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EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1
THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG
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Along with the May 16 coup d'etat,
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{\a6}~ Final Episode ~
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our 1950s came to a conclusion.
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Both the 60s and 70s ran
towards one proposition alone,
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overcoming poverty.
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{\a6}~ Jung Bo Seok ~
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That endless rush to develop,
under the slogan of...
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"let's have a good life ourselves."
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However, the price to pay for the
fulfillment of such economic development...
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was forcibly letting go of any attachment
to personal and spiritual freedom.
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Some think that, if the social disorder
caused by the post-April 19 had continued,
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this country would have never
experienced such a stunning development.
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It could very well be true.
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But, then again,
was that truly the case?
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Naivety drenched our entire 1950s.
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It was a time when circumstances
held more importance than laws.
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When people said
"there's no law for that,"
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they never intended
any penal or civil code.
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People's common duties and
justice was what they meant.
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In a society which emphasized
common moral duties over law,
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it could only be natural
that humanism would pervade life.
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Such were the 1950s.
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Looking back, one could certainly argue...
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that it's only because
we erase all bad memories,
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and reminisce on the good ones
with heartfelt nostalgia.
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You could make a strong case for that.
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However,
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if the Myeongdong of the
1950s still existed as it was,
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if...
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the same humanism, the generosity
and all the dreams...
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which surrounded it still existed,
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then wouldn't our lives and the
way we live be much different as well?!
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For sure,
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Myeongdong would bring
even more solace to our lives.
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~ Spring 1980 (Seoul) ~
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Seonsaengnim.
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Look this way, will you?
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~ Lee Bong Gu ~
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Over here, come.
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Come here.
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This was a back alley.
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And this street wasn't so huge,
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they started enlarging it
during the 70s.
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You could find stores
open right here by the driveway.
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You would find the goldsmith,
the camera shop,
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and right here...
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What was it again?!
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There was this famous coffee shop
actors would usually frequent.
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If this was a back alley,
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do you mean that coffee shop stage
actress Ham Hyeon Jin used to run?!
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Ohh! That's the one!
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It must have been
the early seventies, probably.
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So Myeongdong
extended all the way here.
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Right.
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Here...
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Follow me.
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This place was bombarded
and remained unoccupied for years,
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so they erected this
huge board to block the view.
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Here...
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That alley led to the Chinese Embassy.
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Call it the haberdashery
alley, if you will.
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All sorts of bibs and bobs were sold,
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and the Myeongdong Theater
was over there,
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while right next door was this famous
bean jam place run by a Chinese.
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It tasted like heaven.
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Let's go.
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This is probably where
the Applause coffee shop was.
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And over there was the tailor shop.
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Wait a moment...
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The Bronze, Gongcho
Seonsaengnim's headquarters...
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Ohh... right, right!
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Right over there.
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This is just as it was?!
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Everything else looked so new and
different, I couldn't recognize it.
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But this is just like
it was in the old days.
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Does this building have a
particular history of its own?
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This is where the Orient Saloon was.
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Remember?
I told you about it.
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This young businessman
called Kim Dong Geun...
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erected a three-storey building.
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The first floor was a coffee shop,
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the second a lab for scribes,
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and the third a meeting room.
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Ahh... So this is
the famous Orient Saloon?
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Aigoo... looks tasty.
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Here...
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Seonsaengnim, was this noodle
house already open back then?
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Sure was.
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Did it start in the 50s?
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Nah.
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Was it 1968 or 69...
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Probably around then.
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But all this area was
filled with restaurants.
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It all tasted great, and was cheap.
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So where was the Eunseong,
Seonsaengnim?
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Right around this edge
was the Eunseong.
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It was the perfect spot
to hang around and visit.
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The perfect spot indeed.
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If you ask people from back in the day,
they will all talk of the Eunseong.
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Was it really that famous?
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Yeah...
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It opened in the mid-50s,
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and only closed up shop
around the early 70s,
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so it was even more famous.
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Not a single corner...
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They changed it all.
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Why do you keep shooting me?
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Remain seated,
I'll shoot just another few.
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Come here.
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Come sit next to me.
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I really did nothing much.
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Just because I loved Myeongdong,
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I sat here and witnessed as all
the faces and sights graced my sight.
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So where did that "Count
of Myeongdong" moniker...
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Back then, if I didn't come to
Myeongdong even for just one day,
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my fingers would itch so much,
I couldn't take it anymore.
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You know... just like people are eager
to head home once they're off work,
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we all flooded Myeongdong,
afraid to wake up at home in the morning.
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Myeongdong was our home,
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and we felt like strangers
at our real homes.
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If we came to Myeongdong,
we'd find people to meet,
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scribes would get commissions,
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and we would spend the day
grumbling about being constantly broke,
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drinking the night away.
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Anyhow...
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Whenever we came to Myeongdong,
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you'd find that pungent, warm,
pulsating smell of people.
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Right...
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The smell of people...
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It's because people scare me.
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Just get up, Hye Rin.
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What will people think,
if they see a woman sitting like that?!
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Woman or man alike!
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I bet you laugh at me behind
my back just like the others?!
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Why would I?!
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Didn't you say women
acting improperly are sinners?
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I never said that.
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You know?
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{\a6}~ Jeon Hye Rin ~
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People scare me the most.
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What kind of people?
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Those who, despite being lonely,
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refuse to acknowledge it as loneliness.
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Those whose loneliness
takes their breath away,
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but still breathe as if nothing happened.
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Fine, all right.
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Let's go have a drink somewhere.
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So you'll have a drink with me,
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and then return to cursing me
behind my back later?!
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No... No...
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At least you wouldn't do that.
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You probably... wouldn't do that, but...
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Can't help it.
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I'll have to sit with you.
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I know that.
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The fact that many people
talk behind your back.
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The woman who doesn't even bathe...
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Whose fingernails
are brimming with dirt...
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The one who, whenever drunk,
would ask anyone out,
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jumping on them
just for the sake of it.
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Am I really like that?
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It's because you're that famous.
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So they don't like a woman
being famous, isn't that it?!
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We don't need to
stoop to their level.
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Living with passion, Seonsaengnim...
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Is trying to fill with passion this
insipid life really that much of a sin?
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Is trying to stray off the ordinary
and common really so terrible?!
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Men can...
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But women can't.
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Isn't that wrong?
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And you're trying to tear down
all those walls by yourself?
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Would be hard, I guess?!
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It sure would.
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Even if I tear my
entire body apart, right?
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For the time being...
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Then, I'll have to
grow some patience?!
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Or at least pretend to do so.
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But if I can't stand waiting...
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then...
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that only leaves me with dying.
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That is not the answer.
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So what is?
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Living.
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Living until your very last moment.
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Ehh...
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Seonsaengnim, you're so petty!
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Haven't I always been that way?!
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I don't know...
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Seonsaengnim, goodbye.
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You're going?
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I should.
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You're going home, right?
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What home?
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Seonsaengnim.
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You know?
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I want to live.
