--Episode 6--
Head Merchant!
Are you going to abandon me like this?
Are you getting rid of this Gil So-gae?
Is it that difficult to make him drink a bucket of water?
You rascal...
Here.
So-gae!
Don't come near me.
If you keep doing it, you'll die!
You're really going to die!
That rascal. That...
So-gae! / Get him!
So-gae, stop!
Did you tell him to kill me?
Answer me!
Before I burn this place down!
You rascal.
Won't you hurry up and get out?
Do you really want to die?
Even if I die, I will die after I get the answer.
I'll take him out, sir.
Let him be for now.
Have a seat.
When you got your feelings hurt, hot water is the best.
Here.
Answer me!
Did you order him to do it, or was it Merchant Maeng's intention?
Put that down!
And I told you to sit!
Many people in this world say that
alcohol, gambling, and women mess them up.
But there's something else that kills a person.
Hearing things you shouldn't hear,
saying things you shouldn't say,
and like you did,
seeing things you shouldn't see make people die!
I... I.
I'm sorry.
When you are looking into your boss's secret,
you must risk your life!
Do you understand?
Please forgive me.
Let go!
Head Merchant!
I won't tell anyone about it!
Please, for the sake of 10 years I've been here... for once...
Just this once... please forgive me, Head Merchant.
Burn them all.
Yes, Head Merchant.
Never again. I will not...
look into them, or copy them.
I won't even glance at it.
Please forgive me, Head Merchant!
So-gae.
No matter how big a beast is, it will die when its neck is bitten.
You have already put your mouth on my neck, no?
Head Merchant.
Head Merchant!
You... impudent fool.
You little fool went through the boss's ledger,
how can you ask for forgiveness?
Crazy bastard.
Head Merchant.
Head Merc....
Shin Suk-ju!
I will come back...
to Yook-ei-jeon no matter what happens.
Through these gates.
I will break the Shin's Major Gaekju signboard.
And put up Gil's Major Gaekju signboard...
You!
Why do you want to be a Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant so badly?
Because he's the king of all merchants.
He can move Chosun with money!
Hey. Do you have some money on you?
Oh, yes.
It's 10 nyang.
Here.
About 40 years ago, when I first stepped into Yook-ei-jeon,
this is how much I started with.
Well now.
Let's see how much you can do with this.
Make him drink water until his stomach is about to burst!
Yes, sir!
What a welcome windfall!
Let's go for it!
Wait!
What?
He's alive.
Move.
He'll die soon. So let's hurry up!
You too. Come on.
Whoa! What is this in his hands?
We should unfold it.
Unfold it, unfold it!
It's not unfolding.
Ugh, you pig. You don't even have that strength...
See! See!
It must be something really expensive. It's not unfolding.
Move! We need to cut his fingers.
This? But, if this is money from a death angel, isn't it too uncomfortable?
What's uncomfortable? We need to cut them.
Right? Okay, cut it!
Whoa! It's a goblin! Goblin!
Dong-pal, what are you doing?
We got to go!
We need to leave so those goblins can freely hang out.
Wait!
Just wait.
Even though we don't take the money,
we should take the topknot of his hair.
You're right. Okay. / Grab him. Grab him.
Okay. Here's the topknot.
Got it.
Alright. Let's go.
Oh, oh. Goblins, goblins!
--Gae-ddong (salted seafood merchant)--
Oh my!
Oh my...
Help me.
Help me...
Because I heard them saying cutting a live person's fingers...
why did I get myself into this.
Ugh. How annoying...
We sold it! Sold the cow! / (Song-pa Stable)
Three cows. I sold it exactly as told.
From now on, we are...
part of Song-pa Stable!
Get me some food!
We worked so hard to sell three cows.
Hey!
You guys can't even differentiate a cow head and a chicken head.
What cows would you sell!
Great job, Bong-Sam. Yeah? Great job!
Hey, sister-in-law!
You startled me.
You don't even know.
The bargaining skills takes about minimum of 10 and maximum of 30 years to build, no?
I can tell right away.
You will never be able to sell cows.
So.
Whom did you sell them to?
They're here.
