But now they tease me even more!
Just look at me.
Do I look good?
I'm young, but I've already
lost my health.
I have to take medication every day!
I didn't teach you weightlifting
because it's a bad sport,
and it shouldn't be done!
It's useless!
I've never agonized over whether I should do it or not.
I wanted to train hard and be able
to stand on my own...
They'll treat you like crap unless you win a gold medal!
And if you're injured like me,
you'll become useless overnight!
Why do you think you're useless?
They don't give this to just anyone!
Why do you think that?
I don't need your medal anymore,
so you can take it back!
I'm going to train hard
and win my own medal!
From now on, I'm going to divide
the weightlifting team into a hobby group and an athlete group.
The hobby group will use weightlifting
to strengthen their bodies and minds.
The athlete group will bet their lives on weightlifting.
Who wants to be in the athlete group?
You should do the hobby group.
No. I've decided to major in weightlifting instead of going to Harvard.
Some people are better suited for studying.
No one is interested
in weightlifting.
Even if you break the world record
and win a medal,
people will be more interested in basketball.
Do you still want to be weightlifters?
Yes!
Let me ask you once more.
Once you decide on this path you'll lose many things!
It's a lonely path that's full of pain!
So you're going to give up everything for this sport
that no one even cares about?
Yes!
You idiots!
Then let's see what this ragtag bunch is capable of!
Okay!
I don't want to hear anyone say this is hard,
that they're going to give up!
Give me a hundred more! Okay?
One!
Two!
Faster!
Run until you catch up with Suok.
Are you going to give up? No, coach!
Is it too hard?
No, coach!
Do you want to give up?
No, coach!
That's it.
I'm going to check your report cards!
Yes, coach.
And ask Suok if there's anything you don't know.
Hey!
Who is she?
Minhui the former mayor's daughter.
I know that, but what's she doing here?
She was too embarrassed to be on the weightlifting team
so she joined the tennis team because she thinks tennis skirts are pretty.
Stop it. She never stays
on a team longer than a month.
Just wait until she leaves.
Don't you think a month is a little long?
Wanna play a game of tennis?
We're done! Let's eat!
I'm so hungry!
- Give me some water. - I get to shower first!
I'm older, so I get to shower first!
You're also fatter.
What did you say?
What's that smell?
Oh, gross!
What smell? I showered last month.
Last month? Jeez!
My skin's dry, so the doctor said
shouldn't shower too often.
Oh, what's that smell?
Hey, open the windows!
Open them quick!
Coach, it smells like
a skunk farted in here!
We've got a pig and a skunk on the team.
What are you waiting for? Come inside.
What the heck? I thought you were embarrassed of us!
Stop it!
I'm glad you came!
This is Minhui, and she'll be joining our weightlifting team starting today.
Let's give her a round of applause.
Focus...
on how...
to...
What does 'to" mean?
To...
What on earth does 'to" mean?
The thing I hate to hear most
is that athletes are stupid.
That's why we're going to study weightlifting theory in English.
I skimmed the book, and it's not that difficult.
I'd translate it for you,
but you'll get more out of it
if you study it yourselves.
Now, let's all give Suok a round of applause.
From now on, Suok will translate a page a day for you.
I want you to write the words
you don't know 100 times a day.
We'll use the method Lukashev used in the Soviet Union in 1972
for lifting the weights.
The first thing you have to do
is determine the proper bar position.
One!
That's it.
Good.
Voila!
Anyway, where did you get our pictures?
From our student IDs.
What's this?
Well, I didn't have enough pictures of female weightlifters.
What the heck?
You're a guy!
I'd like to say goodbye to the younger students staying behind
I'll remember oseong Girl's Middle School forever.
Why is she practicing
that speech?
I saw the valedictorian practicing her speech.
You're not the valedictorian.
I'm done.
I'm so tense!
So, they'll fall in love if this becomes a gigantic circle?
You unfold it. One, two, three...
Inho is going to fall in love with me!
So, what are you looking for?
I'm looking for a high school with a dormitory.
A dormitory?
I won't be able to use the team dorm much longer.
Our weightlifting team isn't very old,
and we're happy
you're sending such good athletes,
a coach, and even giving us funding.
The athletes are insisting they keep their coach.
I'm well-aware of what your athletes are like.
There are lots of big competitions coming up,
and I don't want your athletes to be a negative influence on my kids.
This is good. Just stay there and keep
your athletes away from my athletes.
Hyeonjeong!
You should carry your own lunch It's heavy.
I haven't seen you in church lately.
The thing is...
She's Buddhist. She and my mother
go to the same temple.
