Secret Love Affair
Episode 8
I'll be watching you.
How much of corruption you'd be covering with projects like this (philanthropy).
When you were promoted to the Vice CEO,
shouldn't you seize running personal errands for the Chairwoman?
Tone deaf Hyung, it's been a while.
I entered the chat room to see if you were around but you're not, so I'm leaving you a note.
A lot of things happened since our last chat,
but I'll just tell you about how I feel now.
In a word, miserable.
My woman was insulted by a strange person,
and shows scrapes and bruises on her face and hand from an unknown reason,
yet there's nothing I can do about it,
then how meaningless is my love?
I see that she dropped from being a goddess to being a woman.
She has become human after all.
Not sure about that.
I think I was more angry because I was present when it happened.
Would she become more angry if I asked to see her in this situation?
You're kind of annoying. Do as you please.
I need to see you, Teach.
Though I'll be at the weekend lesson,
I can't hold off until then, the way things are now.
I won't ask you anything.
I'll just... be with you.
I won't reserve a motel room either. You can just come over to my house.
Don't you like my house, Teacher?
Hey!
I told you to call before showing up!
Is the professor supposed to come?
Ah, I'll leave when he comes then.
- Do you have any Ramyun? - Yeah.
I mean, no I don't have any.
Wanna go out and buy some?
Aren't you hungry?
Let's go out and eat, huh?
- I want to eat out, that's all. - It's just as good to make it at home.
C'mon, I'm telling you, it's really good.
Alright Cutie. Awesome!
Why are you acting this way, huh? I told you I need to go somewhere!
- Are you going to a club to dance? - Whatever it is.
Get out then. I'll get drunk alone.
Hey, what are you doing?
Why do you make your hubby come looking for me suddenly?!
You and I both have a marriage of convenience, but isn't this a bit ludicrous?
Can't you deal with such minor irritation in our 25 years of friendship?
- We'd like another serving of picked radish (yellow ones). - You got it.
I... have a change of heart.
I'm going to... do things right.
I'm going to bring myself up to your caliber, and set a
goal of entering the department of cosmetology in a junior college.
Eat slowly, there.
Being the only high school grad, always begging you for kisses...
That won't do at all.
My boss also started
with on the job training after high school graduation, but
after she became successful, she transferred to
a 4 year college from a junior college.
She's a professor of the department of cosmetology now.
She isn't the regular professor, but she's some...
adjunct, was it? Or some such thing.
Even if I don't go to that degree,
if I am to go all the way with you (marry),
then I should also make some progress.
Yeah.
Just as I expected.
- Park Da Mi. - Huh?
You...
What?
Never mind.
It's nothing.
Hey look here. You can't park your car here.
Can't you see the sign that says "Resident Only"?
I'm sorry. I'll park elsewhere.
You've got no place to go since the whole thing is the fire lane.
Why are you talking down to me?
Ayoo, sorry.
Hurry up and move along, ajumma. Eh?
What?
Ah, I said move it!
M-m-move aside so I can leave!
- Hello. - Welcome.
Thank you.
You came?
Did you have a fun
fiery Friday night?
Don't you have dreams?
You don't have ambition?
Can you spend so frivolously the talents that other people don't have?
What did I do?
What did you do?
Why are you asking me that?
Don't you know better?!
Then why do you bother coming here?! Huh?!
Why would you...
Why don't you just live the way you used to?
The weather's even nice, why don't you go play around with your girlfriend?!
So, you did come, right?
That's right. I went there. I didn't purposely go there, but I saw you as I was passing by!
You too were completely grabbing onto each other and having a great time!
All right. Just...
It's fine.
What's fine? What do you know?!
Since you came, it's fine.
And I get that you're jealous.
So I'm happy.
It's awesome!
And also because of that
I'll feel assured and ask you.
What?
Who is that woman to be insulting you?
What's that to be calling it insults?
Don't look at me!
My entire self felt like a complete fool.
In the movies, you see the male protagonist completely flips out in that situation.
You must have only seen shabby movies.
That's why you're even more of a fool.
Why?
I told you.
Think of it as learning a life lesson.
What kind of a lesson is that?!
Instead of earning money with the delivery job
to buy a cup of noodles and pay for cell phone,
gas, electricity, water bills,
by playing the piano well,
making a living out of scholarship
is much better, don't you think?
That's true.
Don't worry.
You're worth more than that.
What about you?
I help them enjoy spending their money,
and I make money doing that.
Helping out with those things is my job.
Food chain,
social class.
Have you heard of those things?
Well,
I do have heard of them.
Read some books, too.
I know, right?
I'm probably somewhere
in the middle.
An elegant
slave?