Come on in. Come!
So, one cow to baekguri and many cows to pyojumak.
We sold the village cows!
Ugh. Hey!
I knew this would happen.
They don't even have money to buy firewood. How can they afford cows?
Hey, Man-chi.
They just came in early in the morning.
Why do you have to throw Bang-geum's straw shoes at them?
Wang-bal, you...
Yes?
Don't worry. They don't have it. Everything will work out.
Oh, here they come.
What are you guys doing? Sit!
Down payment of 30 nyang. Four times annually for two years.
10 percent down payment may be a small amount, but
the village people gathered every nyang they have.
Now that you have a cow, the crop will grow.
So we'll take care of the loans.
Hey, you fool.
A stable doesn't even accept Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant's check.
Like this, I can sell more than 300 cows a day.
Why must you only accept cash selling cows?
Even well-off merchants use credits to make deals.
Giving the goods first,
be it one or two cows,
that's an outdated method.
No, no. That's not it.
Cattle market tradition is the same from 500 years, and even from 1,000 years ago.
Cash exchange.
Why is that? Why?
That's because cows are living creatures.
Before receiving the money, a cow can get sick or even die.
There may be change of circumstances, which can cause conflicts and arguments.
Therefore, we do cash exchange.
"It was a sick cow", "no it wasn't".
"You handled it improperly", "no". If there are disputes,
who are you going to say is right?
It may cause a serious dispute!
Take it back.
I can't do that.
We are businessmen.
We are here to earn money, not to earn compassion.
Hey. Are we at Sun-hye Palace or what?
The King decides the permissible limits.
Hurry up and send them back.
They already put their thumbprints on this contract.
How can I nullify this deal?
What did you say?
Oh, man.
At Dongmong Agency,
this is what you learn during first semester.
Soldiers sell their lives.
Farmers sell their sweat.
And business sells credits.
You told me to sell the cows.
I even received the down payment.
Whether this dealing was done properly or improperly,
it's done deal.
I can't nullify it.
Then,
can you guys take the responsibility?
It's 900 nyang for three cows.
Subtracting 90 nyang you brought in today,
if you write a promissory note worth 810 nyang,
I'll give you the cows.
Apologize 100 times and then send them back home.
Make sure you send them back home, okay?
Okay?
Earn as much money as you can,
and become a Yook-ei-jeon head merchant.
Our country's king is at his palace, and the king of all merchants is
Yook-ei-jeon head merchant.
Therefore, you must follow Shin Suk-ju's footsteps and
become the next Yook-ei-jeon head merchant.
So, be the king of us merchants.
You must. You must do that.
Father.
I got kicked out by Shin Suk-ju.
Just watch.
I won't stop it here.
I'll shove water into Maeng Gu-bum's mouth and put him on a straw mat,
and I'm going to become the next Yook-ei-jeon Head Merchant.
If I don't become the head merchant,
then I'm not your son... I'm a son of a dog.
But still,
look.
Shin Suk-ju acknowledged me.
I earned 2 nyang.
I got my topknot robbed, but not this one.
I miss you so much today.
Father.
Father, I miss you so much!
Father!
Bong-Sam, Bong-Sam!
Bong-Sam...
I didn't come to this stable to be a slave with no salary.
Are you listening to me?
If you keep ignoring me, I'm just going to leave by myself.
Merchant Song said so.
We can't even tell a difference between a dog and a cow.
Oh, man.
It doesn't make sense to sell cows.
Ugh, you fool.
It's not important if we know a cow or not.
These Song-pa Stable cows and
other cows are...
That's right.
It's important to differentiate them.
Sister-in-law!
Throughout my life, I've seen a portrait of a kisaeng, but
a portrait of a cow?
Goodness. Bong-Sam!
Thanks to you, we are witnessing some odd scene.
But what are you doing on expensive paper?
Hey.
You guys are double lumps at our stable.
Lumps of cancer.
We should've cut them off before they grew so big.
But what to do. There are still two days remaining.
Why is time going so slow?
Hey!
Hey, shorty. Let's go together.
I still can't walk properly because I'm still hurt from the beating.
