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EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG
Welcome, Sajangnim.
Episode 6
Ohh... you're getting prettier by the day, Madam.
You're just flattering me. Can I compete with the real beauties?
What should I choose for you tonight?
Ahh... just give us the best and the most expensive one.
Wait! Wait!
Why did you leave this out?
Just give us the best and most expensive one, Madam!
Is that better?
Is it too over the top?
Why don't we start a trend, since we're here?
Just give us the best and most expensive one, Madam!
It does suit Ju Seon Tae quite well?!
Ahhh... why, you don't like it?
I was wondering should we use something a little more dignified, you know?
We need to attract people, Seonsaengnim!
Didn't you say we risk closing shop?
Then again, that's where the wind flows these days, right?
Lee Hae Rang (stage producer)
Of course!
Fine, since we're there, let's go all out!
Should I do it again?
By the way, Ju Hyung.
You'll have to let your belly stick out a little.
Just like a pregnant woman, let it stand out, and act all haughty.
Yes.
Just give us the best and most expensive one, Madam. Uh?
Here! Let's try it again!
Just give us the best and most expensive one!
It was a new catchword created by Madame Freedom.
The moment Madame Freedom passed from its serialized run in the Seoul Shinmun...
to the novel format, it sold 70,000 copies right as it was published.
For that time, such sale numbers were an incredible feat, hard to even imagine.
Shin Hyeop, despite being severely hit by the economic crisis,
adapted Madame Freedom for the stage,
and the theater suddenly started to brim with people.
Not too long after, Madame Freedom was made into a film,
and even that was a phenomenal success.
What could this novel possess, to drive people into such a frenzy?
He's coming! Quick!
Mr. Park In Soo. You were acquitted in your marriage fraud trial today.
Tell us your feelings about the judge's sentence.
My feelings? A foregone conclusion, of course!
Are you telling us enticing over seventy women left you with no guilt whatsoever?
Listen! Aren't women who frequent dance halls already out of their minds?!
They fell for the charms of the dance, isn't that why they're there?
Those women already abandoned their families!
Ahhh... wait a minute.
Let's forget about married ones, then.
How about all the well-off maidens you falsely enticed with marriage?
Why would well-off maidens frequent those dance halls?!
My only fault is being an able dancer!
All I did was teaching them the steps for free!
And I had some fun with those women, who killed their boredom by dancing!
But, you charge me?!
I am the victim here!!
Then... then, are you saying they just let you embrace them...
like that, even without promising them marriage?!
Listen to that! I would never force anything on a woman!
There are lines of women out there waiting for an affair.
Why should I bother with those who don't want anything to do with me?!
All those women who pressed charges against me are nothing but trash!
Don't forget what the judge's brilliant ruling was!
"The law only protects the kind of chastity worthy of its attention."!
I frequent those dance halls because I have no other job,
but those women only frequent them to kill the boredom of their lavish lives!
Who is at fault here, then?!
Wait a moment, just another comment!
Look at this! What kind of ruling is that?
A libertine like that who should get shot, and they rule him not guilty?!
Ehhh... it's the end of the world, I tell you!
- Again with your fits? - Ahhh...
Take a look at this, Hyungnim.
What?! "The law only protects the kind of chastity worthy of its attention."?
Does this make any sense?!
Ohh... well, they do have a point, don't they?
I certainly can't say Park In Soo did something commendable,
but all those women who danced with him are on the same boat.
So you still take Mr. Yoon's side, after saying that?
Side? What side?!
I just feel sorry for what happened with him and his wife.
Ehhh... the end is coming, my friend.
They should castrate fools like Park In Soo, right on the spot,
so he will not ever bother any woman again.
These days, where would you find someone like Sung Chunhyang* out there?
*Famous Joseon folktale about a woman's unyielding loyalty to her husband
Don't you see them out in the open, all stuck to their men like so?
Then, are you telling me you'd have no problem if your missus...
suddenly got the chills and headed for the dance hall like Mrs. Yoon?
Look.
You'll never see my wife act like that, never in a hundred years.
