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EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG
Episode 13
Come in, it's time.
You're waiting for Kim Su Young, aren't you?
Ahh... I'm not.
Don't wait for him.
I told him to come, but you know how he is.
My mother said she would come, but looks like she got lost.
You, too...
Park In Hwan Anthology Publication Party
Park In Hwan was in fact waiting for Kim Su Young.
The Park In Hwan who by then was sensing his upcoming death,
fervently awaited the arrival of his friend to this party.
And... again, since I am an actor after all,
I'll play master of ceremony in the confusion of the moment.
First...
allow me to introduce the honorable guest whose efforts made...
the publication of Park In Hwan's anthology possible.
Madam Lee Jeong Suk, please come forward.
Quite the choice MC we have.
Go ahead, Jeong Suk.
What did I ever...
Park Seonsaengnim, what are you doing?
Go ahead, darling.
I don't want to.
Let's see a woman take to the stage, for once.
What are you waiting for, Park Hyung?
Escort the missus up here, will you?
Let's go, dear.
Your hands...
Then, let's go arm in arm.
Go ahead, I'll follow you.
All right.
Follow him.
Ahh... come on!
This way, please.
This way.
Since it's not commonplace to see wives join the stage,
our Madam Lee Jeong Suk seems to be a little nonplussed by this all!
Applause, applause!
He finally opened the bottle.
Yeopiljongbu!
It is clear the wife should follow wherever her husband leads her!
Like every thread has its needle, don't room saloons need their gisaeng?!
Kim Gwan Shik-gun?!
No drunken frenzy today.
It's not the place for that, this one.
It's no drunken frenzy, the sight just brings me to tears!
If we talk of struggling with one's wife, who could ever beat me?!
But, luckily, our Park In Hwan-gun and his wife share the same age,
so she follows him around no matter the place!
What I'm saying...
Before all the fireworks, let's all have a drink!
You need to get drunk, if you really want to celebrate...
Ahh... why did you drink so much?
I'm in-laws with Seo-gun here.
Master and pupil, in-laws?!
His drunken frenzy is certainly cute, have to admit.
Mount Dobong?!
Our family's graveyard is there.
I was thinking of starting some poultry farming up there.
You won't endure that.
Know how hard it is to raise chickens?
I even raised someone like you, why would it be hard?
By the way... why did you come here and not go there?
There?!
I heard Park In Hwan had a publication party today.
Why would I go there?
Aigoo...
You've been friends all your life.
What friend...
You won't endure it up there in Mount Dobong.
Why don't you come with us in Mapo?
No way!
Would a mean little rascal who shows indifference to a friend...
treat his mother any better?!
I told you he's not a friend. Park In Hwan is just...
Our paths are different anyway. What... friend?!
Different how, your paths? Different in what sense?
Aigoo... I bet they are.
Mother.
Park In Hwan at least keeps going out there in the bright world...
Uh?! But you keep going where darkness leads you,
Aigoo... I'm sure. Your paths must be different.
I'll get going.
I must have hit a nerve.
He starts running away the moment he hears anything like that.
I'm a bit awry, that's all.
Just know that.
Aigoo...
1946 Library Marie
Just stay there.
I've tried to get your attention for over an hour,
but you still don't realize I'm here?!
You're quite an interesting fella, Kim Hyung?!
Ahh... right. Stage actor, you said?!
Could be that, but I was just saying your gestures and movements were pretty.
Look at the way you hold that cup of coffee.
As if you were holding and protecting it with both hands.
Kind of feels like a young lady.
Did I put it the wrong way?
I'm really no stage actor, but I want to try it out once.
My dream was to become a film director.
Do you like Jean Cocteau?
Can't say I don't, but I really have no idea.
Ohhh... this!
Kim Hyung, looks like your English is quite good.
If you can read the original version of a Shakespeare work,
you really must be something.
Last winter, I made a living out of that.
- Pa...Park In Hwan! - "O! My sorrowful path."
It's nice.
It's really nice, but you should fix this.
Fix what?
"Coach, may your joyous chortle kindle my path"?!
Isn't "joyous chortle" a bit awkward, Kim Hyung?
"A joyous... ray of laughter"?
