This is big trouble!
Kim Yoon Shik...
So then, is this child...
Professor Kim Seong Hun's son?
Just what are you doing?
Professor!
Scholar Kim Yoon Shik is...
Out. All of you.
Hey Professor Jung...
We should at least visit him.
I said out!
The patient needs rest.
Until further notice, no visitors are allowed to enter the infirmary.
Remember that.
Don't worry, sir.
If you're on your way to see the Student Body President,
please don't.
Why?
Your taking the Noron's side, now?
This is all my fault,
shouldn't I be the one to settle this?
Professor...
I must leave.
By any chance, were you looking for this?
Are you a girl?
Scholar Kim Yoon Shik, answer me!
I asked, are you a girl!?
He said no one was to visit the infirmary,
and didn't let the physician see him.
Why?
Don't you want to know?
About what happened to that little punk, Big Shot?
Dae-mul?
I mean Kim Yoon Shik!
Cho Seon acknowledged his big....
Whatever.
That's what I'm saying!
Being so endowed just doesn't fit such a pretty face.
That Big Shot has a secret...
something the others must not know of...
a dangerous and scary secret.
Forgive me.
A girl who has snuck into Sung Kyun Kwan...
dares ask to be forgiven?
Why exactly have you entered Sung Kyun Kwan?
To survive
I...
was just trying to survive.
I needed to earn money for my mom and sick brother.
In order to support my family, I was sitting in for exams.
And I found myself here.
That's what happened.
Professor, please believe me.
I've never had a female student before.
What's more, I've never had an idiot making excuses...
as my student before.
You and your family have deceived the King, and disobeyed the rules of this establishment
and punishment by death will be inescapeable.
My family is innocent!
If you must punish someone,
punish me.
Any punishment you give, I will accept.
You're the one who confessed...
that it was because of your sick brother and single mother, you've commited these crimes.
How can the ones who were behind this
have their lives spared?
Now, do you understand?
Nothing is solved with excuses and justifications.
Return to your room and wait for the decision.
Until a decision has been reached, no one is to know about this.
Keep in mind, that that is the only way for you to not make matters worse.
Yoon Shik! Yoon Shik!
Are you OK?
Kim Yoon Shik that little punk, is strange.
I mean...
why does everyone stick up for him?
Right.
Norons and Sorons are as one.
Peace between the Norons and the Sorons?
This is the peace between the political parties that the King so badly wants.
That wimp, Kim Yoon Shik, is better than the King.
That was a cowardly move!
That arrow was rightly meant for me,
not Kim Yoon Shik.
This is my last offer.
Come to the Western dorms with the rest of us Norons.
If so,
I will give you the position as the Western dorm's Supervisor.
Oh, President!
That's my position!
If you want, I can even nominate you for the next Student Body President.
If I refuse,
what then?
This is exactly why you're still an amateur.
Because of that useless pride,
Noron. Soron. Namin.
Your team came to represent the group for political peace.
Is political peace...
so wrong?
Political peace?
Peace without regard to political party?
Such outrageous wordplay doesn't convince me.
"Political peace" is propaganda drawn up by the King,
to combine the Soron and Namin factions
to drive us Norons, out.
If your team were to win the Archery Competition,
you would be promoting the King's vision of Political Peace for all the officials to see.
You rooting for his cause.
At the Noron party,
No, at your father, are your intentions to shoot the arrow?
President, what you said is true.
For our group to win the Archery Competiton, what it would mean,
it hadn't crossed my mind.
Which is why...
I have to do it.
Win.
What?
Whether the King's vision of Political Peace is an outrageous propaganda scheme,
or whether you're just blinded by your overwhelming greed for power,
Unless I try, how would I know?
Alright, fine.
Go ahead.
I will certainly make sure you eat your words.
A girl sneaks into Sung Kyun Kwan yet
dares ask to be forgiven?
You and your family have deceived the king, and disobeyed the rules of this establishment,
won't be able to escape a punishment of death.
As a man,
I guess you don't want anyone to see you crying.
Stay.
I'll go.
Hey, Big Shot!
Go on and cry.
That bastard..
Crazy bastard, what pipe dream is that? Winning?!
