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[Day of Birth, Year of Birth, Birth: Entered the World]
[You are born into the world with your happiest memories erased.]
[You say your life was never once blissful.]
[It's not that it was never that way.]
[It's only that you had forgotten about it.]
[The secret of birth...]
[You were the happiest seed in this world.]
[Episode 1]
Spring 1997
Give that to me!
Don't cry, Jung Yi Hyun.
If you don't get accepted into U.S. universities
you always can go to local universities.
It's difficult to get in.
Their academic curriculum is completely different.
This is unfair...
Why me? What did I lack that I didn't get in?!
I heard Brown University's assessment method is very strict. That's probably why.
Don't cry.
This is not fair...
My GPA is the top of class and I got perfect SAT scores.
Even the essay was most movingly written.
Not to mention the extra curricular activities.
Which criteria did I fail to meet?
Why am I being rejected!
Hey, Jung Yi Hyun, won't you be quiet?
Hey, you all needn't console her.
Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, Yale, Columbia, Princeton.
She got into all of them except Brown and is throwing this crazy fit.
But the school I most wished to get in was Brown!
I mean, I got into everywhere else, but why not Brown!
Shut your mouth!
Let's go.
We have to practice after lunch.
We only have a few days left before the performance.
I'm not eating lunch.
Why not?
There's one more AP exam left.
Of course, I should study for it.
Geez, she's so obnoxious!
Hello!
Yay!
We all lost, but how come only yours went up?
Did someone give you some inside scoop?
What's your total worth, Yi Hyun?
But, Yi Hyun, I heard yours is not a simulated investment.
You're really making investment.
Don't try to know too much.
You might get hurt.
It seems that she's very obsessed with money.
Who knows why?
She got admitted to several Ivy League schools.
She needs to prepare her tuition.
Why must she prepare it herself?
What about her parents?
I know.
But why is she always running like that?
She says she gets dizzy if she doesn't run.
If she walks slowly, everything she sees
gets stored in her head making it about to explode.
So she runs as not to see anything clearly.
Everything in sight gets stored?
Don't you know?
I heard she has a photographic memory.
She never forgets anything she's read once.
And remembers things from no matter how long ago.
Everything gets photographed inside her brain.
Teacher, I really didn't run.
Like this, I walked quietly without a sound.
Teacher, I really didn't run.
I'd appreciate a lightning speed calculation.
Teacher! Isn't this the results from the last mock exam?
The school's network system is temporary down and being repaired now.
Quick. Average grade.
It's 79.8.
Okay, other teachers may also find you to calculate their average grades.
Be sure to hide yourself well.
Yes, Teacher.
I'm really good at hiding.
There's someone named Yoo Sang Sook.
She says she's your mother's friend.
Do you know her?
Mrs. Sang Sook?
How do you know Mrs. Sang Sook?
She called to look for you.
So I told her to call back in five minutes.
Use my office phone...
Be careful, won't you?
Mrs. Sang Sook? Yes.
Really? Are you sure?
Are you sure that man is there?
Spring 1997, Chung Ju
Kyung Doo, is your mother doing well?
Yes, she's well.
You're alright, right?
Kyung Doo, I want a bowl of spicy seafood noodle soup.
Yes, give them a call.
I'll bring it to you after I'm done with this delivery.
Kyung Doo, take the overdue payment.
Yes.
Black bean noodles is here.
Hello?
What? You sure you saw it right?
Jo Pal Bok, that brat, showed up in Chung Ju again?
Hey, make sure you grab him tight.
I'll be there in 20 minutes...
Hello? Hello?
Battery! Battery! Battery!
Jo Pal Bok! Jo Pal Bok!
Jo Pal Bok, from now on, today will be your death anniversary!
Hey leave the noodles first!
Hello? Nurse Park?
I'm Seo Geul Yeon's son.
Seo Geul Yeon.
What's wrong with your ear?
Not 'rotten wrench' but Seo Geul Yeon! (similar Korean pronunciation)
Yes, Seo Geul Yeon!
Please get ready at once to operate on my mother.