Does that sound strange?
You know, poetry, Kim Hyung?
Then again, well, that's not too bad either.
"Coach, may your joyous chortle kindle my path"?
Eonni.
You're envious, aren't you?
Park Seonsaengnim publishing his first anthology...
must have stimulated Oppa as well.
He's got to be a little envious.
Tell me about it.
What's with the silence?!
I mean... you...
I feel ashamed.
I finally complete my first anthology,
and all I can feel is this wretched misery pervading my soul.
I almost forced my wife to come here, as she didn't want to.
To be honest...
I wanted to boast in her presence, for once.
Boast that I'm not just the husband who comes home drunk every night.
That I write poems, and that to hang out with my fellow scribes,
younger or older as they may be,
I always come home with only half my monthly salary.
My good friend Kim Su Young...
is now raising chickens, on the hills of Mapo, overlooking the Han River.
On this day, I feel particularly ashamed to face him.
Kim Su Young makes no excuses, and lives the life he wanted.
But excuses are all I know.
Loneliness fills my glasses,
and this miserable world that is so hard to bear just brings me laughter.
Excuses are my everyday companion.
But my friend Kim Su Young is facing this world with strength.
He confronts his sorrow with courage, and goes on living.
He doesn't make excuses,
and keeps his sorrow to himself.
Yes...
I feel ashamed.
My life was brimming with lies.
But I've never been with any woman other than my wife.
How proud we are!
Dear, trust me.
I've never had any affair.
Let's see a kiss, Park-gun!
Today, against my will, I am living the biggest lie of my life.
Dear, just fall for it one last time.
We are tracing back to the very last few months of Park In Hwan's life.
Romantist Park In Hwan.
The man who dissipated the painful memories of war with his sentimentalism,
"Dandy Boy," Park In Hwan.
Come a little closer.
What is it?
The back of my head is starting to itch.
Let's have a walk together.
I'm just proud of you, that's all.
And it's been long since we went out together.
And it's the first time I get home earlier without having a single drink?!
Yes.
Dear.
What are you doing?
Ahh... just stay put.
People will see us.
If they do, so what?!
Is this adultery or something?!
Listen to you...
To be really honest,
Park-gun's poems are not even poetry.
Isn't that right, Gongcho Seonsaengnim?
Literature can't help but become sentimental,
but if you show distress and shed tears before an empty page...
Look, Gwan Shik!
Let's just drink.
Can't even talk now?!
That's not even talking, so don't!
I knew you'd get scolded.
Talking or not...
I said give it a rest!
You know?!
How will you live, when I'm dead?
I'll follow you on the other side, I guess.
Is there anything wrong with you?
No.
So, why...
I just...
was wondering what you'd do, if I died.
I would just keep on living, I guess.
Weren't you going to follow me?!
Right...
What did they tell you, at the hospital?
Did the doctor say there's anything wrong with you?
Said I'll live another hundred years.
What made you so angry tonight?
Would he say that out of spite?!
You know how Kim Gwan Shik is.
He's hurting, that fella.
Park In Hwan Seonsaengnim?!
What's the problem?
More than one, probably.
His liver is in bad shape as well.
He keeps drinking even if he can't handle alcohol, it's only natural.
Still, I never heard of people dying because of drinking problems.
I guess that won't kill him.
You wrote all day?
I'm planning to write a novel.
A novel?!
They say serials do good business, these days.
It was quite crowded.
He waited for you a long time out there, Park In Hwan.
If I could get a good start, then it would be easy to write.
Meet him at least once.
He didn't look too healthy, either.
Know why I envy you?
It's because I'll never be as sincere as you are.
You are staring at that monster called sorrow,
as if it was food on your table.
But...
But all I do is running away from it.
I act all haughty talking about theater and movies,
drinking what I can't handle and puking it out.
How much longer will it last?!
How much time is left for me to live?!
There is so much I still want to do...
So many things left to do...
We already talked about this once,
but Kim Su Young always expressed all his feelings out in the open.
But... Park In Hwan,
he hid all his sorrow inside.
Perhaps...
Kim Su Young honestly didn't know how to avoid that sorrow.
Park In Hwan avoided it.
Nobody could say whose sorrow was more painful.
