I’m sorry.
I made you wait this long.
And…
I will watch over you.
I thought you wouldn’t come.
You really thought so?
I wished you would come.
Episode 10
I want coffee.
Ginger tea for me please.
I never thought walking on the streets could be such happiness.
I’m so happy.
So you’re sending the patient home?
I really wanted to try it.
What it feels like to send a guy home?
Go on in.
After you leave.
Didn’t you want me to watch you?
I’ll watch you.
I’ll watch you home. I’ll watch you eat too.
Go on in.
Be careful on your way.
Is my back the coolest thing?
I’ll let you see it again.
I’m really going in.
It won’t be funny the next time round. Just get in.
The keys to the rental place.
I know you don’t want to use your office.
If you need it, just use it.
What are you doing?
They’re collecting the rubbish today.
Have you been the one doing it all along?
What about Hye-Jin’s Mom? Doesn’t she do it?
It’s the same whoever does it.
Give it to me. I’ll do it.
It’s alright.
Give it to me.
I’ve been doing it all along.
Let’s just do it the same way.
Let’s go.
Did you sleep on the sofa?
Fell asleep watching TV.
This Saturday is sister’s birthday.
Was that what the call was about last night?
Should we celebrate at home or out?
Didn’t she mention it at the hospital?
No, she didn’t.
Hey, this is uncle, is your Mom around?
Hm, get her.
It’s me.
What’s wrong with your voice?
You’re not feeling well?
Should we celebrate your birthday with a dinner out or at home?
Mi Yeon wanted me to ask you.
Hang on. I’ll get Mi Yeon to talk to you.
It’s noona.
Hello.
I’m sorry.
Take care of your body.
If your illness flared up suddenly,
It will affect the courses you’re conducting.
As the faculty head, I’m in a tough spot too.
Take the time to get good treatment, stay home and rest well.
Books and other stuff, I’ll move them slowly later.
I’ll give them all to you.
Forget it, fella.
Why?
You don’t want stuff of a dead person?
Really! How can you say that?
You have ony have a few books.
That’s why all our juniors don’t look up to you.
Who?
You want to ask them one by one?
Just display more books even if it’s just for show.
Even professors may not necessarily have read them all.
They’re just there for show.
Having them there, who knows they may come in useful some time?
The computer’s new too.
It can still be used for some years.
I strived so hard to be a professor,
Yet they wouldn’t even issue me my credentials.
Life is full of unexpected things.
Let me.
I’ll drive you home.
Forget it.
I feel like walking.
I might return here again, who knows.
Let me.
Time just passes like this,
My love that was once passionate like fire, is also leaving
Everything is changing and my love too,
Little by little, becoming dim.
Time just passes like this,
He’s sick yet he still….
Can’t redeem your frozen heart.
Hye-Jin’s dad doesn’t like it too hot.
Can’t hold on to you.
Who says not?
My love, don’t leave me.
Just cook a whole pot of potato soup,
He’ll finish it all.
My love, my love, why do you make me weep?
My love, my love, why do you leave me in pain?
If all my wounds became my memories,
Can I love you again? Can I love you again?
Thank you.
Can we love and be happy?
Go Mi Yeon.
Put me down, this is so embarrassing.
I say,
You’re that sick and you won’t come to the hospital.
Call 119 or you can call me.
You don’t know my telephone number, right?
Shall I tell you?
Go.
The Moment you carried me, it’s all over between us.
So embarrassing.
Not heavy at all.
I’m very heavy, right? I didn’t say I was heavy.
So embarrassing.
Is the progress good for the plans in January?
Yes.
But it’s a little strange.
Why is it artist Yoon Won Jin included?
She doesn’t fit in with our main theme.
Why doesn’t she?
She is a very famous artist.
For this theme we have, she’s the only one.
All the participating works were done last year.
Duplicating one’s own works is too commercialized.
Even so, she’s still a famous artist.
No matter how famous, it doesn’t work if she doesn’t fit in our theme.
Make full use of the hall too.
Other galleries have daily activities in their hall.
Ours is just so wasted.
If it doesn’t fit in with our gallery’s image, there’s no need to use the hall.
Recently, how has Professor Hyun been?
Oh yes!
He’s no longer a professor now, right?
I heard he resigned.
When my husband attended an alumni gathering, he heard about it.
You didn’t know?
No. I asked him to resign.
He should rest well at home to recuperate.
Oh! Is that so?
Professor Hyun Ji Seok has packed up his stuff and left.
We thought you knew about it.
Welcome.
Why didn’t you come to the office, asking me out instead?
Just…want to treat you to coffee.
Why are you wearing sunglasses?
Must you wear it?
If I don’t wear it, I look too ugly.
Dark eye rings all over.