I'll bring the money for her surgery within 15 minutes.
Mister! You cannot feign ignorance like this!
Being an adult, you really shouldn't be doing this!
Geez, this little girl.
What on earth are you saying?
Do you have proof?
Do you have proof that I borrowed money from your mother?
If you do, show me.
If I had borrowed, there should be an IOU.
Who lends money without an IOU?
Mister!
Maybe you are too young to understand.
Without an IOU, no matter whether it's $100 million or $1 billion, it's useless.
You said your mother is already dead.
I don't even know who you are.
Who is your mom?
Jo Pal Bok!
Jo Pal Bok? Is your mother Jo Pal Bok?
I'm Jo Pal Bok!
For a young kid, your head is muddled that you can't even tell that straight.
Jo Pal Bok! 600939157011.
September 17, 1988. Saturday 1:10pm.
During the telecast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony
you hurried into my mom's store.
You said that there were a lot of imported prawns from China
being detained by the customs at Incheon Port.
If you were to give the customs officer $10,000
those prawns would be entirely ours.
If the entire container could be sold to the wholesaler, in return
there would be thousands of dollars that would fill up an apple crate.
- That's what you said to trick my mother! - Hey, Student!
You had my mom withdraw money from her account that was almost full term...
If you want to make up stories, do it at home later.
You made my mom use her store as collateral to borrow $5,000 from loan sharks.
You took $10,000 in total and ran off!
That day, you were wearing a red shirt
with white polka dots with one button open, and white pants.
On the outside, a black leather jacket and a black wallet with a wrist handle.
I think you had more hair than now back then.
Since then, you were losing hair. Right?
You're not alone.
There's already someone inside.
Hey, Kyung Doo.
Once you get your money back
don't forget you promised to lend me $500.
I really was going to return her ten-fold.
I didn't deliberately set out to cheat your mother. I'm not that bad.
Then, why didn't you pay back?
It's not that I didn't pay back. I wasn't able to pay back.
So you weren't able to pay back
$50,000.
What? $50,000?
How did $10,000 become $50,000?
This little kid is playing with a grown-up.
So, it's not $50,000 but you indeed borrowed $10,000, then?
Of course, it was only $10,000.
What is it now?
So, it's not $50,000 but you indeed borrowed $10,000, then?
Of course, it was only $10,000.
Here we have it. A recorded IOU.
Why did you hit me!
I shouldn't have gone easy because you are just a kid. I shouldn't have.
Get lost!
Where are you going! You can't go!
Give back the money!
Give my mom's money back!
I've never seen such a leech before!
Money! Cough off the money before you go!
Let go!
Money!
Jo Pal Bok, you crook!
My mother is waiting on the operation table with her stomach open.
Give back my $10,000 right now!
Put away the sickle first and talk, Kyung Doo!
I guess he got a sickle.
Sometimes that kid is quite brutal.
This is exactly $10,000.
I have no more, so you can split it between you or whatever...
What's important now is that I have to go, so move...
I'll just go around.
What are you doing, mister!
You should hand him over to the police right now!
Jo Pal...Jo Pal...Jo Pal Bok, that scoundrel! Stop right there!
Move! Move!
That jerk! Stop right there!
Stop right there! Jo Pal Bok!
Mister!
You...
- You... - Mister...
Please.
- I...this money... - Did you see Jo Pal Bok?
What?
He ran off over this way. You didn't see him?
That jerk!
If I just catch him, I'll just chop his waist off!
Hold on...
Little kid. Little kid.
Did you come from Manchuria?
It's my school uniform.
School uniform or whatever. Money.
Pardon?
That envelope of money!
The money envelope Jo Pal Bok left there.
You left it there and ran out try to catch him.
Then what would become of that money?
Chung Ju isn't like before.
Go back quickly and guard that money.
I'll go catch that Jo Pal Bok.
Hurry and go back.
Hurry!
Jo Pal Bok!
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
I really need this money.
Since I came first, I'll take it first.
Mother...
Mother!
No... No...
No... This can't be...
It's nonsense!
Here she goes again.