Better yet, what they suffered could be considered on equal terms.
And that is because they lived in the same period.
Kim Su Young lived much longer than Park In Hwan.
His longer life meant enduring the torture which those times inflicted upon him.
Whereas Park In Hwan's entire life walked with fire,
in a brief, fleeting moment.
Park In Hwan didn't neglect himself or his life even once.
He lived a bustling life.
It was inside that bottle of alcohol, laughter and sentimentalism,
that he threw every living inch of his body and soul.
Perhaps...
Park In Hwan could have felt even more despair than Kim Su Young.
It might have been all that despair, which forced him to give up the fight.
It might have been all that which fueled the fire which took him away.
"A drink in hand, we converse on the life of Virginia Woolf."
"And of that lady's skirt, she who left riding the wooden horse."
This was the glorious sentimentalism of Park In Hwan.
After liberation, our theater scene was dominated by the Shinhyeop troupe.
As a sort of cultural counterpoint to theater people defecting to the north,
Yoo Chi Jin wrote nationalist sageuk like "Master Wonhyo" and "Wonsullang."
And with Shinhyeop bringing those works to the stage,
a new wave began for our theater scene.
But, approaching the middle portion of the 50s,
suffering the harsh competition...
of female classical opera's boom and consecutive flops,
Shinhyeop encountered financial difficulties.
It was exactly then that a new theater troupe was created,
the Drama Production Association.
Jang Min Ho (stage actor)
Despite the fact the war ended over three years ago,
we still have to deal with the National Theater being in Daegu.
When are they going to bring it back to Seoul?
For the time being, it looks unlikely.
And even if they did, we'd only have the Arts Theater.
As you know, the Arts Theater is suffering from oversaturation.
Dance, classical opera, theater, now even gayo (Korean pop) concerts.
But, what were you talking about yesterday?
What?
I hear Oh Sa Ryang wants to opt out?!
Ahh... yes. That...
Said he's gathering a few young stage actors and producers,
and will start his own troupe.
Who would that be?
Mostly people who participated in the 1st College Theater Festival.
Goryeo University's Kim Gyeong Ok and Choi Chang Bong,
Yeonhee College*'s Cha Beom Seok, S.N.U.'s Lee Du Hyeon,
*Became Yonsei University in 1957
Park Hyun Sook from Jungang University and more.
They also talked about a professor as well, right?
Yes, called Choi Myeong Soo.
I hear this Cha Beom Seok from Yeonhee writes plays really well.
Kim Dong Won (stage actor)
I read his work in the Chosun Ilbo.
Thought he had talent, so I wanted to meet him,
but looks like he already joined forces with them?!
Once they begin to actively produce plays,
they'll probably revitalize our industry?
It was 1956 when we started our Drama Production Association,
but we never imagined it would become such a huge deal at the time.
Cha Beom Seok (stage producer)
All we wanted was to gather other poor theater people like us,
and produce the kind of theater we wanted.
So the question was, what was it we wanted to do?!
It wasn't anything spectacular or exaggerated,
but just to perform in small venues in front of a selected audience,
so that they and we could feel each other's breath,
rediscovering man's inner sensibilities through such communication.
That was our dream.
Still, this didn't mean Shinhyeop's passion fell by the wayside...
because of their new rivals' emergence.
In particular, Lee Hae Rang's enthusiasm for theater was second to none.
Is this the one?
It's "Death of a Salesman."
I was planning to run a play based on that early next year,
and I'd like you to play Willy Loman.
What?!
More than showing that a mature and industrialized society...
can fulfill people's expectations, this work seems to suggest that...
industrialization can only bring destruction and misery.
Would this kind of subject appeal to our people,
considering how far away we still are from becoming industrialized?
The richer a country becomes, the more people feel alienated and crushed,
so it's not too different from agricultural societies after all.
But will people like this?
Remember what people said, when I tried to bring "Dial M for Murder" to the stage?
"How could a foreign play, not to mention a mystery, ever succeed?!"
Everyone was negative about it, but then look at the results.
I also heard this work is full of flashbacks, so lighting effects will be important.
Actually, that's what I was concerned about.
We're still so backward when it comes to lighting techniques.
