Damn!
Kill me with that knife
and take this.
That's your remaining 3rd option.
Fine.
I'll kill you.
You scoundrel wretch!
Kill me.
But the Chun Merchant Group
isn't something someone like you can chew and swallow up.
Even though you are dealing with me, you don't know anything about me.
You are the half bother of the Gaesung Yoo Su. How much do I need to know about you?
Do you know what this Kim Hak Joon eats, when he sleeps,
what kind of books he reads, and what he likes?
What nonsense. Am I your wife?
I know what Gil Sang Moon likes, when he lies down with his blanket spread out,
I know who is your contact in Hojo*Hojo: a government office which is in charge of taxation.
And whom you gave a bribe to in Sunhyechung.*Sunhyechung: a government office which is in charge of taxation.
Even when it's like this, did you expect to win against me?
Since you couldn't kill me even when I handed you the knife,
now, you should choose either one or the other.
Will you hand the Chun Merchant Group over or...
will you carry that opium all the way to Hanyang
to extend the due date?
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Ah, seriously. Pick something feminine!
This is pretty! I've saved my allowance for a year to buy you something.
I am the daughter of a merchant and now I'll become the wife of a merchant too.
What is better than this?
Even if I marry you, I will go on a business trip with you.
What about the household chores? A woman has to have the household chores under her control
so that the man can be assured and work outside.
Then, let's marry ahjussi to someone and leave that to the step-mother.
The way your brain works is just amazing.
I'll treasure it for my entire life... orabeoni.
Eolreri Kkolreri~ Eolreri Kkolreri~(teasing them) So Gil Hyung and So Rye noona like each other!
- Eolreri Kkolreri~ Eolreri Kkolreri~- Hold it down!
Hey! You won't be quiet? Orabeoni and I are going to get married so what did we do?
-Eolreri Kkolreri~ Eolreri Kkolreri~-Hey.
Hey, stop it! Hey!
When I return, it seems I'll have to talk with Hyungnim to set up a marriage date first.
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I just made a deal.
You just threw away an 18,000 nyang deal.
How can you conduct business like that? You can't even get the profit that's right in front of your eyes.
Are you that happy?
Are you that happy that you made another Joseon merchant fail and stole that money?
What? Stole?
How dare you recite in that manner?!
There are rules and etiquette meant to be followed in business.
That is called 'sangdo'...'sangdo'
Since you have smuggled and sold the opium for a cheap price, you should of course pay the tax,
and what will happen to the one who received the International Market Exchange approval?
What nonsense you're sprouting. Will I die or will you die?
That's business. It's a war of your throat! Why should I
worry about the cowhide seller whose face I don't even know?
You... have you ever seen hell?
A bankrupt merchant is hell itself.
Since the merchants who have lost their jobs and are kicked out to the streets will freeze to death in this cold weather,
that's the hell of ice.
Creditors would bite them to pay the money back like snakes. That's the hell of the snake.
Since their family members will starve until their insides burn in hunger,
that's the hell of hunger.
So, is it my fault?
The one which is licensed to sell cowhide is Woochun horse stable in Kyungsan province.
It will soon be hell for that merchant.
You're right. It's your fault. You,
you were the one who created that hell.
Do you have a son?
If you have children,
take a look at their face while sleeping.
Just as this world won't end just because I die,
business isn't making it big once and then ending it.
Now, now, now, hurry, hurry!
Oh! Father, you're late.
Yea.
Why are you bringing back what you took?
Did the people find any fault with the dried sea cucumbers?
There seems to be some moisture in there, maybe rainwater leaked into it.
Head Merchant!
Merchant Elder!
This rascal... really! You should knock if you're going to enter someone else's room!
Wait.
Head Merchant, are you trying to take this without the Merchant Elder knowing?
Do you think it's okay just to say anything you want?
I just asked.
Still this rascal! This...
What?!
Let's go to see the Merchant Elder.
I got it, you rascal.
Look, look. Take a look! They are not ordinary products you can see at any other place.
I brought dysentery medicine.
Dysentery medicine. Yang Guifei's powder! This is really good!
Hey, excuse me. Excuse me!
They are... from Merchant Chun?
Those little ones spread to sell in foreign land at that.