The more you trust the axe, the worse it hurts when it hits you.
Sure, you little fool. Want to see if that's true as you say?
Do you plan to pack up your bags here?!
Just let her do it.
She's the mother of your children. When it's time she'll come back home!
That is why we need to get rid of fools like Park In Soo!
Ehhh... really.
Even this first trial for the Park In Soo affair,
and its "the law only protects the kind of chastity worthy of its attention,"
became a sort of catchword of its time.
But the appeal went the opposite way.
On the premise that not all women frequenting dance halls were...
breaking their oath of chastity, enticing them to a yeogwan* afterwards...
*Motel or hotel
was indeed immoral, so the ruling changed to guilty,
and Park In Soo spent one year in prison.
This novel depicting the affair of a married woman, Madame Freedom,
and the man who seduced seventy women, Korea's Don Juan Park In Soo.
Both these two events brought significant changes to our 1950s.
The liberation of the sexes, for starters.
How could you break your promise?
What's wrong, Mister Shin?
What's wrong?!
I waited outside for over an hour.
For me?
Didn't you promise to come with me to the dance hall?
I thought you were joking.
How could I joke about that, Madam?
I can't dance.
So...
Didn't I tell you I'd show you the steps?
Come here a second.
- Ahh... come on. - I said I can't dance.
Look.
Slow... slow...
Quick... quick.
- Slow... slow... - Quick... quick!
Ahhh... you're doing well already!
It's not that hard, after all.
Here, follow my lead.
Slow... slow...
Quick!
Don't do this, Mister Shin.
Madam.
Open your heart.
This is nothing but dance, it's art!
It tickles so much! I can't do this.
Wait!
Ahhh... what's wrong with you?
Seonsaengnim. I can't really understand this scene.
Why can't you?
I'm the wife of a college professor.
Going out with one of his young students is just...
It's obvious she'd just hear insults all over the place.
Would the audience understand and forgive her all this?
Take a look at how things are out there.
Seonsaengnim.
Does Shin Hyeop really need to do this?
Business is business, all right. But...
Ohhh... welcome, Lee Seonsaengnim!
Lee Bong Gu hasn't come yet?
He's usually here around this time.
Madam. Have a seat.
- What is it? - You're married, right?
- I'm not. - You're not?
I used to be, but I let him go.
You're another Madame Freedom, Shin Madam?!
You need to have an affair while you're still married, to be that.
I'm on my own now, why Madame Freedom?!
Then, are you going to remarry?
And I barely got out of it. Should I fall for that again?
Then, you never had an affair, Shin Madam?
That... you never know.
Well, let's say you didn't so far.
You plan to, should the chance arise?
Don't you first need a husband to cheat on him?
Then, how about dating?
If one finds someone nice, they should.
Why?
Just wanted to know what women think about Madame Freedom.
So "A Doll's House"* is art, but "Madame Freedom" just crass melodrama?
*1879 play by Henrik Ibsen, considered to be the first "feminist" play
Ohh... why are you so smart?
I'm just saying, people are making a fuss...
about Shin Hyeop adapting Madame Freedom.
I'll have to see you in a new light, Shin Madam?!
You're smart, all right. Clever!
Think it's that easy to be a Madam in a place like Myeongdong?
Isn't this the mecca of culture, our Myeongdong?
So, Madame Freedom and A Doll's House deserve the same attention?
So Nora leaves home in A Doll's House, and Madame Freedom's Seon Young...
has an affair. What is so different?
How could that be the same?
Sexual liberation was you men's exclusive possession,
while women were merely slaves of your freedom.
Lee Seonsaengnim.
Don't look down on Madame Freedom.
Know how elated we women feel about that novel?
What?
Did things change that much?
They need to change even more!
We need to have a second and third Madame Freedom soon.
Nam In Soo's "Railroad of Breakup in Busan"
Nam In Soo (singer)
What's with you?
Is this woman your wife?
And why would you mind?
We urge you to go back.
Listen to this little prick!
You little fool. You know who you're talking to?
Dear sir. Before you regret it, leave quietly.