Hey! Let's take a break.
I've done my duty by saving your life.
Why do you keep following me and bugging me?
I told you to leave. You go on your own way, and I go on my own way.
Well, I have to return your clothes and...
Just take it with you and go away!
Go! Go!
As a man, I have things to do.
What connection do getting back at Shin Suk-ju and following me have?
That's right.
Getting back at him?
It's a must.
Because as a man, revenging his enemy is the first thing to do.
But with kindness,
I need to pay back that too.
That's the second thing to do.
Did you really think I'm a shameless fool, who would ignore that kindness?
Until I go back to Yook-ei-jeon,
let's carry those bags of salted seafood together.
There's nowhere in the land of Chosun that would accept me.
But anyway,
the day you found me, how did you fake the goblin lights?
Oh. That was rose mallow.
After I dried the rose mallow, I put it on a bamboo stick.
And then if you light it...
Whoa... you have skills, huh?
Well... is that even a skill...
I mean, I travel by myself...
and I need to protect the salted seafood bags.
Don't you worry.
From now on, this brother will be your pal and protect you.
I'm Gae-ddong.
I'm Gil So-gae.
What is it?
Sir. Look what this fool is doing.
They said they're going to make a branding iron to stamp our cow's butt.
Hey. You'll have to move out tomorrow.
By tomorrow, it'll be exactly 10 days. 10 days.
If that moon moves from there to there, you're done!
I merely asked you to sell the cows,
but why can't you go a day without any trouble?
"Chun Bong-Sam is borrowing three cows
from Head Cattle Broker Cho Sung-jun of Song-pa Stable."
If the balance is paid in two years,
you'll pay the outstanding balance?
I will put my name, Chun Bong-Sam, on it and pay it.
Hey! Two balls are all you got,
and you're going to pay 800 nyang under your name?
My goodness!
Hey. What if you run away?
What would you do?
Chief Cattle Broker!
Diligent and earnest.
As long as you're diligent and earnest, you won't starve.
Those were my father's last words.
I know I've joked around a lot,
but I'm confident that I learned properly at Dongmong Agency.
But, am I really not worth that much?
If you don't pay it back,
you're going to live as a farmhand who does nothing much feeding forever.
I will never make that happen.
All I need to do is differentiate between our Song-pa Stable cows and other cows.
That is why I'm making this branding iron.
And that is why I'm making this sketchbook.
Why can't it be done on cows?
They're selling goods too.
Even if they don't have the money yet,
we must offer credit transactions to the people who need it.
Without credit transactions,
you can't be the best merchant on this land of Chosun.
Hey. Hold it tight. Very tight.
Hey, hey. Hey!
Hey!
(8 years later)
(Kangkyeong Exchange Gaekju)
Alright, I got you.
Isn't that good?
Yes, yes.
I was waiting in the room without the owner.
Wow. They're amazing. These dishes are amazing!
Help yourself.
I heard about it a few days ago.
But what is it about?
You need money to buy cows at Song-pa Stable?
Our lumber deal is huge this time.
Once the work is done, I'll sell the cows and pay you back.
So please lend me the money.
Wait. So you're saying...
there are Echun Stable, Yeoju Stable, and
further out, there are Gapyeong and Haengseong Stables.
Out of all of them, you're purchasing a cow from Song-pa Stable that's the furthest?
There must be something different about Song-pa Stable cows.
Yes. You're right!
Even if they have to pay more commission,
people tend to buy their cows from Song-pa Stable.
I did hear about the branding iron they use on cow's butt.
But is it really worth to pay more commission to buy a cow from them?
Of course. Of course.
Once a mediocre Song-pa Stable became so big one day.
And there's a reason to that success.
(Owner: Chun Bong-Sam)
Go with this one!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're like taking a bride as beautiful as Queen Yang-qui-bin.
Alright. Now that you took a look at them, let's exchange.
Give and take. And give.
Alright, double check.
Alright.
Now the commission. Commission.
And here.
This 1 nyang is a freebie.
Get a bottle of drink with that.
Whoa. This can pay for not just one bottle, but three bottles!
Thank you so much!
Hey, cut off the price.
