Episode 1
Now, I'm going to tell the story about snow
No, to put it correctly, it's a story about people who live with snow
I'm going to tell of people who left and returned with the snow
Hana! Hana!
My name is Hana
It means "beautiful flower" My father was the one who gave me this name.
My father passed away when I was eight.
My father was not even 40 years old then
Father was a Korean living in Japan
And I grew up in a small hot spring ghetto
where many Koreans living in Japan congregate.
It snowed heavily in our ghetto during winter
Father!
I put my tiny feet in my father's footprints
I could feel the tiny me who was breathing in my father.
Father!
In that way, I become one with my father completely.
I loved my father.
[Book: Japanese-Korean Dictionary]
"Appa" ("Father" in Hangeul)
"Oppa" ("Brother" in Hangeul)
"Oppa"
I wonder if it sounds like that
"Yoon Suh Oppa"
"Appa" ("Father" in Hangeul)
"Oppa" ("Brother" in Hangeul)
Hana!
Mother!
Oh Hana!
How do you do, Appa?
Oh, you speak Korean quite well!
Ah, you're looking for Yoon Suh?
I guess he got really bored sitting in the plane for so long
I'll go look for him
Hana will go!
Hana will go
Oppa ("Brother" in Hangeul)
Yoon Suh Oppa
I'm so happy to meet you
I'm Hana
Oppa,
I love you
Yoon Suh!
Even now, I still remember...
The empty look in oppa's eyes when we first met
He looked at me with such sadness in his eyes
But I didn't feel sad
Father
Just like father
I was afraid oppa would disappear into the snow as well
Father, thank you!
Mother, I'm sorry!
I have a new father
And I have a new brother
My brother is called Yoon Suh Oppa
Your expression is a little too stiff
Please hold on
I'm going to start taking the photo!
Smile!
This is how we became a family
At the age of 18, as I walk through the door of adulthood
Hana's Auntie, I'm sorry ....
I'm here on behalf of your brother, You must feel some grievance.
Nothing of that kind!
We used to only have women here
Now that we have two gentlemen in the house, the atmosphere in the house is enriched!
Thank you so much
I should be the one saying thank you
Brother has passed on
Strictly speaking, we are really strangers
Hana's mother, who took me in, a divorcee with a daughter
She is a real angel!
I'm begging you, please don't kick us out
I will do my best. I will do my very best
Sister in-law!
Mali, you should make a formal greeting
This is the first time we're meeting (Standard formal Japanese greeting)
I heard that you're doing well in school
She can understand Korean well, but she can't speak the language
How old is your son?
He's 20 years old
He is so good-looking!
What is your name?
Sister in law, here it is ..
What is this?
Isn't this the guardian's stamp? What do you mean by this ...
Thanks to him, I've cleared all the debts here
I heard there's going to be new hot spring developments in the HaKoNae area
I want to go there to have a look
I will be there for about three to four months
Please help me look after this place
Me?
Hana's Mom! You trust me too much ...
I don't know if I'll be able to handle the work
Please do
Then I will definitely do my best!
Thank you!
Mother! Stop playing!
You've suffered so much and you still can't kick the habit?
You even separated with father because of this
How would you understand how your mother feels?
Living in somebody else's home
Imagine how frustrated I feel
Mother!
If you know Korean then why won't you speak it?
Do you think you'll become Japanese like that?
I'm not going to live like you
I will become successful one day!
Yes.. I know. I only believe in you, my daughter
Does auntie feel very cramped here?
I'm sorry, because I've moved into the room too
Of course you should know to feel apologetic
Such a small room and three people have to stay in it!
Me, the aunt, is still around
She's not young anymore but still happily falling into the embrace of another man
As if hinting to throw us out ... no way!
Pardon me? What did you say?
It's lucky you don't understand at all
I said Hana is as beautiful as your deceased father
Thank you!
My dead brother is so pitiful
"No, you can't"
No, you can't do that!
No, you can't!
I'm sorry... I'm really sorry ...
"Restroom"
Good Morning!
Welcome!
Be careful on your way!
I believe you will do well
Mother! Be careful on your way!
Stop!
Tardy ... Tardy...
Tardy...Tardy
No, you can't do that!
Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry up!
The teacher is here!
Yoon Suh, please introduce yourself in Japanese
Yoon Suh
Yoon Suh!
He doesn't know Japanese
May I do the introduction on his behalf?
"My name is Yoon Suh"
"I am 20 years old"
"I've graduated from high school in Korea"
"I came here to learn the Japanese language"
You know each other?
He is my brother
Brother..?!
I thought you didn't have a brother?
My mother remarried
Remarried?!
Another 20 and I'll have a thousand
Senior Jyu will be so touched!
I think your brother is a little odd
He's not like normal people
Yoon Suh
Yoon Suh!
Teacher ..
Yoon Suh!
Let's look out the window!
Teacher! Teacher! Teacher!
Return to the classroom now!
I am angry!
Look! He's barefooted too!
Doesn't he look like someone in meditation?
Is he dead?
Pull him up!
Stop it! Please let him off!
Don't be like that
Why flare up like that
Let's go!
Oppa, do you love the snow?
Hana loves the snow
Friends
Sorry..!
Oppa!
Debts owed from playing cards are still debts! This is not the first time
How can they claim it's card money? Isn't that so?
You said Maya?
School?
What wrong has my child committed?
Then I'll think of something!
I said I'll return the money!
Give me another month ...
Argh!
You scoundrels dare lay your hands on my Maya
You and I both die this time!
Oh my life!
Oh this is my final time!
I'll never gamble again!
I'll sell this and send my daughter to the university
What are you looking for?
Before your Mom takes away my brother's inheritance
I have to take care of it. Why?
Did your Mom say to spy on me?