Anyway, people from Gaesung are very different from any other place.
- You...-This... is Guifei's powder. Yang Guifei's powder.
The famous Yang Guifei's secret of the family handed down for generations...
This is the secret powder.
Which household's secret is that?
Ah, Ajussi. Ma'am, you came to Chaekmoon, too. Good morning!
Hey! It's good that you have nice greetings,
but I have no thoughts of hearing greetings from you.
Looking at your faces,
it reminds me of your fathers' faces and it makes my mood go completely sour!
Ah.
This is dysentery medicine. It's good for the packman like us.
- Since you saved our Merchant Elder, this is a thank-you gift. -Oh!
Goodness.
-Thanks. I'll use it well. -Yes.
-Goodbye! -Thank you.
Thank you!
Yang Guifei's powder. The Yang Guifei powder that you will search for again if you use it once is right here.*Yang Guifei is a legendary beauty of ancient China.
Oh, it really tastes bad.
It could be delicious to Chinese people.
Impossible.
Ah! Let's put in sliced dried sea cucumber.
Are you crazy? That expensive stuff...
We have some that got wet with rainwater.
We could raise the price of the rice porridge.
The thing Chinese people prefer even more than ginseng
is dried sea cucumber.
Ahjussi! Give me some dried sea cucumber that got wet with rainwater.
He's not here.
Here it is.
Step back!
Aigoo...
Aigoo. I stepped on this International Market land for at least 30 years
and this has never happened.
The value of the dried sea cucumber went down?!
The items going into the Qing Palace,
-dried sea cucumbers are included. -Uh?
Hyungnim, does that make sense?
In order to find dried sea cucumbers, one must find us first.
So how could anyone get dried sea cucumber in Joseon
without me, Chun Oh Soo knowing?
Merchant Elder! Merchant Elder! Merchant Elder.
The custom inspectors have barged in with soldiers.
What?!
No, this is...
Opium?
As for the Chaekmoon (I-market), Hunan and Shanghi too.
Anyway the foreigner merchants
are to be watched carefully as ordered.
-Search carefully. -Yes.
Search carefully!
-Yes! -That way! Go that way.
Please handle goods with care. These are superlative dried see cucumber!
Be careful! The goods will get damaged!
- No, no! No, no, where did Head Merchant Gil go? -These are precious items.
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This way!
Ahjussi.
- What are those scary things? Where did they come from? -Shhh.
Bong Sam. From now on, listen well to what Ahjussi tells you.
Ahjussi will lift you up over there
so you should jump down and run all the way to the creek
And
you have to throw this basket into the creek, you hear?
-Why? -Don't ask that.
The Chun Merchant Group's future is depending on you.
You understand my words, right?
Bong Sam, hurry.
I said the Chun Family Merchant Group's future is depending on you.
Father.
Bong Sam!
Bong Sam, hurry.
You have to run to a creek and that basket,
You have to throw it in, okay?
Check carefully to see if anything is spoiled.
Yes, Merchant Elder.
We searched carefully but it's still clean.
The Chun Merchant Group
is also a group that hasn't done any sort of illegal activity.
I think we can return now.
-Let's go. -Yes.
Opium! Run after it!
Chase after it!
-Opium? -Opium?
What's going on?
Excuse me. Excuse me!
What is it? Why are you so late?
Hyung! This... I have to throw this into the creek quickly!
Are you crazy? Why would you throw away dried sea cucumber?
Ahjussi said the Chun Merchant Group will fall!
Hurry! Hurry and throw this into the lake.
They're coming over there! Hurry!
Quickly go. Quickly.
Hurry!
Hey, Chun Merchant Kids! They're fake, right?
This punk. Hey!
You are ignoring elders words? I'll bust your head.
So Rye, hurry and put it in that pot! Bong Sam, quickly!
Hey. Hey, what are you guys doing?
Hey! Oh.
What is this? Why is it like this?
A kid whose blood hasn't even dried on his head (young child) is trafficking opium? Drag him away!
- Yes. -Opium... opium? What do you mean opium?
This, what happened here?
This is opium smuggler! Drag him to integrating room!
-Yes. -Father! Father!
