Eyes Of Dawn
- May 10, 1948 -
It's the police! Find refuge!
The police are on their way!
- Armed Squads Assault 65 Jeju Electoral Booths -
- Two electoral districts fail to reach the quorum, making elections null -
- Jeju Recall Elections Postponed Indefinitely -
- Episode 30 - Originally Aired on 01/16/1992
Stay down!
Charge!
- May 13 - Police Benefit from Reinforcement of 400 strong
Withdraw!
- May 15 - 11th Regiment Moves from Suwon to Jeju Island
Retreat!
Fall back!
Get up!
Hurry up and move!
Seongdae... Seongdae!
Seongdae, let's go.
Run!
Get moving!
Mara Island, Gapa Island... They're all fine.
What are you talking about?
That, Mara or Gapa Island as it may be, if I only had a boat...
Why, want to run away?
You bet.
Listen to you!
If we leave, then what will that make of Jeju?
Who ever said I was?
I'm just saying I hope I could.
You... what?!
And where the hell would you go?
Let me go!
- So you're from the north? - Yes.
Comrade Seo told me about what you were doing up north.
I need someone to put in a good word for me up north.
You're going up north?
Yes... We have no chances of victory as it stands.
We need nationwide support to succeed.
So?
We need the north to understand our situation,
and find out whether they know about our heroic struggle here.
I might find a boat, so you'll have to come with me.
What you really want, then, is someone who can guarantee your safety.
I've already told Comrade Seo.
I'm still the leader here, so if I run away, what will all the others think?
Run away?! This is only...
Then, do you intend to make it a brief visit?
Why would anyone with such intentions behave with so much discretion?
This is not like sending your family away in secret.
I closed an eye on it despite knowing.
- It was against the party, but I still... - Against the party?!
- Look. - Comrade!
I had no delusions about the party from the get-go.
But still, I made a choice in all freedom, supporting my party.
So I won't forgive anyone using it for their own means.
Is that clear?
Everyone, stay where you are!
Don't move a finger!
I said don't!
Help... Please!
Look... We're all locals!
Please, don't hurt us! We're all Jeju residents!
Ajumma, it's all right. Don't you worry.
They're on our side! Our same side.
We're safe!
There... Over there.
You remained here?
Why?
You couldn't find the boat?
No...
So?
Why?
I couldn't leave.
I'm sorry. I just couldn't.
This is pathetic.
I'm sorry...
You are pathetic.
Daddy...
Will you leave?
Along with your wife and kid?
I almost got married as well.
That woman must be living somewhere in Japan by now,
and be the mother of several children.
It's the first time I ever heard you talk about that.
It's the first time I told anyone.
Even while writing my profile when I joined the party,
I left her story out.
Even though I told them everything else.
How I started sympathizing with communist theory while studying in Japan,
and how after being arrested, I betrayed my colleagues to earn myself a release.
Because of me, all those brilliant men either died or were crippled.
Why did you break up with that woman?
Because I was an informer.
She spat in my face as she left me.
Isn't that ironic?
After all, I did all that just because I loved her.
Can you understand?
The fact a man could go through that just because of a woman.
I wandered about for years, like a crippled man.
I then managed to join the party with all sorts of difficulties,
but that label of informer still keeps haunting me.
And yet, you know what?
She married a Japanese man.
She's probably doing fine.
Isn't that the irony of history?
Or maybe it's man himself who is a walking contradiction.
If you want to take the kid along, you better be careful.
The enemy's checkpoints are no laughing matter.
- Fell asleep? - No! I just...
- Where are you going? - Wake up.
- All their lives depend on you. - Yes.
See you.
It's two o'clock.
We only have ten minutes. Bear that in mind.
Hey.
Here.
Let's go.
Seongdae... Seongok, wake up.
Hey!
I'll take them with me.
Are you insane? No way!
I must!
We won't make it if we go together.
We'll have to split.
The children, all by themselves?
- You can make it, right? - Are we coming with you?
Yes... We'll all get on that boat.
Then, we'll make it.
Seongok!
Hold your brother's hand and don't say a word!
- See that hill? - Yes.
Go past that, and keep going down.
You'll find a big rock by the beach.
Fortress Rock?
That's right. All you need to do is reach that rock.
Take to the paddies and avoid roads.
- You can climb over that rock, can you? - Yes.
Never stop or look back. Run until you get there.
- Can you? - Yes.
All right.
Now. Go.
I should have gone first, not the kids.
What the...
They're people.
Stop!
What are you waiting for?
What about the kids?
Tell me!
Did you send the kids this way?
What were those gunshots? Where are they?!
The boat will leave in ten minutes.
Honey...
I had no other choice.
They'll come here looking for us!
How could you be capable of that?
How could I be capable?
And you've got the guts to ask me?
Do you even realize what I'm doing for you and the kid?
I'm running away.
Choi Daechi is running away from the battlefield just to save his wife and kid!
Is that what you thought of this?
What?!
- Seen them? - No.
Shoot them at the first sighting.
I never imagined it'd come to this.
Let's just go. We can always talk on our way.
I was always nervous.
Asking myself whether you really wanted us to follow you.
Whether it was what you wished for.
But the more I stay with you, the less I seem to know who you really are.
So?
Why didn't you go with Jang Harim when you could?
If you want to stay here, be my guest.