I was sick for two days, two nights,
But I didn’t lose any weight, I just got more dark eye rings.
This morning after I washed up, I sat in front of my dressing table,
I was so depressed.
He already left this world,
And here I was doing my make-up at the dressing table.
The saying “The dead one is the pathetic one”…is so correct.
Mi Yeon,
That guy named Hyun Ji Seok, go date him.
Don’t live together.
Don’t kiss and don’t even hold hands.
Just treat him like a real oppa.
You don’t have one so you don’t know how?
You should at least have a cousin-brother, right?
Just treat him like a cousin-oppa then.
And don’t let Tae Hoon find out too.
I don’t know as well, whether this is right or wrong.
After I went through it I realized,
What I said to you was all wrong.
Such a pathetic life,
You can’t just let it end this way.
To tell the truth,
A little…
I envy you just a little.
A guy longs for you even before he dies,
A little….
Actually a lot….
If he didn’t die suddenly,
Will he have looked for me?
Are you waiting for someone?
Yes.
I’m going for a quick lunch. Keep a lookout on my behalf, alright?
Take your time.
Yes. Thanks for your help!
Bottoms up!
Is it delicious?
Why don’t you eat a little?
Just a little won’t hurt.
Forget it.
I hurt after I eat. I’d rather just bear it.
A few days ago I passed by a SangGyeopSam* shop. (*grilled pork belly)
I almost went crazy.
I was dying to eat it.
But just the thought of how I’d feel eating it, I gave up.
So I just sniffed in all that smell.
I was almost tearing.
Who’d know that a full grown man can cry for food?
Whenever you feel like it, do eat more.
Well, it’s just SangGyeopSam*, right? Let’s eat it. (*grilled pork belly)
I’ll die if I eat it, fella.
Relax!
Good.
You’re about to enter into a deep sleep.
In your sleep, you will eat SangGyeopSam* (*grilled pork belly)
Here, let’s light it up first.
Place the meat on top.
The meat is being grilled.
Flip it around.
It’s almost burnt.
-Turn the fire down some more. -Turn the fire down.
Fragrant SangGyeopSam* (*grilled pork belly)
Dip it into sauce, add the garlic next,
Here, you’re about to taste this fragrant SangGyeopSam* (*grilled pork belly)
Relax.
Hyun Ji Seok, what kind of flavor can you taste?
I’m tasting the flavor of fragrant SangGyeopSam* (*grilled pork belly)
The meat texture is fresh and tender.
That’s perfect.
Good. Hyun Ji Seok.
You’re about to drink a cup of soju* (*Korean rice wine)
Feels great.
Mr Hyun Ji Seok,
Today you ate SangGyeopSam and drank soju till you’re bursting,
Relax!
Isn’t it all fake?
Relax!
Relax.
Uncle!
Yes, where are you going?
My friend asked me out.
Something is up with Mom and Aunt up there.
I’m off.
Yes.
Divorce is so rampant now,
So what if it was a love affair before marriage?
But this is unacceptable.
This is unacceptable but…
Nothing can return to the past.
Didn’t I say so? Her fortune doesn’t look good.
I just felt there was something wrong with her.
What? The reason for liking her is because she’s gentle and quiet?
That’s all because she herself did many guilty things.
Wicked girl. Kept us in the dark till now.
The phrase “I love you” I can’t say it to her,
So what if I expressed my love,
You are a fool.
You’ll regret if you leave,
I lost my long time dream
The pain in my heart, I can’t tell her.
I hate her and….
There no way to retrieve it, right?
No matter where I go, I want to get far away
Waved and said goodbye
The discomfort in my body made everything difficult
Say it out loud
The Moment of one deep breath, I gave all I had.
The only one that’s left is you.
Bury me with your pair of hands
Bury together the memories we both treasure
Even though I leave for far but you please stay
You get over here.
Including the traces I leave behind.
Like it all wiped away, forget it all.
How much longer, punk?
In the future,
Who will I sing that song with? Who with?
Hey! A full grown man, stop embarrassing yourself, get up quick.
Quick get up.
That song….
Who will I sing it with?
What will you think of after you drink?
A woman jilted by a man,
After getting drunk, thinks only of one thing,
It’s that man.
That jerk.
I'm Sorry.
I’m late.
Did you come from the school?
Yes.
Have you met sister?
It’s sweet.
How is it one piece of seaweed is not enough for me?
I need two every time.
You have something going on with the rubbish bag, haven’t you?
Where have you hidden it again?
Place it all at one place.
Here. Remember this well.
You won’t be coming to the office here anymore?
To a writer, is there ever an end?
Conceptualizing is also work, right?
Why? Are you afraid his wife will look for you here?
You’re not here, I’m so bored.