How dare they even dream of winning?
When we have our expert archer, Ha In Soo here.
Don't worry.
No matter how great an archer Lee Seon Joon is,
Winning would be impossible.
Oh gosh!
Just what do you think you're doing?
How do you feel?
What are you doing?
The way it feels to be toyed with..
with your life in the balance.
Make sure you remember well,
otherwise the next arrow
will be here.
That jerk!
This is all my brother's fault!
Because of him, since that day, Young Master hasn't been able to come see me.
For days, he's been alone, and troubled.
Like me.
Why don't you just give up?
If he's a man who leaves you waiting because he's scared of your brother,
then he's not worth it!
Who said it's 'cause he's scared?!
In case my brother's temper is taken out on me.
he's being cautious!
Psh, you're clueless!
Do you know what love is?
That's not the book I ordered.
It's a special gift only for our most prized customers.
This is the famous romance novel that drove all of Korea to tears.
The love story of the son of a Prime Minister and a servant girl, despite their social class.
But it ended up that the two are half-siblings.
Such as shame. The servant girl gets diagnosed with a terminal illness. A serious tear-jerker!
Please just let us to love each other!
Do they end up together?
What?
The two... the man and the woman. Do they end up together or not?
Well, they love one another.
So you can say they end up together. But on the other hand, since they can't get married...
you can say they don't end up together.
Love makes it all work.
If they're going to break up in the end, what kind of cruelty is that in making the characters suffer so much?
Weird, weird.
By the way...
Yes, Miss.
The love letter.
Why hasn't there been any word from him? And with so much bragging!
You said he was the best writer in Sung Kyun Kwan.
Miss, don't even whisper it!
All of Sung Kyun Kwan is in chaos. Chaos!
At Sung Kyun Kwan? Why?
Because of the Archery Competition.
Archery Competition?
Are you okay?
Is your body...healed now?
What did Kim Yoon Shik have?
Saying that he needed rest, and you wouldn't allow anyone to visit the infirmary.
You didn't prescribe any medicine or call the physician.
Well, it's fine now.
It's nothing serious that requires any medicine or physician.
I'll let it pass.
But, look,
you didn't leave a record of his pulse.
Why is that?
Interesting.
Keep talking.
Either, it's Professor Jung Yak Yong's negligence of duty,
or, Kim Yoon Shik's illness is something that cannot be left in the records.
Well...
His condition is one that can't be permitted in Sung Kyun Kwan.
It must be one the two.
What is it that you want to say?
It's just a scholar's pure passion of wanting to know the truth.
Has it occured to you that such passion comes with responsibility, Scholar Gu Yong Ha?
The medical records of students at Sung Kyun Kwan's confidential and other students are not permitted to access.
If you're discovered, you will be punished with ten lashings.
Teacher...
I should forgive my pupil for his mistake, right?
I admire you, Teacher.
I, Minister of War, Ha Woo Kyu, respectfully implore you, Your Highness.
Concerned about the harmful nature of the Archery Competition,
the late King Yeong Jo forbade any Archery Competitions for the future generations.
Please reconsider and follow your grandfather's wishes, Your Highness.
We beg of you, Your Highness!
Minister of War.
Yes, Your Highness?
Children who die before thier parents are consider as sinners, and so, their parents bury them in their hearts.
But if a parent dies, the children seek to find and hold onto their feet.
It's human nature.
Isn't that right, Minister of Justice?
Well...
I don't know what is the relationship between the 'Archery Competition' and a human duty, Your Highness.
The 'Archery Competition' was...
a hobby that my father used to enjoy...
with the students at Sung Kyun Kwan.
Consider it the filial piety...
of a son who is missing his father.
I am the king of a country.
Shouldn't I at least enjoy that luxury?
The King is really something else.
No longer is he the hot-tempered boy who, on his first day as reigning king,
announced himself as the son of Crown Prince Sa Do.
His heart must have weakened with age.
We can't even be angry that pleading face drenched in tears.
The Archery Competition isn't the problem.
This record is of His Highness' meetings with individual government officials over the last couple of days.
Jung Yak Yong.
After sending his favorite, Jung Yak Yong to Sung Kyun Kwan,
he announces an "Archery Competition" in remembrance of his father.