Look at this parade of fools.
Think this is the only night club in Myeongdong?
Let's go somewhere else, Miss Kim.
Ehh... really. A grown-up man like him...
How can you seduce someone who could be your daughter?!
Hyeon In (singer)
"The Nights of Shilla"
What are you doing?
Let me go! What's wrong with you?
- Let me go! - Get moving!
Who are you people?
Baek Hyung, what's wrong with you?
Do you plan to send me out of business?
And how would I know?
I'm just following what Lee Sajang* tells me to do. (*director/boss)
How can you send all my customers away?!
Look, Lee Sajang.
Money is good, all right.
But select your clientele a little, will you?
Keep doing business like this, and you'll just become a criminal destroying families!
And who would bring his wife to a night club? Make some sense!
Go complain to Lee Sajang, then!
Nam In Soo's "Serenade of Sadness"
The owner of Newsman was complaining.
Really?
He says you're sending him out of business.
He's just talking.
Is a night club some kind of YMCA hostel, prohibiting illicit affairs and all?
Ahh... stop saying that nonsense and give me some money.
I can't. If you complain about adultery,
why are you asking money from someone who owns a room salon?
I protect Myeongdong my own way.
Is Myeongdong all yours?
When did you ever start controlling that place?
Then, should I act like a proper gangster?
Ehhh... use the gangster excuse once again, will you?
What's so different between Lee Jeong Jae feeding off merchants,
and Lee Hwa Ryong getting money from a room salon owner?
And who said you need to do that?
You just said I live off my sister, who owns a room salon.
Ehhh... look at you, twisting my words around.
Nui.*
*Slightly "passe" version of "Nuna"
Myeongdong is a nice place.
If it turns into a mess, it will take the entire country along with it.
Don't just throw big words around.
Are you giving me the money or not?!
I said I won't!
If you keep this up, you'll become Hong Gil Dong.
The valorous thief, Hong Gil Dong.
Here's Lee Hwa Ryong.
The same Lee Hwa Ryong who loved Myeongdong...
just as much as Lee Bong Gu did.
Is there anything you wish to tell me?
Shin Sang Hyeon
I came alone.
So, you beat up that innocent man.
I was mistaken.
I am that Lee Hwa Ryong.
I'm alone just like you. Isn't this the perfect opportunity?
I came to apologize.
I don't fight for no reason.
I bear no grudge against you, Lee Sajangnim.
Why did you change your mind?
I'll tell you, one day. If we get the chance.
Shin Sang Hyeon, who was more famous through his moniker "Boss Shin,"
was able to command a bevy of hoodlums who controlled territory all the way...
from Myeongdong to Chungmuro.
So you made up with Lee Hwa Ryong?
Boss Shin.
You're not trying to put your foot in two shoes at once, are you?
Two shoes?!
I don't answer to anybody.
So are you the cock o' the walk, is that it?
"Manwon Sarye (No vacancy)"
Ohhh! We hit the jackpot, Lee Seonsaengnim!
It's been such a long time since we sold out all tickets!
On the lobby card: Jayu Buin (Madame Freedom)
The government is trying to prohibit dance halls. Would they ever succeed?
It's selling out like hot cakes.
Theater needs to survive as well.
They've been upstaged by female classical opera for so long.
In Seodaemun, they're praising you all the time. Uh?
They say that, thanks to you, Myeongdong has cleaned up.
Lee Sajang. Make a film this time, will you?
A film?!
Oh, Director Lee Gyu Hwan's "Tale of Chunhyang"*...
brought 300,000 people to the theater!
*1955 film which revitalized postwar Korean cinema
They're just inundated with money.
And society settles down as well, you know?
If plays and films do well, uh?
The higher-ups, you know? They say that, thanks to Jung Bi Seok,
the atmosphere is getting better, and they praised him.
People need to be on the spree, so that politics can get on with its business.
Not when it's deranged material.
What is that supposed to mean?
We're people who came down south abandoning our hometowns,
because we couldn't stand commies.
Anti-communism?! We need to do that.
