Valid Love
It's here.
I'll watch you from here.
Is what you said true?
Am I narrow-minded and suspicious?
All will be revealed once the darkness passes.
Why?
Why me?
What'd I do wrong?
Damn it. What'd I do?
Just pass by.
Go home.
Don't look and go home.
What the heck?
Who are you doing this to?
Turn on the light.
Jerk, you locked the door?
Hey, asshole!
Why'd you take my wife in?
You better come out!
You asshole.
This is the day you die.
Kim Il Ri.
I know you're in there.
You better hurry out!
Come out!
Turn on the light!
Hurry up and come out!
Turn on the light!
That's what I should've done.
A husband who sees his wife having an affair...
obviously has to do that.
However, I...
...couldn't do that.
I thought what I saw would exceed my imagination.
Then nothing could be taken back.
Even if I want to act ignorant,
I can't do it.
Who'd know how I feel?
Only husbands with wives having affairs.
Who knows?
Ugh.
Not me.
Handle it!
Darn it.
My wife doesn't even get it.
Ugh.
The wind is strong.
It's perfect.
Why is the wind blowing like this today?
Why on a windy day...
is my wife meeting that jerk?
Was I imagining things?
Is there a misunderstanding?
Where did it go wrong?
By chance,
on the day we first met...
Yeah...
That might be it.
My weird wife who shocked me from day one.
I might have...
married an ax wife.
[Episode 1: Pollack]
That beautiful sunny day...
I met my wife for the first time.
I fell off a tree and came to check for broken bones.
Your legs seem fine since you walked in here.
Wave your arms.
You're okay. Move your back.
You're fine.
I fell off a hundred year old tree.
How can I be fine?
Then...
does it makes sense for a orthopedic patient to throw a fit it urology?
You're nervous.
It's best to do it later than never.
You made a good decision.
Doctor...
Can't I just live this way?
It does take awhile to wash but it's okay.
You're handsome.
If a man pulls a knife, he should at least peel an apple.
Let's peel a bit since you're already lying down.
I can lie down a hundred thousand times.
I'll just live like this.
Whoa.
Don't move.
I'm going to give you an anesthetic injection.
It'll sting.
Will it hurt a lot?
Of course it will.
Think of it as a mosquito bite.
I've been bitten by a mosquito there before. It really hurt.
I'll make it hurt if you keep talking.
How many shots?
North, South, East, West, four total.
Wh... Why? My friend only got two.
It's big.
You're lucky, right?
Here.
Sting.
It hurts! $%&#!
You better come back here!
Anyway, this is a urology clinic.
Orthopedics is upstairs.
Sorry about that.
Sorry, doctor.
I'm really sorry.
Please cut nicely.
Pretty.
Come back.
Come in if you have bleeding or the wound opens.
Disinfect well as directed.
It's best not to have sex for a month if possible.
If any guy can do it like this, I'll respect him for life.
[Laser circumcision - On sale during vacation]
Hi, it's me. Did you page?
What? That son of a bitch?
Again? I'll be right there. Don't cry and wait.
That son of a bitch.
Sorry!
Idiot.
Why'd he fall like that?
Ugh.
Ugh!
Are you okay?
Oh, no.
Go away.
Should I help you up?
Ow!
What's that?
I have to go.
Bye, ahjusshi!
[Ahjusshi: middle-aged man.]
Stop!
Take responsibility.
It's your fault, ahjusshi.
It would have been okay if you hadn't fallen.
There are no buses even if it wasn't for me.
If I pass the intersection and go into the alley, my house is right there.
If it wasn't for you,
I could've been passed the signal.
What if my Yi Ri dies?
Will you take responsibility?
Sorry I fell.
It's your fault I fell.
Why get circumcised now of all times!
If you'd done it in childhood,
we wouldn't have met like this.
I would've been home by now!
What about my Yi Ri?
What do I do?
I would've passed the signal.
Ugh!
Sorry for getting the surgery late.
Ahjumma.
[Ahjumma: middle-aged woman.]
One blood sausage and spicy rice cake to go please.
Okay.
I'll buy some for your sister. Take it home.
Why would you do that?
You would've been home if not for me, right?
It's okay.
I probably would've gotten stuck at the signal.
It's not your fault.
Why aren't you eating?
But...
your sister's name is Yi Ri?
Yes.
No wonder.
I was shocked when you said a dog bit Yi Ri.
