Oppa went out to vote?! 387 00:22:19,586 --> 00:22:21,664 Tell me about it. 388 00:22:22,522 --> 00:22:25,407 Why don't you just go in? It's getting chilly. 389 00:22:26,902 --> 00:22:28,972 So Dr. Jang is going to win again?! 390 00:22:29,072 --> 00:22:31,490 Since even people like you went out to vote... 391 00:22:31,593 --> 00:22:34,162 I knew this would happen. I went there to vote, 392 00:22:34,227 --> 00:22:36,332 and the moment I give him my name and number, 393 00:22:36,422 --> 00:22:39,606 this fella becomes all pale and starts wavering. 394 00:22:39,709 --> 00:22:42,049 - So, I just... - Breathe, will you? 395 00:22:42,162 --> 00:22:43,385 What's the matter? 396 00:22:43,498 --> 00:22:45,113 Don't even mention it! 397 00:22:45,223 --> 00:22:48,313 Someone had already voted in my name. 398 00:22:48,463 --> 00:22:49,686 How could that be possible? 399 00:22:49,770 --> 00:22:51,009 I saw it with my own eyes. 400 00:22:51,084 --> 00:22:53,844 There was a circle under my name. 401 00:22:53,999 --> 00:22:56,858 Then, why would that officer come here to convince you? 402 00:22:57,018 --> 00:23:01,156 Since it didn't look like I'd vote, they came to verify just in case, 403 00:23:01,259 --> 00:23:03,987 and find out whether I'd go or not. 404 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:05,821 But since I made them believe I wouldn't go, 405 00:23:05,905 --> 00:23:08,106 they had someone else vote on my behalf. 406 00:23:08,191 --> 00:23:09,789 Aigoo, enough. Give it a rest. 407 00:23:09,874 --> 00:23:11,702 Why would you get so riled up over that? 408 00:23:11,777 --> 00:23:13,357 "Over that"?! 409 00:23:13,432 --> 00:23:15,689 Those Liberal Party thieves are staging an electoral fraud, 410 00:23:15,746 --> 00:23:17,755 can we just sit and stare while it happens? 411 00:23:18,105 --> 00:23:20,175 You'll have to call the reporters, then. 412 00:23:20,335 --> 00:23:21,642 Of course! 413 00:23:22,396 --> 00:23:25,307 Should I go down the street and call the paper? 414 00:23:27,977 --> 00:23:29,191 Should I? 415 00:23:29,313 --> 00:23:30,799 I was just talking. 416 00:23:30,893 --> 00:23:32,946 And he looked so fierce! 417 00:23:33,206 --> 00:23:34,356 Aigoo... 418 00:23:34,707 --> 00:23:37,916 As if anyone was worth my vote. Election, my ass. 419 00:23:38,413 --> 00:23:39,964 Get a chicken. 420 00:23:40,046 --> 00:23:41,936 We'll boil it. 421 00:24:10,295 --> 00:24:12,749 Did you run out of cigarettes? 422 00:24:13,808 --> 00:24:14,921 Why? 423 00:24:15,081 --> 00:24:18,849 It's the first time I see you without one in your fingers. 424 00:24:19,269 --> 00:24:20,579 Coffee. 425 00:24:21,376 --> 00:24:23,840 I don't feel that well, today. 426 00:24:23,953 --> 00:24:25,524 Why is that? 427 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:29,413 I never believed an election could change much of anything, 428 00:24:30,193 --> 00:24:32,770 but since it seems like it will be Lee Seung Man on top again, 429 00:24:33,052 --> 00:24:35,610 I just feel annoyed by this world, that's all. 430 00:24:37,220 --> 00:24:40,720 So even you are interested in politics, at times? 431 00:24:40,830 --> 00:24:42,430 Politics? 432 00:24:42,737 --> 00:24:44,877 It's not politics... 433 00:24:45,948 --> 00:24:47,751 Did you vote? 434 00:24:47,874 --> 00:24:50,423 I need a residential address to vote. 435 00:24:50,592 --> 00:24:52,680 You don't even have a temporary one recorded? 436 00:24:52,821 --> 00:24:54,110 Did you go? 437 00:24:54,204 --> 00:24:55,219 Sure did. 438 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,605 That's a wonder, even you voting. 439 00:24:59,517 --> 00:25:01,866 I should at least do that much. 440 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:05,975 Thinking about it, 441 00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:09,220 intellectuals are the worst. 442 00:25:11,670 --> 00:25:14,566 Who would ever know how bad Lee Seung Man is for us? 443 00:25:15,390 --> 00:25:18,769 Would a farmer know, or a hard laborer? 444 00:25:19,421 --> 00:25:22,776 Only educated people know that dictatorships are a horrible thing. 445 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:27,641 But those same people are the first to keep quiet and ignore all this, 446 00:25:27,731 --> 00:25:29,820 so it's natural that Lee Seung Man would do this, 447 00:25:30,149 --> 00:25:37,250 adopt Lee Gang Seok and make Lee Gi Bong the heir to his "throne." 448 00:25:37,410 --> 00:25:40,457 I can only feel ashamed, Seonsaengnim. 449 00:25:40,608 --> 00:25:43,090 I wasn't talking about you, 450 00:25:43,402 --> 00:25:45,709 I am the one who's ashamed. 451 00:25:46,650 --> 00:25:49,499 If I managed to last this long in comfort, 452 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,706 I should at least repay this society with something, 453 00:25:53,129 --> 00:25:57,203 but all I do is waste time here, cigarette in hand. 454 00:25:58,942 --> 00:26:02,262 So is that why you're not smoking today? 