How long has it been since the war ended, to all be in such a frolic?
Ahhh... I just said we need to encourage anti-communism!
If you wish to achieve that, then politics should be done properly.
Why, what's wrong with today's politics?
President Lee must be doing well, and all the people under him as well.
Uh?! What's the problem?!
Madame Freedom is nothing but garbage!
It's just a transitory fad, Lee Sajang!
Why, just because women have a little fun outside,
would our country end up in ruins?
It certainly will.
If women betray their integrity, the family will go into tatters,
and with the family in tatters, our entire country will be ruined!
Ehhh... really.
Ohhh... Samonim*!
*Deferential address for wife of someone higher on the social ladder
Yes, yes. It's me, Director Baek!
Ahh... yes, yes.
Don't worry about the artists. Yes. We're giving them the best treatment.
Yes, yes. Yes!
The director of the Arts Theater, Baek Sun Seong,
was very close with the wife of Lee Gi Bong, Park Maria.
He did get close with Lee Gi Bong, whom Lee Jeong Jae and Im Hwa Su...
of the Dongdaemun gang self-proclaimed as Lee Seung Man's successor.
But the first to reach out to Seodaemun was not Lee Jeong Jae,
it was Lee Hwa Ryong.
Ohh... someone like Lee Jeong Jae... Yes! Ahhh, he's so stubborn, that man!
Yes, yes. Samonim.
We need to get Myeongdong as well, indeed!
Only then all the artists... Yes, yes! Of course!
Ahh... of course arts and culture are important!
Indeed they are. Yes. Yes, yes.
The leading players of the 5.16 coup d'etat* found their just cause in anti-communism.
*Park Jung Hee's coup d'etat in 1961, ending the 2nd Republic
They used anti-communism as the governmental guideline...
Just because we were dealing with the 50s, nothing was different.
I mentioned before that anti-communism was a matter of survival.
But unlike the post-liberation period,
when we were engulfed by severe ideological chaos,
the South neatly packaged...
all ideological conflict under the banner of anti-communism,
right from the immediate postwar.
The bigger problem was the hunger and ethical disorder of the time.
Sexual liberation!
There was this peculiar happening.
We warn you in advance, but all the names we use here are pseudonyms.
Government Subcommittee
Mrs. Song Chang Ju? Look up.
Do that, and look at the man sitting next to you.
I said look at his face.
I... don't know this man.
You've lived together for thirty years!
Does it make any sense you wouldn't recognize him?!
Look again.
I don't know him.
So you've never heard the name Kim Young Seok as well, I suppose.
Never.
You don't even know your husband's name?
Why don't you speak instead, General Kim Young Seok?
You don't know who this woman sitting next to you is?
I have never seen her before.
Your wife is recorded here as Song Chang Ju, but you don't know her?
Didn't I tell you Song Chang Ju died?
And again, do I look like the type who would abandon his wife...
to marry someone else?
Then, who is the Song Chang Ju sitting next to you?
Song Chang Ju is dead! During the war.
Is there only one Song Chang Ju in the world?
You know? I understand you're trying to get me sacked out of personal resentment,
but I don't know this woman.
Didn't she say she's never seen me before?!
If you keep this up, I won't take it lying down!
What do you take the military forces for?!
- What is that? - How can he just get up?
I will ask one last time.
You really don't know who General Kim Young Seok is?
I'll deal with your husband, so answer honestly.
I...
have never seen him before.
During the so-called "Liberal Party" era,
the matter of public servants or other public figures...
having a mistress became a controversial issue.
Under President Lee Seung Man's strict order to fire anyone who had a mistress,
quite a few regrettable happenings took place.
Mom. Why did you lie like that?
It's because you act like this that Dad went to live with a younger woman.
Then, what am I supposed to do? It could end your father's career.
Then, let it end!
Dad needs to pay a price for abandoning his wife and daughter like that.
Mom. It's not too late.
Go tell them General Kim Young Seok is your husband.
And that Song Chang Ju is General Kim's faithful wife.
Tell them, Mom!
Even if I do, your father won't be back.