Then, everyday, he gives Jung Yak Yong secret orders.
I was a fool.
Professor Jung Yak Yong wasn't demoted from his government positon.
"Sa saeng Chwi Eu"
Did you say you'd "choose what's right even if your life depended on it"?
To be your pupil, Teacher, I still must be lacking so much.
Kim Seung Heon
The Golden Scroll..
and the Yoon Hee problem, that child...
they're tasks too difficult for me to solve.
Teacher...
Mencius's "Chun Jang Kang Dae Im Uh Sa In Ya."
"Chun Jang Kang Dae Im Uh Sa In Ya"
"Thus, when heaven is about to bestow a great honor on any man..."
"Thus, when heaven is about to..."
"bestow a great honor on any man..."
"his mind will be first exercised with suffering..."
"and his bones and tendons with toil."
What are you doing over there?
Ssshhh!
"His body is exposed to hunger..."
"and he is subjected to extreme poverty."
If you're that cold, study in your room.
Mother won't let me, she says studying literature is poison to a girl.
Then quit.
You won't be cold anymore, so it'll be good.
You're so weird.
Why are you telling me to follow my mom's wishes, without first asking me of mine?
I am not my mother. I'm me.
I'm telling you to, because you look like you're having a hard time.
I'm the fastest scribe in the neighborhood, thanks to this!
What's your name?
No, Yoon-hee. You-
..back today?
Kim Yoon Hee
My name is Kim Yoon-hee
Why don't you cut back on your workload, Mother?
Thanks to Yoon Hee, we don't have to worry about money for my medicine.
If your sister saw you, she would have worried.
Yoon Shik
People are funny,
thinking my kid would wear this. My bad eyesight doesn't seem so bad after all.
It must be for Yoon Hee.
Looking back, I've never properly dressed her.
All of her clothes have been....at such a beautiful age...
Wow!
Such a pretty color!
Mom, these would look good on Yoon Hee!
Kim Yoon Shik
"Jet black hair, with beautiful face", that Kim Yoon Shik is really Kim Seong Heon's son?
Hey, Professor Jung.
Yes, Your Highness.
I did think he was courageous and noble, despite his pretty face.
You know, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He must take after his father.
I must meet that child.
Excuse me?
The 'Golden Scroll' that his father protected, will his son now find it?
No, you shouldn't go, Your Highness.
No?
Your Highness, this nation depends on such an important matter as finding the 'Golden Scroll'.
Kim Yoon Shik isn't ready to be trusted with that task just yet..
He is just a young scholar.
You can help him though, right?
What's more, Kim Yoon Shik ...doesn't know his father's work.
You've never opposed me before this.
Since this advice comes from you, I'll follow it this time without question.
It's getting more difficult to wait until the 'Archery Competition.'
It would be best if you hurry and practice before the competition.
Hey, Big Shot is sickly!
Professor Jung woudn't send someone still sick out of the infirmary.
Isn't that so?
Do you want to win that badly?
Forget it, Big Shot, you look like death.
Until a decision is reached, no one must learn of this.
I'll practice.
Again.
Go to Sung Kyun Kwan.
Hey Kim Yoon Shik, you must live up to your name!
Again!
Kim Yoon Shik, you have been accepted to Sung Kyun Kwan.
Wasn't that fun?
That was fun!
It was the first time I realized how much fun the Analects of Confucious were.
Again!
Are you a girl?
Forgive me.
I've never had female as a student before.
You and your family have deceived the king, and disobeyed the rules of this establishment,
and won't be able to escape a punishment of death.
Again!
He's so torturing the poor kid.
He wants to win..
in order to be recognized by His Highness that he's skilled in both literarture and martial arts.
Cruel bastard! There's not an ounce of compassion in his body.
Again!
Geol Oh, that punk, gave up a long time ago on things like the Archery Competition.
Kim Yoon Shik is a total amateur who's having a hard time even holding onto the bow.
Do you have a plan to win?
I plan to let Lee Seon Joon do as he pleases.
What?
Giving up the victory to Lee Seon Joon...
Oh geez, geeeez!
I don't believe you would, either.