455 00:26:03,118 --> 00:26:05,435 What would the uneducated masses know? 456 00:26:05,934 --> 00:26:08,473 It's the intellectuals who deserve the blame. 457 00:26:13,852 --> 00:26:18,196 Now that I think about it, what Kim Su Young said is right. 458 00:26:18,422 --> 00:26:21,864 Lee Seung Man or Jang Myeon, it's all the same. 459 00:26:21,986 --> 00:26:23,707 Aren't they all on the same boat? 460 00:26:23,801 --> 00:26:28,960 Still, isn't Dr. Jang a little better than Lee Gi Bong? 461 00:26:30,182 --> 00:26:34,640 A complete, wretched ruffian is much better than one who is just a bit bad. 462 00:26:34,941 --> 00:26:38,280 You'll find out the former and avoid him in a moment, 463 00:26:38,374 --> 00:26:40,960 but since you can never know what the latter is going for, 464 00:26:41,035 --> 00:26:44,085 he can do a lot more damage. 465 00:26:44,402 --> 00:26:45,437 That's right. 466 00:26:45,905 --> 00:26:47,915 The election won't solve a thing. 467 00:26:48,025 --> 00:26:50,042 I'd understand if it was a revolution. 468 00:26:54,095 --> 00:26:57,058 Uh... By the way... 469 00:26:57,293 --> 00:26:59,766 Myeongdong is desolate, today?! 470 00:26:59,878 --> 00:27:01,778 I haven't even seen Kim Gwan Shik around. 471 00:27:01,938 --> 00:27:04,355 Did they all go out to vote? 472 00:27:04,534 --> 00:27:06,038 Tell me about it. 473 00:27:06,273 --> 00:27:10,990 Seems like you and I are the only ones left in Myeongdong. 474 00:27:18,308 --> 00:27:25,741 March 15 of 1960 marked the fourth presidential election. 475 00:27:25,891 --> 00:27:28,525 But the only people interested in this election... 476 00:27:28,637 --> 00:27:33,369 were a few members of the Democratic and Liberal Party, that is all. 477 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,253 That is because Lee Seung Man was pretty much guaranteed a win, 478 00:27:37,366 --> 00:27:40,571 and because it was clear they would do everything to make sure... 479 00:27:40,656 --> 00:27:44,149 Lee Gi Bong would be elected vice president. 480 00:27:46,242 --> 00:27:50,433 Both the democrats' majority, who saw their candidates pass away days before... 481 00:27:51,195 --> 00:27:53,790 the last two elections, or all the working-class people who wished... 482 00:27:53,884 --> 00:27:56,546 for a regime change had little interest in all this. 483 00:27:57,204 --> 00:28:01,530 Rumors of an electoral fraud by the Liberal Party were spreading, 484 00:28:01,929 --> 00:28:06,704 and while papers were filled with such evidence, 485 00:28:07,249 --> 00:28:12,776 people just accepted it as a foregone conclusion. 486 00:28:12,927 --> 00:28:15,381 In other words, a defeatist attitude surrounded the entire elections. 487 00:28:19,401 --> 00:28:26,356 In hindsight, it is a wonder how the March 15 election could lead to April 19. 488 00:28:26,798 --> 00:28:30,973 Kim Su Young didn't see April 19 as a revolution. 489 00:28:31,923 --> 00:28:35,832 This bombshell which exploded on April 19 was considered a revolution... 490 00:28:35,991 --> 00:28:37,835 only much, much later. 491 00:28:38,305 --> 00:28:42,099 {\a6}*Park Jung Hee's 1961 military coup 492 00:28:38,305 --> 00:28:42,099 Of course, the forces who caused the May 16 coup d'etat*... 493 00:28:42,151 --> 00:28:44,713 christened April 19 as a "heroic deed," 494 00:28:45,662 --> 00:28:52,077 but the very tenets every revolution requires, 495 00:28:52,321 --> 00:28:57,598 that is, all that explosive energy was not part of April 19. 496 00:28:57,863 --> 00:29:01,369 That was Kim Su Young's view on the matter. 497 00:29:04,704 --> 00:29:07,849 So what could this "revolution" mean? 498 00:29:08,432 --> 00:29:11,968 A look at Russia's Bolshevik Revolution or the French one, 499 00:29:12,184 --> 00:29:14,977 and you'd see the world turned upside down. 500 00:29:15,137 --> 00:29:19,698 No... The kind of energy which could make that happen. 501 00:29:20,205 --> 00:29:21,908 And if you wonder what kind of energy we're referring to, 502 00:29:22,002 --> 00:29:24,090 that is the thirst for change. 503 00:29:24,702 --> 00:29:28,691 Also, the condemnation of past mistakes, 504 00:29:28,879 --> 00:29:30,892 and negating their very essence. 505 00:29:32,161 --> 00:29:37,258 Anyhow, Kim Su Young believed this society needed to change. 506 00:29:37,597 --> 00:29:40,795 That people should have neither feared the incoming new world, 507 00:29:41,058 --> 00:29:44,434 nor ever decided a priori... 508 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:46,296 what that new world had to be. 509 00:29:47,836 --> 00:29:51,546 Seen that way, Kim Su Young certainly had a point. 510 00:29:52,106 --> 00:29:57,856 All that April 19 might achieved could be a mere regime change. 511 00:29:58,007 --> 00:30:00,142 And that's because, as the Liberal Party fell into ruins, 512 00:30:00,226 --> 00:30:03,236 the irony of anyone the Democratic Party presented winning the elections... 