But I guess there will be a way to deal with that.
What will you do?
You must be getting plenty of film offers, will you have the time for this?
Why? Is your shooting schedule too tight to do this?
It's not that...
If this play fails, then you'll suffer badly.
How about we choose something a little more mainstream?
What I'm saying is... think of your wife and kids at home.
I've heard your wife is still getting rice from her parents?!
No matter how much you love theater...
If my concern was merely that of filling my belly,
I would have never gotten into this industry to begin with.
Mainstream plays?!
That's an oxymoron in itself.
How can theater be mainstream?!
Leave visceral and mainstream sensibilities to the movies.
I have five kids at home,
but not a single one has collapsed from malnutrition yet.
We still can make a living just fine.
You don't need to worry about me.
And if you're busy, then that's too bad.
I'll do it.
It was a role I always wanted to play.
Really? You made the right decision!
Kim Dong Won is a stage actor!
Shinhyeop presents ~ Death of a Salesman ~
Lee Seonsaengnim.
- Why are you still outside? - Ohh... it's nothing.
Aigoo... this is trouble, by the way.
Will you even pay back the expenses this way?!
Ahh... really, are they discriminating people now?!
Some people get tickets to see Im Chun Aeng,
and all we get is a ticket for some damned stage play?!
Do you even know what that was about?
The hell I know? I fell asleep right as it started.
And what's with those names? Biff... Happy...
They say it's some American story.
Still, do something we can stomach!
Seonsaengnim... Still, it's a quality play.
Do we have to start making male classical opera now?!
Would you play a woman there?!
"Your Majesty, allow me to steal a glance."
This is no laughing matter.
Whenever they have classical opera, half the people are wandering...
outside trying to get into a full house.
Haven't you seen earlier?
There were more actors than spectators.
And it's not like they all paid to get in.
They almost all got free tickets.
That's a big issue as well.
Would people who got in for free respect what you're putting on stage?!
They act as if it's their living room, and if they're not satisfied,
they just get up and leave right in the middle of the play.
What could be the reason classical opera is so popular?
It's easy to follow and exciting, so it must be popular.
The pansori, the flamboyant stage antics, a story you can easily digest on top,
not to mention the added appeal of women playing male roles,
the exaggerated dialogue...
Then, are you telling me we should start making corny tearjerkers?!
I know you hate melodramas' overwrought dialogue,
but if you wish to get closer to the audience,
you need to produce what they want to see.
Theater is sacred.
Along with poetry, it is the most primordial and fundamental of arts.
I can't stain art that way!
I disagree with that.
What's the point of performing without an audience?
I'm not saying we should ignore the audience,
but just that we should never bastardize theater's peculiar attributes!
Just because it's not popular, should we turn theater into classical opera?!
That's not what I meant.
I'm just telling you to make something a little more accessible.
Think of how things are going out there in the world.
As if people don't have to deal with enough complications...
Let's go simple.
Something the people will understand.
What is it we should do to make it simple and accessible?
That's up to you.
Are you telling me my production style is the issue?
You're trying to lecture the audience.
Just like a teacher, trying to impart new knowledge to his students.
So, what?
What is the problem with that?!
Just like a student and a teacher cannot stand on the same level,
actors cannot connect with their audience on the same stage.
But isn't theater's greatest strength that of actors and audience becoming one?!
Yet, as if we completely ignored the audience,
we fall into a sort of narcissistic masturbation.
Seems like you're misunderstanding something,
but the fundamental attributes of theater I was talking about aren't that.
So what is this, that idea you always champion,
to let your thoughts be as vast as the universe,
but only express something as big as a star?!
To think profoundly,
and to never convey your feelings in a hollow manner.
And that is exactly why the audience feels these plays are too difficult!
I'm just saying that we need to make things a little simpler for our audience.
Isn't that disgusting?!
On all those melodramas, "money or love," spitting it out just like that?!
Our audience could relate to that a lot more than a haughty "to be or not to be."
I'm not saying you're wrong.
You're right, on the contrary. But...
Ahh... I don't know. What is wrong with this...
Would we possibly end on the street?!
If we keep producing quality works, sooner or later the audience will be back.
Lee Hyung!