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Just as you said,
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until my very last moment,
I want to live.
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But...
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Why should I do that...
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is something I can't explain,
however hard I try.
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You know...
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I don't want to turn
this world into a petty place.
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Not for a minute,
nor a single second...
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I don't want to squander
my breath for a trivial life.
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Life is precious.
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It's light shining in the dark.
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It's nothing trivial.
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So, I...
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I love those breathing
and living a passionate life.
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I love it.
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This world of ours.
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Is living with such passion...
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and fire a sin?!
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If I die, people will rattle on.
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"Why did she die?"
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"What could have killed her?"
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Uh?!
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Why?
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Why?!
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They'll take someone else's life,
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and chop it to smithereens once again.
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You're not telling me...
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Hye Rin.
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You're not telling me you're
trying to kill yourself, are you?
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Seonsaengnim.
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Living a normal life will kill me.
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A trivial life will only kill me!
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Go back home!
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Hye Rin!
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Seonsaengnim...
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Goodbye!
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Good... bye!
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Was it suicide?
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Jeon Hye Rin's death.
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Didn't the rumors suggest that?
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Jeon Hye Rin...
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was not a feminist.
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Hye Rin was just...
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a humanist.
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And what is that supposed...
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The real issue...
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is that nobody tried to understand
the suffering she was going through.
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No.
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Most people must have been
experiencing the same exact thing.
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But the difference...
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was that Jeon Hye Rin clashed
with that suffering firsthand,
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whereas we just pretended
it never existed, I guess?!
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But what people care about is whether
this exceptional talent's death...
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was a suicide or not.
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And what is so important about that?
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It sure was short,
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but passion drenched
every minute she lived.
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Isn't that enough?!
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You'll forgive me, Seonsaengnim.
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But what was the reality of the suffering
you experienced in the 50s and 60s?
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So many people spent their days in
suffering and in the bottle's embrace,
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wasting their immense talent,
which in many cases could never even bloom.
261
00:17:43,772 --> 00:17:47,085
Couldn't it be because of poverty?
262
00:17:47,292 --> 00:17:50,273
Scribes and artists
were having it hard.
263
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~ August 1970 ~
264
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Kim Hyung.
265
00:18:14,232 --> 00:18:16,886
{\a6}~ Bang Ok Rye ~
(Kim Gwan Shik's wife)
266
00:18:15,906 --> 00:18:17,338
Kim Hyung, are you in?
267
00:18:18,231 --> 00:18:20,403
How are you, Lee Seonsaengnim?
268
00:18:20,573 --> 00:18:22,106
I finally found it.
269
00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:23,535
Aigoo, let me take a breather.
270
00:18:23,676 --> 00:18:25,369
It was hard getting here, wasn't it?
271
00:18:25,472 --> 00:18:30,069
Aside from that, I kept wondering
whether people could really live up here,
272
00:18:30,179 --> 00:18:33,848
looking back more than once.
273
00:18:36,095 --> 00:18:37,343
Kim Hyung?!
274
00:18:37,466 --> 00:18:38,773
He's inside.
275
00:18:39,102 --> 00:18:39,995
Dear.
276
00:18:40,099 --> 00:18:42,301
Lee Bong Gu Seonsaengnim is here.
277
00:18:42,411 --> 00:18:43,766
Go on in.
278
00:18:45,478 --> 00:18:46,635
Here...
279
00:18:46,821 --> 00:18:48,175
What is this?
280
00:18:48,392 --> 00:18:50,658
I brought him a bottle of liquor.
281
00:18:51,335 --> 00:18:56,673
If he behaves, award him with
just a drink every now and then.
282
00:19:14,046 --> 00:19:18,363
{\a6}~ Kim Gwan Shik (poet) ~
283
00:19:15,155 --> 00:19:20,738
What brought our Lee Gun all
the way to this godforsaken hole?!
284
00:19:21,839 --> 00:19:26,448
I haven't seen you
in Myeongdong for so long...
285
00:19:26,842 --> 00:19:29,672
What is there to see in Myeongdong?
286
00:19:30,415 --> 00:19:33,517
Gongcho Seonsaengnim passed away,
287
00:19:33,998 --> 00:19:38,398
and even the Kim Su Young I had
so much fun talking with is dead.
288
00:19:42,729 --> 00:19:44,178
Have a seat.
289
00:19:44,738 --> 00:19:47,083
The roof won't fall down, have a seat.
290
00:19:47,479 --> 00:19:51,909
Might look shabby,
but it was built properly.
291
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,777
Aigoo... seeing you,
292
00:20:00,862 --> 00:20:04,084
the bottle comes back to mind.
293
00:20:08,113 --> 00:20:09,501
And what is that?
294
00:20:13,404 --> 00:20:20,240
I did hear that she did her damnedest
to kill off your drinking habits...
295
00:20:21,162 --> 00:20:24,836
Know why that kettle is in that state?
296
00:20:26,393 --> 00:20:37,100
However hard she tried, I looked at
that kettle dozens of times every day,
297
00:20:37,392 --> 00:20:44,445
think it would still be
in good condition?!
298
00:20:49,231 --> 00:20:52,323
You don't look so good, what's wrong?
299
00:20:52,492 --> 00:20:56,689
You're not even forty, and you
already look like a few decades older.
300
00:20:57,357 --> 00:21:02,228
Liver, heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys,
301
00:21:03,303 --> 00:21:07,049
drinks melted away all my five viscera.
302
00:21:08,023 --> 00:21:10,416
It's a miracle I'm still alive.
303
00:21:10,510 --> 00:21:13,952
You should have quit drinking
while you still could, then!
304
00:21:16,274 --> 00:21:22,459
Without the bottle,
would I have survived this long?!
305
00:21:27,986 --> 00:21:32,023
She was so glad I quit drinking,
306
00:21:32,221 --> 00:21:38,522
but you can't recover from decades
of drinking in just a few months.
307
00:21:39,152 --> 00:21:40,919
And, to people who will
die for the bottle,
308
00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:42,650
a glass or two could
only act as a painkiller,
309
00:21:42,753 --> 00:21:45,151
but she will never realize that.
310
00:21:46,346 --> 00:21:50,526
At least, when I used to drink,
I had the energy to eat...
311
00:21:50,592 --> 00:21:53,140
and I even slept well...
312
00:21:53,827 --> 00:21:56,535
You wretched fool...
313
00:21:56,798 --> 00:21:59,102
How can you say that?
314
00:22:01,731 --> 00:22:03,389
So, how did you manage to quit?
315
00:22:03,445 --> 00:22:06,063
You just said you couldn't
even eat without drinking.
316
00:22:07,903 --> 00:22:09,746
It's just that...
317
00:22:10,853 --> 00:22:13,103
I couldn't face my wife anymore.
318
00:22:17,595 --> 00:22:20,758
Before we got married,
the things that I promised her...
319
00:22:20,852 --> 00:22:22,843
numbered in the hundreds.