Is that woman at the very top, then?
What's at the top
is not that woman,
but money.
No, that's not it.
What's really at the top is
the thing that endlessly whispers
you can buy anything with money,
a demon.
Are you crying?
No.
It doesn't matter if you know it or not.
I know.
What are you doing, not practicing?
I scolded him some.
He has no ambition or what not.
Do I have to drain my energy out because of someone like him?
Why don't you say something in front of the professor?
What on earth do you want to be?
You can't just discipline him like that.
We have to first offer him a specific goal and a schedule--
I told him those things until my mouth hurt, but he still doesn't get it!
I... was wrong.
I was too complacent.
I'll work hard.
Let's prepare for a concerto.
For the recording that will be submitted to the DVD preliminaries.
Mozart said
suddenly one day
that he would not accept commissions from the nobility,
that he'd compose only the songs he wanted to compose,
then died early doing so, I heard.
In doing so,
he fell into debt and illness.
Don't think of useless things.
Whether it was because he was like that
or his personality was originally insane that he drove himself to that, how can we possibly know?
You can also do anything you want to do while living off rich people.
But that's not the case, is it?
I'm saying that you can!
The due date to apply for next year's Ferruccio Busoni Competition is May 31st.
You should be getting your repertoire in order, right?
Among concertos,
is there a piano part that you've memorized?
Schumann's concerto [ Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 ]
Rachmaninoff.
Paganini Variations [ Caprice No. 24 ]
How did you memorize them?
I followed the full score, listening to it about 30 times.
Printing out the piano part separately.
Are you going to act like a crybaby?
Tell everyone to stop messing around. Music wins all!
Fortuneteller
Yeah, it's me.
Did you have fun?
I ate some stuff in your house and left not long ago.
Hm?
She won't say anything about things like this.
It's not as if I'm doing anything with you.
Enough of that.
Who do you go see?
A fortuneteller.
Will you introduce me to one?
Eh, it can't be Madam Baek.
She's a student's parent.
Ah, yes. Is this the residence of Yu Shim Jo?
Yes, the thing is...
I'd like to make an appointment.
Yes.
Is Monday possible?
I came to know of you through CEO Seo Young Woo's recommendation.
Aigoo, that's the case.
Well, I have no choice, then.
I'll work around your schedule.
Yes. Yes.
Why do you like this?
Just, because something about it seems to be demonstrating perfection.
Then, you just need to show people that.
That's how you take rich people's money.
When's your school lesson?
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 1:00 P.M.
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturday, 10:00 A.M.
Along with the full score, orchestral accompaniment, the piano arrangement,
bring the scores with you to the office.
What?
When I say I'm in love with you, Teacher,
it must feel really trivial and baffling to you.
You live in a really frightening world.
Just focus on yourself.
Pretend you don't know.
Be on time.
What's wrong?
Oh, I guess I'm going thorough menopause.
Isn't it too early for that?
Is it?
Yes.
You're here. - Hello.
Do you want to have a seat for a minute?
Director is in a meeting.
Yes.
Yes, he's here.
About 10 minutes ago.
Yes.
Okay, I understand.
She wants you to come down.
Ah, yes.
You know where the practice room is, right?
Yes, first basement floor.
Ah, yes.
The pianos shouldn't be placed like this.
It's not a regular lesson, but a concerto practice.
If there isn't enough space to place the pianos facing each other, to practice room #2...
Huh?
Professor Kim In Joo rented it out to her students?
Okay.
Don't say anything.
Yes.
Work hard.
Pisses me off.
I'm okay with that, though.
What?
I'm okay with them side by side.
Are your ears some sort of trumpet ears?
After I recorded it yesterday,
I placed it next to me and listened, and it wasn't too bad.
As far as the synchronization with the full score goes.
Just flex your fingers.
What?
I was wondering if you feel better...
I told you, to focus on yourself.
Hye Won
Okay. Let's start.
First, the intro.
Play as if we have an orchestra.
What are you doing?
Okay.
Long note is more difficult.
If you play like you just did, you'll end up playing about 1/32 faster than the orchestra.
I'll play the accompaniment, you play exactly like you did earlier.
How was it? Was I incorrect?
It's hard to fix it later if you start off incorrectly.
Once again.
It's a little better.
Play variation 2 by yourself.
Yes.
Aiyoo, that's not it.
What's the use of pushing the amendment forward?
That's what the assemblymen do for a living.
There are dozens of bills that didn't pass in the last session.
Counting only the ones related to the private institution law.
I'll call you back.
I have a favor to ask.
Yes, go ahead, sir.
Next week, they're having a breakfast prayer for Christian entrepreneurs.
It's rather a big event.