Will you stop it?
Hey, Poopy Pants!
Poopy Pants, do you
attend this school?
Do you two know each other?
Everyone in Boseong knows her.
She pooped in her pants.
You shouldn't talk to her.
It'll only tarnish your image.
Let's go.
Hey, Minhui!
Don't you go walking arm in arm with my brother!
What?
He's not your brother!
I'll kill you!
How dare you call him your brother!
What do you think you're doing to my sister?
What? Your sister?
For crying out loud!
Didn't you know Minhui is Inho's sister?
I'll see you this Sunday,
Hyeonjeong.
He was awesome!
It must be nice to have Inho
get revenge on Yeongran for you.
I'll buy spicy rice cakes for everybody!
That's it. Bring your legs together.
Together!
You're strong, but you have no sense of balance!
Get up there!
Balance yourselves.
It's all about balance!
When you jerk, you have to stick your
leg out and pull your waist in!
Breathe deeply!
Get into the bow position.
I can't believe you can't do this!
You have to jerk it
in three seconds!
Bring your legs together quickly!
You're not agile enough You're too slow!
That's it. Duck!
One, two...
Faster! Faster!
What do I hate to hear most in the world?
That athletes are stupid.
Write this a hundred times.
Okay, coach.
I'm going to count them all.
What are you doing there?
You have to go faster!
According to Newton,
it's takes a very complex process
to lift something up.
But weightlifting isn't a complicated sport.
You don't have to run against your competitors like in track,
and there's no ball that could bounce anywhere.
That's why instead of wishing for luck before a competition,
I always asked God for superhuman strength.
I can't tell you the results of tomorrow's competition,
but one thing is for sure.
The weights you'll have to lift tomorrow
will be a lot lighter than the burdens
you've had to carry in your lives up till now.
I believe in you.
Timing!
You have to get in position ahead of time!
Have some of this.
It's all right to eat fruit.
My brother's here.
Go for it!
Look alert!
Lee Boyeong!
Put some strength into your legs!
That's it!
Now straighten them!
Balance yourself!
Straighten your back!
Concentrate!
You can do it!
Balance yourself when you jerk
and lift, okay?
Concentrate!
You can do it!
Put strength into your legs!
Good work! That's it!
You have to finish quickly, okay?
Concentrate!
Go for it!
That's it!
All right!
Relax and try to concentrate.
Get up, get up! That's it!
Now finish! Finish!
Finish!
Bring your legs together!
Three more seconds!
Go for it, captain!
You can do it, Hyeonjeong! Go for it!
That's it!
Now stand up!
Now hold still!
Coach!
I hereby give this award to the principal of Boseong Girl's Middle School
for her contributions in developing
sports in the city of Boseong.
Attention! Salute! Semper fi!
What are you doing there? You should take a picture with us!
That's right. You have to be in the picture, Coach Lee!
Come over here.
Let's take the picture together.
Is it the Boseong Middle School team or the Jungang High School team?
Stay at our school and I'll make
you principal someday.
Boseong Spring Weightlifting Competition All-Around High School Division Winners.
Get in, coach! Come on!
Oh! Inho!
Look, this is our funding.
Here, Hyeonjeong.
Youngja.
Suok.
Boyeong.
Here, Yeosun.
Minhui.
If you do well at the next National Meet,
you'll easily get on a professional team or into college.
I can't accept this I really didn't do anything.
What are you talking about?
You motivated the girls...
with this.
Coach...
What's with the tears?
Let's drink up!
Cheers!
Coach.
Huh? Yang Huieun's songs are so great.
I agree.
Are you cold, coach?
No. Why?
Then does your arm still hurt?
No.
Then, why do you always keep that hand in your pocket?
Oh, this?
It's because I feel so sorry for my arm.
Instead of telling me
you love me...
The coach is snoring.
Let's lift up King Kong and go!
They're our students.
And that's why we want to teach them from now on.
You got your awards and funding.
Can't you understand how we feel?
Our students won the medals,
but we have nothing to show for it.
All the papers are talking about Boseong
Girls' Middle School and Coach Lee.
Don't you think you've exploited the girls enough?
You were never interested in them.
I'm going to keep coaching them like I always have.
It won't be good for the girls to suddenly change coaches.
You're only using them for your ambitions.
I know you don't want to give them to us
because they won medals...
I don't care if they can't win medals!
I just want to take care of them until they go to college or get jobs!
I'm not doing this because they won medals!
Bastards...
This is the only school
with a permit to teach athletes.
If you walk out that door,
your students will never compete at Nationals.
Coach Lee's methods were outdated,
so your records improved slowly.