No, this is a lie!
It doesn't makes sense.
Hey, Jung Yi Hyun!
This is really crazy.
I tend to talk in my sleep.
If you beat me up, I calm down.
If you don't beat me, I keep talking in my sleep.
Please hit me.
Hey, stop it. I said stop!
Jung Yi Hyun, do you want to die!
I'm sorry.
I talked in my sleep again, huh?
Hey, I tolerate this because I'm nice.
If not, I would've thrown a fit to change
my roommate at the beginning of the semester.
Are you going to sleep?
God, please make her human.
Hey, what time did you come back?
The dorm must have been locked.
How did you come in?
Teachers already found out you went out without permission.
You'll be subject to the student's court.
The punishment may be so severe that it may even affect your graduation.
Where exactly did you go?
By the way...
Has the overseas scholarship
assessment in your father's company been completed?
Why?
Well... just...
Is it over?
It's probably done.
But why?
You get scholarship from Dae San.
Why? Are they withdrawing it?
No, it's not... That's not it, just...
No. I'm only asking.
I'm washing up.
Just ask him to help you with just one semester.
It probably won't happen.
But, if there's no other way, ask for it just once.
[A Year Ago, Summer 1996]
Thank you.
What? Where did she go with the shop closed?
Mom?
Mom, why did you close the shutter while you're inside?
It's hot.
Aren't you hot?
It's not really hot.
Mom, aren't you happy to see me?
We haven't seen each other for a few months.
Aren't you happy to see me?
Why did you come?
Why did I come?
It's summer break. Today.
Ah... summer break.
What's wrong with this woman?
Did something happen?
What something...
Something is up.
Something is up, right? What is it?
No, nothing is up.
Nothing is wrong.
You're lying.
It's not a lie.
It is a lie.
Not true.
It is.
Girl, you grew tall, my daughter.
It looks like you've grown five centimeters taller.
Was school life fun?
Is dorm life fun?
Hey, are all your lessons really conducted only in English?
Don't you feel insecure?
Insecure? What do you take me for?
This.
Number one?
Of course.
Who do I take after that I'm such a genius?
Your father.
What?
You're a genius because you take after your father.
Who is my father?
Father? I have a father, Mom?
You said I was conceived by the Holy Spirit?
Perhaps in the future... Just in case.
[Identity card]
[Choi Gook]
[School of Veterinary Medicine, Professor]
[Han Gook University]
What's this?
Your father.
Then, this old man is the Holy Spirit?
What kind of father looks this shabby?
Do you know you talk so obnoxiously?
Don't joke around.
Who's this?
Your ability to memorize everything you see as if your brain takes pictures...
It's because you take after this person.
Although you goofed around in middle school
you were able to get the full scholarship to enter your current school...
Professor.
That's because you inherit his brain.
Jung Yi Hyun. Just in case...
Just in case... I mean such a thing probably won't happen.
But if you really can't help it, ask him to help you out just once.
No more than just once.
If in the future, you get into Harvard or Stanford...
but your mom goes somewhere or is not around, so you don't have money.
If that is the case...
This guy didn't look rich.
He looked shabby.
So just ask him for one semester's tuition fees.
Since he's your father, he'd do that much.
Since you're a genius, once he pays for one semester
you'd be able to take care of yourself afterward.
Right?
Mom...By any chance...
are you trying to change your life?
What?
Are you marrying someone and leaving me behind?
Did that guy tell you to come without me?
Is it not?
What? I can't believe my ears, I'm speechless.
I'm so thirsty.
I want to eat watermelon.
Do you have any watermelon?
There's no watermelon here all of a sudden.
Buy me one. Hurry.
I was dying to eat a watermelon.
Alright.
[Medical diagnosis Jung Joo Gyum]
[Pancreatic cancer suspected]
I so love the smell of paper.
The smell of books is so great.
So, read that quickly.
You said you have a test.
I want to smell the smell of book.
I don't want to. It's annoying.
You're so mean, my daughter.
They're all in English.
You cannot even understand it.
Please read it aloud to me.
I like listening to you saying things in English.
