New Tales of Gisaeng
Episode 18
Get in.
I have something to say to you.
I have nothing to hear.
Don't make me come again and ring your doorbell.
Come to that bench over there.
Why are you looking so pale?
Were you sick?
I thought there would be no reason to see you again.
I received the card.
You're going into practice, aren't you?
Just get to the point.
Come and be my family's adopted daughter.
My parents always regretted not having a daughter.
They wanted to have a daughter after me, but things didn't turn out as they wanted.
You don't necessarily have to live with us, so you can just come and go without feeling burdened.
And start graduate school too.
I'm not telling you to make your decision now.
I know you probably hate me,
but do it for grandmother's sake.
Grandmother passed away.
I know.
I put away my resentful feelings, for the sake of grandmother.
I'll give you an answer now.
Thanks for the words.
You don't want to?
What kind of response were you expecting?
You really don't know me?
I thought you got past hating me.
You are outrageous until the end.
And you disappoint me to the very end.
Think about it wisely. You have nothing to lose.
I am not going to calculate what I gain and what I lose.
I am just going to be like a human. Tricking someone, or playing with someone then betraying them.
Without any of that, I'm going to live as just average Dan Sa Ran.
Dummy.
A dummy is
better than a person who makes a toy out of me.
Let's be brother and sister.
I'll be a good brother and work hard not to disappoint you.
Why?
I know I was wrong, too.
Did it bother you?
There isn't any need for that.
This is the best that I can think of to do for you.
I don't expect anything.
Don't just say no.
It depends on how you view it.
We didn't cross any lines. We started cleanly and ended cleanly.
That's right. We're over.
We're over as female and male. But, let's be older brother and younger sister now.
I don't even want to think about it.
I want to do that.
Why?
For whom?
Because I can't live if I don't see you.
We are a pottery that has been shattered already.
If it was just a chip or two, we might possibly have become brother and sister.
But it's been shattered completely into powder.
Not seeing each other, is the only answer.
I've left the feelings of resentment, but there is no other feeling left either.
I don't want to see you again. Really.
Don't lie.
If you didn't have any feelings, then why didn't you answer the phone yesterday?
If you didn't have an ounce of resentment left still, there wouldn't be any reason not to answer my phone.
There wouldn't be any reason not to be brother and sister with me!
Dan Sa Ran.
I got it.
I'm sorry!
I won't come looking for you again.
You really can't read my heart?
Do you know my heart?
You must have been stressed.
I'm all knotted, aren't I?
I'm fatigued from carrying out a funeral.
Sit down.
Why?
Let's bring Ra Ra in.
What are you talking about?
Let's expose the truth and bring her here.
Are you in your right mind?
Too much so.
Yeon Saeng says he wants to find work in the U.S.
I'm going to have to live with Ra Ra.
Aren't you even thinking of Ra Ra?
Did we live as strangers?
All we have to do is take the "little" away from "little father" (uncle) and "little mother" (aunt).
We aren't poor or anything like that.
We just need to make her life more enjoyable than it is now.
Because of grandpa, she can't do whatever she wants, and she's always so short on spending money.
It's not that bad.
To be honest, is your brother tenderly, or is sister-in-law an amiable person?
They are so strict and concerned with etiquettes.
Sister-in-law seems so cold.
Do you know how often my heart would ache?
Veal tenderloin.
How would you like your meat cooked?
Medium, please.
That uniform looks good on you.
Can't you sit for just a moment?
I can't.
What do you want to drink?
It's always orange for me.
Do you get anything if sales go up?
If you do get something, then we'll order wine.
There isn't anything.
Then orange juice for everyone.
Poor thing.
Didn't she used to live okay a long time ago?
She dressed well freshman year.
How did she become like that?
I don't know the exact details either.
But I heard that their restaurant went under.
Why?
That waiter back there's name is Gu Sa Chi.
It doesn't matter because he's a guy.
My aunt's name was originally Shim Bang Suk.
Shim Bang Suk?
But it was so tacky that she changed it to Hyo Ri.
Your auntie... she is really one of a kind.
If you want to call it in nice terms, she is one of a kind.