Wolves are endangered but how are they in Seoul?
And...
Yi Ri might bite a dog but a dog bite Yi Ri?
Well...
Yi Ri and dog are the same category. Yeah.
Are you saying my sister's a dog?
No.
Yi Ri?
How's your bite?
It's red?
Hey, that's expected since you got bit by a dog.
Did you think it'd be okay?
Think life is easy?
Don't cry.
Crying won't solve anything. Hush.
Give the dog a bath and clean the poop.
I'll be there by the time you're changing its clothes.
Okay.
But...
isn't your mother home?
She went to the hospital.
Hospital? Is she ill?
No.
She cooks at the hospital restaurant.
Ah...
I hate hospitals.
Ah...
That's why you waited so long.
To avoid the hospital.
Hey, hey. That's not it.
I had a trauma...
with the fire injection.
I don't know if it's still the case.
But back then, nurses came to school
and stood the kids in line to give them fire injections.
It's really barbaric.
Set alcohol on fire and sterilize the needle.
Then stick it in kids' shoulders.
I made all kinds of excuses and made it home.
But Mom said she'd buy me pork cutlets.
So, I followed her out.
Jeez.
It was my first betrayal.
Tear-stained pork cutlets.
So, I...
never eat pork cutlets.
That happened when my tooth was pulled.
I cried with the string on my tooth.
He promised not to.
He promised not to pull my tooth over ten times.
"Hey, it's a cockroach."
He hit my forehead when I looked.
Yeah, that's happened to me before.
Right, you can't trust anyone.
That's what I'm saying.
So, I hit my father.
I threw my tooth on the roof with my father that night.
The next day my father wouldn't wake up no matter how much I shook him.
He passed away.
- Here's your food. - Thank you.
He had stomach cancer.
I thought he died because I hit him.
I cried so much.
Cell phone.
[Valid Love]
I passed it.
I passed that, too.
My sister?
I think I found her.
Is that weirdo you?
No, I'm normal.
Give it to this unni, right?
[Unni: older sister or older female.]
Okay, bye.
Oh, yeah.
Kid.
Yes?
What happened to your sister? Is she okay?
Yes, she wasn't bit that badly.
It won't scar. The hospital said it's okay.
That's a relief.
I thought it'd be bad because I fell.
No.
Thanks for the spicy rice cake and blood sausage.
What's your name, kid?
Il Ri.
Kim Il Ri.
Your sister's Yi Ri.
And you're Il Ri?
Yes.
"Il" means one and "Ri" means plum blossom.
My father named me to be as beautiful as a plum blossom.
I see.
Take the bus if you still can.
It's more dangerous for a woman to take a taxi alone.
Round trip fare.
Hey.
Huh?
It's okay. Take it.
An adult is giving it to you.
Thank you.
What a cool unni.
Il Ri?
She's cute.
- Oh, my. - Are you okay?
- Oh, no. - Were you hit?
Were you hit?
No.
I'm okay, ahjusshi.
But let me see, okay?
- She said she's okay. - Are you really okay?
You weren't hit?
Yes, I think I'm okay.
You might be okay, but let's go to the hospital just in case.
No, ahjumma. I wasn't hit.
Let's still go.
You might be in shock and unaware.
Wait, do you live around here?
Call your parents.
I'm really okay.
Just listen. That's what you do at times like this.
So, you don't say differently later.
Yeah.
- Bye! - Wait.
- Kid! - Hey.
Kid!
She must be okay by the way she's running. She's okay.
Kid!
Are you okay?
Jeez.
But...
Why did you pay for drinks?
You're not the host.
Why did you pay the bill for over $1000?
Why bring that up now?
Know what your nickname is?
Slave.
Sorry!
That wench!
Hey!
You better look straight!
Damn it!
You wench, ugh.
Jeez.
Please.
Ring me up.
Okay.
That day, my wife was shocked she didn't hurt herself falling from a tree.
It was her luckiest day in eighteen years.
The finale of that lucky day was meeting Hee Soo.
She said meeting Hee Soo was the luckiest event that day.
She was lucky to meet a cool unni like that.
That's why she had a poop dream the night before and her sister was safe.
That was her belief.
I'll become like that unni.
She didn't know that cool unni would become a lifelong burden.
These guys...
You scared me!
Nice to meet you.
Attention.
Salute.
Nice to meet you.
He's handsome.