Then, all the better! He's not coming back anyway.
Why let him get away with this?
You're not even angry about this?
Then, what am I supposed to do, you silly?
Is your father the only one who has a mistress?
Even when we had nothing to eat,
men always had to have a mistress to save face.
Why do you blame your father alone?
That's all in the past.
What year is this, to still try to shelter him after he abandoned you?!
We need to wait.
When he's too old to go anywhere, he'll come back home.
Do you remember Park In Hwan,
throwing the gift he received from a young woman off this bridge?
What Park In Hwan did was not a common custom in those days.
Simply because having a mistress or an affair was more something to brag about,
than a misdeed to be chastised for.
We'll go back to Park In Hwan and Kim Su Young's story.
Lee Seonsaengnim.
You've gotten prettier?!
What's the occasion?
Ohh... I was just passing by and wanted a word.
- With me? - How is your brother doing?
He always stays home.
And never leaves it?
Sometimes, he does.
I haven't seen him in Myeongdong in ages?!
Oppa must be dating.
Really?
It's nothing serious, though.
That's good to hear.
You need some romance to feel the vibes again.
When you see him, tell him to come to Myeongdong sometime.
Gongcho Seonsaengnim really misses him.
Yes.
Ahhh... right, Su Myeong!
Yes?
Shouldn't you get married?
I hear there's a line of scribes head over heels for you around here?
I'll see you again.
So he's dating, Kim Su Young.
Seonsaengnim.
Have you read this?
I wanted to read it, but it's so hard I can't understand a thing.
Will you read it?
There's a coffee shop on the other side of the road.
Were you stood up?
- What time is it? - Eight.
PM?!
So you did, all right. Why didn't you call me?
She never said she would come.
Then, you can't call it a date.
It must be one-sided, I guess.
I'd love to see her.
How pretty is she, to run you through the guts?
She's married.
Married?!
Let's go. I've been reading all day.
What is it?
It's fun!
It's not the type you would like.
Instead, she does.
Oppa.
Do you like her because it's forbidden?
Of all women, why a married one?
When I met her on Geoje Island, she wasn't.
But now she's someone else's wife.
I just like her, that's all.
She's giving you the cold shoulder.
That's just because she got married.
It's your father. Go greet him.
Dad!
Always worrying for nothing.
Su Young is just putting on airs.
Still, go ahead and meet him once.
You're the only friend he's got.
Was he the only one who suffered?
Was war something he experienced alone?!
We all experienced it, and all suffered together.
But, why is he making such a fuss?
Just shake it all off and come out!
Do we need to set up some kind of major welcoming ceremony to see him again?
What's wrong with you?
Was there something between you two?
He can't act like that with me.
I went all the way to Geoje Island to meet him,
did all my best to go find his wife after she left home.
Uh? But I go look for him at home, and he leaves me out of the door?
- Su Young... - I don't need any of this!
I can live perfectly well without him.
Seonsaengnim, they're acting just like kids.
Look at you. Make up with him!
Kim Su Young disliked me right from the beginning.
I was the one who went around trying to win his graces.
How obvious.
Scribes should be different.
Oh oh... say again? She just spits it out?!
People who sell their souls for a living, and you can't even take a little jest.
Ahh... well said, Hye Rin.
Look, In Hwan.
Even if you're a little disappointed by what Su Young did to you. Uh?
Of all people, you should shake it off, uh?!
Where are you going?
Scribes don't sell their souls.
They dive into its bottom.
Seonsaengnim is still here... Look! In Hwan! In Hwan!
The hell are you?! Another gangster?
Isn't this Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik Seonsaengnim?!
I'm not a gangster. My name is Park In Hwan.
The Lady and the Wooden Horse. That Park In Hwan?!
Yes.
That was quite good. But it's too sentimental.
My apologies.
A poet can be sentimental all he wants,
but his work shouldn't reek of sentimentalism.
Careful, Park Gun.
I'll keep that in mind.
Nice personality?!
Nice, isn't it?
Seonsaengnim, my apologies.