I'll take care of everything, so don't worry.
Just help me with a word or two when your mother or sister-in-law start saying something to me.
I'm worried about Ra Ra.
Is she a child? Her father's a doctor, you're a doctor.
No, wait, her real father is you.
It may be a bit shocking at the beginning.
Ra Ra, more than anyone, has the right to know the truth. What if when she is old,
She finds out that her uncle and aunt were her real parents. How do you think she would feel?
She will have lived her whole life tricked.
If it were me, I would jump like a crazy person, from being so furious.
My mom's friend is a travel agent.
This is something that happened on a European tour.
I think she said that he first stopped in Paris.
On the day that he was going to the next country, the tour bus guide asked if anyone had forgotten anything.
Suddenly, the grandfather sitting in the back of the bus,
He was there with another grandfather friend, and with his broken pronunciation, he goes,
Stop the car.
He left his dentures at the hotel.
And he didn't have any time, because he had to get on the plane,
He told the hotel to send it to his address in Korea.
And his sons and daughters upon receiving the package were in a frenzy.
A seventy-something year old elderly man left,
And instead of a person, only dentures came back.
They thought he passed away.
My grandfather died,
and here I am laughing like this.
Give up on finding the child.
While looking for the child,
your father ended up like this.
And stop meeting Han Soon Deok.
It's all because of Han Soon Deok.
Certainly,
all she had to write was one word saying it was our bloodline.
Why did she not write that one word and now,
Because of it, your father couldn't live out his full life.
Tell her not to appear before us again.
Charles?
Tell Sa Ran to make breakfast.
Are you sick?
I feel like I was beaten up all over.
Why, I'll just do it.
Why you, dear?
Sa Ran worked into the middle of the night and she's probably tired.
But you're still the heart-patient regardless.
She's young and has been a dancer her whole life,
What's so hard about making some breakfast?
Hurry up and go tell her.
Hey, Gong Ju's mom is achy.
You're going to have to make some breakfast.
Okay.
You're making breakfast?
Mm-hmm.
Grandma.
Don't just stay at home. Go out and meet some friends.
To tell them what great things? To go and brag to them that I'm a widow now?
Tell Sa Ran,
Yes.
To come eat with us once.
She tended to grandfather's passing.
We should tell her we're thankful.
Don't worry about it, dear.
Tell her to come over tomorrow for lunch. Or dinner.
She's busy. She's almost always at practice in the mornings.
And at 3 in the afternoon she works part-time.
What kind of part-time work?
She's a server in a restaurant.
For such a youngster, she sure has it hard.
Or buy her a bag. She doesn't have anything designer.
Ow, my back.
Do you want me to buy you a menthol patch?
We have some.
Let's just see how long you can endure.
Gosh!
Oh, my head!
It feels like my head's about to fall down.
And I have to make the kimchi today, too.
Why don't you buy the cabbage and try making it?
You can miss practice for just one day.
I don't think I can make kimchi though.
I heard that you made it when your mother was ill.
Don't just run the clothes in the washing machine.
Pre-scrub them.
Honey.
Yeah.
Dear, you should just be lying down resting.
In whose lifetime?
Sa Ran, see you later.
Yes.
Come on in.
Grandmother went out somewhere for a bit.
Where to?
She couldn't digest so she is out walking.
With mother and everyone?
Dad said he was going to be a little late.
Would you like something to eat?
We're fine. Sit down.
Later.
Ra-Ra.
Is there something wrong?
This is about you.
And it's about us, too.
We need to first talk to the elders, and then talk to her.
If we did that, would they tell us to go ahead?
Contain yourself as you hear this.
You might be shocked by this. But it is also a matter of how you look at it.
Did I contract some disease?
It isn't anything like that.
Then what is it?
Do you love your mom and dad?
Of course.
What about us?
We're all family.
Ra-Ra,
The person who gave birth to you isn't your mother, it's me.
What are you saying?
Exactly what I just said.
That I gave birth to you.
Before, it was explained
that your mother and father had a shotgun wedding.
When brother-in-law and sister-in-law got married in February,
You were in my womb.
Before sister-in-law was married, there was a problem with her uterus.