320
00:22:23,238 --> 00:22:28,015
But, recently, it all came to mind,
321
00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:32,336
so I told her that,
while I couldn't fulfill them all,
322
00:22:32,416 --> 00:22:37,796
she could pick only
one promise, and I'd keep it.
323
00:22:38,285 --> 00:22:40,673
And what she told me...
324
00:22:44,536 --> 00:22:48,241
was that her first wish
was for me to stop drinking,
325
00:22:49,031 --> 00:22:52,804
that her second was
for me to quit drinking,
326
00:22:53,819 --> 00:22:58,700
and even her third was
for me to never drink again.
327
00:23:00,233 --> 00:23:04,011
As if she was Kim Gu
Seonsaeng or something...
328
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,014
That something you can't
endure without the bottle.
329
00:23:20,860 --> 00:23:24,604
What on earth could that be?
330
00:23:51,787 --> 00:23:54,816
Grim Reaper Naeuri...
331
00:23:57,077 --> 00:23:59,172
If you're going to come for me...
332
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,106
do it at the witching hour.
333
00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:08,745
I fear no death,
334
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,313
but it must be at the witching
hour that you come to me,
335
00:24:14,379 --> 00:24:16,382
so that I will recognize you,
336
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,313
and follow you into the dark.
337
00:24:26,946 --> 00:24:28,355
Dear!
338
00:24:41,939 --> 00:24:43,997
Does it hurt bad?
339
00:24:45,334 --> 00:24:46,228
I'll call the doctor.
340
00:24:46,322 --> 00:24:47,930
Ok Rye...
341
00:24:57,241 --> 00:24:59,583
My beloved Ok Rye.
342
00:25:00,659 --> 00:25:02,347
You...
343
00:25:03,203 --> 00:25:08,102
My beloved, generous and kind Ok Rye.
344
00:25:08,375 --> 00:25:11,779
What's wrong with you?
345
00:25:13,131 --> 00:25:18,962
I owe you a lot for all the things
you did for me over the years.
346
00:25:23,212 --> 00:25:25,478
Even if death takes me away,
347
00:25:26,427 --> 00:25:28,045
don't cry.
348
00:25:29,399 --> 00:25:35,198
And tell the kids not to cry, either.
349
00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:48,665
Don't cry, and smile.
350
00:25:49,634 --> 00:25:51,477
People...
351
00:25:52,841 --> 00:25:56,179
are nothing but wanderers,
352
00:25:56,465 --> 00:25:58,386
on a fleeting journey called life.
353
00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:03,023
But I will now return home,
354
00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:06,414
so how joyous could it be?
355
00:26:07,496 --> 00:26:09,828
That is why you must smile.
356
00:26:10,712 --> 00:26:12,677
Gwan Shik...
357
00:26:14,167 --> 00:26:16,166
You can't leave us.
358
00:26:18,677 --> 00:26:23,116
Know what I feel guiltiest about?
359
00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:27,977
Our youngest's tuition fees...
360
00:26:28,965 --> 00:26:32,360
Leaving that burden to you again.
361
00:26:40,338 --> 00:26:41,674
Dear!
362
00:26:42,059 --> 00:26:45,289
Gwan Shik... Dear!
363
00:26:46,103 --> 00:26:47,693
Dear!!
364
00:26:53,706 --> 00:26:57,449
Kim Gwan Shik's
father-in-law Seo Jeong Ju,
365
00:26:57,938 --> 00:27:02,674
right after Gwan Shik
died, wrote this.
366
00:27:04,552 --> 00:27:07,733
"He tried in earnest
not to trust anyone,"
367
00:27:08,033 --> 00:27:09,834
"Pouring rivers of vitriol
over his every acquaintance."
368
00:27:09,947 --> 00:27:12,524
"He stubbornly oozed pride,
basked in loneliness,"
369
00:27:12,740 --> 00:27:16,897
"And after drenching his whole
life in an alcoholic frenzy,"
370
00:27:17,113 --> 00:27:20,745
"His rotten lungs closed the chapter
on a young life which did not reach forty."
371
00:27:21,394 --> 00:27:26,754
"Recommending
Kim Gwan Shik as a poet..."
372
00:27:26,886 --> 00:27:29,267
"is something I regretted
for a long period of time,"
373
00:27:29,550 --> 00:27:32,484
"But is it now something
which will never afflict us again?"
374
00:27:33,368 --> 00:27:36,810
"We will never have
to worry again about him..."
375
00:27:36,957 --> 00:27:40,532
"making us cry and fret with worry."
376
00:27:41,510 --> 00:27:43,701
What I was saying...
377
00:27:43,832 --> 00:27:46,851
Is there really a reason why he
couldn't help but drink so desperately?
378
00:27:47,948 --> 00:27:51,153
Who ever asked you to understand
Kim Gwan Shik's suffering?!
379
00:27:51,689 --> 00:27:55,554
It's because of people like you, trying to
analyze life as if it was a perfect science,
380
00:27:55,676 --> 00:27:58,714
that Kim Gwan Shik
and Jeon Hye Rin died!
381
00:28:14,165 --> 00:28:15,689
I'm sorry.
382
00:28:15,923 --> 00:28:17,241
I...
383
00:28:17,753 --> 00:28:18,943
It's nothing.
384
00:28:19,093 --> 00:28:20,693
I just...
385
00:28:20,903 --> 00:28:24,679
We just thought that it
would be a shame to let...
386
00:28:24,839 --> 00:28:28,713
the decade when our people led the
most honest of lives be forgotten.
387
00:28:31,234 --> 00:28:33,902
Do you really believe that?
388
00:28:35,284 --> 00:28:36,404
Yes.
389
00:28:39,104 --> 00:28:41,444
After May 16,
390
00:28:41,867 --> 00:28:43,833
was it a fortnight later?!
391
00:28:44,066 --> 00:28:46,597
I paid Kim Su Young a visit.
392
00:28:48,475 --> 00:28:50,820
Right after May 16...
393
00:28:50,961 --> 00:28:54,645
Kim Su Young kept to
himself for quite a while.
394
00:28:55,096 --> 00:28:57,551
You know that the armed forces
causing the coup d'etat...
395
00:28:57,626 --> 00:29:01,068
used anti-communism
as a public commitment.
396
00:29:01,181 --> 00:29:05,458
Kim Su Young must
have been afraid of that.
397
00:29:07,189 --> 00:29:08,362
Hyun Gyeong.
398
00:29:08,446 --> 00:29:10,177
It's me, Lee Bong Gu.
399
00:29:12,761 --> 00:29:14,023
Hyun Gyeong.
400
00:29:15,581 --> 00:29:17,303
Is anyone in?
401
00:29:47,705 --> 00:29:49,005
Hyun Gyeong.
402
00:29:51,205 --> 00:29:53,227
They're all dead.
403
00:29:53,923 --> 00:29:56,659
I haven't paid attention
for a few days...
404
00:29:57,406 --> 00:29:59,208
What about Su Young?