- So Gae. -They said I'm trafficking opium. Trafficking opium!
So Gae...
-Father! -Let him go.
It's me, it's me! I'm the one who hid the opium.
So let my son go.
Hyungnim!
I will personally do the interrogation.
- Bring them to the inn where they stay.- Yes, sir.
-Yes. Drag them away! -Yes!
-Father. Father! -Let's go! Let's go!
-Let's go! -Hyungnim. Hyungnim!
-Hyungim! So Gae! -Father! Father!
Kim Hak Joon!
As*hole.
Go out.
Yes.
Are you
the Chun Merchant Group's Head Merchant, Gil Sang Moon?
Y-yes. Yes, that's right.
But, there is another person who gave me opium.
Just answer what I ask.
"Yes" or "no" only.
It's Kim Hak Joon.
The person who gave me opium is Kim Hak Joon.
How stupid you are!
You still can't comprehend the situation?
Head Merchant Gil, I will tell you the one way in which you can live.
What I want is not you.
It's Chun Oh Soo's head and the Chun Merchant Group.
If you point out Chun Oh Soo,
you can live.
Say that the opium trafficking was ordered by the Merchant Elder.
Then, I'll hand over the branch in Hanyang over to you.
Hurry. Hold my hand.
No. No. No!
No!
Now, tell me.
Who is the opium trafficker that I have to kill?
I'll ask you again.
Who is the person whose head I should cut off?
I can't believe it.
The Head Merchant trafficked opium?
No. That's definitely not it!
I, too wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
He was rushing around in his room trying to hide the opium a while ago.
I saw it!
Don't go there.
We are in Qing. Not Gaesung!
And it is about opium!
Still, do I leave hyungnim like that?!
-Hyungnim! Hyungnim! -Aigoo.
-Hyungnim. -Aigoo.
Only enough time to take a spoonful of time, so how is he already...
How could they make you like this?
What's the reason you asked to see me?
I'll say in advance that I am not a person who covets and accets bribes.
Yi Ha Bu Jung Kwan.
Meaning under a plum tree, you do not fix your hat.
You say it out in the open. Yi Ha Bu Jung Kwan.
If my hyungnim touched opium, there is surely a reason why he did it.
He might be framed up or he might not know it is opium.
Even if that's the case, what's different?
It's different. If the circumstances of the crime are different, the punishment changes as well.
If you find out who gave opium to hyungnim,
hang the person by the law of Chaekmoon and give him light punishment,
I will give you 2000 pieces of silver.
2-2-2000 pieces?
I-I said I'm not a person who receives bribes.
This money is not a bribe.
But showing our appreciation to the government office.
It is to show appreciation to the government office, he said.
This is up-front money.
Whether it's bribes or up-front money, I won't take it.
I can't receive it.
And this person won't open his mouth.
Whether he is an accomplice or the ringleader, how am I to reveal anything?
We will reveal it.
We will find out who is the real culprits using the alter of the packman.
A packman's alter?
Ones with merchant ID, must in front of peddlers
they have to tell the truth.
To merchants like us, it's a law even more scarier than the nation's laws
and a heavy law.
Tell the truth in front of colleagues...
It could be better to reveal the truth out in the open.
Merchant Elder. Merchant Elder.
Make the peddlers altar.
I'll open the peddlers altar of Songdoimbang.
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I don't know about the the alter of the packman.
Chun Oh Soo, you just have to say those 3 syllables of that name.
That makes you and your son can go home, and enjoy your life.
Protect your life well.
Comrades? Friends? Loyalty?
There is no such thing in the world that is more precious than your own life.
You have to think of your son too.
Are you planning to kill your son as well?
Whatever the circumstances were, your son was the one who took the opium and ran.
Grand Merchant! I heard that broker Gil is the one created the problem.
Also, Kim Hak Joon is the half brother of the Gaesung's Police Chief Kim Bo Hyeon.
(Hwanjeon Gaekju-A loan shark broker)
His nickname is "Ahgwi" and his reputation is horrifying.(Ahgwi-"Lophiomus" a goosefish)
It is between the teeth and throat.
Shin Seok Joo (Shin Family's Head Merchant)Half older brother like Kim Hak Joon chew up with his teeth,
then younger brother Kim Bo Hyeon would swallow him.