Oh, I heard.
Have the choir and the accompanying ensemble perform together.
Not the undergrad students, but the graduate ones.
I don't know if they'll be available.
What can we do? We gotta make it work somehow.
A string quintet and a choir.
The schedule's too tight for this Friday.
What's too tight?
That's what they do every day.
Call them up today and have them available.
What about the performance fee?
What?
Last time, at the Prosecutor Jo's wedding, neither meal nor transportation was provided.
They have to take a cab because of their instruments.
So if there's no consideration for that, it's a little...
My father's also a pastor, but he tries to not take time away from the church members.
This is a service.
If you're paid to do it, is that a true praise music?
You should consider it an honor and do it willingly.
I'm going home after I get my work done outside, so call me after you've made the arrangements.
That son of a bitch, I'll just...
I'm taking a cab, so wash my car.
Ah, yes.
Are you doing a finger exercise now?
What's the use of technique if it lacks contemplation and emotion?!
Teacher.
You were totally awesome just now.
What?
Son Yeol Eum.
I liked it when she stood up like that after playing Kapustin.
Go wash your face in cold water!
Makgui Hyung, I feel like dying.
She keeps yelling at me. We're practicing a concerto,
and she's definitely the one that messed up.
You're so lucky, having somone playing accompaniment for a concerto for you.
I know that, too.
It's like a dream come true.
But I feel suffocated.
I think I made a big mistake.
I made her talk too much.
Foot chain, elegant slave...
Even I'm hurt with those words pierced through me,
but imagine how hard it would be for the one who actually said those words.
She deserves to be angry.
It's like she's been outed in front of you.
You see me as a goddess, but in fact I'm merely a slave.
She pretty much bared all that in front of you.
What do I do?
Do what?
If you act true to your heart, it will get to her.
Ah, really...
Anybody can say that.
Should I take my heart out and show it to her?
Have you thought about this?
Something like, an older woman's desperate complex.
Should I just carry her and run off somewhere?
Director, CEO wants to see you.
Order a lunch, for Lee Seon Jae.
Yes.
What's with this?
What now?
Sit.
Lee Seon Jae... I heard you'll be recording him.
Like a real concert.
Don't pay attention. You should be busy with your own company.
What?
It's what the Foundation does every year.
It's me. Yes.
Lunch...
It's your lunch. Eat it,
and practice the part I discussed earlier.
Oh, wow...
You teach him?
It's hard for me, too.
What's so hard?
Being alone with a fresh young boy in a closed room...
Ah,
because that's suffocating?
How nice it would be. With a young boy without costing you a dime...
Be quiet.
I'm leaving.
How dare you.
Why would I stay here and put up with the fight you picked on out of boredom?
Hey!
You should be helping me right now!
You became the Vice CEO on that condition, so why do you do other things?!
This won't do.
I'm really out of here.
Since when did Madam Han start buying up the shares?
Is that right?
Ask her yourself.
That little!
If not, why don't you look into it thoroughly?
What's the use for your brain?
You want me to show you how I use my brain?
Should I?!
I'll look forward to it.
It's for our couple, and the student I teach.
When you say 'a student'...
Yes, it's a male student.
So you want the fortune for all three, huh?
Yes.
Actually, my wife is in the same line of business with me,
so she'll be seeing him often over different occasions.
What, are you afraid they'll have an affair or something?
Oh, no. It's not that.
He's very talented,
but he grew up in such poor environment that
I want to nurture him as best as I could.
I would like to know
if he's a good fit with my wife and me.
Practice Room #3.
Hye Won and Lee Seon Jae are alone in the room. Aren't you pissed?
Just sleep if you have nothing to do.
Wow, this is something.
Pardon?
This guy's no ordinary guy.
In what way... - For you, Professor,
he's the most valuable out of all valuable persons.
How? - He's a tree in a bare mountain,
and rice in an empty storage.
And a magic stone.
What about my wife? - As for your wife,
I see four ranks. All government positions at that.
She's the type of person who puts work and honour before men.
But the marital relationship isn't much of a...
We're living in comradeship.
It's not particularly good, but that doesn't mean...
I've never once thought about having a divorce.. - Oh, you should never do that.
Aside from that, with this guy...
Why do you keep thinking about it in that direction?
Well, it's not that...
Trust your wife's temperament.
It's not necessarily her fondness toward you,
but with her personality, such thing would never occur.
She has four ranks,
and they're all government ranks.
For her, work comes before men.
But... aside from that, never send this guy anywhere else.
His overflowing energy
is blocking everything (bad) from affecting you.
And he will be a big stepping stone for your advancement.
You'll be climbing up much higher than you are now.