You know Jung Bi Seok well, don't you?
Why, Hyung?!
I hear Madame Freedom is doing great, these days.
Ahh!
You're trying to put Madame Freedom on stage.
That's not a bad idea.
The film did quite well at the box office, too.
But...
That wouldn't suit Shinhyeop too much, would it?
For a traditional theater troupe like yours, I mean.
If I keep doing things my way, all our actors will end up on the street.
So, I wanted to meet Jung Bi Seok, and ask him to help me out.
Then again, you made a smart decision.
You need to dabble in the mainstream every now and then,
so that you can make a good profit and produce more quality fare next.
Welcome.
You're here.
So you went to meet Jung Bi Seok?!
How did it go?
I got his permission.
- That's great. - Good to hear.
- Coffee for two. - Yes.
But, why are you looking so down?
I'm sure the idea of Shinhyeop bringing Madame Freedom to the stage...
infringes on your intents of introducing western-style realistic theater...
to this melodrama-crazy land.
But, if Shinhyeop disappears,
then wouldn't all we worked for over the years go up in flames?!
With classical opera attracting people in droves and movies gaining popularity,
all the theater industry can do to cope with this crisis is...
either go out in great fashion, burning on the stage like a dying moth,
or keep a low profile and wait for better times.
I'd rather go with the latter.
Only then would we get another chance.
I agree with Kim Seonbaenim as well.
The issue is how we can adapt Madame Freedom to a theater setting.
I don't believe putting it on the stage itself will be a mistake.
~ Madame Freedom ~
Known for bringing very dark foreign plays to the stage ever since its inception,
Shinhyeop decided to move out of its artistic routes...
and adapt the very popular Madame Freedom.
This work ran at the Arts Theater,
and it was a huge success from the very start,
with a full house on its debut.
Achieving success with their first novel adaptation,
Shinhyeop's next project was Park Jong Hwa's "Blood on the Royal Garments,"
once again becoming a huge hit.
The arguments for and against Shinhyeop's decision to adapt...
such popular works for the stage still abound today.
On one hand, criticism blaming Shinhyeop for bastardizing its core values...
with works which had nothing to do with theater...
on the pretense of overcoming the crisis, altering Shinhyeop's color beyond repair.
But also supporting voices, claiming that their decision was inevitable,
considering the economic difficulties afflicting the entire theater industry.
The infinite struggle between quality and mainstream acceptance.
Wouldn't such diatribes still continue to animate the struggle...
of today's theater scene in Daehak-ro?!
Theater was not only in competition with classical opera.
Actually, movies were an even bigger rival.
When Lee Gyu Han's "Tale of Chunhyang" (1955) became an unprecedented hit,
the Korean film industry's renaissance began in full force.
"Tale of Chunhyang" became the catalyst for postwar Korean cinema.
Seeing its almost two-month-long theater run alone...
would suffice to prove how popular it was.
The number of Korean films produced between the end of the war...
and this film's screening in 1954 was around forty.
Amongst them, the majority were war newsreels or war-related films.
But it was with the advent of "Tale of Chunhyang" that the industry...
began producing movies on a massive scale.
"Tale of Chunhyang" alone made a few hundred million won,
Yoo Hyun Mok (director) [Assistant on "Tale of Chunhyang"]
and it was really an amazing figure for the time, in 1955.
So even merchants from the Dongdaemun and Namdaemun markets...
started talking about film production.
That was how the atmosphere suddenly changed because of that film.
Back then there weren't many filmmakers per se,
but with people jumping on this boom's bandwagon,
and later President Lee Seung Man's tax exemptions,
massive funding began to be injected into the industry.
They called this a revival.
With Myeongdong playing a pivotal role in Korean culture,
Jo Young Jeong (film critic)
the fact the film industry's main street became Chungmuro...
was what you could call an inevitable conclusion.
So, why was it Chungmuro?
First, traditionally and historically speaking,
Chungmuro had always been connected to filmmaking in some way.
Surely, the fact Myeongdong and Chungmuro were so geographically close...
played an important part in all this.
Second reason was that, ever since the colonial period,
the Japanese built production facilities in Chungmuro,
along with three huge movie theaters in the area.