405
00:30:01,246 --> 00:30:05,242
After he heard on the radio
that the troops entered Seoul,
406
00:30:06,376 --> 00:30:10,828
he suddenly started shivering,
hiding himself in the locker.
407
00:30:12,229 --> 00:30:14,323
I asked him what was wrong,
408
00:30:14,548 --> 00:30:17,501
told him that he didn't do
anything wrong to hide like that.
409
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,493
And he said they were
going to oppose communism,
410
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,202
that they marched in with their tanks.
411
00:30:31,594 --> 00:30:35,326
I left for a moment to
see how things were going,
412
00:30:35,956 --> 00:30:38,307
and I couldn't find him anymore.
413
00:30:39,266 --> 00:30:42,527
I looked all over the place.
414
00:30:45,411 --> 00:30:48,640
After a week, I got
a call from Mount Dobong,
415
00:30:48,753 --> 00:30:51,000
telling me he was there.
416
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:57,496
So I asked his mother
how he was doing,
417
00:30:59,621 --> 00:31:02,753
and she said he looked like a ghost.
418
00:31:03,007 --> 00:31:05,299
Where is he now?
419
00:31:10,857 --> 00:31:13,029
I'll go meet him.
420
00:31:14,786 --> 00:31:16,675
I've had enough.
421
00:31:17,836 --> 00:31:21,575
I don't know what
I'm supposed to do anymore.
422
00:31:23,334 --> 00:31:24,885
Where is he?
423
00:31:26,736 --> 00:31:28,516
He woke up at the break of dawn,
424
00:31:28,752 --> 00:31:31,168
and said he's heading
for the riverbank.
425
00:31:32,269 --> 00:31:34,973
Said that today he will die.
426
00:31:35,942 --> 00:31:38,491
Today will be his last day.
427
00:31:41,987 --> 00:31:45,940
He's been living in hell
for the last ten years.
428
00:31:46,222 --> 00:31:47,990
It's my fault.
429
00:31:48,733 --> 00:31:50,041
Everyone...
430
00:31:50,859 --> 00:31:54,150
was pointing fingers at him.
431
00:31:55,439 --> 00:31:58,618
He was just starting to get better...
432
00:32:50,587 --> 00:32:52,580
Just accept it.
433
00:32:54,658 --> 00:32:57,457
The Jang Myeon government
had faults of its own.
434
00:32:57,658 --> 00:33:02,178
Although what the troops did
is certainly not acceptable.
435
00:33:06,239 --> 00:33:09,605
The troops using anti-communism as the
leading force of their revolution...
436
00:33:09,831 --> 00:33:14,524
is not something they'll use
politically like Lee Seung Man did.
437
00:33:15,841 --> 00:33:18,735
The students went too far, after all.
438
00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:22,948
With their "let's head for
the 38th parallel" slogans and all.
439
00:33:23,127 --> 00:33:25,083
Could unification be
accomplished that way?!
440
00:33:26,118 --> 00:33:28,453
It will only fuel social unrest.
441
00:33:34,231 --> 00:33:35,745
Unrest?!
442
00:33:35,990 --> 00:33:37,944
Making a living
is hard enough as it is,
443
00:33:38,066 --> 00:33:40,540
and if you even add social
disorder to the equation...
444
00:33:40,681 --> 00:33:42,674
It's hard to make a living?!
445
00:33:42,787 --> 00:33:43,508
What I'm saying...
446
00:33:43,597 --> 00:33:45,297
Why do people live?
447
00:33:45,411 --> 00:33:47,698
Just to stuff their bellies
and then shit it all out?!
448
00:33:48,791 --> 00:33:50,305
Listen to you...
449
00:33:50,478 --> 00:33:52,572
Do you earn democracy free of charge?!
450
00:33:52,628 --> 00:33:53,949
Freedom, equality, justice.
451
00:33:54,039 --> 00:33:56,286
Is that something
you can easily achieve?
452
00:33:56,766 --> 00:33:59,138
Of course I can agree with that...
453
00:33:59,382 --> 00:34:03,391
I've had enough of the
Jang Myeon government myself.
454
00:34:03,868 --> 00:34:06,762
Nor do I like the kind of unification
movement those students are pushing for.
455
00:34:06,842 --> 00:34:09,752
But, it's only been a year.
456
00:34:10,062 --> 00:34:13,062
Only a year since April 19
and the fall of the dictatorship.
457
00:34:13,184 --> 00:34:16,623
The democracy we built with
our own hands is just a year old!
458
00:34:16,767 --> 00:34:18,314
Did we ever experience democracy?!
459
00:34:18,413 --> 00:34:21,704
No... let's even forget
about democracy and whatnot.
460
00:34:21,827 --> 00:34:24,046
Set aside doctrine and ideology,
461
00:34:24,131 --> 00:34:26,223
have we ever experienced a society...
462
00:34:26,344 --> 00:34:29,044
which put more emphasis
on our freedom?!
463
00:34:30,324 --> 00:34:33,364
Excessive freedom
can turn into self-indulgence.
464
00:34:33,495 --> 00:34:35,094
And if it does, so what?!
465
00:34:35,207 --> 00:34:38,136
If people who never experienced
freedom indulge themselves a little,
466
00:34:38,212 --> 00:34:42,099
does it justify those troops
trampling on them with their tanks?!
467
00:34:42,231 --> 00:34:44,207
Ehh... you rotten bastards!
468
00:34:49,717 --> 00:34:52,234
That damned freedom... Lee Seonbae...
469
00:34:52,582 --> 00:34:55,892
It's not something you can
cut squarely like a piece of tofu.
470
00:34:57,642 --> 00:34:59,615
It's not something
you can experience secondhand,
471
00:34:59,699 --> 00:35:02,812
or something that filling
our bellies will solve.
472
00:35:03,279 --> 00:35:04,392
That...
473
00:35:05,746 --> 00:35:08,254
What we call freedom, you know?!
474
00:35:08,536 --> 00:35:14,222
It's something you achieve after
countless trials, errors and unrest.
475
00:35:17,818 --> 00:35:21,285
I kept thinking about it
after the coup d'etat.
476
00:35:21,973 --> 00:35:25,282
That Jang Myeon was
not completely incompetent.
477
00:35:25,386 --> 00:35:27,521
Maybe, Jang Myeon...
478
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:34,414
could have just been waiting for us
to deal with this unrest on our own.
479
00:35:34,959 --> 00:35:36,436
Su Young.
480
00:35:36,606 --> 00:35:38,326
Let's wait.
481
00:35:38,448 --> 00:35:42,797
The troops said they'll leave,
once the unrest is dealt with.
482
00:35:42,909 --> 00:35:45,101
That is not the issue!
483
00:35:45,204 --> 00:35:47,424
They ruined it all!
484
00:35:47,997 --> 00:35:52,855
This is unrest, unrest can't be tolerated,
we're reestablishing order!
485
00:35:52,949 --> 00:35:54,717
They all ruined it.
486
00:35:55,106 --> 00:35:59,808
The chance for us to comprehend,
gain and protect real freedom!