In the midst of writing my script, I need to chat with you to take a break.
You’re really not coming?
Until when?
Really! I’m hanging up!
Bad girl! Really!
Who is it?
Can you cover your chest with your hands?
I owe you one the last time, I’m here to repay my debt.
-Follow me. -Yes.
Excuse me, drinking so fiercely, will you be alright?
You’re looking rather weak.
If you arranged all the folks in the world by their state of health,
I’ll surely be ahead.
No matter how tired.
I just stretch my back and everything’s fine.
It seems like something very sad happened to you.
Can I ask what is it about?
No, you can’t.
From age 23 to 29, the boyfriend I had for seven years,
I heard he died.
I wasn’t this sad when I broke up with him.
When I heard he died,
It felt like seven years of my life just disappeared.
I’m a woman who likes chatting about the past.
I can choose not to eat but I can’t not talk.
When we broke up, the hardest thing was…
All that happened in the seven years, no one else shares it with me.
It’s because of that.
But now,
It completely disappeared.
So completely.
Totally.
It’s all because of that.
I know that feeling too.
You’ve had the same kind of love before?
No.
Then?
Being with Ji Seok,
Chewing on walleye pollock, playing…
Is all the memories of my 30 years of life.
If he’s gone,
What’s left?
What to do?
Those 30 years of memories, shall I share it with you?
Occasionally, you can share with me my 7 years of memories too.
Drink!
Good morning!
Drink up.
Isn’t the room cold?
It’s alright.
The window in the bathroom must be closed tight.
The wind’s the strongest over there.
When it’s too dry, the humidifier must be left on.
Just like a mother.
It’s day time, why are you here?
Aren’t you going to school?
I resigned.
I wanted to rest awhile.
Didn’t you come to work?
Go get busy. Don’t bother about me.
I, too, resigned.
Why?
Got fired.
Actually, I got fired too.
I knew it.
You knew?
You think I’m terrible at my work?
A professor in architecture reading this kind of book, it’s expected you’ll be fired.
It’s an interesting book.
Read it too if you have time.
Why we can’t forget each other?
Read this book and you’ll understand.
Is there something wrong with our brain cells?
It’s not that.
When folks encounter certain facts, they’ll use the left brain,
But when the impact of that matter is too big or unforgettable,
That information will transfer to the right brain which is in charge of sensory perception,
Then if there’s no way of forgetting it,
That information will transfer to our…genes.
The past lives in our sub-conscience,
Actually could be memories left in our genes by our ancestors.
Your grandmother and my grandfather,
They loved each other deeply.
So maybe that memory is left in our genes.
So…
We fell in love at first sight.
If it wasn’t because of grandfather and grandmother,
Then,
It must be because of the memory of my deep love for you and my leaving you.
That’s why that memory is buried deep in my genes.
I can’t forget you even if I die.
It’s not because I’m stubborn.
But because it’s buried deep in my genes.
So even if time passes, I won’t forget.
Even when I met someone else and got married,
Even had a child,
But I still couldn’t escape that emptiness in me.
I think this is the reason.
Well….the reason that it’s first love for both of us,
That’s only superficial.
After reading that book, everything became clear.
You’re a professor, after all.
Analyzing the reasons from the biological point of view.
You’re truly impressive.
I’ll return it when I’m done.
You hang on to it.
Take it as a gift.
Write a message here for me.
[Thanks to the Mi Yeon still living in this world.]
[13 December 2006]
[Hyun Ji Seok]
What’s there to thank me for?
Really thank you,
Thank you for being alive.
Hello?
Is this the car owner of 1367?
Yes, that’s right.
When I reversed my car, I knocked into yours.
It’s not very serious, just a slight one.
Scratched the paint works.
Oh, it’s not me who drove it today.
It’s my husband…
Where is that place?
Let’s shake hands.
Be careful driving.
There’s ice on the road.
Don’t stay too late. Be home early.
I’ll leave soon.
Goodbye.
It’s hazelnut.
Tae Hoon, did you know the hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree?
A hazel tree. It’s what we ate when we were young in the countryside.
It’s a little smaller than a persimmon.
So that’s a hazelnut.
And I thought it’s a kind of coffee.
You’ve never eaten a hazelnut?
So Tae Hoon is really a country bumpkin after all.
Where did you go?
Go in with me.
Go in.
Mi Yeon.
Just…
An injection….
Don’t they have an injection to open eyes again in 3 months’ time?
Get me that kind of injection.
Go get me that kind of injection.
Go Mi Yeon.
Go look for me.
Going to school?
Yes.
I’ll give you a ride.
It’s better I give you a ride.
I’ll wait for you in the car. Come when you’re ready.
This is not the way to the school, is it?
Don’t you head from here to the school?