Also, the Gyeongseong Studios where Na Un Gyu shot Arirang were there.
It was around this time that dance began to experience a resurgence as well.
As if flowers were blooming...
Like roses of Sharon or water fringes,
radiantly... happily...
Wait.
You still don't understand me?
Don't just think of flowers blooming,
become reborn as this new creature! Like flowers radiantly blooming.
Got it?
Here...
Like so... Come full circle.
Here.
Kim Baek Bong gradually started stripping herself from and improving upon...
the influences of her mentor Choi Seung Hee.
1988 Seoul Olympics Opening (Choreography: Kim Baek Bong)
It wasn't just limited to Korean traditional dance.
With performances about the modern man's divide, like "Survival of the Fittest,"
Song Beom Dance Performance (1958)
Song Beom carved a unique niche for himself in the field of modern dance,
while Im Sung Nam's troupe pioneered the ballet scene in the country.
Im Sung Nam Performance (1961)
Starting from the late 50s,
when Im Sung Nam returned from Japan,
Song Beom (dancer)
that was when ballet started in full force in our country.
Also, it was Yook Wan Soon who first started "importing..."
Martha Graham's modern dance to our shores.
From that moment on, these three entities,
traditional, modern dance and ballet, started developing separately.
When the National Dance Association was founded,
I kept performing with them on stage,
and later I ended up becoming a choreographer for them.
Kim Baek Bong, as I told you earlier,
was trying to make our traditional dance into a more glamorous performance art.
We do call it dance,
Kim Baek Bong (dancer)
but what we were doing back then, until a certain point,
was filling the void Choi Seung Hee left.
Song Beom, on the same day Choi Seung Hee defected to the North,
came saying he would become a pupil of Choi Seonsaengnim.
That's how we met, and how this peculiar connection started.
Seeing how good a dancer he was, I tried to help him as best as I could.
All these people continued to do this just for the love of dance, back then.
Yes, that's right.
The two years between 1955 and 1956 brought immense changes...
to our cultural circles, at breakneck speeds.
It felt as if people had finally forgotten the war that only ended a few years earlier.
Or better. In some ways, this war rescued our cultural circles from...
the stagnation of the post-liberation period, and gave them new energy.
What are these stocks?
It's witchcraft.
Witchcraft?!
Indeed, indeed they are.
It's witchcraft, all right.
What are you saying?!
Take a look.
How much is this worth?
100 hwan*, right?
*Monetary unit (1953-1962)
Carry this in your pocket for a century, and it will still be worth 100 hwan.
But if you buy a stock worth 100 hwan with this,
you could make ten, a hundred times its value!
You'd make 10,000 hwan with a 100-hwan bill?!
That's right! Of course you can.
So, wouldn't that be witchcraft?!
Listen.
Why don't you...
make me 10,000 hwan out of this?
What are you prattling about?
- You can't deal with stocks. - Why is that?
If things go wrong, you'll find yourself broke.
So why are you doing that?
If it doesn't kill me, it'll make me stronger.
Come on, let me join in.
Stop prattling and worry about doing some business here.
Here, here! American goods!
They're all made in America!
What the hell is he doing?!
How can you shoot photos without permission?
I should just change business.
I can't even manage 4-5 photos a day.
Mister Yang. Sell things.
That's the only way you'll make some money.
This is all I know, what else can I do?!
Go around and you'll find a million opportunities to make a buck.
When are you ever going to make money by shooting photos like that?!
- It takes money to make money. - Aigoo... Is money all you need?
You fool, if you keep fixing shoes,
when are you ever going to make enough to buy a house or build a store?
Don't waste time with silly shenanigans, okay?
All we need is to work hard and make money.
All right?
How much did it go up?
Today, just this...
So, how much did it fall?
Ahh... It'll go up tomorrow!
Tomorrow, again?!
Why are you so late?
What about dinner for the kids?
I prepared it in the morning.
Stop with that damned business of yours!
Keep it up, and you'll starve my kids!
If it hurts you so much, why don't you go back and cook for them?!
This little wench... How dare you talk back?
I'm going!
I can just go...
- Let's go together! - Dear!
Let's eat something out tonight.
What a waste of money.