Not like a teacher.
Ja...
Jang!
Hee!
It's "Hee."
Hee.
That's right.
Jang Hee...
Tae?
You can't lose in a power struggle.
Look them in the eyes.
Speak clearly and powerfully.
Jang Hee Tae!
Jang...
My name is...
Jang...
Hee...
...Tae.
Until Mrs. Ahn comes back after having her baby,
we'll be together.
For you and me,
I hope it's beneficial and fun.
Teacher! Introduce yourself.
When was your first kiss?
What's your ideal type of woman?
Tell us about your first love!
First kiss!
Don't lose it at times like that.
Do this...
First kiss!
- First kiss! - Be quiet!
Quiet!
Those who want to know about my first kiss...
Shut your mouths.
Teacher...
Do you think Hyori or Yuri is prettier?
Choi Jin Shil.
Oh, my.
I hear I look like her.
There's always one like that.
She's saying the teacher's a man, too.
Say this...
Take out your padding.
Teacher!
Are you healed now?
Are you healed?
What...
What do I do now, Hee Soo?
How was it? Your first class?
It's hectic.
The scariest people in the world are high school girls.
It's amazing you realized that in a day.
It's nothing.
But...
you're the second year homeroom 3 teacher, right?
Yes.
The kids in my class are pranksters, huh?
They're all like that.
In that class,
meals aren't provided?
It smelled like food.
We're starting next year.
I see.
Student.
Il Ri.
It's weird meeting like this, huh?
Not really.
Our lives are unknowable and short like a gnat's. We can meet like this.
Right.
A gnat's life.
But...
I didn't know you were a teacher.
I'm a substitute.
Aren't you eating? It's lunchtime.
I'm going to.
What about you?
Me, too.
I'm busy, so...
Wait, student.
I hope you keep what happened that day to yourself.
What happened that day?
You know...
My surgery.
Oh, that?
Of course.
I'm good at keeping secrets.
What?
He pooped?
He pooped in his pants?
Look at his stance.
If he didn't poop,
why this stance?
But, Andro draws so well.
Isn't it realistic?
Hemorrhoids!
It's hemorrhoids.
She asked him...
if he's healed now.
Right.
- Oh, my goodness! - Ew, disgusting!
Get rid of it.
Because...
...we're cool.
Let's eat.
- Is this yours? - Yeah.
Isn't he totally cool?
I'm...
disappointed in you.
You promised.
Then humiliate me?
I kept my promise.
I didn't say anything.
Are you playing with me?
Those wenches.
Anyway, I'm disappointed!
I thought you were a good kid.
But you joke around like this?
You're bad.
A bad student!
You're cute, too.
"You're bad."
"A bad student!"
Why do...
the kids call you Andro?
I don't know.
They just call me that.
What does Andro mean?
Andromeda.
Ugh, of all kids...
That's right.
I got hemorrhoid surgery.
How can circumcision become hemorrhoids?
Disease shouldn't be hidden.
There are no shameful diseases.
So, if you guys get sick someday,
don't hide it and get treatment.
Did you bring the materials?
Yes.
Take it out.
Let's not go by the book.
Let's find out what secrets the fish you eat hold.
The dried pollack you brought...
You can find out when it was born and died.
Any fish with bones...
is called bony fish.
The fish you eat with rice like mackerel, saury and cutlass.
Fish in stew like frozen and fresh pollack.
They're all bony fish.
What about anchovies?
Anchovies are tiny and pathetic.
Don't look down on them because they're small. They have bones.
So, they're bony fish.
Did you hear that?
Inside all bony fishes ears...
is a rock-like bone called an otolith.
Ear...
Rock...
If you look with a microscope, you can see rings.
It was formed with layers of protein and calcium.
A growth line.
We can find out the month and year of birth using that.
It's a fish's birth chart.
Let's read our fortunes.
What's your fortune?
See?
I didn't lie, right?
While I explain,
find your pollack's otolith.
Yes, sir.
The otolith is a very important study aid.
When and which sea it was born.
Raised in warm or cold water.
The salt content of the sea.
Whether the water flowed fast or slow.
Like a person's history shows on his face.
Don't eat it.
Fish record their life on their otoliths.
If you want a good expression in old age,
you should learn from fishes.
Teacher.
Is this it?
Oh, my!
A pollack's...
life is recorded on this?
It must have been quite impressive.
