49 Days
Episode 1
Oh no!
What can I do? I'll be late for my engagement!
In Jung, what can I do? What can I do?
Get out.
- What? - Get out, I said.
Here.
Wear it.
Ahjussi, you want me to wear that?
It's an engagement!
Just for an engagement, I need to-
Go upstairs and put it on. You'll be late for the engagement.
Hurry, hurry.
Shin Ji Hyun, are you laughing right now?
It's so funny! Doesn't it feel like we're in a movie?
Only ten more minutes!
Oh my lord...
Isn't this ridiculous.
Are you okay?
You aren't hurt?
No. My heels.
What can I do?
In Jung, she's crying again.
Hey crybaby, stop crying.
Put these on.
Hurry up and put them on.
What about you?
Hurry, hurry.
We're right out front, Mother. We'll be right there.
Hurry up!
I keep stepping on my dress!
Better?
Hey! Hey-
What is this?
[Kang Min Ho] [Shin Ji Hyun]
My friend, Kang Min Ho - I am so envious of him at this moment.
Now the bride's father will speak for both sets of parents.
Please welcome him with applause.
I apologize.
At a difficult time like this,
I've been extravagant with my daughter's engagement.
As you all know, my company is my son-in-law's-
That kid.
Han Kang just came?
Kang!
The work given to Manager Kang Min Ho is so large.
That by the time he's done and arranges the marriage,
it may be one or even two years from now.
So I wanted to introduce them to you all.
Cheers!
- Thank you for coming. - Thank you.
Thank you
Hey!
Who comes at the tail end of an engagement like this?
I came, didn't I? Can I go now?
You'll be the last to arrive and the first to leave, then?
Hey Han Kang, at least give your congratulations before you go.
Hyung, congratulations.
Min Ho.
Yes.
President Jo wants to see you.
Kang, hold Ji Hyun's hand a bit.
Her dress is-
Why should I hold your fiancée's hand?
I'm fine!
Careful, careful.
You met that friend when you went to get your MBA?
He was an architecture major. He's brilliant.
I'm planning to put him in charge of constructing Private Space A.
If you're the same year, he must not have much experience.
During college, he received the Top Award for Architecture.
Go ahead.
Yes.
Yes,
it's almost over.
Now?
You want me to come now?
Welcome.
A box of cigarettes,
the ones on the right.
That's 2500 won please.
Have a nice evening.
Where in the world did you go?
Ji Hyun?
She went straight to sleep, of course.
As soon as the engagement was over-
Father, no.
President, what are you saying?
Dad, we just got engaged yesterday.
You want us to get married within a fortnight?
I told you I didn't think it all through.
Before things get hectic,
I should've thrown you a wedding, not an engagement.
But Father, we've already done the engagement.
What?
You don't want to get married now?
You don't want to marry Ji Hyun?
You know that's not true.
Then, it's set!
But still, how can we get married in two weeks?
There's so much to do!
This is strange. You've been inseparable lately, but now what?
He wants to make him one family quickly and officially.
That way, the resort development will go more smoothly.
He wants us to get married soon because of the company?
Hey! Does your dad care that much about the company?
You're first. I'm second, and third is the company.
That's how it is for Shin Il Shik. Don't you know that?
No, I know.
But even Oppa was shocked.
Oppa!
What's this?
Because of Father, I didn't even get to propose before having the wedding date set.
Propose?
Hurry up, Oppa.
I'm so hungry!
Why isn't there any food? Didn't you order?
Min Ho is here too!
Didn't you go to the factory?
Before marrying, I needed to pay my respects to you two.
You didn't even get our approval before setting the date, backstabber.
What now?
Five minutes ago you said everything was good.
Look.
Ahjussi, did you take out bay leaves?
I took out the bay leaves and put in twice as much garlic.
What are you doing? Take it over there quickly!
I just picked up the dish, boss!
Go!
Kang Min Ho,
that fateful day when you met Shin Ji Hyun
did you expect she'd be a girl to eat so much?
Fateful day?
Oh, that day when my heart almost became paralyzed?
In Jung, hurry up.
In Jung, what are you doing?
Let's go!
In Jung!
It's okay now. You're alive, it'll be just fine.
I'd like to go with you, but I have a meeting tomorrow morning.
Take care of yourself.
Get up.
Just like in the movie, right?
Totally like in the movie, don't you think?
Even as he piggybacked me down the mountain I wondered, is this a man or a ghost?
What?
You're still feeling guilty, aren't you?
What if I had died because of you.
Shin Ji Hyun couldn't die in that place.
Whose daughter are you?