513 00:30:03,297 --> 00:30:05,276 no matter what, was the only result. 514 00:30:06,597 --> 00:30:08,114 That's right. 515 00:30:10,188 --> 00:30:14,227 April 19 might very well have not changed a single thing. 516 00:30:14,508 --> 00:30:17,698 But let's make this hypothesis. 517 00:30:17,938 --> 00:30:20,612 That if we took all the history between April 19, 1960... 518 00:30:20,932 --> 00:30:26,320 and completely erased everything that happened leading to the 1990s, 519 00:30:27,819 --> 00:30:31,353 then everything would become quite clear. 520 00:30:31,749 --> 00:30:34,635 The democratization we can enjoy today... 521 00:30:34,804 --> 00:30:39,488 is no doubt connected at the core with what happened on April 19. 522 00:30:40,589 --> 00:30:44,603 But the fact is that, despite taking part in a revolution, 523 00:30:44,989 --> 00:30:47,547 we couldn't perceive it as one, and ended up turning April 19 into... 524 00:30:47,613 --> 00:30:50,641 a revolution which couldn't lead us to any changes. 525 00:30:51,807 --> 00:30:54,948 Borrowing someone's words, we will now follow the escalation to April 19, 526 00:30:55,098 --> 00:30:58,446 the revolution which quickly came and quietly passed us by. 527 00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:09,131 - I'll have it. - Let me have it. 528 00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:10,561 I said I'll have it. 529 00:31:10,721 --> 00:31:12,673 I will. 530 00:31:14,224 --> 00:31:17,431 - I will! - Is that how a man behaves? 531 00:31:17,553 --> 00:31:19,453 If your brother wants some, can't you concede a little? 532 00:31:19,566 --> 00:31:22,409 He already had a lot more than me. 533 00:31:22,531 --> 00:31:25,259 I boiled you a sweet potato today. 534 00:31:25,362 --> 00:31:27,224 Aigoo... I ought to... 535 00:31:27,384 --> 00:31:29,378 Ahh... Will you be quiet? 536 00:31:31,392 --> 00:31:34,580 Ahh... This old piece of junk, why isn't it working? 537 00:31:35,793 --> 00:31:37,947 Why are you screaming at them? 538 00:31:38,041 --> 00:31:40,195 Aigoo... I ought to just smash this... 539 00:31:40,298 --> 00:31:42,969 What is it you have to listen? 540 00:31:43,148 --> 00:31:45,923 They'll be announcing the ballot results soon. 541 00:31:46,367 --> 00:31:50,514 You haven't even voted, why would you care about that? 542 00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:53,354 Did I stay home because I didn't care? 543 00:31:53,454 --> 00:31:56,774 You didn't wake me up on time, so I couldn't go. 544 00:31:57,194 --> 00:31:59,257 And what did you say last night? 545 00:31:59,699 --> 00:32:04,101 That, since today was a holiday, you wanted to sleep. 546 00:32:04,232 --> 00:32:05,560 When did I say that? 547 00:32:06,293 --> 00:32:10,884 Then again, you were so piss drunk, you couldn't possibly remember. 548 00:32:11,165 --> 00:32:13,415 I told you I had to have a drink last night. 549 00:32:13,525 --> 00:32:17,036 All my colleagues at school, to celebrate my not drinking anymore... 550 00:32:17,159 --> 00:32:18,475 Just give it a rest. 551 00:32:18,675 --> 00:32:23,121 Mount Inwang will collapse before you stop drinking. 552 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,006 Is Mount Inwang the problem? 553 00:32:25,115 --> 00:32:28,423 This election will cause an upheaval, you just wait. 554 00:32:33,756 --> 00:32:35,616 Aigoo... really... 555 00:32:37,696 --> 00:32:39,400 It's good. 556 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,212 We should have fed them even more. 557 00:32:42,306 --> 00:32:43,679 Do you like it? 558 00:32:43,801 --> 00:32:46,058 What did you add to it, to make it so savory? 559 00:32:46,162 --> 00:32:47,644 It's butter. 560 00:32:47,827 --> 00:32:48,613 Butter?! 561 00:32:48,698 --> 00:32:51,077 Yes. My husband likes it, so... 562 00:32:51,171 --> 00:32:54,576 And I thought he hated American goods... 563 00:32:56,367 --> 00:32:59,443 He makes a living out of delivering eggs to them, 564 00:32:59,556 --> 00:33:01,437 and still has the nerve to badmouth them. 565 00:33:03,092 --> 00:33:07,098 - Let me help you. - It's okay, he can help himself. 566 00:33:07,278 --> 00:33:08,951 Just worried he might spill it. 567 00:33:09,026 --> 00:33:11,123 Mother, you'll spoil him. 568 00:33:11,340 --> 00:33:12,741 It's not because of that. 569 00:33:12,816 --> 00:33:14,020 Is it good? 570 00:33:14,170 --> 00:33:16,992 - Go ahead and eat, then. - Can you go call your brother? 571 00:33:17,114 --> 00:33:18,600 How long have we been here eating already? 572 00:33:18,665 --> 00:33:19,709 Yes. 573 00:33:22,279 --> 00:33:24,689 Aigoo... Is it that good? 574 00:33:43,334 --> 00:33:45,468 Go ahead and eat. 575 00:33:46,315 --> 00:33:49,744 Why don't you tell her to forget the chickens? 576 00:33:52,095 --> 00:33:54,568 You're making more money by writing. 