She had one of her tubes removed.
The doctor said her chances of getting pregnant were fifty-fifty.
Grandfather told us that when the child is born,
whether it was a daughter or son to do that.
So without any choice,
I wasn't allowed to even see you until you were five years old.
I...
Do you know what gut-wrenching pain is?
A pain that feels like your intestines are getting cut off.
That's what I went through after sending you away.
Is this true, Uncle?
Yes.
How could we make this up? And be struck down?
Therefore,
We aren't you aunt (little mother) and uncle (little father).
We're your real mother and real father.
Impossible.
We couldn't do anything because of grandfather,
and twenty-five years have gone by.
Think about my actions, expressions throughout the past.
Something was different, wasn't it?
If you can't believe it, from 1987,
I'll show you the ultrasound picture taken June 3rd.
Because I still treasure it.
All right.
Let's correct the birth registry right now.
Come live with us and I'll do everything that I haven't been able to do for you.
I want to hold you once, my daughter.
Ra-Ra.
You can believe it?
I believe it.
I'll believe it.
And pretend that I didn't hear this.
Ra-Ra.
Just...
Leave me alone to keep living like this.
Why?
I'm your mother, who gave birth to you.
So what if you gave birth to me?
You didn't raise me.
Did I not raise you because I didn't want to raise you?
It's because of grandfather...
Did grandfather hold up a knife to you to give me up?
If it were me, I wouldn't give up my own child.
I'd never give it up, ever.
Now that mom and dad have raised me from diapers.
You'll come and take me?
From this moment on, don't ever mention this again.
Ra-Ra...
Even to mom and dad.
Are you being sincere?
Yes.
Uncle.
I can get the sense of what kind of situation occurred.
So I was conceived when you were dating in college.
It would be a humiliation to the household, to someone like grandfather who cares about reputation.
And since his eldest daughter-in-law he is so fond of...
might not be able to have a child.
It's good for this and good for that, and so he must have told you to give me up.
If you said, okay, then it was final.
Are you a cuckoo?
Since your brother's family worked hard and raised me.
You come here like midnight thieves.
We're your mother, and father!
Forget it.
Don't cry!
Leave.
The parents abandoned their child,
Does the child need to take the parents in?
Who asked you to take us in?
I said that I was going to do for you everything that I wasn't able to do for you, excluding nothing.
To me,
You're forever going to be an aunt.
And I'm going to tell that to my children.
Even if we are that way,
I'm saying that Yun Saeng is your younger brother.
Your real brother.
The only one in this world.
My world! What can I do?
What should I do?
What should I do?!
Aigo, what should I do?
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Gosh!
Wait...
What?
Let's have a moonlit date before going in.
Aren't you tired?
Because I'm tired, I want to relieve my tiredness with a date with you, dear.
Alright.
What is this?
It is some abalone.
Did you sneak this here?
There's too much food.
If there are leftovers, I have to pack it up, what can I do?
Oh.
You eat some, dear.
I eat it all the time.
Delicious.
Do you know how many moons there are now?
One.
Three?
In the sky, a moon.
In your eyes, a moon.
And in this cup of alcohol, a moon.
That's right, there are.
I'm going to sleep now, honey.
The squid didn't look fresh, so I didn't buy any today.
It's okay, I can eat it next time.
Why?
Acting like a kid.
Why are you hands like this? Did you get hurt?
Because of a little indigestion.
I pricked them.
If grandfather were here, he would have scolded you for pricking yourself needlessly.
Mom,
Yeah.
What?
Because I have you, Mom,
Just that it's nice.
Oh yeah, I bought a bag, take a look.
Do you not like it?
No.
If she doesn't like it, tell her to have it exchanged. There's a receipt and gift exchange receipt with it.
It'll look good on her.
Your dad must be home.
I really see such romantic notion in you.
Yes, I'm on the more emotional side.
If I had been born to different parents, I might be a writer now or something.
Mm-hmm.
Here, this is the last cup.
Mm-hmm.
Dear, are you really going to pretend like it's nothing about Sa Ran?
She must be so upset, after rehearsing day after day.