Of course not.
As he pleases, I'll have to let him learn with his body.
So prepare for it.
Yes, President.
There must not be even a speck of dust in front of the King's foot!
This is where His Highness will sit!
There must not be the tiniest scratch, anywhere!.
This meal is being prepared for His Higness!
There must not even be one speck of chili powder!...
Do you want to die?
Hurray!
His Highness is going to be visiting Sung Kyun Kwan
to see me, Choi Shin Mook.
But, sir..
Aren't you going to get the drinks prepared?
Pass.
Fail!
Pass--
Pass?
Fail...
Fail.
Look at me -
Fail...
Fail.
Fail...
Fail
Fail...
Pass
Really pass! Especially approved...
Today, I will be bringing my girls
and greeting you here at Sung Kyun Kwan, Sir.
You will be visiting Sung Kyun Kwan yourself?
Isn't the King visiting the Archery Competiton?
Thank you.
This is a special ceremony addressed personally by His Highness.
Please, make no mistakes.
Of course.
Cho Seon
has truly fallen in love, hasn't she?
It's that pretty faced scholar.
It's her refusal to give in. Her competitive nature.
Ever since the new Welcoming Ceremony, he hasn't visited again, not once.
In Cho Seon's life as an escort,
there probably has never been a man like him.
It's her refusal to give in?
Is there a girl who's simply refusing to give in with a pretty face like hers?
Stop.
I'll stop now.
You haven't even started yet.
It's because I'm exhausted..
I'm exhausted, that's why I can't do it anymore!
You claim to be exhausted so easily.
Kim Yoon Shik
All this time, you haven't held the bow properly, not even once.
How much longer
are you going to force yourself to practice the bow and arrow?
Why don't you think about looking at the target?
Hey Noron,
Is your head so focused on
how you're going to get His Higness to recognize you?
Is that all you think of?
Success. Power.
You don't know anything other than those things, right?
- You Noron bastard. - Senior.
An arrow almost went through his head.
Can't you see that this guy is afraid?
If, he walks away due to his fear now..
then he'll never be able to hold a bow again.
"Excuses and justifcations...
will never change anything."
Excuses? Justifications?
Don't use those words so lightly..
because to me, it was very important!
While you were out leisurely shooting your arrows,
I've never even touched a bow, as I was so busy trying to make ends meet.
You
You, Lee Seon Joon have no place to say that.
I am
from a Namin background with no prominent family name.
I can't even remember my father's face, and for that I am pitiful...
because I'm Kim Yoon Shik.
That's why I'm saying that you should seize this opportunity.
If you win the Archery Competition, doors would open up for you to become a government official.
So?
You're saying this is for my good again?
Do you know what my life has become because of you?
You,
you think the world will change only if you put your mind to it, right?
But actually, you have no idea how the real world works.
You're just a spoiled young lord.
Government official? Grasp the opportunity?
The opportunity you take for granted,
To me,
Is an impossible miracle.
A miracle.
Do you know?
Don't be such a know-it-all around me anymore.
Otherwise I'll be pressed to kill you.
Lee Seon Joon!
Hurry up!
Your bones shouldn't be injured...
But
as for the Archery Competition...
Oh my, how could this have happened?
I wish I could let you borrow my shoulder!
Over there!
Tell the kitchen staff that from today on, all soup served are to be beef leg soup.
Geez, really!
Can I participate
in the Archery Competiton?
Don't worry about that!
A default win is for times like these.
I'll allow you to go all the way through to the semi-finals, using a default win.
Professor,
the Archery Competition...
will be difficult.
Is there anyone you're suspicious of?
To go to this length to injure you,
is someone holding a grudge against you or something?
Who doesn't hold a grudge against Lee Seon Joon?
Yeah..
By chance, you aren't the culprit, are you?
I heard you were enemies long ago.
Jerk...what do you take me for?
Among us, Mr. Big Shot would have reason for the biggest grudge.
Didn't you see how intensely he was being trained earlier?
I would've even wanted to kill him.
Right, Big Shot?
Ah! My foot!
I was just saying...
Oh, but I'm really curious as to who it is.
Right?
So
I had Lee Seon Joon tied down?