577 00:33:54,690 --> 00:33:57,164 Just seems like she's having it too hard. 578 00:33:58,281 --> 00:34:02,940 Just tossing the feed inside the coop won't get you those eggs. 579 00:34:05,310 --> 00:34:07,522 These fellas, you know? 580 00:34:07,642 --> 00:34:09,622 They're brimming with feelings. 581 00:34:10,811 --> 00:34:16,891 Whenever they feel good, their eggs are all yellow and round. 582 00:34:17,484 --> 00:34:24,350 When that's not the case, they go from three or four to one or two eggs. 583 00:34:26,193 --> 00:34:27,538 But... 584 00:34:28,652 --> 00:34:30,914 think how people could react. 585 00:34:31,553 --> 00:34:34,986 Even chickens need to feel good to lay quality eggs, 586 00:34:35,606 --> 00:34:37,254 but people... 587 00:34:37,854 --> 00:34:39,774 Again with that depression. 588 00:34:40,812 --> 00:34:43,342 I'm never going to write poems again. 589 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,310 I might just sell this place and head back to the provinces. 590 00:34:48,034 --> 00:34:50,825 If I go back to the countryside and become a proper farmer, 591 00:34:52,154 --> 00:34:54,756 I think I'll become much happier. 592 00:34:55,020 --> 00:34:56,045 Oppa... 593 00:34:56,224 --> 00:35:00,150 Can't you just ignore all this and worry about yourself? 594 00:35:01,135 --> 00:35:03,770 Everyone is doing just fine, why do you always need to... 595 00:35:03,893 --> 00:35:05,689 Who is doing "just fine"? 596 00:35:06,845 --> 00:35:09,415 They're all pretending to. Who the hell is doing just fine? 597 00:35:20,506 --> 00:35:23,295 What brings you here, at this hour? 598 00:35:23,726 --> 00:35:26,671 My apologies, but it was too urgent to postpone. 599 00:35:26,775 --> 00:35:28,308 Is the counting proceeding well? 600 00:35:28,392 --> 00:35:29,869 Yes, Mr. Speaker. 601 00:35:32,866 --> 00:35:35,267 Then, what was this urgent report? 602 00:35:35,407 --> 00:35:37,537 I didn't wake you up, did I? 603 00:35:37,853 --> 00:35:39,127 It's all right. 604 00:35:39,470 --> 00:35:40,928 My apologies. 605 00:35:41,454 --> 00:35:44,427 The first results are coming out. 606 00:35:44,788 --> 00:35:46,203 Is that so? 607 00:35:46,635 --> 00:35:50,971 Of course, as we expected, you're leading Jang Myeon... 608 00:35:51,121 --> 00:35:54,067 by a very wide margin. 609 00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:56,437 That's a relief. 610 00:35:56,768 --> 00:35:59,608 If the counting continues to go without problems, 611 00:35:59,868 --> 00:36:03,017 we will be able to announce your victory in the morning. 612 00:36:03,789 --> 00:36:05,697 How wide is this margin? 613 00:36:07,936 --> 00:36:08,801 Is it a close race? 614 00:36:08,867 --> 00:36:09,929 It's not. 615 00:36:10,024 --> 00:36:12,479 As I told you, a wide margin. 616 00:36:12,579 --> 00:36:14,785 Ahh... So how wide? 617 00:36:17,469 --> 00:36:19,148 I will give you an example. 618 00:36:21,584 --> 00:36:24,252 Here is the aggregate from one booth in Daegu. 619 00:36:24,356 --> 00:36:25,513 Lee Gi Bong... 620 00:36:26,782 --> 00:36:28,823 I'll remove honorifics, to simplify. 621 00:36:28,916 --> 00:36:30,619 Go ahead. 622 00:36:31,165 --> 00:36:34,221 Lee Gi Bong, five thousand votes. Jang Myeon... 623 00:36:36,963 --> 00:36:39,390 Jang Myeon, thirty-two votes. 624 00:36:44,738 --> 00:36:48,248 If you'd like me to add another few cases... 625 00:36:49,538 --> 00:36:51,277 That's going too far. 626 00:36:53,505 --> 00:36:54,493 What? 627 00:36:57,608 --> 00:36:59,810 What did you say? 628 00:37:00,808 --> 00:37:03,713 How could there be such a margin? 629 00:37:04,841 --> 00:37:07,318 The ballot results, obviously, 630 00:37:07,899 --> 00:37:13,529 marked a landslide victory for both Lee Seung Man and Lee Gi Bong. 631 00:37:13,746 --> 00:37:16,463 So, what people just couldn't accept... 632 00:37:16,557 --> 00:37:18,969 was the fact that, even in so-called "opposition strongholds"... 633 00:37:19,063 --> 00:37:26,784 like Daegu, Lee Gi Bong had won by quite a significant margin. 634 00:37:26,944 --> 00:37:31,809 But I believe few people gave any credibility to those results. 635 00:37:31,903 --> 00:37:36,408 Actually, from the very first day of elections, in Masan, 636 00:37:36,493 --> 00:37:39,527 the first Masan "accident" took place, 637 00:37:39,659 --> 00:37:49,369 and many students were out in the streets protesting this electoral fraud. 638 00:37:49,491 --> 00:37:55,162 So, no matter how you put it, this was a quintessential fraud, 639 00:37:55,266 --> 00:38:00,941 so much that those numbers could never be trusted. 640 00:38:01,101 --> 00:38:03,740 All the more ironic, in Hwacheon and a few other places, 641 00:38:03,844 --> 00:38:06,844 they got something like over 100% of the votes. 