And she has to go and wait tables at night at the restaurant.
Just to earn a few spending dollars.
It's because of our situation that she's earning her own spending money herself.
You should talk to Sa Ran about Buyonggak.
How could I tell her to be a gisaeng?
But that is what's best for Sa Ran.
Would she actually agree?
That's why I'm saying you should persuade her.
She listens to what you say.
Think about it.
Even if she gets into a dance company, she will be earning $2,000 at best case scenario.
What can we do with that?
If she loves dancing, whether she dances on a stage
or she goes and dance at Buyonggak. It's the same.
Buyonggak...
If they make her Buyonggak's top gisaeng, she will have a physically-easy job and make lots of money.
How nice would it be to only have to work a few hours in the evening?
And you never know. She might meet the second generation of a chebol.
Or a millionaire from abroad.
Is it really over with the guy she was dating?
Dear, you ask her, when our situation is like this,
do you really care about making yourself happy? Come out strong like that with her.
But I'm her dad.
It's because you're the dad, and you're thinking about the future of your child.
Gong Ju's tuition alone is $10,000 a year.
Plus your hospital fees, living costs, and our rent.
No matter how we save and pinch here,
we can only last for another 10 months at the maximum.
If we don't have any concrete plans for 10 months after.
We'll be on the streets or in shelters.
If Gong Ju and I are...
burdens to you, then tell me honestly.
What are you talking about?
I'll figure something out to feed our two months, with whatever.
We'll just go rent a room from someone's house.
Don't say stuff that doesn't make sense.
So come on!
All right.
Sa Ran will tell you later on that she's so glad she listened to you. I'm sure of it.
Did you buy this, mister?
What is it?
Women's makeup.
Mister Seo probably bought it to gift to someone.
Is this your's?
Why?
To give someone?
Not to give away, it's mine.
You're saying that you use this?
Yes,
don't you think my eyes look shinnier these days?
These days men wear make up too!
And I only did the edge of the eyes slightly.
Are you tired?
No, why?
Let's talk.
Did something bad happen with mother?
What is it?
After the one hundred days of mourning ends.
Let's finalize the paperwork.
What paperwork?
A divorce.
Why?
I don't want to live with you anymore.
Divorce.
Quite frankly, I lived here because of father-in-law.
Because I was grateful to and thankful for him.
I'm a woman, too.
I wanted to receive a burning and passionate love too.
But you are someone who cannot do that.
So now...
you long for love?
I don't think that it's too late now.
For you and for me.
You don't love me ardently, right?
Was there ever a time?
That's the reason.
Ra-Ra?
What about Ra-Ra?
Are you going to take her?
How can I take her when she is the Geum's bloodline?
You'll do it for me, won't you?
Is there any meaning to waiting until the mourning period is over? When your heart's already left?
Let's get the paperwork going right away, and fold it.
Are you angry, dear?
If a person speaks with rational reasoning.
The person listening doesn't get angry.
You render me speechless.
Was this all I was to you?
What were you hoping I would do?
That I come and ask you how you can backstab me?
Did you want me to hold on to you and cry? Clinging?
You seem like someone who was waiting.
You were waiting for father to die.
I never thought this.
Not even in my imagination.
You tell mother.
I'll tell Ra Ra.
Mm-hmm.
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Oh Sa Ran, let's talk for a moment.
I heard that you heard that Gong Ju's mom is working at Buyonggak.
Yes.
I wish you would give up on the dance academy.
Since there's no guarantee that you'd get in.
And if I give it up?
I heard that
going to Buyonggak would be much better for you.
Dad. Are you my dad?
Think about it. Dancing school,
Think about what? Dancing in front of drunken men?
That thing has a temper.
Anyway, since you're an artist I know you have self-esteem,
But does self-esteem feed you?
Look at our situation. Every month there is $1200 going to rent.
I'm only telling you this because you know.
Did I make the business fail?
I clearly objected to it, saying that not everyone could run a restaurant.
The person who made it fail is someone else, so why do I have to become a gisaeng to feed everyone?
You spend all the money you earn.
Your dad and I only concerned that you're having to work part-time job on top of rehearsing.