487
00:36:01,619 --> 00:36:04,158
You still can't
understand, Lee Seonbae?
488
00:36:04,375 --> 00:36:06,002
Anti-communism is not a doctrine,
489
00:36:06,114 --> 00:36:07,729
democracy is.
490
00:36:07,911 --> 00:36:09,758
Anti-communism is no ideology,
491
00:36:09,909 --> 00:36:12,251
freedom is!
492
00:36:32,772 --> 00:36:36,966
Pardon my asking, but if the unrest
during Jang Myeon's regime had continued...
493
00:36:37,051 --> 00:36:41,043
I'm not trying to legitimize
the military revolution, obviously.
494
00:36:41,362 --> 00:36:42,740
It's a coup d'etat!
495
00:36:42,853 --> 00:36:46,399
It's not a military revolution,
but a mere coup d'etat!
496
00:36:46,801 --> 00:36:48,823
No matter what kind
of violence it signifies,
497
00:36:48,898 --> 00:36:52,726
it just proves that
violence can oppress freedom!
498
00:36:52,857 --> 00:36:55,865
Then, was Kim Su Young left-wing?
499
00:36:57,926 --> 00:36:59,595
He wasn't.
500
00:37:00,336 --> 00:37:03,855
He surely didn't seem
a right-leaning type.
501
00:37:05,858 --> 00:37:07,702
Kim Su Young...
502
00:37:08,296 --> 00:37:10,619
lived for freedom.
503
00:37:12,546 --> 00:37:13,910
Lee Seonbae.
504
00:37:14,156 --> 00:37:17,051
Freedom can never be a
product of compromise.
505
00:37:17,333 --> 00:37:20,117
It's not something you can arrange
into an appropriate quantity.
506
00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:26,456
It's a perfect whole which will
only be tarnished, if limited that way.
507
00:37:28,036 --> 00:37:29,268
That...
508
00:37:29,478 --> 00:37:31,714
is just what you believe.
509
00:37:33,586 --> 00:37:34,714
Just once...
510
00:37:35,297 --> 00:37:37,018
Just for once, Lee Seonbae.
511
00:37:37,150 --> 00:37:40,549
If we could achieve
complete freedom just for once,
512
00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:43,649
then we could overcome any distress...
513
00:37:43,743 --> 00:37:46,743
Anything hampering our way.
514
00:37:47,232 --> 00:37:49,357
Know why?
515
00:37:50,307 --> 00:37:52,679
Because we would have tasted
what freedom felt like.
516
00:37:53,083 --> 00:37:58,688
That is the most supreme
condition men can achieve.
517
00:37:59,384 --> 00:38:02,633
Sweet as honey can be...
518
00:38:13,288 --> 00:38:16,448
So, did Kim Su Young
achieve that state?
519
00:38:17,349 --> 00:38:20,925
That is not a path
you can walk on all alone.
520
00:38:23,830 --> 00:38:25,739
Was it twenty years...
521
00:38:25,981 --> 00:38:30,789
{\a6}*Park Jung Hee's restoration
during the 4th Republic (1972~1979)
522
00:38:25,981 --> 00:38:30,789
Both military rule and
the yushin* have ended.
523
00:38:30,961 --> 00:38:34,433
Yes... spring has come to Seoul.
524
00:38:36,774 --> 00:38:41,812
If Kim Su Young had been
alive, what would he say?
525
00:38:43,975 --> 00:38:48,591
That if the unrest of April 19
had continued for another year,
526
00:38:48,756 --> 00:38:52,814
this land would have never
experienced a dictatorship again.
527
00:38:55,347 --> 00:38:56,717
Right...
528
00:38:57,446 --> 00:39:02,621
We wasted the last
twenty years of our history.
529
00:39:11,297 --> 00:39:14,491
Was it... 1968?!
530
00:39:14,658 --> 00:39:16,936
When Kim Su Young
Seonsaeng passed away.
531
00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:26,845
It was a real shame, wasn't it?
532
00:39:33,750 --> 00:39:35,798
What are you doing there, Su Young?
533
00:39:39,571 --> 00:39:41,131
Did you have a drink?
534
00:39:43,562 --> 00:39:49,049
Can a mere poet change the world?
535
00:39:50,472 --> 00:39:53,140
That depends, obviously.
536
00:39:53,593 --> 00:39:56,583
Without any power to change things,
537
00:39:56,724 --> 00:40:00,279
prattling about freedom and revolution,
538
00:40:00,613 --> 00:40:03,326
isn't that just
another form of violence?!
539
00:40:06,943 --> 00:40:11,019
For a poem to change the world,
it would take some time.
540
00:40:11,141 --> 00:40:12,655
Isn't that right, Su Young?
541
00:40:14,364 --> 00:40:16,408
I was told this by some trooper.
542
00:40:16,568 --> 00:40:19,161
If in English it's G, I, R and L,
it should be "jeerl."
543
00:40:19,217 --> 00:40:21,681
How can it sound like "gal"?!
544
00:40:25,270 --> 00:40:27,504
You know, Lee Seonbae?
545
00:40:29,721 --> 00:40:32,939
When people are so busy worrying
about putting food on the table,
546
00:40:33,137 --> 00:40:35,439
poems can only become a luxury.
547
00:40:36,483 --> 00:40:38,919
They stand out like drugs.
548
00:40:44,947 --> 00:40:47,472
Still, we need to keep writing them.
549
00:41:01,113 --> 00:41:02,699
Hand me the hammer.
550
00:41:03,583 --> 00:41:05,994
After you've fixed it, then what?!
551
00:41:06,235 --> 00:41:07,400
We'll have to go on living.
552
00:41:07,513 --> 00:41:09,444
I'll go out and make money.
553
00:41:09,534 --> 00:41:11,773
You worry about
reading and writing poems.
554
00:41:12,074 --> 00:41:13,765
Poems?!
What damned poems?!
555
00:41:13,864 --> 00:41:16,025
I'll keep cleaning chicken shit
for the rest of my days.
556
00:41:22,407 --> 00:41:25,652
"I have those eerily foolish moments,"
557
00:41:25,756 --> 00:41:28,726
"when I tell myself I will die,
and indeed I perish within,"
558
00:41:28,857 --> 00:41:31,632
"or when I say I will live,
and survival becomes reality."
559
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,848
"It all feels like a vagary."
560
00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:38,459
"Call it weariness,"
561
00:41:38,581 --> 00:41:41,174
"or even madness, if you will."
562
00:41:41,644 --> 00:41:43,995
"I am nothing but a miserable,
feeble-minded fool,"
563
00:41:44,089 --> 00:41:47,936
"my poems, mendacious shows
pouring lies out of my pen."
564
00:41:48,190 --> 00:41:50,632
"My supporting a revolution,"
565
00:41:50,801 --> 00:41:51,873
"or even my own self,"
566
00:41:52,005 --> 00:41:54,591
"it all feels like a lie."
567
00:41:55,851 --> 00:41:57,121
"My dear..."