642 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:12,778 It was inevitable that the powers that be would ask them to adjust those numbers, 643 00:38:12,891 --> 00:38:16,137 and since even VP votes were too high, to bring them down. 644 00:38:16,231 --> 00:38:25,757 It was just the kind of farce that you couldn't even laugh at. 645 00:38:27,013 --> 00:38:30,215 On March 18, the Central Electoral Committee... 646 00:38:30,319 --> 00:38:35,491 proclaimed Lee Seung Man as president, and Lee Gi Bong as his vice. 647 00:38:35,754 --> 00:38:38,464 That moment marked the success of the two's conspiracy... 648 00:38:38,614 --> 00:38:41,424 to secure succession at the presidential seat. 649 00:38:42,204 --> 00:38:48,246 However, although students did protest the results around the country, 650 00:38:48,505 --> 00:38:53,393 most people just resigned themselves to accept the inevitable. 651 00:38:57,907 --> 00:38:59,402 What are you waiting for? 652 00:38:59,515 --> 00:39:01,959 Bring in some more bindae ddeok (mung bean pancake). 653 00:39:02,091 --> 00:39:04,875 Yes, in a moment. 654 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:08,426 Hong, behave. 655 00:39:08,516 --> 00:39:10,113 Don't get started... 656 00:39:10,244 --> 00:39:12,032 See, what did I tell you? 657 00:39:12,135 --> 00:39:16,978 Didn't I tell you Lee Gi Bong would win in a landslide? 658 00:39:17,110 --> 00:39:19,696 Of course, since it was a total fraud. 659 00:39:20,439 --> 00:39:21,474 A fraud?! 660 00:39:21,549 --> 00:39:24,891 Ehh! Isn't this excessive? 661 00:39:26,198 --> 00:39:31,096 Of course, some of the people under him might have gone a bit far. 662 00:39:31,447 --> 00:39:33,397 But, take a look at the votes, uh? 663 00:39:33,519 --> 00:39:35,193 It's 7 to 3. 664 00:39:35,306 --> 00:39:38,226 So if Lee Gi Bong won seven votes, 665 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,067 Jang Myeon only got three, that's what. 666 00:39:41,247 --> 00:39:42,837 So that's why it's a fraud. 667 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:45,195 Is it even possible to have such a margin? 668 00:39:45,289 --> 00:39:47,159 Why even have an election, if that was the case? 669 00:39:47,262 --> 00:39:49,698 It's all said and done, just shut it. 670 00:39:50,009 --> 00:39:52,510 Let's just drink. 671 00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:54,748 Go ahead and eat. 672 00:39:54,955 --> 00:39:57,034 We have all the food you want. 673 00:39:57,156 --> 00:40:00,704 Aigoo, Sister. You are a master cook. 674 00:40:00,836 --> 00:40:02,889 Say what, you fool? 675 00:40:02,999 --> 00:40:05,895 She's old enough to be your aunt. 676 00:40:06,102 --> 00:40:10,739 How old do you think I am, like some granny? 677 00:40:13,683 --> 00:40:15,780 Here... Here! 678 00:40:15,978 --> 00:40:18,301 This calls for a song! 679 00:40:18,410 --> 00:40:20,215 - Uh?! - Right... Right! 680 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:22,256 All right, that's a good idea. 681 00:40:22,350 --> 00:40:23,900 Why ask him for a song? 682 00:40:23,968 --> 00:40:26,432 He'll spend all night weeping with some tearjerker. 683 00:40:28,530 --> 00:40:35,231 "No matter how much I miss my home," 684 00:40:35,321 --> 00:40:37,020 Again with that song? 685 00:40:37,191 --> 00:40:44,651 "I am forced away from there." 686 00:40:44,871 --> 00:41:00,443 "Looking a thousand ri away, under that sky and those mountains..." 687 00:41:01,831 --> 00:41:04,742 He's going to end in tears again, I bet. 688 00:41:04,896 --> 00:41:07,323 That man and his hometown... 689 00:41:16,773 --> 00:41:29,734 "The hometown I saw in my dreams, endlessly longing for it." 690 00:41:29,974 --> 00:41:32,737 - Great! - Go ahead! 691 00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:40,574 Here... 692 00:41:47,026 --> 00:41:48,757 Said he's quit drinking. 693 00:41:48,945 --> 00:41:50,575 He quit?! 694 00:41:51,055 --> 00:41:53,767 The missus said that if he even only touches the bottle again, 695 00:41:53,871 --> 00:41:57,045 she'll pack her bags and leave him. 696 00:41:58,346 --> 00:42:00,576 So, what, you don't close the windows because maggots scare you? 697 00:42:00,676 --> 00:42:03,456 If the missus runs away, find yourself another. 698 00:42:05,566 --> 00:42:06,596 Ahh... Hyung. 699 00:42:06,676 --> 00:42:08,506 Don't bother him, just sit down. 700 00:42:08,606 --> 00:42:09,546 Ahh... 701 00:42:10,226 --> 00:42:11,544 Ahh... Really. 702 00:42:13,696 --> 00:42:16,247 Here... Let's have a drink. 703 00:42:18,517 --> 00:42:20,833 If my wife meant what she said, 704 00:42:20,927 --> 00:42:23,052 she'd have packed her bags a hundred times. 705 00:42:23,146 --> 00:42:24,115 Here, have one. 706 00:42:24,256 --> 00:42:26,148 Good for you, Lee-gun. 707 00:42:27,377 --> 00:42:30,677 Where is the next cultural village going to be? 708 00:42:30,982 --> 00:42:35,067 Look at him, "gun" this and that to a seonbae even when sober! 709 00:42:35,167 --> 00:42:38,770 Why don't you ask Lee Gi Bong for a post in the Cabinet, since you're there? 