It's because your English pronunciation is countrified
and you're embarrassed right?
Ah... that is awesome, my daughter.
You do that so well!
How did I give birth to such a smart daughter?
Why are you crying?
Don't cry and read it to me.
This is a really sad book.
You don't even know what it is.
Student!
Mother! Mother!
What have you done for me that you're leaving already?
Have you bought me nice clothes?
Have you made me delicious food to eat?
I grew up alone because you were sick.
What have you done for me, Mother?
I spent all my hard earned money on your medical expenses.
Then you should've become healthy made me some simple food.
How can you leave like this?
So shamelessly.
Mother...What have I not done for you?
I gave up my studies and worked in the factory to bring home wood
so that you can sleep in a warm room.
Hey punk, did you drop out of school to make money?
You got kicked out of school, so you went to work in the factory.
And your family kiln uses coal.
What are you saying about bringing wood?
Mother, actually...
Take this punk with you too on your way, Mother.
Mother! Mother!
What have I not done for you?
If there's anything, say something, Mother.
They said not to operate on you, but you kept insisting on surgery.
So I tried so hard to let you undergo operation.
That damned female student...
We will lower the coffin now.
Hey!
Yes.
The girls.
Girls?
Where?
I don't know whether she's a middle school or high school student.
But she said she wasn't from Manchuria.
Find out where girls wear school uniforms that looks like a hanbok.
Come on, Sun Young.
I'm against that plan.
Hey, what's a friend good for?
You're asking me to lie to our teacher.
My conscience will absolutely...
Allow it.
Sun Young!
But there's a condition.
I'm sorry my friendship isn't unconditional...
Right, right.
Manchuria girls school uniform.
They all look the same.
Then, I will count on you, my friend.
I will count on you too, my friend.
See you later.
No. Since Jung Yi Hyun left school without permission
she cannot be granted leave.
Teacher, do you know where Yi Hyun went?
All of a sudden, she missed her mom so much.
Her mother's death anniversary is coming up soon
so she's been having a hard time.
It's been a long time since she visited her grave too.
So she said she just left without thinking.
Still, she should've requested for a leave.
After all, I'm Yi Hyun's best friend.
Leaving Yi Hyun alone in the dorm and going home myself...
It really makes me sad, Teacher.
What are they saying?
You're going home today, right?
Yes, why?
Your home is in Seoul, right?
Yes.
Sun Young lives in Seoul too.
Yes, I know.
Sun Young's parents will be sending someone to fetch her.
Let's go together.
I already bought an express bus ticket.
Hey, you can cancel that.
First, let's go together and return to each of our homes.
Let's meet up tomorrow have dinner, watch a movie and have fun together.
Hey, Sung Young is a really nice girl.
Good looks, nice family, smart...
What does she lack, that girl Sun Young?
You know what I mean, right?
Jung Yi Hyun.
Yes, Park Soo Chang.
Don't do it.
What?
Don't say such a thing to me ever again.
Do you understand?
Park Soo Chang.
This is a very important matter to me too, so please help me out.
I need to leave school with Sun Young.
Then, will you come back here with me?
What?
When we come back on Sunday, come with me, on the bus.
Just the two of us.
I didn't hear it. I didn't hear anything.
I don't know that kind of scary story.
Do you have a crush on me?
If you do, you're dead.
You really... If you really are, you're dead meat.
What? Why are you laughing?
Why are you laughing like a criminal?
I hate love triangle.
Just because you are a little good-looking, if you try to test the Sun-young
and my friendship, you're dead meat.
Hey, walk straight. Watch out!
You're really unstoppable, Jung Yi Hyun.
What the heck are you doing?
I just need to cancel the ticket and go to Seoul in Sun Young's car, right?
See you later then.
That punk... Park Soo Chang...
Looking at him closely, he's unbelievably handsome.
Geez, my heart...
Let go.
I came to catch a scamming girl.
You need an advanced permission for school visitation.
Go back for now and make an appointment, I said.
Which country's law is this that doesn't allow me to visit a school as I wish?
Soo Chang.