568
00:41:58,005 --> 00:42:03,520
"I write these words
as if preparing my last will,"
569
00:42:03,850 --> 00:42:06,201
"but I will survive."
570
00:42:07,912 --> 00:42:11,932
Every time he wrote a new poem,
you'd feel as if he had to change.
571
00:42:12,016 --> 00:42:17,189
Every new work had to have
an "esprit nouveau (new spirit),"
572
00:42:13,305 --> 00:42:22,936
{\a6}~ Kim Hyun Gyeong ~
(Kim Su Young's wife)
573
00:42:17,753 --> 00:42:23,397
and you'd never see him
follow the same notions.
574
00:42:23,613 --> 00:42:26,585
He strove to change,
575
00:42:26,693 --> 00:42:30,159
escape from any dichotomies
his own style could create.
576
00:42:30,295 --> 00:42:35,246
But his poems also
showed a stubborn realism.
577
00:42:35,377 --> 00:42:39,064
He was obsessed with being
ahead of the times, about the new.
578
00:42:47,383 --> 00:42:49,010
Who is it?
579
00:42:49,906 --> 00:42:52,912
Hyun Gyeong, open the gates!
580
00:43:14,128 --> 00:43:20,983
He would never just read
for the sake of it,
581
00:43:21,096 --> 00:43:24,923
or stop reading something
for no particular reason.
582
00:43:25,046 --> 00:43:28,102
He was really dedicated to it.
583
00:43:28,196 --> 00:43:31,967
Even just standing by his side
and seeing him so involved in it,
584
00:43:32,061 --> 00:43:34,365
I felt envious myself.
585
00:43:34,478 --> 00:43:38,603
But it wasn't just reading,
his entire personality across the board...
586
00:43:38,735 --> 00:43:41,593
was like that.
587
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,443
He was really sincere, that fella.
588
00:43:44,556 --> 00:43:48,176
He was shining with sincerity.
589
00:43:48,421 --> 00:43:53,151
He really didn't...
not in the slightest...
590
00:43:54,381 --> 00:43:56,858
waste one second of his life.
591
00:43:57,036 --> 00:44:01,151
Even when he was just reading,
he was dead serious about it,
592
00:44:01,261 --> 00:44:03,206
it felt as if
he was chewing those pages.
593
00:44:03,309 --> 00:44:06,680
I guess that laid the foundations
for his personality,
594
00:44:06,802 --> 00:44:11,362
as his literary works and poems
really ooze those sensibilities.
595
00:44:16,923 --> 00:44:19,619
What is the matter, this late?
596
00:44:23,785 --> 00:44:25,816
Tell me.
597
00:44:26,155 --> 00:44:30,127
I think you'll have
to come down yourself.
598
00:44:30,202 --> 00:44:32,086
Your husband...
599
00:44:33,325 --> 00:44:34,886
What...
600
00:44:35,262 --> 00:44:38,107
Did he fight with someone again?
601
00:44:38,244 --> 00:44:40,933
It's not that...
602
00:44:42,787 --> 00:44:44,977
Right before the curfew,
603
00:44:45,203 --> 00:44:48,852
this huge bus ended up hitting
someone on the sidewalk...
604
00:44:52,757 --> 00:44:54,739
And that was my husband?!
605
00:44:55,915 --> 00:45:01,183
My husband saw this fella in a
pool of blood being carried away,
606
00:45:01,334 --> 00:45:04,682
and he said he looked just
like your husband.
607
00:45:06,909 --> 00:45:08,660
Hyun Gyeong!
608
00:45:13,738 --> 00:45:19,737
He'd say he would help me at home,
and would start mopping up.
609
00:45:19,850 --> 00:45:27,514
He did that, and sometimes
even helped me in the kitchen.
610
00:45:29,709 --> 00:45:30,615
Anyhow...
611
00:45:30,737 --> 00:45:38,806
he was brimming with devotion
for his family, wife and kids.
612
00:46:24,134 --> 00:46:25,585
Dear...
613
00:46:28,164 --> 00:46:30,802
Where are you?
614
00:46:32,504 --> 00:46:34,028
Dear!
615
00:46:36,464 --> 00:46:38,166
Dear...
616
00:46:38,514 --> 00:46:40,339
Dear...
617
00:46:41,335 --> 00:46:42,661
Dear.
618
00:46:45,436 --> 00:46:47,138
Dear!!
619
00:47:00,095 --> 00:47:02,926
Also, every time he would go out,
620
00:47:03,029 --> 00:47:08,117
I'd always prepare
a pack of cigarettes,
621
00:47:08,465 --> 00:47:10,186
a handkerchief,
622
00:47:10,289 --> 00:47:11,785
and...
623
00:47:11,907 --> 00:47:15,754
his taxi fare,
along with 3,000 won on top.
624
00:47:15,895 --> 00:47:18,547
Yes, I always gave him 3,000 won.
625
00:47:18,697 --> 00:47:21,034
But that wouldn't be enough,
626
00:47:21,109 --> 00:47:22,971
if he'd end up having a drink.
627
00:47:23,112 --> 00:47:24,993
Yet, sometimes he just wouldn't drink,
628
00:47:25,106 --> 00:47:30,373
and other times just have a
glass of makgeolli (raw rice wine).
629
00:47:30,486 --> 00:47:32,846
Anyhow, that's all he'd spend.
630
00:47:38,649 --> 00:47:40,370
Su Myeong!
631
00:47:42,570 --> 00:47:44,601
Seonsaengnim...
632
00:47:46,380 --> 00:47:47,912
What happened?
633
00:47:48,194 --> 00:47:49,862
A bus...
634
00:47:49,975 --> 00:47:53,793
A bus ended on the sidewalk...
635
00:48:31,813 --> 00:48:34,678
When we were dating...
636
00:48:36,042 --> 00:48:37,923
we'd go to the Dolce,
637
00:48:37,998 --> 00:48:40,462
or places like the Figaro,
638
00:48:41,412 --> 00:48:43,509
listen to music,
639
00:48:43,995 --> 00:48:46,247
have a cup of tea...
640
00:48:47,465 --> 00:48:51,711
all we did was going around
the alleys of Myeongdong.
641
00:48:54,375 --> 00:48:55,930
But...
642
00:48:58,826 --> 00:49:03,397
you wouldn't believe what
I had to endure because of him.
643
00:49:10,857 --> 00:49:13,982
It must have been a spring day.
644
00:49:14,367 --> 00:49:17,377
I suddenly was in the mood for radish.
645
00:49:17,568 --> 00:49:20,095
You know, altari radish.
646
00:49:21,073 --> 00:49:24,233
So I went, and bought some.
647
00:49:24,769 --> 00:49:27,552
I bought some altari radish,
648
00:49:27,778 --> 00:49:30,129
and asked them to
take off all the leaves,
649
00:49:30,373 --> 00:49:33,684
and wrap it up nicely,
650
00:49:33,956 --> 00:49:35,875
after which we headed to the park,
651
00:49:36,176 --> 00:49:38,715
and as we sat, facing each other...