You take only 1% commission from him,
and you take 2% from me.
Why is that?
Is my money any different?
You don't understand.
That one will give birth to twins.
I'm telling you. Twins!
Twins?
How can you tell?
I know right?
No matter how much of an expert he is, he can't see through a cow's stomach...
No, that's not the case.
Here. Take a look at this.
Male. 5 years old. Name, Bawoo.
Its father a winner of Chungdo cattle fight?
He is short-tempered, but he works very quickly.
Isn't this a cattle sales report?
It has all the records of cattle sales.
I wrote everything in here. Everything.
That one's mother is... see it here?
This one's Da-San. And this one's mother's mother is... let's see.
Where is this one...
Oh. Here it is.
Here. This one.
This one is Ddang-soon.
These two cows gave birth six times. And they had twins three times.
You know it, right? Twins!
What are you going to do if this one doesn't give birth to twins?
Hey!
It gave birth to twins three out of six times, a 50% chance.
That's why it was 180 nyang.
If it gave birth to twins every time, then it's 380 nyang.
You can't even buy it...
Have good faith in it and take a good care of it.
Then at least once or twice, it'll give birth to twins.
It will! It's written in here.
Alright. Now let's go get some drinks.
And on top of that,
if it's a village cow and the village people guarantee it,
you can purchase it on credit.
What do you mean by on credit?
I can understand if they're silk, cotton, and grains. But cows?
No, no. I'm serious!
Oh, hello.
Why? Huh?
This octopus will give instant strength.
They're extremely devoted.
They handle cows sold on credit with great care every day.
Last time, there was cow disease going around.
They went around the town with cows
and fed them herbal medicine.
To sell a cow on credit requires a huge determination.
Isn't that so?
There's no fool at Song-pa Stable to come up with that idea.
I know them greedy cattle brokers, but...
It's Mr. Bong.
Mr. Bong.
What?
Mr. Bong?
Mr. Bong...?
He's been with Song-pa Stable for 8 years.
They got lucky to pick up a man with good fortune.
Because of him, they closed a deal of 10,000 cows.
They contacted merchants all around,
including me, to share some rice cake and drinks.
Take me with you.
Because I have some debt to collect from Song-pa Stable, let's go together!
Me too!
Take me with you.
You?
This and that...
I also have things to buy at Yook-ei-jeon. And I feel too cramped.
Let's look around Hanyang.
Sounds good! Let's go!
What is that about?
If he goes by "Mr.", wouldn't he be old?
Also, don't you put your surname after "Mr."?
Mr. Bong.
That cattle sales book. It was a bit awkward, but
it was exactly like the ones that Gaeseong merchant make.
There are about 20,000 Gaeseong merchants.
Why did I...
think of my father when I heard the words "Mr. Bong" and "broker"?
During the period of famine, my father used to make down payments
even before the divers brought the dried sea cucumbers from the sea.
Everyone criticized him for paying the divers
without knowing the condition of the sea.
Yeah, I know.
I know it's my stubbornness
and another hope that has only returned in disappointment.
Bong-Sam always hated doing business.
And he never wanted to become a peddler.
But still. Still.
You never know.
I'll look into it.
Head Cattle Broker!
Come out!
Please come out!
Yee-haw!
Wow!
Alright!
Now that we sent the cattle angel god...
Today is the day we celebrate Song-pa Stable closing a deal of 10,000 cows!
Everyone, let's have plentiful drinks!
Yee-haw!
So, is everything enough... Oh, oh.
Wang-bal, bring more drinks here!
Yes, sir.
So, does the food fit your appetite...?
Get them more cow-head meat.
Yes, yes.
Head Cattle Broker!
My goodness!
Yangpyeong Merchant Jang!
Congratulations!
Congratulations from me too.
Have you forgotten me?
What brings you here?
I came here to collect the debt.
Throughout these years, the money I lend you grew and grew,
and it turned into this big stable.
I'm happy for you.
What?
What do you mean by debt?
Uh-oh.
You don't have any gray hair.
They say immature men don't grow old. Is that the case?
Hey, merchant. Why did you bring a tail with you?