Take Sun Young's car and go first.
I'll take the bus. Okay?
What?
Hey, you!
I just don't need to go into school, then.
I can just stand outside, right?
What are you looking at?
Aren't you going to go over there?
Please take me to the bus terminal.
You'll lend me $700, right?
What's the use of you coming with me here when you were no help at all.
You're going back on your word, you punk.
You said if I gave you the list of schools with Manchuria uniform
you'd lend me $700.
I can only lend you after I get back $10,000 from that girl.
Where do I get $700 from nowhere?
No matter how many green things are out there
can't I tell the difference between cabbage and money?
Can't I tell if money is triangle shaped or rectangle shaped?
Geez, for mere $700
you're trying to break off your friendship with me.
Let's say that scamming girl learned
how to scam people from a genius school and practiced it on you.
You're just bad, why are you trying to cheat your friend?
How is this society really going around?
That school raises the next generation of cheaters, huh?
All the scammers in this world are all smart anyway!
She must have some reason.
A girl who attends such school must have some reason.
What reason?
Are you currently being appointed as a leader of the scammer rights group?
This school is quite something.
The kids are something and the class is something...
Their parents must dance for joy because of their children everyday.
Had my mother ever danced in joy because of me?
Probably not, right?
She must have some reasons.
What would a kid who goes to such school be lacking of...
Mother...
Jo Pal Bok, that dammed jerk!
My mother is waiting on the operation table with her stomach open waiting for it.
Give me back my $10,000 right now!
This bus to Seoul is about to take off.
Seoul? Aren't we going to Chung Ju?
I'm going to Chung Ju...
Does this go to Seoul?
Hey, punk, this doesn't go to Chung Ju.
I guess this is where our fate ends.
Why aren't you getting off?
Didn't you say you're going to Chung Ju?
The bus is going leaving.
Get off, punk!
Now, have fun and see you later!
Come on, I have to go.
Soo Chang, turn around.
Turn around.
You look good together.
What is it?
I really have to go.
Have fun until late at night. Okay?
Sun Young, see you tomorrow.
Hey.
What else is left?
Shall we ride the merry-go-round?
Yes, sure.
Tell me where I did wrong, I'll resubmit it with the corrections.
Chapter 1 of main document
pages 32 to 39, there are 4 paragraphs used without citing the sources.
The entire Chapter 2 is at a rubbish level basing its data from Texas State
University's Professor Burzynski's team's data which started its research
in 1989 and discarded in 1992.
And Chapter 3 terribly plagiarized from the paper I had published.
There are more, but for the sake of time, I'll stop here.
Please leave.
That's why he can't get married and lives alone.
Such a nasty man.
You were so focused at your work, so I had been just waiting here.
Who are you?
My name is Jung Yi Hyun.
Who is that?
I don't know where to begin telling you, but let me just say it.
I am you, Professor Choi Gook's... biological daughter.
Our DNAs probably match as well.
Please contact me when the analysis result comes out.
There's something I must tell you.
Jung Joo Gyum.
You may not remember, but that's my mother's name.
Look here.
Jung Joo Gyum?
Yes. Do you know her?
Are you saying Jung Joo Gyum is your mother?
Yes.
And you're her daughter?
Yes, I am.
Since you didn't know she was pregnant with me
you probably can't even imagine I was born and grew up this much.
I have no regret if you still continued not knowing about me.
But there was a reason I had to come and find you.
When the test result is out, please contact me.
Then...
I won't do that kind of silly test.
Try doing this.
You can't do it?
What about this, Professor?
General zoology. Diagnosis experimental theory on zoology. Soil zoology research.
Surgical microbiology.
Anemology.
Shall I go on? I can recite everything.
If you want, I will do them all.
You can stop.
For me, this meeting is a lot worse that I've imagined.
So I don't think I can do it again.
So now, I'd like to just say what I came to say and leave.
I'm going to college this fall.
To America.
Originally, I was supposed to receive a company scholarship.
Because I changed my major, I can't get the scholarship.
That company only sponsors tuition fees to students
who major in top-notch science and technology.