So you're treating me like you're the owner?!
You should wake up!
Don't you know this new father of yours is seducing your mom because ...
he's after my brother's inheritance?
This new father of yours is plotting to steal the whole hot spring motel!
Don't you know this?
You've misunderstood
Father is a good man
Father?
What are you saying now?
Say it again ...
How can this be spoken from your mouth so easily?
Who is your father?
My brother is your father, isn't he?
Please give your blessings to my mother's new marriage
Tell me once again ...
Who is your father?
New father
Who is your father?
New father
New father?
You are a bad girl!
How can you be so thick-skinned
Putting this kind of a thing in my brother's house!
Are you crying?
You are crying! My Maya has been living like that for the past few years
You should be crying, too!
Get out!
Don't cry! Why are you !
Making such noise in the house!
What is that thing?
You really can't speak?
Are you not talking on purpose?
You rascal, you're looking down on me too?!
Clean up this mess now!
Move aside you bad girl!
That means I can go study in Tokyo even without a scholarship!
Of course! Once this deal is done we'll be rich!
See what a hard time I've gone through for you
You have to be successful, isn't that so?
You are my hope... My hope, eh?
Finally we got them, eye for an eye, yeah?
Oh my daughter, my daughter
Why are you here to squeeze with us when there is a vacant room available?
Then I guess I'll go out to sleep then
I'll go instead
It's so cold...
Why are you always disturbing my study?!
Oh it's so cold, cold!
Oh this life of mine!
Don't even have a place to sleep!
Mother?
Yoon Suh Oppa
What are you doing here?!
Bringing a stupid person here
Really!
There's snow on it! Really!
Didn't I remind you to hurry up?
There's no time to eat anymore
If you don't leave now you'll be late, won't you?
Where's my brother?
Brother?
If you have time to chase after that idiot every day
From today onwards, all the cleaning of the rooms will be done by you
Maya needs to study
Understand?
Got it?!
You heard that, didn't you?
You'll do all the cleaning of the rooms from today onwards. I'm busy preparing for my entrance exam
Do the cleaning up on your own from now onwards. I need to prepare for school entry
Why are the two of you like that?
What?
Why are aunt and you suddenly like that?
Is it because you're stupid and cannot understand the situation?
Although we rely on your family for a living
But even knowing that I'm busy preparing for my entrance exam
your mother still asked me to work when she sees me studying?
I did laundry and cleaning too!
Why don't you simply not study?
You're terrible at your studies anyway
Why does everybody set their sight on you?
I'm better than you in every way
Why do they look for you instead?
Do you know the pain to rely on your family for a living?
I..I didn't know. I thought you were living pretty happily
I apologize to you if you ever felt such grievances
Apologize?
Why are you apologizing?
After you've given me pain, what is the point of apologizing?
Did you think by squeezing in with us in that small room we will leave on our own?
Stop kidding!
Even though this hot spring belongs to your mother, now it's no longer the case
My Mom does the most work around here
The rights to this hot spring is in our hands
Why are you suddenly talking about who this hot spring belongs to?
Aren't we a family?
Family?
Isn't this your family?
What do you think you're doing?
Yes! New father and Yoon Suh oppa are my family!
Oh, so now your true colours are revealed!
If these people are your family then who are we?
Are we servants to serve your family? Huh?
Are we servants to serve your family?
What do you think you're doing?
You come back here!
What are you doing?!
Maya scored very well again in the last national mock exam
With your results, you should have no problem even if you want to study at University of Tokyo
Let's give Maya a round of applause for encouragement
I wanted to give you the questions for University of Tokyo, but another teacher beat me to it
Ryu Senior who is now at University of Tokyo has direcly mailed this to you
I heard there's going to be a snow storm this afternoon
so other than the people who are cleaning the snow,
the rest can go home immediately after having your meal
Maya please prepare well for your entrance exam
Didn't you bring any food?
I overslept this morning and forgot to bring my lunch box!
Let's eat together then!
Please eat this ...
You must be hungry.
Eat this...
You didn't even have breakfast.
Hana!
This is terrible! Something bad is going to happen to your brother!
This is infuriating!
Are you really deaf or are you looking down on us?!
You won't even listen to the teacher
Looking down on us, eh?
Lift him up!
It's not as if you guys don't know he can't speak!
I speak for him, you guys…
It's a cross pendant necklace.
No, you can't do that! That belongs to his mother!
No! That belongs to his mother!
No, don't do that! That belongs to his mother!
Oppa ...
I'm sorry...
Oppa!
Has Yoon Suh Oppa came back yet?
Who is the one following him the entire day?
I assume you've eaten, coming back so late.
Michiko-san,
don't worry, take your time to come back
Of course work comes first
Hana is fine
Everything is fine
Ask her to the phone?
Mother!
I'm fine
Mother
Brother?
Today?
Where are you going?
So you're simply looking down on us now, not even bothering to answer?
Today is Yoon Suh's birthday, as well as the anniversary of his mother's death
His mom passed away on his birthday when he turned 10
After his mom passed away, Yoon Suh seemed to be very miserable
Hana, will you show some concern to your brother for me?
Oppa ... I'm sorry
Mother...
loves you.
I'm sorry
You must be hungry
Eat this ...
Oppa ...
Happy Birthday!
Yoon Suh's mother left this world saying she'll be back when it snows again
So to Yoon Suh, snow represents his mother...
just like snow represents father to me
Despite the language barrier
I could feel Yoon Suh Oppa's pain and joy
Oppa...
Smile ... please
Oppa, please smile...
Please smile, Oppa
Oppa, happy birthday ...
Oppa... You're smiling!
You're smiling!
Oppa... you're smiling
Translator : rayndrop
Timer : Victory
Japanese QC : roujin
QC : ellegirl19
Coordinator : mily2