There's no one to welcome him.
Song-pa Stable owes me 2,400 pieces of silver.
We'll talk about that later.
Let me get some water.
What are you doing there?
Bring me some drinks!
Today, we have everything except beef.
Here comes some steamed pork.
So, Mr. Bong is younger than I thought.
Huh? What do you mean young. He's almost my age.
No way...
He was in my class at Dongmong Agency.
When someone looks young, it has to do with the food he eats.
The food he eats.
He eats a lot of greasy food, so he looks pretty young.
But he is very old.
Look. Here, here.
Which gaekju are you from?
Go grab a table. I'll serve you a good meal.
Is Mr. Bong's surname Bong?
Hey, you!
Of course he's from a Bong family. Bong Sam.
Which clan of Bong?
That's probably... the.. Hanam Bong. Bong Sam!
Bong Sam...
You little!
So that name means...
Three.
Mr. Bong's father had a dream of three phoenix,
and they flew into his arms.
That's why three phoenix (bong). Bong Sam.
That's why he's a Bong Sam. The end!
"Mr. Bong, who came last year. He didn't forget and came back again."
Have more drinks. Here. Here.
So you know what? Our cow gave birth to twins.
Really?
You really had a joyous moment!
Both calves are female!
This is all thanks to you, Mr. Bong.
Let's drink a lot today, Mr. Bong.
Oh, no. It's all because you're a fortunate person.
Lucky man, lucky man.
Here.
Wow.
You have a successor with unbelievable business skills.
That's right.
It's a one of a kind skill.
Hey, you, Mr. Song-pa Stable Successor!
Come here and take this drink from Kim Hak-jun.
Sir. Hurry up and go.
He's offering you a drink.
I don't want to!
I don't really like that person.
But still, he's the owner of Kangkyeong Exchange Gaekju.
He's a rich man.
Goodness. I said I'm not happy to see him.
Come on. Just go. Don't be shy.
Oh... why are you guys are pushing me...
Just go. Come on. / Man, I said I'm not happy to see him.
Well, because the time has passed a lot, let's not talk about the money.
I will take a drink from you this time only.
Forget about any debt you have in your head, okay?
Hey. Mr. Bong?
Merchant Kim.
Mr. Bong! Come on over.
Song-pa Stable's future owner!
Drink with this Kim Hak-jun.
What did you just say?
Man-chi.
What? What do you mean?
Future owner and what?
What nonsense did you just spout out!
Did I make a mistake or something?
Head Cattle Broker said that
that young man over there is his successor. That's why!
You're saying some crazy nonsense!
Sir! Sir!
Deuk-gae!
Why are you doing this?
Oh my.
What's going on?
Are you crazy?
That's right. Good.
Hearing about the second generation Song-pa Stable owner got you excited, huh?
Ouch.
Sir. You're drunk, huh?
He's a visitor to celebrate with us.
Let go of this. Let go.
Won't you guys stop?
Drop your hands.
What is this chaos?
I'm not at the age to lose hearing yet.
Head Cattle Broker said so.
Fine!
I've always wanted to hear your thought anyway.
Tell me who the next Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker is.
Tell me right now!
Song-pa Stable's
next Head Cattle Broker. Who is it?
Why can't you say it? I'm telling you to say it!
I didn't want to say it in a situation like this.
Man-chi.
The next Head Cattle Broker of Song-pa Stable is...
The second generation head cattle broker is
Bong-Sam.
Boss!
Don't say such head cracking nonsense!
Sir!
When you were on a straw mat at Dongmong Agency, I should've crushed your skull.
Man-chi!
Stay there like that.
If you get up, I'll crack your head for real.
Hey, Merchant Song. Don't get too angry.
That's how this world run.
This festival is very interesting. Interesting!
Won't you stop that with your mouth?
I'll stop.
Why don't you wake up, sir?
To a guy whose fuzz isn't fully shed,
you're going to pass over our gaekju?
Chicken head
versus cattle head. He can't even differentiate them.
But what?
You're going to let him run our stable?
You're not even that old yet, but are you senile?
Ow, ow.
Hey, sir.