Born in the East Sea...
Roaming the Bering Sea...
Being caught by strangers...
It ended up in our hands.
The meaning of life is recorded in a fallen leaf.
Much less in a living fish.
I thought he was a moron but he's smart.
Switch second and fourth period with me on Thursday.
Well...
That brat.
Hey, Kim Il Ri!
Kim Il Ri!
Hey, Kim Il Ri!
You better stop there, you brat.
Hey!
It's coming from the sky...
Make contact.
I pray.
Hey.
What are you doing?
Are you okay?
Jeez.
It's your fault again!
It stopped coming because something foreign appeared.
What stopped coming?
What else? A UFO.
It's ruined.
A UFO will come if you do that?
Of course.
Today's the day.
Don't you watch the news as an adult?
No way...
You graduated college.
Hey...
biology is science.
You're so confident as a scientist.
But a scientist doesn't believe in UFOs?
Yeah.
I haven't made up my mind.
Do you believe it?
Of course I do!
That's why I'm waiting like this.
What if...
they take you?
I would thank them very much!
I'm waiting with bated breath for them to take me to Andromeda.
Please come back.
What will you do there?
Jeez.
Plant apple trees obviously.
If you do?
Jeez.
When the apple tree grows up,
a snake will appear.
I'll persuade it to eat an apple.
An old prince who's dense like you will show up.
In front of that old prince, Eve...
takes a bite of the apple and say this...
How sour!
So sour!
It's sour.
That apple's sour.
Ugh.
So?
I thought you were smart but you're dumb again.
It's all over today.
So?
What?
The moron and old prince
was fooled by Eve who didn't want punishment.
What?
That old prince...
It's fun to tease him!
What am I doing?
[Valid Love]
Teacher!
I heard you sang in the other class.
Are you being unfair?
I ate fish, too.
I'm not going to Andromeda.
I'm not gonna wait for a UFO.
I'm gonna marry...
...the pollack.
But he's dumb.
And out of it.
Ah...
He's a moron though.
Yes!
My pollack...
Hi-ya!
I'll protect him!
Hello.
Did you do your homework?
Hello.
Be careful of cars.
Hello.
My wife guarded me against my will.
Where have you left your senses? Take care!
Hurry!
If anything happened to me,
she appeared and shocked me.
It's a minefield over there. Don't go.
She never looked to the side or back.
She was so focused on her task it was scary.
To others, it seemed childish and foolish...
and had no meaning.
But it was like urgent homework to her.
However...
that was just the start.
Stop. It's not dangerous for a grown man.
The night streets are dangerous.
Are you teasing me?
To start a rumor that a grown man is being protected by a high school girl.
Are you still teasing me?
The soul is cut by those rash assumptions.
Don't do that.
Hurry and go. We're here.
I'm going to see you go inside.
Hurry up and go ring the doorbell.
You have to go first.
Then...
I'll sing a song first!
Let's go.
You shouldn't do this. I mean, you can, you can, you can!
Wow...
This would be great as a pot holder for ramen.
You're reading in English?
Yeah, there's no translation.
Wow, you are smart.
I can't read Korean books this thick.
I'm going to hold onto it while we go.
If you read on a bus,
your eyesight gets bad.
Jeez.
What will you grow up to be?
What do you mean?
I'm going to become your guardian angel.
Oh, man.
You draw well. Not going to art college?
Nah.
I'm no good.
If I go to academy,
the worst drawer is better than me.
Really?
I guess kids are all Picasso lately.
I know.
What do you want to be?
Any college or major of interest?
Me?
Even if the sea in Incheon was filled with cider, you need a cup to drink.
Why is a student talking like that?
I mean, cup.
By chance,
do you carry this around for me?
Yes.
There are 33,000 different dangers around us.
Why do...
you have...
...infinite layers?
Here it is.
An architect?
Architecture school?
How can you think that by looking at that picture?
Like that ahjusshi,
I want to be a cool painter.
Painter?
I bought pants with suspenders to wear for work.
They're khaki colored.
Khaki looks good on me.
You'll acknowledge khaki looks good on me.
And if...
I wear khaki suspender pants and paint...
Don't you think I'll look cute?
Listen?
Now?
Of course.
Now is important.
This moment.
My father liked this.
He listened to this on the day my tooth was pulled.
I think this side's broken.
It's not on yet.
People commonly...
confuse real with fake mullet fish.