In last 10-years Chun Family Merchant Group got plump, didn't it?
Why did they borrow money from Kim Hak Joon?...
Gil Sang Moon. Gil Sang Moon.
Gil Sang Moon, that guy is Broker Gil.
Gil Sang Moon?
Merchant Elder!
Elder Merchant, please pave way to allow our Chun Merchant Group
to enter into Yukuijeon.
On your next merchant meeting,
our Chun Family Merchant Group
please pick our Chun Family Merchant Group as your supplier for sea food to Yookyi-jun.
Merchant Elder! I'll do anything you ask me to.
Please tell me the way I can get into the Yukuijeon!
Work hard.
Merchant Elder.
Merchant Elder!
Merchant Elder.
Gil Sang Moon. It was Gil Sang Moon.
A merchant lowlife from out in the sticks, who doesn't even know what "working hard" means.
He has to bribe Ministry of Finance and Trade...
Where he's sending bribes diligently,
(it's like going dead broke) and being skinned completely!
Isn't there a wall if you don't see it?
To jump over the Yookyi-jun's walls
many new merchants busted heads.
There were more than a few.
Let's take over Chun Family Merchant Group.
If the Chun Family Merchant Group came out on the market,
seafood merchants from all the eight-provinces will be gathered like dogs.
I don't believe that you touched opium.
You must have certain circumstances in which you had no choice in.
Please reveal that in this spot right now.
Father! Father!
Father! Father! Father!
I am a peddler with my name registered under Songdoimbang Merchant!
Let him be.
How can he stay still when his father is like this?
Head Merchant Gil, hurry and reveal what it is you're hiding.
Reveal where you got the opium from
and who gave it to you. Quickly.
Look Merchant Elder! He can't say anything.
Whether Broker Gil is like a brother to the Head Merchant
or whether he accomplished a goal in establishing this Chun Merchant Group,
this isn't a matter where you can be confused by attachment.
Yeah. If this get muddled with personal feelings
then why would he be standing at the packman's alter?!
What I want is not you, Head Merchant Gil.
It's Chun Oh Soo's head and the Chun Merchant Group.
Where did you get the opium from?
Hurry and say who you received it from, Hyungnim.
Protect your life well.
Comrade? Friend? Loyalty?
Nothing is more precious than your own life in this world.
You have to think about your son too.
Are you planning to kill your son too?
Anyway, it was your son who took the opium and ran. Hmm?
Father.
Tell him. Please.
I...
I wanted our Chun Merchant Group
to enter the Yukuijeon.
[Yeugijeon: A large merchant with exclusive rights to supply goods to the government]
Hyungnim,
Wootukk,
Gae Nom,
Mong Gae,
inside my son,
and
our Bong Sam who
will become the next Merchant Elder of the Chun Merchant Group.
And all of my colleagues here!
For the rest of their lives,
I wanted to help them to escape from being peddlers.
I wanted our Chun Family Merchant Group
to confidently put up our billboard
in Yukuijeon at Jongno in Hanyang
and I wanted to
make them live well while basking in wealth.
Hyungnim, so? So what are you saying you did?
Whether it was for the Dept. of Agriculture
or for the Ministry of Finance and Trade.
I needed money for bribery.
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The person who ordered me to traffic opium is...
Hurry and say it, Hyungnim!
The one who ordered me to traffic opium...
In order to make the money for bribery,
I did it alone.
What is the Yukuijeon?
Hyungnim, exactly what is the Yukuijeon?!
What would the Yukuijeon be?
To merchants like us,
it's an
eternal dream.
Why are you hesitating?
Is the packman's alter only for talking?
The International Market's law is that we kill you here right now.
If you cannot punish the criminal, we will do it according to our law.
Spare him!
Whatever the Yukuijeon is, whether both of your thinking is different or not,
he did it for the sake of the Chun Merchant Group.
Spare him!
We can't wait any longer.
We'll proceed according to the International Market law.
Take him to interrogating room!
Yes.
Stop!
When the packman's alter is opened,
you'll have to wait, even if you're a nation's King!
What?! This Joseon bastard!
Step back!
I'll make the judgement.