Please move this away.
This stinks like crazy.
You're drunk, eh?
People. There's a lot of people, and you're drunk, eh?
Hurry up and move this away.
I told you to stay still!
Man-chi!
Man-chi.
Oh?
Alright.
You saw me as a piece of cake, huh?
Did I
say that I'll take it over?
Who?
Who said that he's going to be the Head Cattle Broker of this stinky place?
Even if you give it to me, I won't take it.
I will never
become a gaekju owner.
Damn it!
Hey!
Hey! Stop there!
Oh, okay. That's good.
If you don't come to me, I can go to you.
Man-chi.
Oh what... What to do?
Man-chi!
Hey. Stop there!
I said stop!
He's seriously angry. He's dead when he gets him.
You should've done better.
Do you think you're the only one suffering?
I'm suffering too!
If you have done a better job,
a kid who can't differentiate a chicken head and a cow head
wouldn't have been picked to be the next owner. No?
What did you say?!
Ugh, I hate it. I really hate this!
I'm so tired of this stable, gaekju, or whatever!
You hypocrite!
Hey, that's not it.
Even though Bong-Sam is harsh some times,
he's not a hypocrite.
Our Bong-Sam is...
Ouch.
The one who says he doesn't like gaekju works for 8 years,
and expand your assets to 17 cows?
Who doesn't know that you did that
to become the next Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker?
Who doesn't know?
I won't eat it even if you give it to me!
Song-pa Stable Head Cattle Broker.
You can eat that all by yourself!
All!
What?
You...
Bong-Sam.
Does our stable look so easy to you?
Easy?
Bong-Sam! Watch out!
Hey.
Is Song-pa Stable something you eat and eat?
Do the boss and I, and other merchants look like poop to you?
Gaekju owner.
You don't even know what that is.
What? I'll really crack your head!
Do you even know what it is to become a head of something? Huh?
Do you know what position a gaekju owner is like?
It means you have to feed and take care of everything from the body to the tail.
Bong-Sam. Hey...
It means that there are hundreds of people placing their lives on me.
It's such a lonely position.
It's such a scary position.
As a gaekju owner,
I have to put my life on it.
Do you know how my father died?
Do you know how So-gae's father died?
I'm not taking that crappy position.
Who says so?
How will I let this mere Song-pa Stable
take away my precious life?
I'm not doing it.
I will never ever become a gaekju owner!
Bong-Sam.
Bong-Sam!
That stinky bastard.
Man-chi.
I'm really angry right now.
Don't mess with me and just ignore it.
Let's go drink.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
You're up early, brother.
You're here.
Why are you exercising something that ones below you do?
My goodness.
Yeah. So, you know that day you were trying
to crush me by using Min Kyeom-ho.
Do you remember what Shin Suk-ju taught you in order to win him?
He told me to live long. Very long.
That's such an amazing saying.
What's the point of being so prosperous?
There's no point if you die early.
You are so right, brother.
Go rest.
Oh man.
Three.
They say 10 years of a man's revenge is too short.
You controlled well.
I'm bigger than that.
How was the Song-pa Stable festival?
Oh, man. They were fighting each other. It was a chaos! Chaos.
"I'm the successor", "you're the successor".
Who is the second generation head cattle broker? Song Man-chi? Or Mr. Bong?
They went crazy.
It's always like that.
Once the first gaekju owner opens his gaekju,
successor candidates fight over each other, and that's how gaekju splits up.
People can share hard times, but
it's extremely difficult to share money and power. That's human being.
Once a business starts expanding,
even siblings become unwilling to share money with each other.
That's why it's rare to find a gaekju that goes to the 3rd generation.
Oh. What a waste.
What's a waste?
Because you weren't able to have the festival food?
Instead of having the festival ruined,
how fun would it be if Song-pa Stable was the one that got ruined?
That would have been fun, but you said they were like brothers.
Would a 30-year-old relationship break that easily?
You never know.
They say a woman's jealously can make a household fall,
and a man's jealously can make a country fall.
You are so intelligent and knowledgeable.
You deserve to be more than an exchange gaekju owner.
Oh, man. This is fun.