Because I was afraid of that bastard winning the Archery Competition?
Me, Ha In Soo?
Is that what you're trying to say?
Well...
I'm saying that others might suspect you.
That's all.
They aren't brave enought to do that.
That guy wouldn't pull a petty trick like that.
And as for me,
I'm not stupid enough to do that.
If I wanted to get Lee Seon Joon, I wouldn't have waited this long.
I'm the Student President of Sung Kyun Kwan.
Do you think an amateur like him is my equal?
I could have his name removed from the register,
Or I can cripple him.
Scary.
What I want...
is for Lee Seon Joon to willfully submit and come to me himself.
I'm giving him the chance to become one of my men.
Cruel bastard!
So stubborn!
Crazy jerk!
Young Master!
You're going shoot arrows when you can't even shoot with your right arm?
Have you lost your mind?
Young Master, I came to take you back home.
This left arm..
Today is the first day it holds a bow.
Just like Kim Yoon Shik,
I plan to shoot "mol gi" with my left.
What's "mol gi"?
It's the highest level - five arrows are shot all at once at the target.
Such a show off.
Doing a "mol gi" on his left?
It'd be better off wishing for a miracle.
If you need a miracle,
I'll make it happen.
If I succeed with this "mol gi",
then, you, Kim Yoon Shik
will once again, hold the bow.
I plan to take part in the Archery Competiton
and in order for that to happen, I need you.
Young master!
What? The young master was actually hit by an arrow and fainted?
No. That's not it!
He went to practice archery..
when a pile of wood next to him...
Jung Yak Yong was sent to Sung Kyun Kwan by the King.
Why?
His Higness is giving Jung Yak Yong secret orders.
What for?
I don't know. I don't know.
I'm going to go.
Where?
To Sung Kyun Kwan.
Why go there?
What are you going to about the Archery Competition?
If you just stay here and do nothing, what's will happen?
What do you mean?
My brother is the Student Body President at Sung Kyun Kwan's.
We should give refreshments to the scholars practicing for the competition.
Isn't that what we're supposed to do?
Your dad head is going to blow already without you adding to it.
Father --
Let's do it.
I'll take care of it all.
No
What do you think Sung Kyun Kwan is, that you, a girl, would go there?
When will you grow up?
Sung Kyun Kwan isn't your playground.
Hey, Hyo Eun!
What?
You're the one in charge of everything
Father!
In Soo's family is doing this as a favor.
Of course! Okay!
It worked out as you planned. You'll be able to compete alongside Lee Seon Joon.
I thought you'd be happy. It's a surprise!
Don't worry!
With your skill, Lee Seon Joon is no match for you.
And on top of that, he won't have Geol Oh to help him.
That makes me feel even worse
Why is he risking his life, fighting without a chance?
Those foolish boys...
really get on my nerves.
The chancellor asked me about it.
The lights would have to be turned off for you to give up.
So today, please rest.
So, he's seriously bent on holding that bow in front of His Highness.
If he's a Noron, he should act like one.
Why's he making us Sorons his teammates?
We should have just broken his legs, huh?
What kinda of mess is this?!
So you're the ones who injured Lee Seon Joon?
We trust you to keep that to yourself.
Because you're also a Soron.
My mouth.
You want me to keep my mouth shut?
Why?
You know you're and embarrassment?
Moon Jae Shin!
I'll make sure that mouth of yours never speaks again.
If you need a miracle,
I'll make one happen.
What are you daydreaming about, Big Shot?
Ah, Senior
Senior...
why did you come to Sung Kyun Kwan?
Me?
For me...
this suffocating Korean society,
and this awful status system,
I didn't want to conform to it.
What can I do?
I can't have any concubines unless I pass the civil service exam. So, there's no other choice but to deal with this lifestyle.
I came to see Professor Jung.
Is he in the infirmary?
Please wait here.
"Yok Sung Gi Eui Ja"
Yes
"Yok Sung Gi Eui Ja" Next?
It's "Sun Chi Gi Ji."
What does it mean?
"For your will and your thoughts to become true,
first, you must acquire knowledge."
They explain the "Gyuk Mool Chi Ji."
Kim Yoon Shik,
Pass with flying colors.