And even if you really did make it into a dance company.
Your life will be very hard, and that's why we're saying this.
No need for it!
I didn't know you would be like this, dad.
You haven't suffered yet, so you don't know how it is.
You haven't suffered enough is what it is.
Then send Gong Ju to be a gisaeng, too.
Gong Ju's appearance isn't there.
Why not? She looks like Tang Wei.
Who is Tang Wei?
She's short.
You shouldn't be like that.
What?
You shouldn't use your mind in that way.
Don't use it like that yourself.
I must be the last patient.
Yes.
If you breathe in the scent of flowers, your heart will become brighter.
I know your heart must be pained, so I thought it might bring a small consolation.
Thank you.
The scent is very nice.
I'm here in your subdivision. Is there a cafe or anything nearby?
Come on up, nobody's here.
From my mom, for you.
A bag?
Why?
Since you tended to my grandpa's passing.
Open it.
Isn't this expensive though?
Think of it as our heart.
Dad wanted to buy you a meal, but I thought you might be uncomfortable so this is instead.
Tell them thank you from me.
What?
I was going to put on some water.
No thanks. Sit down.
Your younger sister.. She must have cursed me a lot.
She's not someone who holds a grudge.
I was thankful,
the two of them bringing me home like that that night.
Although you had probably told them to do that.
I didn't say anything more than to get you a female deputy driver.
Let's go out. Is there a decent restaurant around here?
Just eat here. I'll make you some noodles.
Isn't it a bother?
It isn't any trouble.
It would be nice if you were rich.
Then you wouldn't have to go work part-time today, and you could drink with me.
And you could travel with me.
Are you troubled by something?
Me, I'm like that everyday.
It's because you're so full of happiness.
Full of happiness, you say?
I thought they were my mom and dad,
but actually they say they're my aunt and uncle.
Tell Choo to go with you.
That day, the guy who drove me...Sohn...
Sohn Ja.
Yeah, Sohn Ja.
He seemed like a good guy.
He's your cousin?
Actually, he's not a blood relative.
It's kind of a long story.
If you have the time, it'd be nice if you looked after him a little too.
He's alone and doesn't have anyone, except for us.
I'll go eat with him and Gong Ju sometime.
Or will Gong Ju not want to?
You're doing well.
Your cholestorol is lower than last time as well.
You can come back in six months.
It's all because of you.
No matter what the doctor recommends,
it's useless if the patient doesn't follow it.
Your mother's loss is great, isn't it?
Yes.
If she likes traditional music, it'd be nice if she came by our place for enjoyment.
Please tell her about it sometime.
Yes, nuna.
The internet cafe doesn't accept credit cards.
You didn't know that?
Can you bring $1 and come out here?
You don't even have $1?
Where are you?
Did you give Sa Ran the bag?
Yes, she said thanks.
Does it look good on her?
Of course. It was picked out by mom's sight.
Mom,
Let's take a trip.
To where?
Far away.
Europe is perfect this time of year.
My friends say that trips with their mothers are really great.
You don't want to?
And what about your grandma and dad?
Kyung So's mom comes around here though.
Can't they give you some fifteen days off?
Hard-working homemaker, leave!
Spicy seafood noodle soup.
But you don't like flour-y foods.
I have a taste for spicy seafood noodle soup.
Black bean paste noodles. And a sweet and sour beef.
Aren't you glad you have me?
When you do a fashion show, you have to use me as your model, okay?
Don't call some idiot and run into the trouble you did last time.
What are you going to do if all the girls end up liking you and chasing you?
I'll just tell them I'm taken.
What?
How come you never mention your dad even once?
That you long for him or that you take after him or anything.
I'd have to know what he was like or looked like to know that.
You don't know?
You don't even have a picture?
They told me mom missed him too much, so they just burned them, so she can forget altogether.
When I was little I just believed it.
But now that I've grown, I don't think it's that.
If not then?
I was born as an accident.
You know, those types of love that cannot be realized.
You talk as if you were talking about someone else.
What am I gonna do?
It's not like I can meet him, even if I said I was pierced by a longing to see him.
I think about it once in a while, what kind of person he is.