Honey...
I'm not going to ask twice.
Are you coming with me or not?
This won't do it. Let's just leave.
- Will you go ahead first? - Comrade Seo!
I can't go by myself. The party gave me a task to fulfill.
And that's to wait for and help Comrade Choi.
Listen...
Let's go. Depart. Now.
Are you alone?
- Can you swim? - Born and raised on the coast!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!!
- Sep. 1948, Scorched-Land Tactics Launched by Burning 10,000 Households in 295 villages -
- Go Changdae (Armed Guerrilla Unit) - Joins Ideok-Gu Battalion, Killed in Action on June 1949, Samyang
- Oh Soonae (17 at the time) - Turns Herself in on March 1949, Executed during prelim. arrests in 1950
- Bu Taejong (Armed Guerrilla Unit) - Killed in Combat in Saroreum in Dec. 1948
- Go Chunseong (Hagwi Middle School) - Arrested in June 1948, Sentenced to 15 years, Executed Once Korean War Started
- Casualties of April 3 Incidents in Jeju - Total Population - 280,000 Jeju Estimates (1963) - 27,719 Korean Handbook (1956) - 40,000 Unofficial Records (1963) - 80,065
- August 15, 1948 - South Korean Government Established
- September 9, 1948 - Democratic People's Republic of Korea Officially Declared
- Pyeongyang -
- Soviet Armed Forces Political Command -
I've been thoroughly informed of your exploits down south.
Remarkable, you surpassed every expectation I had.
Especially that... What was her name, Yoon Yeook?
Your activities with her were truly formidable.
Superb is the word that best defines them.
If anything, you were exposed a little too early...
But that's just pushing it.
So, tell me. You like your new appointment?
You mean Office 14 of the Central Party Force?
That's right. On paper, it's under the labor party's administration,
but always bear in mind it will become the most strategically important department we have.
Because the reality of things is that it supervises the formation of guerrilla units in the south.
I'm sure your experience will come in handy.
Ahh... I've heard you and Comrade Kim Gimun are quite close?!
You were under him ever since your days in the Eighth Route Army, weren't you?
Have a seat.
I was told you came.
I've been anxiously waiting to see you.
But you came here much sooner than I thought.
I can see how hard it's been just by looking at you.
You've had your share of anguish.
I saw our national flag on the banner.
We got rid of the taegeukgi*.
*South Korean flag
We set the one we brought over from China on fire.
I guess we each got something out of this.
They got their taegeukgi, and we kept the name Joseon.
What brought you down here?
Shouldn't people like you be appointed to much higher posts?
Wait... Let me think. You have to go back today?
If that's not the case, let's drink the night away.
I haven't touched a drink in quite some time.
And that's because I can't stop talking when I'm drunk.
Railway labor... Workers' strikes...
Guerrilla warfare in Jeju.
Impressive, just impressive.
So how was it?
How did it feel to fight side by side with those workers?
Do you know why I came all the way here?
Because I was sent by my superior.
What are these "people"? They're like an amoeba.
Prancing about without even touching each other. Amoeba.
Aren't they?
They sent me here to investigate on your sectarianism and right-leaning opportunism.
This is crossing the line... Are you still sober?
Shouldn't you get drunk with me?
Now that I think about it, you're not much of a drinking buddy.
You're ruining this precious wine!
Did you know?
You were the last thing I believed in.
At the railroad strikes, in Jeju... When I mobilized workers for a hopeless struggle,
even when I forced my woman to become a spy, I still believed in you.
You were my Lenin, my Mao Zedong! Don't you get that?
But...
Is this really the man I believed in?
Can you show yourself to me in this state?
Can you?!
Even acting like this can be hard.
I soon will be summoned by the Security Department.
I used to say the very same things.
Why should someone with the combat experience of General Mujeong*...
*Kim Mujeong
be satisfied with a mere post as a commander of a petty unit?
And I even said that in public.
You've been by my side for a long time.
Should you testify against me, they'd need no further evidence.
And that's probably the kind of role they wish you to play.
Remember that.
You can even spit in my face if needed.
If that's what's asked from you, do it without a moment's hesitation.
You're a revolutionary fighter, and fighters shouldn't join politics.
There is something else for you to do.
Seonsaengnim...
This is a revolution!
If I was Kim Ilseong, I would have done the exact same thing.
I'd cut off all the rotten branches on my way to the top.
And if I happen to be one of those branches, I should be cut off.
But you're no branch.
Should anything happen to someone like you because of me,
our people would be losing out.
Am I making myself clear?
I abandoned Yeook.
And that's because I thought it was for her own good.
But...
It's not.
I only did it for my sake.
Because that Yeook keeps making me feel insignificant.
And I couldn't stand feeling like that, every time we were together.
So that's why I abandoned her.
I wanted to tell this to someone.
Next on our agenda is a discussion on how to deal with...
Comrade Kim Gimun's right-leaning tendencies.
On the April 12 edition of the Rodong Shinmun,
the essay penned by Kim Gimun proves without a shadow of a doubt...
his reactionary beliefs.
With that, he tried to corrupt the socialist fabric of our factories and communes...
by debating the merits of capitalism!
Comrade Choi Daechi is up next.
Major Choi has been involved with Comrade Kim ever since 1944.
I...
Comrade Choi! Go ahead.