Songdoinbang,
Chun Merchant Group's Boss Gil Sang Moon
With opium,
broke the code of peddlers
and placed the merchant group in danger.
You tried to distribute the item that should not be handled.
That crime,
that crime
will be paid with your life!
I'm sorry.
N-no!
So Gae.
Father.
The reason why father touched opium
was because of the Chun Merchant Group.
He wanted to do well!
But why does my father have to die?
Fill it up again.
N-no! F-father!
Father!
Father.
Do you not think about me?
If you just leave me and go by yourself, is that the end?
You can't... you can't!
Who told you to drink lye without your son's permission?
Let go. Let go of me!
I can't let you off any longer!
You scoundrel!
Are you going to hand your father over to them?
My father who
risked his life to work for the Chun Merchant Group,
why does he have to die?
Why?! It's unfair.
I feel so much pity for him and he's been wronged.
You're also obligated to do what's right as a merchant.
You should know the code of ethics for merchants too.
In order to make money,
using the wrong method is not the way of business.
With that opium, families being ruined and embarrassed
think of the people who will lose their lives!
Drag So Gae out.
What are you doing, Hyungnim? Hurry and fill it up again!
No... no, father.
Father, you can't. Father, you can't! Father, you can't! Father... -So Gae.
No. Spare him, spare him!
Father, you can't.
Let go, let go... let go of me!
F-f-father, are you crazy?!
No...
-Ahjussi, no. -You can't.
Take Bong Sam and So Rye into their rooms.
Ahjussi!
-No! Ahjussi! Ahjussi! -Ajussi! Ahjussi!
-Ahjussi! You can't! Ahjussi! -Ahjussi!
-Ahjussi! -Ahjussi, you can't.
Father, you can't. Father!
Father, you can't. You can't! Father, you can't!
Don't drink it!
It's really cruel. I can't watch.
I feel like it is my fault because I interfered...
It feels uncomfortable.
Father...
My son.
You have to make a lot of money
and become the head merchant of Yeugijeon.
The nation's King resides in the Gyeongbokgung palace and the merchant's King
is the Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon. So you
follow in Shin Suk Joo's footsteps
and become the Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon.
And like that,
become the King
for merchants like us. Have to...
You have to.
Father. Father, you can't. Father, you can't.
Father!
Money!
You have to earn a lot of it.
Money... can fly even though it doesn't have wings
and can run even though it doesn't have legs.
You can even order around the ghosts.
It's the sole item in life.
So, earn a lot of money
and become the Head Merchant of the Yukuijeon.
Earn a lot of money and in the Yukuijeon, become the Head-
Father... father.
Go away.
Go away!
Father!
Father! Father!
Save him! My father!
Ahjussi... ahjussi!
Sang Moon.
Father.
Father! Father!
Someone save my father! What do I do?
It was a done deal. Just as spilling snot into a fine bowl of rice.
Drink lye to save Chun Oh Soo!
Because he was ignorant person,
he couldn't sever the useless personal tie.
Still, it was touching.
They say that when a bird dies, that sound is sad. When a human dies,
that sound is kind.
That was extraordinary. Extraordinary last words.
He left behind a big lesson to his son.
That was extraordinary. Extraordinary last words.
Father! Father.
Father!
Ah, you're really vicious! Are you just going to watch?
Rescue him or kill him.
Pick one of the two!
S-So Gae.
Save your father.
-Kill me. -No. No.
-Please. -No. No.
Please.
So Gae.
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Hurry. Oh Soo, hurry. Oh Soo.
-Hurry. -Hyungnim.
Now go
in your younger brother's arms.
Hurry.
Father! Father!
Thank you, younger brother.
M-my...
my So Gae...
take care of-
- Hyungnim... Sang Moon Hyungnim... Hyungnim! - Father! Father! Father!
Hyungnim!
-Hyungnim! -Father!
Father!
-Hyungnim! - Father!
F-F-Father! What about me?
Gil Sang Moon - Broker, Beloved Father & Brother
Broker Gil, goodbye...
Sleep well.
Hyungnim.
Elder Merchant! Elder Merchant!
Chun Family Merchant Group was issued a deportation notice. They even took away the license for International Market.