He might be alive somewhere in this world, you never know.
It's easy to think that. I have a feeling he is.
Is your intuition usually right?
Sort of.
Then what do you think will happen to me?
Do you think I'll succeed?
You'll succeed. Because a precious person will help you. A precious person named Sohn Ja.
Instead of a precious person Sohn Ja, it'd be better if some precious grandpa showed up one day.
Is it really over for Sa Ran?
Just think of it as having sent her off to marriage early.
Did you see how she looked at me?
Rather, be thankful to brother and sister-in-law.
Doesn't this mean that they lovingly raised her?
If it weren't so, she'd come rushing over here.
There is no betrayal like this.
Even for Ra Ra,
she needs some time to think.
She never even imagined this and she could have just blurted it out from the shock.
Twice the shock, and she would've pulled my hair.
Didn't you see her yesterday?
Her eyes are big like peaches.
Saying it only counts when you raise a child. Just giving birth doesn't count.
Let's eat dinner.
You go eat.
If you lie down too much, your back will hurt.
Hello?
This is Oh Hwa Ran.
Yes?
Did I call at a good time?
Yes.
A madame who you'd know by a mere mention of her name has entrusted me with her grandson's marriage.
Isn't your daughter of marrying age?
She is.
I was thinking of introducing your daughter.
She's from a good home.
They have to be destined for each other though.
That's what I mean.
I'd have to see.
You don't know my daughter.
That's why I was wondering if I could see her once.
To see if they're suitable for each other or not.
Did you see the other party?
Of course.
I'll give you a detailed introduction later.
When you find out, I'm sure he's a son-in-law prospect that you'd have the desire to have.
If Ra Ra gets married into a good home, it will put me much more at ease.
Instead of meeting outside, how about meeting in our home?
That would be okay with me, but
I'll leave out the part with Buyonggak, and just say that you are someone I know.
Okay.
Come and have lunch.
Gong Ju, hey, Gong Ju, drink this milk.
Hurry up and drink it.
Later.
Hurry up and drink it, now.
All, all of it.
Did we finish the milk?
I don't know.
Is it all gone?
I'm sure there was a lot left last night.
There was?
Why are you looking at me? Do I like milk?
Bunny-bunny, bunny-bunny.
Carrot, carrot.
Bunny-bunny, bunny-bunny.
Carrot, carrot.
I miss you so much I could die, honey.
Please eat breakfast.
Grandma.
We're here.
Don't you miss grandpa?
Did you already forget him/.
How could I not miss him?
Ra Ra may be getting some marriage prospects.
If things go smoothly.
Let's keep our issue hush hush for now.
Dad, are you in there?
Yeah.
I'm going out.
Okay.
Buy yourself a hearty lunch.
Okay.
Did you clear away my shoes?
Yeah, on the veranda.
Why?
Because it was too crowded.
Why?
How could you clear only my shoes away?
So that you have a lot of space, and it has lots of air on the veranda.
The shoes will be all ruined by the sunlight.
Is that so?
I moved them thinking of you.
You put winter shoes that nobody even wears in there.
Just my shoes.
What?
Dad, only my shoes.
Because Sa Ran has a lot of shoes.
They're getting squished because they're crammed in that small space.
So I was going to make a shoe cabinet for her on the veranda and moved them out there and she's upset.
Don't just let your temper get a hold of you.
Get the details before getting angry.
A person ought not to behave so rash.
You were going to buy me a shoe cabinet?
Yeah, Sa Ran's personal shoe cabinet.
Oh, you have so many pairs of shoes too.
Starting with rubber shoes, long boots, ankle boots, dress shoes, sandals, gym shoes.
Someone could mistake you as the daughter of a shoe store owner.
Do they sell shoe cabinets?
Isn't it something that you have to order?
They have them at the mart.
Eun Sung market!
And you know that I drink milk every morning but you put the empty carton in the fridge.
Sohn Ja probably drank it in the middle of the night. Would I put an empty carton back?
Sohn Ja doesn't even like milk.
You are really too much.
Everything is all my fault?
Even if you don't want to understand how much I regard you, this is still too much.