710 00:42:39,117 --> 00:42:40,498 Listen to that... 711 00:42:40,608 --> 00:42:42,277 Do you call that an election? 712 00:42:42,362 --> 00:42:43,989 Lee Hyung... Lee Hyung. 713 00:42:44,083 --> 00:42:45,400 Let's have a beer and get going. 714 00:42:45,484 --> 00:42:46,738 Beer?! 715 00:42:46,828 --> 00:42:49,295 Right. Now that you're on Lee Gi Bong's side, 716 00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:52,818 it's no soju or makgeolli, it must be beer! 717 00:42:53,405 --> 00:42:56,959 - I really... - Let's just go. 718 00:42:57,109 --> 00:43:01,134 Is giving homeless artists a house to live in a crime? 719 00:43:01,256 --> 00:43:05,046 I wouldn't accept those vile gifts even if you paid me to do it. 720 00:43:05,310 --> 00:43:09,798 Are you acting like that because you're sober, or are you just drunk? 721 00:43:09,939 --> 00:43:11,900 Anti-Communist Artist Association?! 722 00:43:12,030 --> 00:43:15,459 Is that the kind of man Lee Hae Rang was? 723 00:43:15,591 --> 00:43:17,408 Listen to him, I ought to... 724 00:43:17,568 --> 00:43:20,060 Let's go, I said. 725 00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:25,684 Can we go on living like this? 726 00:43:27,301 --> 00:43:29,671 Even after all this, we can't utter a single word, 727 00:43:29,781 --> 00:43:31,579 so it's only natural those liberals are going out there... 728 00:43:31,645 --> 00:43:34,090 and doing whatever they want under our noses! 729 00:43:36,761 --> 00:43:38,361 Aigoo... 730 00:43:47,082 --> 00:43:49,783 Come here and have a seat. 731 00:43:50,413 --> 00:43:52,172 Lee Bong Gu! 732 00:43:52,275 --> 00:43:56,780 Lee Hae Rang! Come here and sit next to me. 733 00:43:57,099 --> 00:43:59,748 Why don't you come here, Gwan Shik? 734 00:43:59,842 --> 00:44:03,209 I'll get you another glass of beer. 735 00:44:03,331 --> 00:44:10,243 "I have now forgotten that name." 736 00:44:10,394 --> 00:44:14,992 "But those eyes and lips..." 737 00:44:15,105 --> 00:44:16,779 Lee Bong Gu! 738 00:44:17,146 --> 00:44:19,920 Do we have time to look for those eyes and lips now? 739 00:44:20,071 --> 00:44:22,800 Students are shedding blood all over the place! 740 00:44:22,932 --> 00:44:24,794 Kim Gwan Shik! 741 00:44:24,879 --> 00:44:27,544 Then, go represent them in Gwanghwamun, 742 00:44:27,625 --> 00:44:30,296 and set yourself on fire, you fool. 743 00:44:30,484 --> 00:44:34,255 Even if students do that, what are they going to solve? 744 00:44:34,374 --> 00:44:38,936 Think those Liberal Party pricks will even blink once at them? 745 00:44:39,143 --> 00:44:43,125 Don't you know that even just a little hair can spoil the broth? 746 00:44:44,426 --> 00:44:48,509 Look at him, talking down to me all night. 747 00:44:48,641 --> 00:44:57,817 "Even when the wind blows, when rain drenches us all." 748 00:44:57,926 --> 00:44:59,039 Lee Hyung! 749 00:44:59,143 --> 00:45:01,306 Are you still pissing? 750 00:45:01,419 --> 00:45:02,471 Ahh... Lee Hyung. 751 00:45:02,565 --> 00:45:03,580 Come here. 752 00:45:03,665 --> 00:45:06,147 This is quite fun?! 753 00:45:08,017 --> 00:45:11,123 "To be, or not to be!" 754 00:45:11,217 --> 00:45:14,525 "That is the question!" 755 00:45:14,656 --> 00:45:23,901 "Leaves fall, their warm embrace drenched in mud." 756 00:45:24,004 --> 00:45:27,168 Wow... This is really fun. 757 00:45:27,938 --> 00:45:29,180 Gwan Shik... 758 00:45:29,331 --> 00:45:32,558 Come here and swing it with us. 759 00:45:39,233 --> 00:45:41,754 What are you doing over there? 760 00:45:47,739 --> 00:45:50,827 Eat this, you wretched world. 761 00:45:50,902 --> 00:45:54,439 Ohh... Look at those cute buttocks! 762 00:46:04,091 --> 00:46:07,760 Everyone knew that something was wrong with the elections. 763 00:46:07,890 --> 00:46:11,498 But the people who had any idea of how to solve this impasse... 764 00:46:11,573 --> 00:46:13,689 were few and far between. 765 00:46:13,802 --> 00:46:16,389 And even if they knew how, 766 00:46:16,558 --> 00:46:21,597 they still couldn't do a single thing about it. 767 00:46:22,541 --> 00:46:24,625 Yes, that's right. 768 00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:29,287 Their intellect wasn't going to help them in the slightest. 769 00:46:30,096 --> 00:46:35,502 And that is because revolutions are irrational, illogical, 770 00:46:35,672 --> 00:46:40,738 and filled to the brim with contradictions. 771 00:46:46,522 --> 00:46:50,735 ~ Chosun Ilbo frontpage on Kim Ju Yeol's death ~ 772 00:46:52,023 --> 00:46:54,384 Remember Kim Ju Yeol? 773 00:46:54,929 --> 00:46:59,405 That was the spark which ignited the April 19 revolution. 774 00:47:00,674 --> 00:47:03,721 At the time, Masan always showed a strong pro-democracy slant, 775 00:47:03,787 --> 00:47:16,033 and as you're well aware, the opposition candidate would always win there. 