Imagining the two cattle robbers, who stole my money, fighting each other
makes me happy.
You're right. I wish I could've seen that.
It's been 18 years. 18 years!
I haven't even met the name "Bong Sam" in 18 years, and now I finally have.
But you're saying he's not my bother?
He's not Chun Bong-Sam?
He's from Hanam Bong family, and his name is Sam?
He's a Bong Sam that has nothing to do with me?
That can't be it.
I'm going to go there.
I'm going to see it myself with my eyes.
Bong-Sam. Bong-Sam! Bong-Sam!
Just leave! And talk to him tomorrow.
Merchant Song is still angry, and out of his drunkenness,
it's going cause another fight.
That's even better.
There's going to be no misunderstanding if everyone's there.
Is it Bong-Sam or me?
Hurry up and pick one.
Me or Bong-Sam?
Man-chi.
Because the stable grew after Bong-Sam came, what became better?
So that's... your answer, right?
It's Bong-Sam, huh?
Man-chi.
Our generation has passed by now.
Too bad if you're sad and angry. It's not our generation anymore.
All there is left for us to do is applaud our successors.
Let's support Bong-Sam.
We're cattle-driving merchants.
We used to take cows here and there, and sell them at the cattle market.
We were cattle brokers, but
Bong-Sam is different.
So what?
So because the stable grew after Bong-Sam came, what became better?
For me,
nothing got better.
Okay.
Yes, the scale of our stable became bigger.
Because our family grew from 13 to 87.
But this...
I don't know who is who. Ol-gae or Ddol-gae?
Dol or Cha-dol?
Even the names are confusing.
What's the point of becoming the best cattle market?
Every month, our salary expense is 240 yang.
And because of that damn salary expenses,
we're left with nothing.
Regardless, do you really like our expanded stable?
Gaekju is...
not there to have the owner earn money and save them.
If so,
you can be happy making interest, like Kim Hak-jun.
Before we could only feed 13 people.
But now, we run a legitimate business and at least
feed and support 87 people.
Stop it. Stop!
Instead of doing that, just sell the stable
and spread it to the land of Chosun.
Spread it to the beggars of the land of Chosun!
Man-chi!
Every human being has his own capacity.
Song-pa Stable is...
not something you can handle with your capacity.
So what?
My capacity is small?
Bong-Sam...
Bong-Sam! Bong-Sam!
I don't even want to hear it.
Bong-Sam, you rascal!
Let go!
I'm going to see it myself.
When the door opens,
I'm going to cross the river at Song-pa.
I'm going to go to the stable, and meet the person named Bong Sam.
If he's Hanam family Bong Sam, or my brother Bong-Sam,
my father's son Chun Bong-Sam...
At the shrine in Shinbak,
the one whom I abandoned,
my younger brother...
if he's my younger brother Bong-Sam.
His age doesn't match.
Stop it! Stop it!
I'm going to Euiju. Euiju.
To Euiju Shinmak.
I have to go.
I'm going to go and find him myself.
Okay, okay. I got it.
Bong-Sam, why are you doing this?
No. Don't!
Don't!
No. You can't leave.
My goodness. Don't act like a wife chasing after her cheating husband.
Get out of the way.
Once a woman pulls her hair down, she is done and dies at that household.
Likewise, a merchant puts his feet into a gaekju, that's the place he needs to stay.
Where are you going?
Hey.
Chun's Gaekju fell.
And Song-pa Stable can't, because of me...
never!
Isn't that right?
They can't fall.
Bong-Sam!
Um...
Use it as you travel.
Brother.
Ooh, this smell.
Take care.
I'm leaving.
It is I who must leave, out of friendship, where the soup goes
the radish kimchi follows.
Bong-Sam!
--The Merchant: Gaekju 2015--
Please write a petition.
A man named Song Man-chi had an affair with the head cattle broker's wife
and ran away at night.
Let's cut it in half.
Isn't Song-pa Stable too big for you to own alone?
Do you want Song-pa Stable to turn into hell?
Soh-leh!
Bong-Sam, where are you?
Chun Soh-leh!
Bong-Sam!