Buy plenty of milk please, honey.
Let's not be this way over small things.
Dad.
Am I that dumb?
After you broke up,
You're so sensitive these days. And irritible about everything.
Hurry and go on with your business happily.
I'll get the shoe cabinet delievered.
I'll buy lots of milk.
Yeah.
Why are you crying?
It isn't even anything big.
But I do understand.
This is why they say the pain of losing love is so great.
Are we out of nuts?
In just a little bit, I have a guest coming. Please be well-mannered and careful of your actions.
And don't eat picking through your bowl. Eat prettily.
Is there a blind date coming?
A woman who operates a Korean restaurant. Someone she knows asks for help in making a marriage match.
She wants to introduce you.
But she doesn't know me.
Because she knows your dad and me well.
Okay.
Mother, a guest will be here soon, that I told you about earlier.
Oh.
Pleased to meet you.
Yes, please come in and have a seat.
Some tea?
Red tea, please.
Mother, pu'er tea for you, right?
No, just red tea for me too.
Okay.
I also know Dr. Geum well.
He's taken care of me over twenty years.
I see.
I'm sorry for your great loss, mother.
There are no words,
to comfort you.
I can't believe it still.
Several times a day, I feel like he will open the door and come in.
Why wouldn't you feel that way?
My husband cherished me much, you see.
It seems as if he did.
You are so beautiful, and so plaintive.
What can I call you?
Please call me Oh Hwa Ran, Director Oh.
Do you have any family, Director Oh?
Just my mother.
I wasn't able to marry.
Why not?
A beauty like you.
I was married to my work, I suppose.
A husband is different from a parent or a sibling.
I have heard that.
Director Oh brought this.
How did you know I like Japanese sweets?
I'm so glad.
Please have some with me.
Okay.
Please have some with us.
I don't really eat sweets.
You have to eat lunch so only eat a little, mother-in-law.
Isn't this sweet rice cake?
Yes.
This is the rice cake that my husband liked.
They're Brunoli's.
Our daughter.
Hello.
What a small world.
Do you know her?
She came to Buyonggak with her friend.
Friend? Which friend?
Sa Ran.
Sa Ran joined there?
No, not that.
They came to tour the place once.
Did you enjoy the tour that day?
Please eat a lot, even though there isn't much.
What do you mean there isn't anything much?
It must have been hard on you, madame.
I made it with the housekeeper.
They say this yellow corvina is good for prevention of breast cancer on women.
Really?
Yes.
Mother, eat it diligently.
Why do you laugh?
At my age, what use...
Age doesn't matter regarding this.
You have more volume than me.
What volume?
I've only heard about Buyonggak in word.
I've been curious what kind of place it is.
Please come visit anytime. It would be our honor.
Are there really gisaengs there?
Of course.
Are they pretty?
We picked them from a hundred households.
Please come with the mother once, madame.
I would rather you not tell the other party about me.
Why?
I feel pressure.
About what?
Since that family is so high-up.
I think it will be very hard to live there.
I prefer a home without so many pressures and is comfortable.
Most couples live apart from the family these days anyway.
My alum seniors who are married
tell me that it's best to eat with your mind at ease, if you can help it.
Then what if it gets later?
These days most people get married past thirty.
Did you change your mind?
You wanted to marry young.
If someone who I totally like appears, anytime.
I invited her over for nothing.
I'm not in the position to be serving her.
I should be getting served.
It's because of my greed of wanting to get you married.
Have you not been here before?
No, this is my first time.
My brother's friend operates this place, and it's very good.
Oh, you're here?
I didn't make a reservation.
There are seats available right now.
Isn't the atmosphere nice?
Yes.
Hello.
Is the owner here?
He had some business to take care of in the area.
He'll be here.
Should I give you a menu?
Yes.
This is neat, how do they fold it like this?
It's a yacht, right?
Yes.
Who folded these napkins?
One of our employees.
There.
She must be a new employee.
Yes.
I'll have my usual spaghetti.
Yes, ma'am.
Number 13.
Yes.
Please tell them not to put too much roe.
Yes.
How would you like your meat cooked?
Medium.