If it weren't for Min Ho oppa, I really would've died there.
The reception hall is set, the dress is set, we need to send the invitations.
Now we just need to shop for bridesmaid dresses.
There are too many things to buy.
They're coming out! Oh, they're so pretty!
In Jung and I need to wear those dresses then, huh?
I'm going to go pick your dresses tomorrow.
Hey! How can you be so clumsy with that dress on?
No kidding.
This dress...
You two should wear it when you get married too!
All three of us will get married in the same wedding dress!
It's better than renting a dress, no?
You're making In Jung's room into a workroom, right?
Yea. While we're on our honeymoon, my mom said she'll take care of it all.
If I had come to Seoul for school, we all could've lived together.
In Jung, try it on.
No, I feel guilty to Min Ho.
It's not like you're walking down the aisle in this dress as the bride.
Shouldn't you be sleeping now?
Min Ho is really a spirit. How did he know we're not asleep yet?
There's nothing he doesn't know about me.
Going to bed now. Sleep well.
Where's the money?
No, that one.
Take out the money the boss left.
We came knowing about the money, so don't be stupid.
What're you doing? The girl isn't even moving!
We know the boss left the money here!
She must be crazy!
This!
Won't you tell us where it is? Do you want to die!?
Stab me.
Lady, do you have no fear? Standing up to two men?
I mean, if they're holding a knife to you, just give them the money.
[South Police Station]
Each of the thirty houses need to be unique designs, okay?
If you can't trust me, hire someone else.
This kid...
Why don't you start your own company?
- With your skills... - Do I have to do that?
Be your groomsman-whatever?
Don't do it, you don't have to.
Ji Hyun's naive, try to understand.
Who'll do it?
Oh yea, the girl you said you'd find after coming to Korea.
Did you find her?
What, in this small country you couldn't find her?
Shall I look for her?
It's fine.
In Jung, just a minute.
Hey, Han Kang!
We want to be surrounded by our most beloved friends while getting married.
Because you're Min Ho's favorite younger brother and my friend.
We're not friends.
Why aren't we friends? We went to high school together.
If we're high school alums, then we're alums, not friends.
Even if we were friends, I wouldn't be a groomsman.
Why not?
I already talked to Min Ho and decided not to do it, so go.
Oppa said that's okay?
Just go.
Hey Han Kang.
Do you still have regrets from that time?
What man has such a long memory?
I've forgotten.
To be honest, if we're going with regrets, mine should be worse.
Still going overboard.
What?
Taking thing out of context and going overboard as usual.
Yes, I'm not doing it because of you. Better now?
Han Kang.
If you're once a jerk, must you be always a jerk?
Yes.
Once you get married, I'll treat you well as my hyungsoonim (*friend's wife),
so leave it be.
He's not doing it, right?
Isn't Han Kang just a rotten guy?
How can a friend act like that?
Do you want to be like that to Kang?
What'd I do?
Don't you remember how close you were for those months?
How long ago was that?
Why does it matter if you call him a friend, when he doesn't think so?
How can you be a friend alone?
If you're friends once, you're always friends.
Kang hates you so much, don't you also?
- No. - Being an angel.
I dislike him occasionally, but I don't hate him.
If someone hates you, as a human being, you're bound to hate them back.
Why don't you hate him?
There's a reason.
In Jung you'll be late to work.
I also need to drop by my house.
Today's very busy.
I'll pay later. See you!
She'll fall over at that rate.
Property registration, birth certificate, and my personal seal.
I didn't forget anything, did I?
Nope.
But oppa, did you tell Kang that he didn't have to be your best man?
He hates being in front of people,
why would he want to stand in front of the wedding party?
He was like that in America, too.
He doesn't like people? Han Kang?
He's more complicated and scarred than he seems.
That's why he didn't want to do it.
I'll take care of choosing my groomsmen.
Make sure to choose that friend of mine as one of the bridesmaids.
Call me if you'll be done work by 4, so we can go together.
99% sure that won't happen.
Did you forget anything?
Oh, my cellphone!
Scatterbrain.
I'll go now.
I'll be going to Namyoungjoo by 5pm.
Once I receive the market price, I'll meet Manager Jung and complete the Hemi deal.
You've worked hard. You've done well finishing off what I started.
This is the start.
Yes,
this really is the start, isn't it?
I'll be going home from my meeting, so go home early too, Secretary Shin.
Yes, President.
Work hard.
I think this'll look good on In Jung.
Would a sexy look be better? What should I do?
Choose the one you like, Ms. Ji Hyun.
On your wedding, it's only important for the bride to be beautiful.