Here.
Oh, thank you.
I leave things behind too often, don't I?
It's no problem, ma'am.
Honestly, Lee Seon Jae
can't be considered as Professor Kang's student.
You're right.
I hear his wife treasures him.
It looks like she's giving him a real big opportunity, like the foundation concert?
I know, right?
I was going to have some of my students included in that event this year,
but they say it's already been set.
So we have to perform at a rented hall.
Is Lee Seon Jae that good?
He seems to be pretty good,
but will that be the only thing?
No, a teacher.
It's different from a professor.
When are you seeing Jung Yoo Ra?
I heard customers talking today,
and something doesn't feel good.
They were talking about Seon Jae, and I got really pissed.
Can you find out what's this about from Jung Yoo Ra?
What kind of a person that wife is...
Am I stupid?
To ask Seon Jae about that?
That's it for today.
Are you kidding?
You don't like it?
Huh?
To make you laugh...
At this rate, you might even start talking down on me.
Turn off the lights before you leave.
Can you be a little more considerate of how I feel?
There's a website I sometimes go to.
A hyung I met there said this.
'You don't need an impressive CV. Just live enjoying music.'
I think that's what love is. Enjoying it till the end.
I want to play this piece like that, too.
After practicing it until my arms are about to fall out, breaking a beat down to 16th, 32nd notes,
and I might be pissed off with variation 8 staccato,
but one day it suddenly comes through and I get all excited.
That's loving it in the best possible way.
How happy would Rachmaninov and Paganini be to see that?
That's jang tang (slang for all that matters).
Forget the food chain, slave, or whatever.
I'll see you Thursday.
Yes, it's me.
I left my jacket again, with the key.
Yes.
No, I'm alone in front of the house.
Pardon?!
Right now?
Don't turn my shoes around.
I'm going to hang out here for a bit today.
As I came in,
I said to your mom,
"Thank you."
How is it?
Cosplaying as your girlfriend?
Last time I saw, she was in my mom's clothes.
Then she's a family, not a girlfriend.
I'm right, say no more.
If you get caught, you'll lose.
I already got the escape route figured out.
You're hella sexy.
And you're still standing there like that?
I have to wash my hands and brush my teeth first when I come home.
Are Director Oh and Lee Seon Jae done with the practice?
She left a while ago.
Yes.
Oh, I see. Work hard.
She fell for him early on.
Trust your wife's temperament.
Not necessarily because she likes the husband,
but with her temperament, it will never happen.
She's the type of person who puts work before relationships.
Most of all, don't send this guy off anywhere else.
His overflowing energy is blocking everything (bad) from affecting you.
And he will be the biggest toehold for your advancement.
I...
I might not be that good.
Why?
You said you're going to enjoy it as best as you can.
You said that's love.
Seriously. Why did I even say that.
Is this really your first time?
Come to think of it, I don't think it is.
You have to think to know that?
Well... Last time, after listening to Liszt,
when I hugged you...
I'm sorry.
You had an inkling back then, didn't you?
That I'm not a player.
A little.
I...
might be worse than you are.
I'm the one who'll decide that.
It's fine.
Let me know if it's uncomfortable.
No...
I thought you didn't drink.
Who said so?
When did you learn (to drink)?
When I was in 11th grade, my teacher taught me.
There were a lot of thugs in my school.
They never cut kids like me any slack. They would hold both my arms from each side,
and pour down soju and beer in my mouth.
When I fainted after that, my teacher paid me a visit with kaoliang wine.
So I can learn.
That's wild.
What about you?
I did everything properly, like a fox.
I may have been a forty year old from the moment I was born.
When you're forty, I'll be sixty.
Wow.
Slammin', isn't it?
You'll end up like this.
Madame Maria (Maria-João Pires)!
For Mozart, is that Unnie's (performance) your textbook?
Mostly.
To have a facial expression like that at the age of 60,
how does one need to live?
You'll be prettier.
That's possible. If I were to
pamper myself with money and energy.
But the facial expression pretty much shapes the face.
Thoughts, sensitivity, things like that.
I still think you'll look gorgeous.
Even your brain's sexy.
Don't you
find it hard to keep a straight face when you say things like that? Don't you get goosebumps?
Is that weird?
They feel like lies.
Then what feels real?
"It's jang taeng (slang for all that matters)."
"Slave or whatever",
seriously.
"Without even shoving alcohol up my throat,"
"Are you giving me the shaft?"
Things like those.
Then how about this?
Hye Won.
Oh yeah?
Female feet weaken me.
Female feet?
Oh Hye Won's feet!
Hey!
Are you okay?
Yes, Chairwoman.
I'm taking off now.
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