Would you care for any salad?
Is ceasar's alright with you?
Yes.
What would you like to drink?
Kiwi juice.
Yes.
Orange.
Yes.
Da Mo is meeting the daughter of the president of Yoojoon Foundation today.
How old?
Twenty-six.
How does she look?
Are you getting married?
Because the rascal nitpicks about looks.
Above average, of course.
It's too big.
Soon,
We need to hear a baby's cry through here.
I know.
Do you think they'll look good together?
Last time, the daughter Gaboon, the looks matched.
But who knew she'd be a vegetarian?
Da Mo pleases me these days.
He
goes on all the blind dates we ask him to.
It would be nice if we could have it in the fall at the latest.
And the summer would be even better.
He will.
If it's in the fall,
would there be a baby by next summer?
Are you always this quiet?
I don't usually talk much.
My mother will like that.
Why?
My father is very attentive.
So attentive, that...
I suppose from my mom's perspective it's not great.
It's tender, try some.
Isn't it too well-done?
It's just right.
Is there anything else that you need?
A pickle.
Yes.
It's a waste for a face like that to work here.
Do you not like sharing food?
No.
I'm not too crazy about sea urchin.
They don't agree with me well.
I see.
Our Ra Ra,
Come on in.
No, I've seen you and that's good enough.
Actually, this is the first time I've been on a blind date.
Have you been on many, Da Mo?
No, I haven't been on many.
Where overseas do you like the most?
That you've been to.
For me, I was quite impressed with Turkey.
Turkey is nice, of course.
Have you ever rode on the hot-air ballon?
Yes.
Oh Hwa Ran from Buyonggak,
Yes.
She came by.
She's so amiable and cultured.
She told me to visit, but I don't know if it's okay for me to.
You could certainly go.
And you can watch the dance performance there.
Ra Ra doesn't want it?
Yes.
She said it would be a burden since the family is too high up.
Should we go now?
Yes.
Did you enjoy your dinner?
Yes.
It's $65.
Here you go.
Now what is this?
Omo, isn't this fresh ginseng?
Eat this all up.
You try some too, dear.
I said that I already ate plenty.
You'll feel like you can fly tomorrow morning.
When did they say they're delivering the shoe cabinet?
Tomorrow.
Please knock, miss.
Because Sohn Ja's using the bathroom.
Gong Ju, come and have a root of this. Fresh ginseng.
Hey, she's warm-bodied.
Dad, you eat it.
Okay, okay.
Here, Charles.
Let's talk.
Then I'll wait for you at home.
There's a cafe on the backstreet.
What does your father do?
I asked what does he do?
Why?
I'm curious.
He's unemployed.
So you're the head of household (child breadwinner)?
What is it that you want to say?
Give me his resume. I'll find a suitable position for him.
Would he not want to work in the province though?
I'm getting a little sick of this.
Of what?
Of keeping on meeting you.
And of you acting like you're looking out for me.
There are lots of restaurants, you know.
I know. I came not knowing.
How much do you earn?
I'm paid by the hour.
Paid by the hour how much?
So you can say it's the price of gums?
Quit.
Don't spread your pride and listen to me.
You don't know what your talent is, do you?
That you're making me sick and then trying to cure me.
It's better than making someone sick and not giving them medicine.
Your expression right now,
It's quite the asshole.
Don't use such expression.
It makes you so shallow.
And what about your actions to me thus far.
Was it so poised and humanistic?
How long are you going to keep bringing up water under the bridge?
That's why I said let's stop running into each other again.
If by chance we meet, act like you didn't see me.
Did I say that I wanted to talk to you?
Why do wait to annoy me?
I said that I don't like that face and that voice anymore.
And?
Are you done?
Then it's my turn.
Don't cut me off.
What do you think about telling Sa Ran about everything?
About what?
About her birth.
Once the paperworks are finalized, let's start thinking about us.
Mother, would you like to have a glass with me today?
I'll have just one glass.
I have some dongdongju (rice liquor) that is wonderful to the mouth.
Choose between the two. One, we go somewhere nearby to talk.
Is there more left to say?
Two, you let me go upstairs and see your father.