Most people insist the type caught most often in their region
is the real mullet fish.
Oops.
What...
We're here.
I dropped you off because it's late.
It's just for today.
I know.
Bye.
It's back, Teacher!
The dog that bit my sister!
The dog's back!
Where?
I'd protect you if it did.
I think someone put glue on my eyes.
I can't take my eyes off you.
I'd protect you if it did.
Andro girl.
Protect the universe.
Before I knew it,
I was counting down the months
until she graduated high school.
I was impatient because it was more than ten fingers can count.
I was bitter.
Even if a substitute, I was still a teacher.
That girl was a minor and student.
I had to stop before it got weird.
But like always,
she was unpredictable.
You have one new message.
To listen, press one.
It's me.
Why aren't you calling?
I paged you so many times.
So, throw that ancient thing away and buy a cell!
Hurry up. Want me to buy you one?
Call when you hear this.
You know I love you.
Hello.
What?
Jeez, you're a man.
Embarrassed...
because you did it.
How will you live in this harsh world?
Hey!
By chance, do you have a uniform?
From high school.
Uniform?
What will you do with that?
Sorry for making you come.
It's okay. I have to buy books anyhow.
Take care.
Wait.
Try this on.
What?
Take this off and try it on. I want to study something.
What are you doing? Study what?
It'll take a second. A blink of an eye.
As quick as the turtle eating the chicken and denying it.
Study? Turtle? There are lots of people here.
You study fish.
I'm studying the human male.
What study? I'll help you.
Are you teasing me again?
Hey.
That's my boyfriend.
What?
Student.
Where's the English dictionary?
I'm not a student.
What a sight...
Isn't that an old uniform?
He likes vintage so he borrowed his cousin's.
Can't you tell the difference between vintage and shabby?
Why'd you bring such an old, rotten guy?
I acknowledge he's rotten.
But aging early has its advantages. He'll have the same face until 60.
You'll see him until you're 60?
Of course, I'm marrying him.
So?
He's gonna marry you?
Anyway, I'm...
dating him now, so stop following me and...
this is for your sake, but don't say "I love you" so easily.
Is your love that cheap?
Kim Il Ri.
Get a grip.
You think that straight arrow can handle you?
The person to plant the apple tree on Andromeda for you...
...is me.
Me.
He's gonna plant the tree, too.
Yeah, right!
Want me to verify? Huh?
Hey.
What are you doing? Don't believe me?
Are you gonna do this?
I can't let my love go so easily.
Ugh, I'm dead.
Hey.
For her sake,
can you plant an apple tree on Andromeda?
I heard you're her boyfriend.
For the girl you love, can you go to Andromeda?
That's what I'm asking.
Whether my wife was really waiting for a UFO...
I still don't know.
I was his guardian during his circumcision surgery.
Are you circumcised?
Do it while you can.
Anyways,
we're that close.
Right, Hee Tae?
Do I look that easy to you?
I'm not a teacher because I'm a substitute? Am I dog shit?
How dare you play a joke like that?
You're lower than low. As disrespectful as can be.
Can't we be friends?
Hey, Kim Il Ri!
You can be my teacher and friend.
Later on, my lover...
...as well.
I'm going to marry Pollack!
The sure thing...
was that she received me instead of a UFO that day.
To my wife,
I was the dumbest in the world.
An out of it old prince.
My...
Pollack...
Hi-ya!
I'll protect him!
The promise that seemed like a joke.
My wife showed me in behavior instead of words.
For us to meet again,
we needed seven years.
Did you know?
In my eighteen years of life,
this moment is the happiest.
Why'd you lie?
Why'd you give up on art school?
We're getting engaged if I take lessons!
Teacher...
you cell phone was disconnected.
What happened?
[University of Washington]
Sorry. It was my mistake.
- It wasn't a mistake... - No, it was my mistake.
I'll kill you if you don't let go!
If you keep doing this with her, we're going to boycott lectures.
We're gonna tell the other teachers.
Today was his last day.
He left early because he didn't have class.
So...
Don't think of writing letters.
Even if you write,
he won't write back.
Unni...
Did you do something to be responsible with her?
Teacher, you're so immature.
Hee Soo.
Those words don't suit you.
I'm not going to live that way.
I'm going to live for today.
You worry about the future, Teacher. I won't!
So, I'm going to live happily!
More happily than you!
Idiot.