What?
You passed this month's exam with flying colors.
For reciting it through without pause, you pass.
Also for your effort in preparation, you pass.
How do you know my name?
Your response on the exam on being a loyal subject...
was, frankly pretty sufficient.
Take this.
When I came to Sung Kyun Kwan
my teacher gave me that book.
It is worth too much for me to keep.
And in the future, you can pass it along to a smart student, as well.
Go out and tell them
for breaking the campus rules, they will each be deducted one point.
- Big Shot! - Kim Yoon Shik!
Big Shot! Hurry up!
- Make way. - Young Master!
Young Master, please stop him.
What will I do if he becomes deathly ill?
No one can win over his stubborness.
What are you doing here? In the rain and with those injuries?
I told you before, that if you needed a miracle, I'd make it happen for you.
I also told you already,
don't pretend you know anything about me.
Why...
why are you acting like this to me? WHY?
See!
Being a Noron son, the thing you tease me for,
is not pleasant or fun.
No one in this world can
choose his parents or be born however he wants.
The only thing that we can choose is...
Today.
How I will live it.
That's the only thing.
Didn't you say you were the son of a ruined Namin family?
You must feel wronged because the world has been unfair to you. You probably want to complain about it as well.
So are you going to spend the rest of your life feeling wronged and pitiful?
What do you know about me?
Yes, it is true that this world you're chained to in is an abhorrent one,
but to free yourself of those chains...
Kim Yoon Shik,
it's your call.
Everyone
is about to stand in front of their target.
No one can rid themselves of that debt
until every last arrow has been shot.
But furthermore, Kim Yoon Shik,
It is impossible to hit the target
with an arrow that's bent.
Hey, Big Shot!
I don't like seeing you lifelessly suffering this way.
Listen up, Big Shot!
From now on, if that bastard or anyone else
raises even a finger against you
Then, you'll use your fists.
Like this.
This...
Now it won't hurt.
Like that.
Hey! Big Shot!
I can't leave... no,
I won't.
What?
You can't expel me from Sung Kyun Kwan.
My name isn't Kim Yoon Shik,
but the exam that His Highness approved of,
that was most certainly written by me.
Also,
the person who ordered me to take classes at Sung Kyun Kwan,
was His Highness.
So then,
how is everything is my fault?
You insolently accuse His Highness?!
I am just merely asking what crime I have committed.
You said...
learning is for the citizens.
So then, is a girl...
not a citizen?
For girls, learning homemaking is enough.
Sung Kyun Kwan is
a place to cultivate those who will serve the public.
That is impossible for a girl.
Is it because
men and women are different?
Yes.
Then,
what happens if they aren't different?
If I, as a girl..
were no different from the other scholars,
then what?
What?
You, professor, said
learning should be questioned;
that the obvious things in the world should be questioned, did you not say that?
What is it that you're trying to say?
A chance...
Please just give me a chance.
For the first time in my life.
The world I showed you has disappeared and is now gone.
However,
if you ask, you will get an answer.
For the first time,
I've questioned what it means to learn.
Scholar Kim Yoon Shik, take the exam under that name.
For the first time in my life..
I have met someone who has acknowledged my talents.
This...
Now it won't hurt anymore
For the first time in my life..
I have met someone who has taken my side.
Please give me this chance.
Please let me question this world.
A chance to dream of a new world,
please just allow me to do that.
Subtitles by the dedicated fans of Sungkyunkwan Scandal at Soompi
Do you think a girl can even compete with men?
Well...
Give up.
If I become the Archery Competition champion,
will that be sufficient?
Champion?
Has he lost it?
Do you believe the bow is shooting the arrow?
Put me down, hurry!
Do it just thirty times.
Because then I'll be here to hold you down even if you want to fly away.
That we would be here together,
Even in my dreams, I really didn't even think about it.
There's only one solution.
Sung Kyun Kwan's Archery Competition will keep you on the edge of your seat!
He's injured.
Tomorrow, at the Archery Competition
capture the Red Messenger.
This is the last time I'm calling roll.
Yes, that's correct!
Due to Moon Jae Shin's absence,
your team...
cannot participate in Archery Competition.