Are you wondering how did I know?
This is not America.
There’s a telephone number on the car.
Once there’s an accident, call the car owner. This is Korea.
Haven’t you adjusted?
How can you use the car with my telephone number to come here?
Are you such a stupid person?
Others are very secretive when they have an affair.
How can you be this bad at it?
You’re so smitten by her,
Whether your wife’s telephone number is on the car or not,
You don’t even know?
Or is it that you knew but it doesn’t matter?
About your resignation, everyone knew.
I’m the only one not knowing.
She knew it too, right?
That’s why she stays here till late before she leaves.
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened. Just watching each other makes you guys happy?
While your wife who lets you do everything is at home.
Do you have a woman who’s happy just doing nothing with you?
This can’t continue.
In future, you can’t go anywhere.
Just stay at home.
You can’t go anywhere.
Mom, it’s me.
I found someone who will be good for managing your assets.
MCS Fund Manager, Kim Tae Hoon.
I’ll explain the details to you at home later.
If you act wildly,
I’ll reciprocate too.
Just settle it today.
Don’t even think about coming here again.
I’ve got your passport.
Let’s go to San Francisco as soon as possible.
Also, don’t bother to go to sister’s birthday celebration today.
She said she’s not feeling well and isn’t going to celebrate.
It’s sister’s birthday today, aren’t you coming?
I’m busy.
What about Mi Yeon?
She can’t go too, she’s busy.
Is she still stuck doing all the wrong things?
Welcome.
Please give me something to boost the energy of an elderly person.
Yes, this is good.
Please give me this then.
Why did you come back so soon after leaving?
Are you on vacation?
Mom,
Which side are you on?
Of course I’m standing on the side of my son.
Why? Anything wrong with Hye-Jin’s Mom?
No.
Hye-Jin’s Mom is not an easy person.
She makes one feel uneasy and she tortures others.
Not easy to deal with.
Mom should just sit on the fence.
There are only three of us in the family.
If it’s two against one, that’s too wicked.
I’ve never ever bullied her.
Aunt.
Didn’t you say you’re not coming?
Come on in.
Mom, Aunt is here.
Hello.
Come in and sit down.
Come on in.
I’m late getting here.
Eat this quickly.
I heard you were busy.
I thought you weren’t coming.
What?
Eat quickly. It’s delicious.
What are you thinking? You want her to break up with Tae Hoon?
I’m so angry, can’t I even make a noise?
Don’t.
Keep your mouth shut.
Hey! Uncle, Aunt’s here too.
What time are you coming?
You’re home.
Wash you hands quickly then let’s eat.
Ji Seok.
Sit down quickly.
Eat some first then go wash up. Sit quickly.
The meat’s soft. It’s cooked well.
No stench at all. Melts in the mouth.
Sit down. Eat then wash up.
Sit.
What’s this?
It’s for him.
Why take this out? Just eat this will do.
He won’t be able to sleep.
Enough.
Why have porridge with rice?
Just eat this will do.
He’s not feeling well.
The meat is fatty, hard to digest.
Don’t say that.
From the time he was seven, he could finish a whole chunk of meat.
Without taking any digestion pills.
You don’t know how much he loves meat.
Eat quickly.
Eat.
You sit down too.
Hye-Jin’s dad!
He already said to eat this, what are you doing?
I’m not giving him poison to eat.
Those who die eating, we pour them wine too after they’re gone. Understand?
Want a glass?
I bought a bottle already.
You have a glass too.
Yes, you have one too.
I really can’t take this anymore.
Really!
Leave her alone.
What are you doing?
Do we have to get your permission on what to eat?
A Mom can’t even cook for her son?
What? He can’t sleep at night?
I feed him with delicious food and you can’t take it?
That’s not what I mean.
No, then what do you mean?
How dare you treat me….
Even your son gives in to me,
So you do the same…is that what you mean?
Your family went bankrupt so you throw your temper at us.
He didn’t say a word to me, he bore it all this while, putting up with you.
I didn’t ill-treat him.
Don’t joke.
Your family had it all planned out that’s why you had to pull relations with our family.
Stop this quarrelling.
Ji Seok!
Have you resigned?
Then how is it you’re busy?
Do you have a lover?
An elderly lady told me,
Women above age 30 will be focused on one of three things,
Children’s education,
Or religion,
Or a man.
You don’t have a child to breed,
Do you have a lover now?
Meek ones, once they go off-track they won’t care about anything.
Stupid kid.
I’m sorry. I’m too mean.
I’m sorry.
What’s there to be sorry for?
No, Tae Hoon, no.
Don’t do this. Don’t do this anymore.
Mi Yeon.
What’s wrong?
Take me...
to a distant place.
Take me...
to a distant place.