Plus, you're all Jungang Girls' High School students,
so I'll be coaching you
starting today.
Anyway, where's the skinny girl?
Minhui? She's in the hobby group.
Hobby?
No wonder you're such a sorry bunch.
Didn't I tell you not to come near here?
Stay where you are and keep training.
These are the kids' training records. I thought they'd be of help.
Okay, now go away!
Make sure Hyeonjeong gets easily digestible food after the weigh-in.
She likes canned peaches.
Yeosun can digest just about anything. So she'll be fine.
Youngja always has diarrhea after she eats meat,
so don't let her eat any meat.
This upcoming competition is a very important one for the girls.
So please take a look at this.
What?
You want to study?
Hobby group?
You should be training all day and all night!
You'd better not move. You could hurt your back!
In the future, don't even think about going to that class!
Hey! Is that how Coach Lee taught you?
We don't need a loser like you, so get out of here!
Get the hell out of here!
Aren't we going to train, coach?
We're already done writing our English words.
Suok.
Yes?
Does Harvard have a weightlifting department?
Then you should quit weightlifting. You've done this too long for it to be a hobby.
I'm very fond of you, Suok.
That's why I want you to do what you're really good at.
Boyeong.
No! I want to be a weightlifter!
What's the matter with you? Prepare hard for next year's competition.
Coach, can't we just train here like we used to?
We want to keep training with you.
Who told you you could come here?
Who told you to disobey your coach like this?
Get down on the floor!
Get down on the floor now!
I told you I'm not your coach anymore!
I told you not to come here!
Get down on the ground!
I told you not to come here again!
I only distracted you guys from your training.
It's a good thing I got kicked out.
What are you talking about? You motivate us.
That coach is so weird.
He says you don't know anything about weightlifting.
Just don't listen to him.
Yeah. Like we'd believe anything he says!
Believe it.
What?
He's your coach now.
You guys sleep at this dormitory, so I can see you at night.
But as an athlete, you have to believe in your coach.
That's the only way to get good results.
I'm so proud of what my students have achieved.
Will you act natural, please?
What do you do when training's difficult?
We go out and have fun with our coach.
And our coach cooks delicious food for us.
Coach Shim even cooks for you?
No. Coach Lee Jibong of Boseong Girls' Middle School does.
We don't learn much here.
But he gives us supplementary training at the dorm.
Lee Jibong...
Darn it!
I hope I won't have to take her in.
I'm just concerned for Youngja's welfare, that's all.
I heard that Youngja is pulling in some dough.
All you have to do is write a letter to the Department of Education.
When did your back first start hurting?
Why didn't you tell me?
Who could it be at this hour?
Are you a student at this school?
You see!
She wouldn't come home because of that evil man!
Youngja, what are you doing in there?
You bastard! What do you think you're doing?
What's going on?
What Are you doing to my Youngja?
What's going on? - She's a minor, you lowlife!
Why are you acting like this, uncle? Coach didn't do anything wrong!
Do you want to become a whore?
What do you think you're doing?
What are you doing here?
Stop harassing her!
Why did you let students stay there when they don't go your school?
They have nowhere else to go.
Then you should have sent them to an orphanage.
Did you think your school was an orphanage?
Principal Gwak,
you should know it's illegal to build a dormitory at school.
It was only a temporary lodging.
How can you teach when you don't even follow the law?
I thought an experienced teacher like you would know better!
Why did you coach students that don't go to your school?
Why were you at their dorm late at night?
How many times did you molest those children?
How could you do such a thing to those innocent children?
You're not a teacher, you're a monster.
We've found no evidence of molestation, so those charges are being dropped.
Although Coach Lee was using the children
to fulfill his own ambitions and deserves to be punished,
because of his excellent past record,
he won't be relieved of his position as coach.
However, the students must be coached by their school's coach,
and the illegal dormitory will be shut down.
I'll have to bring you some more blankets.
Doesn't it get scary at night?
It's all right when I'm asleep.
But it's scary when I turn off the lights and go to lie down and sleep.
We'll turn the lights off for you so stay under the covers.
We're turning off the lights, Youngja!
Okay.
See you tomorrow!
Bye!
How do you expect to become an athlete when you can't even lift that?
You're the worst weightlifter here!
Your former coach taught you wrong, so that's why all you do is whine!
Did you take the painkillers I bought you?
What the heck? Are you crying again?
You should either take more painkillers
or just go home, you crybaby!
Hello?
Coach.
Youngja.
Is anything wrong?
No. I just missed you.
How's training going?
I haven't been feeling very good,
and I don't think I can get the gold. Maybe I should drop out of the competition?