652
00:49:38,884 --> 00:49:41,245
we ate that radish.
653
00:49:42,082 --> 00:49:46,756
But he kept fooling around
about that all day.
654
00:49:48,089 --> 00:49:49,598
He kept going at it,
655
00:49:49,655 --> 00:49:55,222
saying that I'd eat radish
because I ran out of junk food,
656
00:49:55,899 --> 00:50:00,828
and joked about it
with everyone he met.
657
00:50:02,992 --> 00:50:08,314
"My wife loves junk food..."
658
00:50:09,483 --> 00:50:14,757
"So much that she had to buy
radish to satisfy her whims."
659
00:50:19,206 --> 00:50:21,977
You didn't hear about that?
660
00:50:22,497 --> 00:50:24,977
All those jokes about me?
661
00:50:28,758 --> 00:50:30,637
I've heard them.
662
00:50:40,131 --> 00:50:44,965
Isn't a bus what people
use for a comfortable ride?!
663
00:50:48,059 --> 00:50:53,403
But how could it end up on a
sidewalk where people pass by?
664
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,091
Now that I think about it,
that was really something.
665
00:51:37,176 --> 00:51:40,082
Losing such an extraordinary
poet because of a bus.
666
00:52:23,573 --> 00:52:24,974
Excuse me...
667
00:52:25,293 --> 00:52:28,284
Aren't you Lee Bong Gu Seonsaengnim?
668
00:52:30,613 --> 00:52:32,143
Aigoo!
669
00:52:32,262 --> 00:52:34,044
That hoodlum fella!
670
00:52:35,234 --> 00:52:37,574
Ahh... I'm sorry,
I called you a hoodlum.
671
00:52:38,206 --> 00:52:39,805
It's nothing.
672
00:52:39,899 --> 00:52:43,087
I was so happy to see you,
it just came out...
673
00:52:44,105 --> 00:52:45,471
Then again,
674
00:52:45,635 --> 00:52:49,145
back in the days,
we made quite a mark with these!
675
00:52:50,070 --> 00:52:52,746
Lee Hwa Ryong didn't.
676
00:52:52,850 --> 00:52:54,721
Of course he didn't!
677
00:52:54,796 --> 00:52:56,762
No doubt about that!
678
00:52:57,194 --> 00:53:02,893
But, looks like health
hasn't been too kind to you?!
679
00:53:02,978 --> 00:53:04,981
It's been kind enough.
680
00:53:05,122 --> 00:53:07,746
Everyone has left before me already.
681
00:53:08,648 --> 00:53:11,940
Do you come to Myeongdong
often, these days?
682
00:53:12,053 --> 00:53:13,294
Far from it.
683
00:53:13,998 --> 00:53:16,510
Even just walking is bothering me.
684
00:53:17,658 --> 00:53:20,451
So... I'll see you around.
685
00:53:20,582 --> 00:53:22,288
Yes.
686
00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:28,702
Still...
687
00:53:29,097 --> 00:53:31,787
you should protect our Myeongdong.
688
00:53:32,088 --> 00:53:35,005
You're the Count of Myeongdong!
689
00:53:40,002 --> 00:53:41,861
Myeongdong...
690
00:53:45,822 --> 00:53:48,783
If anything of that Myeongdong
was left intact,
691
00:53:49,262 --> 00:53:53,597
then I could think about protecting it.
692
00:54:23,566 --> 00:54:27,556
It is time to conclude our story.
693
00:54:28,412 --> 00:54:30,865
After Park In Hwan, Lee Jung Seop,
694
00:54:30,988 --> 00:54:34,966
Jeon Hye Rin, Oh Sang Soon
and Kim Su Young,
695
00:54:35,177 --> 00:54:37,778
Lee Bong Gu left us as well.
696
00:54:38,647 --> 00:54:39,968
And...
697
00:54:40,655 --> 00:54:43,307
Myeongdong completely changed.
698
00:54:45,399 --> 00:54:47,811
Is it so glorious because
it all vanished?!
699
00:54:47,990 --> 00:54:50,440
Looking back,
700
00:54:50,530 --> 00:54:52,977
it feels just like yesterday when
Park In Hwan would open the Poem's doors,
701
00:54:53,071 --> 00:54:56,015
wearing his Burberry coat and muffler.
702
00:55:19,543 --> 00:55:25,421
When Gongcho Oh Sang Soon's nihilism
would spurt inside all that cigarette smoke,
703
00:55:25,643 --> 00:55:31,964
and Lee Jung Seop would carve
all his sadness on silver foil.
704
00:55:59,975 --> 00:56:00,989
Yes.
705
00:56:01,572 --> 00:56:05,738
Looking back, Myeongdong
was the street of romanticism.
706
00:56:06,030 --> 00:56:08,738
Those sensibilities were filling the air.
707
00:56:09,656 --> 00:56:10,807
However,
708
00:56:11,249 --> 00:56:14,793
that was not the reason why,
in this early 21st century,
709
00:56:14,896 --> 00:56:20,633
we so fervently looked at our
Myeongdong from the 1950s.
710
00:56:50,129 --> 00:56:54,684
Kim Su Young said that it's from
unrest that freedom can be born.
711
00:56:54,881 --> 00:56:57,783
We couldn't endure the
one-year-long unrest which emerged...
712
00:56:57,889 --> 00:56:59,929
after the April 19 revolution.
713
00:57:00,163 --> 00:57:02,683
Because we couldn't
endure that much unrest,
714
00:57:02,805 --> 00:57:07,442
our claims of deserving freedom
might be unfounded after all.
715
00:57:08,223 --> 00:57:09,803
After the May 16 coup d'etat,
716
00:57:09,916 --> 00:57:12,239
Korea experienced an
unprecedented economic growth.
717
00:57:12,351 --> 00:57:14,326
Our lives have started
basking in abundance.
718
00:57:14,561 --> 00:57:19,882
But it was not abundance which
also filled our mind and spirit.
719
00:57:23,033 --> 00:57:26,677
It was at the expense of that freedom
Kim Su Young so ardently longed for...
720
00:57:26,799 --> 00:57:29,480
that we've been living
all these prosperous decades.
721
00:57:29,734 --> 00:57:31,850
And what is even more important...
722
00:57:32,303 --> 00:57:38,581
is the fact that we still cannot
comprehend what freedom is really about.
723
00:57:40,754 --> 00:57:43,151
What could freedom mean?
724
00:57:43,703 --> 00:57:46,635
Could it not signify the limitless
potential of the human mind?!
725
00:57:47,303 --> 00:57:49,617
Let's put it in even simpler terms.
726
00:57:49,834 --> 00:57:54,232
Couldn't freedom be that
limitless love for people itself?
727
00:57:56,665 --> 00:57:59,395
Over there lies Myeongdong.
728
00:57:59,959 --> 00:58:02,762
You might not find its old lights
and shadows down those streets,
729
00:58:02,997 --> 00:58:07,088
but would that mean that
they have completely vanished?