No, no.
I've chosen someone for her among my fiance's friends.
In Jung has to look incredible.
Then, tell her to come try it on in person.
Mr. Kim Jin Soo,
five minutes early.
[Danger: Accident-prone area]
Team Manager Kang, you're quite impressive for such a young man.
You know I'm getting married in a week, right?
How could I not know?
Give me at least four days before my wedding away from work.
Miss, miss!
Open the door!
Miss!
Why? What?
But it's me.
[My oppa]
Get out of the way!
What is this?
No way.
No. No!
Excuse me, excuse me!
Hey!
Miss, miss!
- Miss! - Excuse me, sir?
Sir?
Hey!
Miss.
What's happened to me? Dad.
We have to let the patient rest.
Ok.
Excuse me. My daughter... Shin Ji Hyun.
- Dad! - The car accident victim. Where is she?
Father.
Oppa!
Ji Hyun!
What happened?
Ji Hyun! Ji Hyun?
Ji Hyun!
You can't come in here.
Please save our Ji Hyun!
Dad.
Oppa.
It's me, Ji Hyun.
Dad...
Oppa! Oppa!
I'm going crazy.
Umma!
Dear.
Our Ji Hyun, how hurt is she?
She needs surgery.
What?
- Mother. - Mom.
How did this happen.
What can I do?
Excuse me!
You know me, right? You saw me earlier, too?
Hey! Shin Ji Hyun! Where do you waste your attention while driving?
He has died.
What?
- Dear? - Son!
- Dad? - Dad! Please get up.
You've lived well.
Let's go.
Where do I go?
This way.
What is all this?
What is that? Who are you?
Follow me.
Then, you...
You're the grim reaper?
Ah, how childish.
What century is it that you're still carrying around such old beliefs?
I'm not the grim reaper. I'm a scheduler.
Scheduler?
People are born with a particular destiny.
There are always reasons, but we can talk about that later.
Anyhow, making sure that people die according to their time is my job.
Yes, so isn't that what a grim reaper is?
I told you - it's not grim reaper, it's Scheduler!
Either way!
You're telling me I'm dead.
Yes. You're dead.
So you're here to take me away?
That's why you know my name?
No, it's not like that.
Today, my schedule was messed up.
You saw the man who just left?
I was waiting for him.
He was about to die from a heart attack while driving.
But because of today's accident, the attack came late.
It's what we Schedulers hate most, when our schedules get messed up!
But then why did I become this way?
Why isn't someone coming to get me?
Because the schedule got messed up today.
What?
You weren't supposed to die today.
I wasn't supposed to die today?
Every so often there are troublemakers who disrupt the schedules,
like the one who tried to commit suicide today.
Why don't they just wait?
Even if they want to stay, they can't stay forever.
How can you do that!?
Ah! You scared me!
How can I die when it wasn't my destiny?!
I told you it was an accident!
Exactly! How can I die by accident?
You're lying, right? I'm not dead, right?
Yes, I'm not dead. How can there be a grim reaper that looks like you?
Who says there couldn't be a Scheduler that looks like me?
Have you ever met someone who died and lived again?
Even if there were, they wouldn't remember us.
I'm not dead. There's no reason for it.
I'm in surgery right now.
I saw myself being wheeled into the operating room.
How can a dead person be operated on?
How can a living person see himself be wheeled into surgery?
We want to be surrounded by our most beloved friends while getting married.
Because you're Min Ho's favorite younger brother and my friend.
We're not friends.
Yes, I'm not doing it because of you.
Hey, Han Kang.
Yes, Seo Woo?
Why aren't you answering your phone?
Kang, Ji Hyun was in an accident!
Honey, what's going on?
Why isn't she waking up? When is she getting up?
Where's the doctor!
Just wait, dear.
See? I'm not dead.
Keep your mouth shut and wait.
- In Jung - Father.
Ji Hyun.
It's my friend.
I know. Shin In Jung.
Fiance Kang Min Ho, father, mother,
and Park Seo Woo and Han Kang will come too.
Father.
You came?
What happened to Ji Hyun? An accident? How?
Ji Hyun.
What happened?
Dr. Jo! My daughter... how is she?
She's in a vegetative state.
Her brain is almost dead.
Brain is almost dead?
Brain-dead?
- Mother! - Mom!
You're not to interfere here.
What are you saying?
I thought she just needed surgery.
Ji Hyun!
Ji Hyun.
Did you see?
Then what happens to me now?
Follow me.
Where are we going?
I won't put you on the elevator, so follow me.
Gosh, I'm getting sick of this.
How can you all act the same?