He must have had too much to drink, again.
Lee Gun! Let's have a word!
Come here and have a drink.
Lee Gun.
Why don't you ever ask me for work?
Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik feels bad about this!
Seonsaengnim, just ignore him.
Ahh... look at you.
Gongcho Seonsaengnim.
My name is Kim Gwang Shik.
I respect you, Gongcho Seonsaengnim.
Looks like that boorish fella recognized you, Seonsaengnim.
Kim Gwang Shik's representative work was "The Path to Exile."
His youthful excitement and peculiar behavior...
made him famous in literary circles,
and after 4.19*, he even ran in the elections.
*April 1960 revolution overthrowing the Lee Seung Man regime
Seo Jeong Ju, Kim Dong Ri, Park Mok Wol!
You're all rubbish! Why?!
You're literary relics, that's why!
What is literature, after all?
It is no mental amusement.
Shouldn't it give hope and courage to all our people,
who are so tired of how things are going?!
Especially you, Seo Jeong Ju! I hate your prose.
It's antiquated, that's what I'm saying!
And exactly that, Kim Gwang Shik went looking for Seo Jeong Ju.
Seo Jeong Ju (poet)
Please, help me out, Seonsaengnim.
And what would someone like me help you with?
I'd like to make my debut in the literary world, with your recommendation.
Let me importune you with this favor, Midang* Seonsaengnim.
*Seo Jeong Ju's pen name
What Midang Seonsaeng?!
You seem to ardently enjoy calling me Seo Gun, so why bother?
What?
Ahhh... what are you talking about?
Don't you go around saying Seo Gun, Park Gun, Kim Gun all the time?
Ahh... that. I must have been a little drunk.
So you're telling me you're sober now, instead?
How would I dare drink on the day I meet you, Seonsaengnim?
- So you were just drunk? - Yes.
Ahh... by the way. Sit comfortably.
No, Seonsaengnim. I'm just fine this way.
My handwriting is a little messy.
So you already published an anthology?
Yes, called "The House of Fallen Blossoms," I published it right as I graduated.
The preface was written by Jo Ji Hoon Seonsaengnim.
Ohh... "Jo Gun" wrote your preface?
My apologies.
That should be enough. Why would you need my recommendation?
I want to debut officially, take the rostrum the proper way.
Please give me your consent, Midang Seonsaengnim.
- Ahh... whomever recommends you... - Seonsaengnim.
It's been two years already since I published my first anthology.
Read it now, and it's nothing but childish tripe which...
doesn't deserve to be called poetry.
And, during the time, my outlook on life and society,
even the way I write my poetry, changed.
So I wanted to be judged again on these terms.
Fine. I'll read it, and give you a call.
Seo...
Wow... did you write that, Seonsaengnim?
Wow! Pardon me, but what did you write?
My sister-in-law wrote it.
Your sister-in-law?!
"Bang Ok Rye."
How old is she, to write so well?
Wow... it's as if I was seeing a work by Chusa*.
*Calligrapher Kim Jung Hee's alias
Ohhh... well written!
Are you going already?
At least have a drink before you leave.
Bang Ok Rye (Seo Jeong Ju's sister-in-law)
I told him to have a drink, and he left without a word?!
His technique is really something.
Is he a poet?
His cursing is much more famous than his prose.
Cursing?!
He said my poetry...
isn't even as worth as dirt between his thumbs, compared to his.
He said that to you?!
That's nothing. He goes around cursing this and that?!
Ohh... and he still comes here to ask you favors?
That's so shameless of him.
He's eccentric, all right.
But, his grammar is a tad clumsy.
Then again, all young fellas writing poems are the same, these days.
They were educated in Japanese*.
*In the colonial era, classes were in Japanese,
from which grammar heavily adapted, i.e. no->eui as Saxon genitive
Many of those aspiring scribes read Midang's works,
and even tried to imitate them.
Oh Se Young
So it was natural it would be an honor to be recognized by the same Midang...
whom they loved to read, and whose prose they copied.