776 00:47:16,156 --> 00:47:25,165 So opposition candidate Heo Yoon Soo won the fifth elections in May 1958, 777 00:47:25,466 --> 00:47:34,645 by a really wide margin, once again proving this was an opposition stronghold. 778 00:47:34,757 --> 00:47:41,775 But, in a shocking turn, Heo was convinced to join the Liberal Party, 779 00:47:41,898 --> 00:47:46,534 in essence becoming what we now call a "migratory politician," 780 00:47:46,731 --> 00:47:48,567 and turning the tides of this election. 781 00:47:48,791 --> 00:47:54,957 All the "senators" of the Democratic Party in Masan, 782 00:47:55,048 --> 00:47:59,758 already by half past ten, were saying this election couldn't go on. 783 00:47:59,872 --> 00:48:10,546 By one o'clock, they were already asking for the election to be nullified, 784 00:48:10,715 --> 00:48:14,184 and, at about four in the afternoon, I think? 785 00:48:14,306 --> 00:48:18,510 The local party higher-ups started demonstrating. 786 00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:23,328 But it was by the evening that everything turned much more serious... 787 00:48:23,403 --> 00:48:25,462 than anyone could expect. 788 00:48:25,528 --> 00:48:30,126 People started joining the demonstration, including students, 789 00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:38,515 and it turned into quite the major rally, protesting the electoral fraud. 790 00:48:38,750 --> 00:48:45,758 By eight in the evening, the police started firing, 791 00:48:45,879 --> 00:48:55,545 injuring and killing quite a few people in the process. 792 00:48:55,680 --> 00:49:05,457 So the Liberal Party got involved, and upon seeing the situation in Masan, 793 00:49:05,701 --> 00:49:11,132 they didn't even mention the electoral fraud, 794 00:49:11,222 --> 00:49:18,533 and claimed that behind all this were pro-communist instigators, 795 00:49:18,599 --> 00:49:20,724 that they were the cause of all this. 796 00:49:21,787 --> 00:49:29,848 Then, I went protesting to this Liberal Party member, a certain Mr. Kim. 797 00:49:30,036 --> 00:49:32,102 "Can you really act like this," I asked. 798 00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:34,003 "You will regret this." 799 00:49:34,903 --> 00:49:39,025 "This will only fuel the fire." 800 00:49:39,439 --> 00:49:44,648 "How can you treat a demonstration by the people..." 801 00:49:44,799 --> 00:49:46,896 "as some kind of conspiracy by the communist party?" 802 00:49:47,009 --> 00:49:50,244 "Your party will now face its demise." 803 00:49:50,764 --> 00:49:53,413 Of course, journalists can only write the truth, 804 00:49:53,545 --> 00:49:56,882 but the situation personally enraged me, and moved me to protest. 805 00:49:57,013 --> 00:49:59,980 However, the real spark which ignited the fire... 806 00:50:00,112 --> 00:50:05,970 was the fact they found this body of a student down at the beach. 807 00:50:06,054 --> 00:50:08,171 This student, as it turns out, was Kim Ju Yeol. 808 00:50:08,303 --> 00:50:14,835 Not to mention that a tear-gas shell was lodged inside his eye, 809 00:50:14,966 --> 00:50:19,116 so this was the real detonator which ignited all things. 810 00:50:19,219 --> 00:50:22,652 Something like this was not really common, all over the nation. 811 00:50:22,774 --> 00:50:28,708 But the moment this Kim Ju Yeol accident was exposed all over, 812 00:50:28,877 --> 00:50:35,009 the whole thing caught fire. 813 00:50:44,037 --> 00:50:44,969 Aunim! 814 00:50:45,063 --> 00:50:48,291 You should find refuge, for the time being. 815 00:50:48,620 --> 00:50:51,291 Lee Jung Jae sent Yoo Ji Gwang out to attack students... 816 00:50:51,385 --> 00:50:54,188 who were going back to school after demonstrating. 817 00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:54,893 So? 818 00:50:54,968 --> 00:50:57,451 Seems like a few students got hurt. 819 00:50:57,647 --> 00:51:01,009 They started hitting them with lead pipes, so... 820 00:51:01,141 --> 00:51:03,398 Our boys were there as well? 821 00:51:04,602 --> 00:51:06,454 Think they would listen to me? 822 00:51:06,896 --> 00:51:09,389 All they know is how to use their fists! 823 00:51:09,499 --> 00:51:13,112 You forsook them, so it's natural they'd go after Lee Jung Jae. 824 00:51:15,728 --> 00:51:19,009 Anyhow, you must leave. 825 00:51:19,230 --> 00:51:22,447 They might misunderstand you, if you remain here. 826 00:51:22,701 --> 00:51:24,572 Am I the problem? 827 00:51:25,539 --> 00:51:28,061 I'm just worried our boys could get hurt. 828 00:51:31,750 --> 00:51:35,028 On April 19, the demonstrations started quite early. 829 00:51:35,103 --> 00:51:38,410 Middle and high schoolers were already on the streets... 830 00:51:38,540 --> 00:51:44,679 by eight in the morning, going around town and campuses, 831 00:51:44,820 --> 00:51:47,114 instigating college students to join in. 832 00:51:47,321 --> 00:51:53,214 So by nine in the morning, SNU students went past the school gates, 833 00:51:53,317 --> 00:51:56,985 moved to Jong-Ro and all the way to the parliament, 834 00:51:57,060 --> 00:52:02,001 which at the time was in Gwanghwamun. 