Youngja, everybody tries to win the gold.
But just because you win the bronze,
it doesn't mean your life will be a bronze medal life.
If you try your best and don't give up
you'll have a gold medal life.
That in itself is priceless.
I'm sorry. I won't give up.
But when I get married, you have to promise to give me away.
Okay.
It's getting late, so you should go home. We'll call as soon as we find him.
Raise the barbell and tuck in your stomach!
Were you out looking for Coach Lee again?
Do you know what time it is? Get your butts in here!
Are you crazy?
Coach Lee probably ran away because he didn't want to see your sorry faces!
I'd beat the snot out of you if the competition wasn't in two days.
Consider yourselves lucky.
53 kg class. Seo Yeosun's third attempt.
Raise the barbell, you idiot! What are you waiting for?
If it still hurts after you take these, I'll let you forfeit.
Bunch of whiners!
What are we going to do, Youngja?
It's the coach...
Dear Youngja.
Some people are as spotless as the sky,
and as kind as angels.
I believe that you're such a person.
Thank you for bearing through the difficult training.
Hyeonjeong, thank you for working hard to lead the team as the ca
Don't forget to starve the day before the competition,
and after weighing in, eat chocolate, porridge, or fruit.
Yeosun, I'm proud of the way
you've matured and grown healthy since you joined the team.
What do you think you're doing? Huh?
Did you rip yours off, too?
Did you?
I ought to kill you useless crybabies.
Yeosun...
Lee Jibong?
Stop writing! Stop writing!
That bastard's ruined my life!
I never should have let you join the team!
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Get the hell out of here!
Why are you all acting like this?
What's going on with Lee Jibong?
You are all dead when we get back to school.
Get up.
Right now!
Stop your crying.
This isn't what Coach Lee would want from us!
Get up right now!
Dear Hyeonjeong.
You're only truly beautiful when you try your best.
Although the results might not always reflect your efforts,
working as hard as you can to achieve your goal is priceless.
Hyeonjeong.
Always give it your best, when you're competing
and show us how beautiful you really are.
Coach...
Dear Youngja,
I understand how lonely you feel because you have
no parents to share your joys and sorrows with.
But you can't live your entire life
in loneliness, longing for somebody that's gone.
Youngja, someday your time will come.
Youngja, stand up on top of the world.
Raise the world over your head and stand up on it.
Stand up.
How do you feel right now?
Who do you miss most aside from your mother and father?
Don't be tense and talk slowly.
Who's Lee Jibong?
Move out of my way! What was the most difficult thing about training?
How does it feel to break the Korean record?
Who's your favorite singer?
There are lots of popular singers these days. Just name one.
Yang Huieun.
Yang Huieun...
Yang Huieun.
Don't go, coach...
She's competing in the Olympics
without having fully recovered from her back injury.
She's failed her first two attempts,
and she must raise over 140 kilograms in her third attempt
to beat the Chinese lifter and win the gold.
That's right.
Because Youngja's failed her first two attempts,
gold is highly unlikely.
We expect her to attempt 135 kilos, which will give her the bronze.
It's quite unfortunate for her.
She's going to attempt a weight that isn't even her personal best.
It looks like she's going to go for the bronze.
She can't seem to overcome her big competition jinx.
Park Youngja! Park Youngja!
I've never seen anyone as determine as Youngja in all my life.
And she's full of diligence.
Where does she get her determination and diligence from?
Huh? She's changing the weight.
If she can lift 140 kilos, she'll win the gold.
Don't you think she's overexerting herself?
Youngja, everybody tries to win the gold.
But just because you win the bronze
doesn't mean your life will be a bronze medal life.
And just because you win gold,
it doesn't mean your life will be a gold medal life.
If you try your best and don't give up,
your life itself will be a gold medal.
That in itself is priceless.
Coach!
We miss you!
I can lift anything with these arms!
If any of my students fulfills the dream that I haven't been able to fulfill,
it will probably be
Youngja.
I'm sure of it.
This film is a dramatic retelling of coach Jeong Inyeong's life.
In 2000, at the 81st National Athletic Meet in Busan,
two of his students, Kim Yongcheol and Yun Sangyun,
won 14 out of the 15 available gold medals.
This previously unheard of record has never been broken.
A year later, Jeong Inyeong
had a heart attack and passed away.
He was on duty at school at the time.
He was also responsible for discovering
Barcelona Olympic Gold Medalist
Jeon Byeonggwan in Jinan, North Jeolla Province.
Translated by Kiyoung Che
Proofread by Evan Yerburgh
Localization by Furmo-DT