So, I have to come up with the money on my own.
With $4,000 from mom's account and $5,000 from my stock investment
I don't know how much I can earn before enrollment
but it definitely won't be enough.
Please just make up for the difference for my first semester's tuition.
I'm not asking you to just give it to me. I'm asking you to lend it to me.
I will definitely pay you back.
Before Mother passed away, she clearly ensured me.
When it's absolutely necessary
look for you to help me for just one semester.
Just in case you mistake my mom and I for some kind of gold diggers.
So let me repeat.
I'll certainly pay you back, even unto my death.
Is Jung Joo Gyum dead?
Pancreatic cancer.
Please contact me.
Since I have to come up with a backup plan
call me as soon as possible.
Hello?
I'm an employee from Dong Ban bookstore.
You left your bag in the store, Professor.
I had to find the owner
so I'm sorry I opened your bag to take a look.
Your ID card was in there.
Then, have a nice day, professor.
Professor!
Oh my!
The heater is too close!
You almost got into trouble.
No matter how immersed you were in your studies
did you not even feel the heat?
This smoke! The smell!
What to do?
Please keep that mouth of yours close.
Please be quiet... Please...
That's it. You did well, Jung Yi Hyun.
You were going to confront it at least once sometime.
You did well. You did a good job.
Yi Hyun!
How are you?
How did you come?
I took a leave. I have to go back to school tomorrow.
I see.
This is good.
Your bookstore is about to be sold, so I was wondering how to contact you.
Sold?
I heard someone is buying over.
I see...
Are you disappointed?
No. There's nobody there anyway.
By the way...If the store is sold, could I get the security deposit back?
You haven't been paying the lease all this time.
The deposit ran out a long time ago.
Still, the landlord is nice, he didn't ask you to pay it up.
I think he's thinking about applying
the key money after selling off the bookstore.
I see.
Before you go tomorrow
why don't you pack up things to take with you?
And the bigger stuff can be kept here in our office temporarily.
Mom. I'm going to forget all our poor life here.
I'm going to be a different person.
Cool person.
A great and intelligent grown up.
I'll make a lot of money and become rich.
Not just a rich person
but a worldwide tycoon like Warren Buffet.
Not just an ignorant rich person with a lot of money
but a refined rich person with dignity.
A rich person who contributes to the society.
When my genius daughter gets an admission from Harvard
I can't be a mother who is unable to afford it.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not blaming you.
I'm really not blaming you, Mom.
Mom... Because you did all that you could for me.
I grew this smart, pretty, and fine.
That's the proof.
Look here. You shouldn't be lying here.
She's been lying here like this from some time ago.
Then, is she dead?
Someone please call 911.
Miss, wake up.
Her eyes are open.
Are you alright?
Who are you?
Why were you lying here?
You could've been in trouble.
Are you sick? Are you alright?
I must be crazy.
I was talking in my sleep so much.
Am I even sleepwalking now, Jung Yi Hyun?
What's really wrong with me?
Are you all right?
Excuse me. Isn't this Uijeongbu Howon-dong?
That's right.
That's right?
Have I really lost my mind?
Excuse me, where's the restroom?
What's this?
The nursing room is over there.
Excuse me?
If you walk out of here and turn a corner, you'll see the nursing room.
I guess it's time to feed your baby.
What did you just say?
About what?
'Feed your baby'?
It seemed like it's leaking. Even now...
What's wrong?
Ma'am.
Yes.
What year is this?
It's year 2007, don't you know?
It's 1997!
Ma'am!
Why isn't your mom coming?
She didn't even take her phone.
Our baby must be hungry.
Say, 'Mommy, come home quickly.'
'Come quickly.'
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Sun Young!
Do you think Sun Young would be happy after what she did to you?
Oh my! I'm nervous.
I came because I wanted to find out about my relationship with Yega Group.
Do you really have to give me this much pain?
Mr. Hong Gyung Doo, I won't be coming back.
What on earth is she saying now?
Is she trying to die?
Yoon Hee, it's because I can't live without you.
Because I have no reason to live...