They're packing their bags while not being able to sell the dried sea cucumbers.
Aha, those fellows!
Is this your doing?
Wow! I recognized this instantly, just with one look.
Chun Merchant Group's debtLoan Collector: Kim Hak Joon
My bookkeeper's log of Gaesung Merchants are quite amazing. Yes, indeed.
But, you haven't paid back the interest fully.
Until today you owe 54,920 nyang.
Was it you? Were you the one who throw opium at my hyungnim?
As you can see, what I gave to Head Merchant Gil was 30,000 nyang.
My hyungnim was a person who didn't even know what opium was his whole life!
Mhm.
I understand that you are upset and angry but you can't release your anger at anyone.
Will you be able to get the money on time?
It won't go as you wish.
Head Merchant! It is 54,920 nyang as of today!
I still have 15-days left. I will definitely pay you back on time.
Eh he... 50,000 nyang is not a child's name.
And you even lost the license for International Market.
I will pay it back.
Including my hyungnim's resentment, all of it. I'll pay all of it!
That... that...
-Hyung. -Orabeoni.
Now, everyone listen.
Just because the Chaekmoon deal failed doesn't mean that everything ended.
Hanyang, Pyungyang, Jinju!
Icheon, Anseong!
Gangneung!
Dongnae!
Gwangju!
KangKyung!
Gunsan!
Gwangyang!
All the affluent families that are well known...
Don't miss anybody. 150 of Chun Family Merchant members
run like the wind and sell these dried sea cucumbers.
The Chun Merchant Group's future and
our family's lives are at the tips of our feet.
Now! Who are we?
We are the wind merchant!
Wind merchant of Chun Family Merchant Group!
Merchant Elder, don't be worried.
Now! Let's go!
Let's go make a huge profit.
Let's go make a huge profit!
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We must be one step ahead reaching Uiji before Chun Merchants. We need to tie their feet so they can't make money.
How will you tie their feet?
We must get them at the custom check. Our people work at Uiji custom checkpoint.
So why are the cow thieves not here yet?
The cow thieves are the problem!
Dock Uiju in Amnokgang
Elder merchant! Elder merchant!
- Merchant Elder! We have to go together. - What now?
This person, just follow after finishing up cleanly.
Ah, let's go.
Ahaha, let's go. Merchant Chun!
Wow, Merchant Chun!
-Aigoo. Aigoo-Aigoo
You haven't gone far. We meet again.
-Let's go! -Let's go.
Let's go together!
It is custom checkpoint!
- It is custom checkpoint! - Stop right there!
Do you know what custom checkpoint is?
Custom checkpoints
are doors that restrict trafficking of illegal items banned by the nation.
What happens if you do trafficking?
As you can see, if trafficking is discovered in door 1,
they confiscate the items.
If discovered in door 2, you'd get butt paddles relative to the items.
If you are discovered at door 3,
your neck will get cut off.
Pass!
-Now, start! -Yes.
Let's see.
Search carefully!
So Gae, give me the bag.
Opium?
Opium! Opium!
Opium came out from this bag!
No, no, no! That's nonsense, nonsense.
Why would that come out from there again?!
It's not!
Drag him away.
Yes.
It's not Chunt Merchant's!
Hyungnim!
-Hyungnim! Hyungnim! -Hyungnim! -Hyungnim!
-No -Hyungnim!
-No!
Hyungnim!
What? Is custom checkpoint for punishing the innocent?
It's a place where we catch people like you.
Please! Let me go! Let go!
Stop it! Stop!
Since the opium was discovered on me, you only have to arrest me.
Why are you punishing my family members?
Fine. Your neck is going to fall of anyway
beaten to death and cut off or just cut off...
Stop it!
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What can I do to sell cows?
Oh, My!
Save me.
Life without a [past] story;
does it ever exist?
They say she's going to leave, are you sure you don't need to go?
- She's a woman who has no relations to me! - How can a child not know his father?
Do you want Songpa Head Merchant to be the hell?
Bong Sam! Bong Sam, where are you?
Until yesterday, I lived my life playing around
but starting from today, I'm not.
He's the son of the Chun Merchant Group.
He's the son of Chun Oh Soo, the man who killed my father!