835 00:52:02,133 --> 00:52:09,318 {\a6}*former colonial building 836 00:52:02,133 --> 00:52:09,318 All the students entered the old jungangcheong*, 837 00:52:09,468 --> 00:52:16,812 and threw rocks at the police line which was set up there, 838 00:52:16,904 --> 00:52:25,675 after which both citizens and college students pushed upfront with cars, 839 00:52:25,769 --> 00:52:29,389 managing to go all the way to Hyoja-dong, 840 00:52:29,540 --> 00:52:33,270 in essence penetrating the first line of defense, 841 00:52:33,411 --> 00:52:37,831 which helped many people reach the second line, 842 00:52:37,934 --> 00:52:41,386 which was set up right in front of Gyeongmudae. 843 00:52:41,574 --> 00:52:47,314 The moment the demonstration hit the second line's flanks, 844 00:52:47,544 --> 00:52:53,244 gunshots started to be heard in the air. Must have been around one o'clock? 845 00:52:53,494 --> 00:52:56,506 That was when "Bloody Tuesday" was born. 846 00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:06,216 I was a reporter, so I was just running with pen and notebook in hand. 847 00:53:06,446 --> 00:53:10,584 But they just shot at unarmed students. 848 00:53:10,838 --> 00:53:14,280 Students were falling by my side, rifles blazing here and there. 849 00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:19,740 I don't even want to imagine that sight again, 850 00:53:19,824 --> 00:53:22,053 but it was just a massacre. 851 00:53:22,674 --> 00:53:25,026 Was it about five in the afternoon? 852 00:53:25,332 --> 00:53:28,256 They declared martial law, 853 00:53:28,379 --> 00:53:38,514 and troops and tanks just began to storm the capital. 854 00:53:39,079 --> 00:53:45,652 Thankfully, they not only didn't shoot at the students, 855 00:53:46,394 --> 00:53:48,529 but the students just jumped on the tanks. 856 00:53:48,633 --> 00:53:52,357 They went on top, and started screaming hurrahs, 857 00:53:52,508 --> 00:53:58,326 and the tank just kept going back and forth with the students on top. 858 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,699 The atmosphere was starting to change, by then, 859 00:54:04,219 --> 00:54:09,215 because the military was taking the demonstrators' side. 860 00:54:09,714 --> 00:54:14,915 As for President Lee, until at least the 22nd or 23rd, 861 00:54:15,249 --> 00:54:19,949 he was convinced stepping down wasn't necessary. 862 00:54:20,067 --> 00:54:27,064 Nullifying the vice presidential elections, having Lee Gi Bong step down, 863 00:54:27,276 --> 00:54:33,483 and cutting all ties with the Liberal Party was the idea, he thought. 864 00:54:33,624 --> 00:54:38,820 He would accede to that, thinking that it would be enough... 865 00:54:38,933 --> 00:54:44,128 to solve this impasse. 866 00:54:44,251 --> 00:54:49,592 But then, organizations of professors... 867 00:54:50,175 --> 00:54:55,291 started joining the demonstrations, on April 25. 868 00:54:55,705 --> 00:55:01,404 They hadn't participated until then, but that was the day they were paid. 869 00:55:01,479 --> 00:55:04,079 Since they were going there to get their salary, 870 00:55:04,164 --> 00:55:08,243 they decided to all gather, and to sort of play their own part, 871 00:55:08,432 --> 00:55:12,867 after many students paid the ultimate price. 872 00:55:13,055 --> 00:55:15,227 If you see it from a positive angle, 873 00:55:15,331 --> 00:55:20,433 you could say their democratic spirit moved them to do so. 874 00:55:20,613 --> 00:55:25,625 Another important factor was that Lee Seung Man believed... 875 00:55:25,766 --> 00:55:30,084 the American government would support him to the very end, 876 00:55:30,186 --> 00:55:35,134 because from their point of view, what happened on April 19... 877 00:55:35,278 --> 00:55:41,663 was the result of disturbing elements acting against the state, 878 00:55:41,814 --> 00:55:46,961 not actual public fervor exploding on the streets. 879 00:55:47,065 --> 00:55:50,554 That is why they believed the US would still support them, 880 00:55:50,705 --> 00:55:55,864 but the American ambassador, when he met the president, 881 00:55:56,005 --> 00:55:59,353 suggested that resigning from his post would have been wise. 882 00:55:59,644 --> 00:56:02,446 It was a shocking development for him. 883 00:56:07,379 --> 00:56:10,915 The same revolution which started from clouds of ambiguity... 884 00:56:11,179 --> 00:56:14,056 found an unexpected success, all of a sudden. 885 00:56:14,706 --> 00:56:22,637 But nobody really realized the extent of what they had just achieved. 886 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,497 Brought to you by WITH S2 Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad 887 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,497 {\a6}This is a FREE fansub. 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