Can't you think differently at all?
Don't come closer.
I said I wouldn't put you on the elevator. Why are you running away?
Don't joke. Why would I listen to your lies?
Lies are the realm of humans.
Do I look like a human to you?
- Save me. - Ridiculous!
Asking me to save you.
Don't you know who I am?
Let's go.
I don't need you.
Who's above you?
What?
You said you're just a messenger from the nether world.
How can I believe what you say?
There must be someone above you. God, Buddha, whoever!
Sure!
I'm a pawn who takes orders from above,
but this is my jurisdiction!
Reporting, taking orders, making deliveries, this place is my responsibility!
A week from today is my marriage.
My mom and dad... I'm their only child!
Making me dead even when it wasn't my time, that's your fault!
There are always mistakes.
But for mistaken deaths, we don't force you on the elevator.
Is that the truth?
This is my 5th year as a scheduler.
In your neighborhood.
During that time, I've only seen two cases like yours. You're only the third.
Twice?
In that case -
when it isn't your time to die but you do through someone else's mistake,
there are two choices.
You just have to choose one.
What are they?
One is, following a scheduler and leaving this world.
Are you joking? That's telling me to die!
One of the others said they wished to leave this world to find new opportunities in the next life,
and walked into the elevator himself.
Really?
Who am I? A lying person?
All right, I get it. Don't come close.
What'd the other person do?
Chose number two.
What's number two?
Within 49 days, you must find 3 people who love you.
Then you can go back.
It's a measure of whether you're
a worthwhile person enough to send back to the world you've left.
It's not like 30 people; who isn't loved by at least three people?
Oh really?
It's the work of leaving the afterlife, do you really think it'll be easy?
Well, you said three people. You saw earlier.
With my mom, dad, and friends, I'm over three already.
You can't count family or blood type.
Why not blood type?
Because family will always be on your side.
But how can you prove it?
The person who loves you - their tears cried over you is the proof.
At least three drops of 100% pure tears.
It's like that?
You should've told me sooner.
You saw Min Ho, In Jung, and Seo Woo all crying for me.
You think all tears are the same?
Why are we here?
Look carefully.
What?
The tears of people crying, look carefully.
Those are tears of someone pitying the short life of her friend.
The lady next to her is consoling herself over the early death of her friend.
And that one is forcing out tears for the sake of courtesy.
There they are - 100% pure tears.
Where? Where?
So that's a real tear.
So that lady
truly loved the person who died?
Yes, younger sister.
Over there is the husband.
The one who died left quite a bit of life insurance,
the husband is sad but even as he cries is thinking of the future.
And there are two who are crying bitter tears.
Humans are quite complicated.
How do you feel?
I'm intrigued.
You're incredibly naive, aren't you?
That's my nickname - Naive Princess.
So what are you going to do now? Yes or no?
What do I need to do now?
Are you going to search for the three drops of tears!?
Of course! I'm different from that other person.
I don't need an explanation, just your decision.
So, I'm doing it!
Okay, follow me.
Always saying follow me.
Name: Song Yi Kyung
Age: 28
Grew up in an orphanage, graduated from university after studying hotel and tourism,
worked in Seoul Hotel for two years, was unemployed for a year,
then had a series of convenience store gigs.
Wait, just a moment!
Can't I write this down somewhere?
My memorization isn't that good.
She works 2am to 5am.
Write it down for me, I said.
Woah, I remember it all.
Don't live the same way you've been living.
But, must I really borrow her body to live?
Why?
She doesn't look good. That hair! And those clothes!
I don't know how it works in this neighborhood,
but in ours nothing happens for no reason.
Everything is related.
That woman and I are related in some way?
How?
What in the world were you thinking when you got in the accident!
I don't remember.
Then stop interrupting and listen.
Pay attention to things. There was a really big truck.
Mom, dad
wait for just a few days.
Min Ho, wait too. I'll be right back.
Wait until she falls asleep.
Don't be afraid, or scared, or think heavily about it.
Entrust her with yourself.
I am...
Shin Ji Hyun.
I am...
Shin Ji Hyun.
Oh my goodness, I'm about to go crazy. I totally look like a bum.
Participants of the 49 Days project will adapt to their surroundings. This is the rule.
A part-time job?
Just for 48 days. It's just for exactly 48 days. Can you do that?
48 days? Are you kidding?
But, where do I put the three tear drops?
It's right there.
What? My necklace?
Put it in there.
Here?
I didn't imagine that Ji Hyun could have ended up like this.
Shin Ji Hyun, what should I do?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for making you hurt so much.
But why aren't they crying?