730
00:58:08,816 --> 00:58:12,185
Wouldn't all the dreams, the
sadness, the hope for the future...
731
00:58:12,468 --> 00:58:16,233
of all those artists who
walked down those streets...
732
00:58:16,447 --> 00:58:20,841
be hiding somewhere inside us,
up to this day?!
733
00:58:21,631 --> 00:58:22,675
Yes.
734
00:58:22,901 --> 00:58:24,770
It surely didn't disappear.
735
00:58:24,928 --> 00:58:28,821
It must be surviving, somewhere.
736
00:58:30,637 --> 00:58:36,086
We will leave you by introducing
a poem by Kim Su Young.
737
00:58:37,951 --> 00:58:39,979
Variations on Love.
738
00:58:40,731 --> 00:58:43,393
"Desire, open your lips."
739
00:58:43,582 --> 00:58:46,489
"I shall find love deep down inside."
740
00:58:46,696 --> 00:58:52,385
"Withering in the wind of the night
are the echoes of that radio broadcast,"
741
00:58:52,761 --> 00:58:55,385
"Caressing your ears
like a loving embrace,"
742
00:58:55,808 --> 00:58:59,315
"Like a flowing river
dissipating into the shadows."
743
00:58:59,744 --> 00:59:02,211
"The gloomy and misty shadows
of love past the riverbank,"
744
00:59:02,277 --> 00:59:04,684
"Withered trees
staring at the March sky,"
745
00:59:04,825 --> 00:59:06,410
"Buds of love awaiting their call,"
746
00:59:06,504 --> 00:59:09,805
"Their gentle whispers staring
at deep blue mountains,"
747
00:59:09,944 --> 00:59:12,043
"Like the mist's embrace at morn."
748
00:59:12,138 --> 00:59:14,470
"As the train of love passes by,"
749
00:59:14,969 --> 00:59:16,690
"Our sadness howls in despair
within that tunnel,"
750
00:59:16,746 --> 00:59:19,558
"Ignoring the lights of Seoul,
like avoiding a pigsty's dregs."
751
00:59:20,795 --> 00:59:24,802
"In brambles and ramblers,
their pointy and long thorns,"
752
00:59:24,886 --> 00:59:27,077
"Even there you find love."
753
00:59:28,205 --> 00:59:32,156
"Why does the forest of love
so unyieldingly march on?"
754
00:59:32,526 --> 00:59:36,490
"Until the day comes, when you will
learn that only love can feed love."
755
00:59:36,886 --> 00:59:41,767
"That like boiling vapors
parting ways with their kettle,"
756
00:59:41,926 --> 00:59:44,907
"Love burns and boils with passion."
757
00:59:45,147 --> 00:59:47,042
"That even in separation lies love."
758
00:59:47,287 --> 00:59:49,087
"From this room to the other,"
759
00:59:49,214 --> 00:59:50,682
"From my grandmother's resting place..."
760
00:59:50,785 --> 00:59:53,397
"To the errand boy's room."
761
00:59:53,528 --> 00:59:57,911
"Like a cat's sparkling eyeballs,
suavely moving inside the ghastly dark,"
762
00:59:58,005 --> 01:00:01,212
"Love knows the deepest
shadows of the night."
763
01:00:01,607 --> 01:00:05,278
"And it knows what love is made of."
764
01:00:05,950 --> 01:00:08,479
"Of closing your eyes
after a passionate gaze,"
765
01:00:08,900 --> 01:00:10,840
"Of the passion burning the flags
of the French revolution,"
766
01:00:11,404 --> 01:00:14,646
"Of everything we learned from April 19,"
767
01:00:14,806 --> 01:00:19,959
"But we no longer shout."
768
01:00:20,796 --> 01:00:26,568
"O, beautiful resolve of the
peach, apricot and persimmon seeds."
769
01:00:26,822 --> 01:00:32,051
"O, wicked storms of beliefs,
made of silence and love."
770
01:00:32,734 --> 01:00:37,052
"Bombay, New York, Seoul all together."
771
01:00:37,249 --> 01:00:39,615
"Bigger than any belief as it is,"
772
01:00:39,725 --> 01:00:42,967
"Compared to the great city of love
I shall bury into oblivion,"
773
01:00:43,070 --> 01:00:45,299
"Are you nothing but an ant?"
774
01:00:46,087 --> 01:00:47,284
"My son."
775
01:00:47,726 --> 01:00:51,111
"It is not to impart fanaticism upon you."
776
01:00:51,516 --> 01:00:54,036
"Grow until love visits your gates."
777
01:00:54,403 --> 01:00:56,441
"Until the end of mankind,"
778
01:00:56,582 --> 01:00:59,309
"When you have emptied
your bottle of time,"
779
01:00:59,873 --> 01:01:03,268
"When all oil in the
American continent dries up,"
780
01:01:03,579 --> 01:01:07,967
"The words you must carve
deep down your heart..."
781
01:01:08,101 --> 01:01:11,578
"You will learn from the
exhausting lights of the city."
782
01:01:12,742 --> 01:01:15,942
"They will teach you the fierce
serenity of silence."
783
01:01:17,071 --> 01:01:21,532
"You will wonder whether it
was all made of love!"
784
01:01:22,077 --> 01:01:25,256
"Until one day, just for once,"
785
01:01:25,359 --> 01:01:28,387
"They will spurt out
in a roborant frenzy."
786
01:01:28,631 --> 01:01:32,643
"And may not those days be wasted..."
787
01:01:32,793 --> 01:01:35,901
"In heedless contemplation
as your father's lonesome nights."
788
01:01:37,986 --> 01:01:41,972
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789
01:01:42,194 --> 01:01:46,191
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790
01:01:46,390 --> 01:01:50,376
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791
01:01:50,578 --> 01:01:54,500
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792
01:01:54,787 --> 01:01:58,708
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793
01:01:58,949 --> 01:02:02,905
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link
794
01:02:03,263 --> 01:02:08,119
LEE Jin Woo as
~ Kim Su Young (1921~1968) ~
795
01:02:20,062 --> 01:02:25,767
CHA Gwang Su as
~ Park In Hwan (1926~1956) ~
796
01:02:35,719 --> 01:02:41,103
PARK Cheol Ho as
~ Lee Bong Gu (1916~1983) ~
797
01:02:50,809 --> 01:02:56,852
PARK Young Ji as
~ Oh Sang Soon (1894~1963) ~
798
01:03:06,959 --> 01:03:13,445
AHN Jung Hoon as
~ Kim Gwan Shik (1934~1970) ~
799
01:03:23,836 --> 01:03:26,340
KANG Tae Gi as
~ Lee Jung Seop (1916~1956) ~
800
01:03:47,798 --> 01:03:51,188
Music by
IM Taek Soo, IM Hyo Taek
801
01:03:51,278 --> 01:03:54,818
Written by JUNG Ha Yeon
802
01:03:54,908 --> 01:03:58,528
Produced By
LEE Chang Yong, NAM Nae Won
803
01:03:58,963 --> 01:04:03,970
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