In the 50s and 60s, Seo Jeong Ju was the one who led the biggest number of "pupils,"
Yeom Mu Woong (critic)
and he wrote recommendations for countless of those aspiring authors.
Also, while having so much influence,
he did show caution against any adherence to regimes like the Liberal Party...
or Park Jung Hee's junta. And also, what he showed as...
a poet conveying the beauty and harmony of our language,
certainly made him a trendsetter.
He saw him as a man of talent right away.
Bang Ok Rye (Kim Gwang Shik's wife)
You could just talk of anything, literature or anything else,
and you'd hear this liturgy of knowledge from him, so he couldn't help thinking that.
So he (Seo Jeong Ju) must have thought he was worth giving him...
consent to marry his own sister-in-law.
So his building a family was accidental, but at the end...
he only had eyes for his poetry. Everything else he was out of his sphere.
He had this deep insight about life and our period,
Jang Seok Ju (poet, critic)
enough to study the Chinese classics and write poetry at the same time.
What he did was showing resentment for the level literature had fallen into...
in his own unique ways, which manifested themselves after drinking.
So you'd get his eccentric behavior and ill-advised bravery...
as a sort of reaction to such an environment.
We now go back to Kim Su Young and Park In Hwan's story.
Theater group Cheongpodo (Green Grapes)
We'll have to take another brief look at...
Park In Hwan and Kim Su Young's relationship.
The first time the two met was right after liberation.
After following his mother to Manchuria,
he made a name as a stage actor in Jilin*, after which he came back to Seoul.
*South Manchuria (home to many ethnic Koreans,
due to old historical ties between Manchuria and Korea)
So, as he came to the Cheongpodo offices to meet his friend Park Sang Jin,
he was introduced to Park In Hwan for the first time.
Kim Hyung, introduce yourself. He's a poet friend of mine.
I'm Park In Hwan.
So you're a stage actor?
Ahh... yes. I...
Park Hyung. You know, about Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel?
You know Jean Cocteau, right? You acted on the stage in Manchuria,
so you probably know him well.
He's not a stage actor. He writes poems just like you.
Is that so?
Ohh... so let's officially give it a shake again.
My name is Kim Su Young.
Whatever you did in Manchuria, Kim Hyung, let's work together.
- Ahh... excuse me, your name? - Park In Hwan.
Park. In. Hwan. Do you have hearing problems?
I don't really know who Jean Cocteau is.
I just wanted to see stage actors practice in Jilin,
and they told me playing a priest... would suit me, so I ended up playing it.
The play was entitled "Like Spring Water,"
and it was translated from the German original.
It's about a city boy who, during summer vacation, goes back to the countryside,
and falls in love with a local, and the priest there strongly opposes their union.
Ahh... but, there's more.
This boy was played by Im Hyeon Tae, someone who lived in Cheonan,
while the girl was played by a local elementary school teacher.
They couldn't find someone who'd suit the priest role,
so in the end they cast me.
Really?
I really couldn't act, but the play was a big success.
We ran it at the Public Arts Hall in Jilin for two days,
and the place was filled to the brim with people.
Park...
Park In Hwan.
I do know who this Jean Cocteau is, more or less.
So you write poems and act as well, Park In Hwan?
Be it acting or producing, I want to give it a shot.
You really look like an actor, Park In Hwan.
Ahh... many thanks, Kim Hyung.
Down in Jongro, you'll find a bookstore called Marie.
I run it, come by sometime.
Kim Hyung.
I'll get going.
Here, see you again!
You'll become friends right away. Meet him often.
Ohh... his name was...
Oh. Park In Hwan.
Park In Hwan.
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Everyone! My friend Kim Su Young is here!
He's been living like a mole trapped at home,
and today he's finally back in Myeongdong!
I was paid for my translation today.
Will you come to the movies with me?
The film was nice, right?
"If you could only love me,"
"What would it matter?"
All this fear that fills your eyes. Who made you this way?
All we do in life is wander in search of that lost love,
us "strangers."
His name is Lee Joong Seop, he's a painter.
Where are you, Tae Hyeon... Tae Seong!
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