Why not just eat at home?
Come over here.
Aigoo... let's just do it.
If I think about having to cook, I suddenly lose my strength.
Have a seat.
When I'm done fixing this, we'll call it a day.
"Come here!"
"I got it!"
That damned wench!
Go back home right now!
I'm going!
I was on my way!
Mrs. Baek!
Look... look... I closed an eye because we are both Baek,
but look at you!
Daily installments mean you pay me back every day!
If you skip days like that, what am I supposed to do?
I was just about to bring it to you.
You got five, what is this?
It's just that business is slow, these days.
Just close an eye for another couple of days.
Never mind, then.
I'll just have to go ask your husband.
Aigoo... don't do that!
If he learns of this, he'll break my legs!
You two look nice together.
She finally got a hold of herself.
Can a leopard erase its spots?!
Again... again!
Don't you know when it comes to smoking and the dance bug,
even the gods can't do a thing about it?!
Hurts you, doesn't it? Not having a wife like her.
Hurts, my ass.
You can buy the most alluring of beauties with money these days,
- so who would care about your... - Say what?!
- What?! - Calm down!
You keep getting angry, so you just tempt him to continue.
Aigoo... did I kill his lover in a past life or something?!
Calm down, relax... Calm down!
Just smile. Smile and life will smile at you.
All right? "Ha Ha Ha" like that...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
so his wife must look like a pin-up to his eyes!
Aigoo... you damned...!
Can't even take care of your brother. What is this?
Where were you, while your brother got hurt?
Stop crying, will you?
What's all this tragedy for a little bruise?! A man like you... Stop!
Seonsaengnim. It's been a long time.
There's plenty of new arrivals.
I gathered all the American papers for when you'd come.
When you have time, come by again.
Welcome.
Lee Seonsaengnim and Park Seonsaengnim didn't come today.
Park In Hwan will either be at the Poem or at the tavern drinking liquor.
And Lee Bong Gu Seonsaengnim, I think he went down to Daegu?!
Can I sit a moment?
Of course.
I planned to call it a night, since it was empty.
I don't need anything to drink, so I'll just sit for a moment.
I'm so thankful.
That you didn't bother me with orders.
Ohh... if it won't bother you too much, a cup of coffee.
Just be seated.
It's not like you'll rescue this place from closing down.
Is business that slow?
We have a big coffee shop spurting next door,
and all the regulars here ask for credit.
There's even people who ask credit for a cup of tea's worth?!
At least that's on credit.
Lee Bong Gu Seonsaengnim just drinks, end of story.
Ahh... right.
Where did you say he went?
To Daegu.
Who was it again he mentioned being ill?!
Could it be Lee Jung Seop?
Ohhh... right.
The one with those strange paintings.
He refuses to eat?!
He just hasn't touched food in days.
They tried to force it upon him through electroshock at the hospital...
It's not the one the police does, the shock just wakes you up.
Then, is Lee Jung Seop at a mental institution now?
Yes.
How could this...
At the last exhibition, an officer from National Defense we know...
said all that red on his pictures felt like something a commie would paint.
What on earth?!
It was just an ignorant military officer saying that,
but it looks like it shocked Jung Seop Hyung.
So?!
A few days later, I got a call from the Daegu police department.
They were saying he went there, screaming and crying...
to prove he was not a commie.
Mister Policeman.
Write a testimonial saying I'm not a commie, please.
Those fools think I am, so they'll execute me!
So write it for me!
Madness was slowly engulfing Lee Jung Seop,
while Park In Hwan was almost wailing out all the alcohol he couldn't handle.
Kim Su Young came to Myeongdong, to meet his good friend after a long time.
We will continue on the next episode.
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Why are you drinking even more than usual, these days?!
We had a lot more differences than common traits, right?
Still, I thought there was something of a connection between us.
Park In Hwan and I live two different lives anyway.
Open that door, you bastards!
What are you doing to me?!
It was as if he was fervently waiting to die...
Was it the war that made Jung Seop Hyung in that state?
Or was it just his destiny which did this all?
"Even when the wind blows, when rains drenches us all,"
"I still gaze at the street lamp outside the window,"
"Unable to forget the shadows of that night."
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