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- Episode 32 - Originally Aired on 01/23/1992
[Choi Duil, the pro-Japanese detective who arrested independence fighters]
What do you think you're doing?
- Anti-National Activities Committee -
Those collaborators have crossed the line!
What are you doing, while those collaborators in the police run amuck?
Are you closing an eye on them?
Arrest the police's collaborators! Arrest them!
I'll testify in court.
I've had my share of dealings with that Suzuki.
What happened to my leg is all because of him!
Suzuki did it.
Fine, we'll contact you if your help is needed.
Remember to get in touch. I've got to testify.
- I'll say everything in court. - Yes.
With my testimony, it'll be all over for him!
Yes, all right.
How can people like him still walk free, in this day and age?
- Doesn't hurt to give it a try. - You think?
You set this up, didn't you? Getting the press involved.
Why, you don't like it?
Wait until you're my age.
You'll always think the worst no matter what.
And go figure, as far as I go, that always turned out to be true.
How about Baek Insu?
He still hasn't called.
And I'm asking you why the hell he hasn't called yet!
- Cheolsan Mines - North Pyeongan Province, North Korea
Are the rumors true?
That before coming here, you used to be a major.
Some even say you were part of the Eighth Route Army in China.
159 said he heard them say it at the office.
Everyone's waiting.
For you to go at the foreman's throat.
What did you do for a living?
I was an intellectual.
The least popular of all professions.
I taught at a school.
And wrote a few novels.
Although I was brought here exactly because of that.
If you're wondering what got me in trouble...
Looks like the foreman used to be a butcher,
and that he gained a lot of influence after the liberation.
He even killed a few landlords. Along with their wives and children.
So that's what brought him here.
Isn't that laughable?
I was brought here because I was too educated,
and he was caught for the very opposite reason.
What is this, trying to turn on me, 289?
I'm the foreman here.
Know what happens to you if you do that?
Listen well, 289.
My job here is to fix that rotten attitude of yours.
Got it?
Of people like you.
Haughty senior officers prancing about as if they're anything special.
Hey! I know how you young little pricks work.
You made your way to the top because of who you knew, for sure...
I'm sure you can talk the talk.
Prattling on about Lenin this, the people that...
But have you seen yourself now?
You're forced to grovel at the feet of ignorant fools like me.
You must be burning inside, I bet?
You always prattle about equality, but deep down you're ready to explode, uh?
Give it your best shot.
What?
I wouldn't mind it myself.
Go ahead and try to convert me.
You son of a...
Listen.
I want to respect the people you call "ignorant fools" just as much as you do.
Am I making myself clear?
What are you doing?
What are you dragging your feet for?
Is money the problem?
Jang Harim is still leaking intel to the north right as we speak!
First he made a heroine out of Yoon Yeook at the trial,
and orchestrated all those insinuations about us through the press.
It's all going according to his plans!
He's even worse than Park Heonyoung at this point.
If it weren't for those foolish Yankees, I'd long have caught him.
Take him to the 38th.
If you can't bring him alive, even his body will do.
We'd only have executed a spy from the US Military Government going up north.
He was going to go up north anyway, so we're only speeding things up a little.
As her superior, were you aware of the fact that...
the defendant's husband was in fact a commie?
Yes.
As you still let her handle classified files?
She met her husband only after being hired.
And she immediately handed in her resignation once they got together.
So you don't think that an intelligence agent who ends up...
meeting a communist northern spy is cause for concern?
To my knowledge, the two met long before our liberation.
And after separating because of the war, they only reunited by chance.
I see nothing strange with that.
But according to the records, she requested to be reinstated...
not long after her resignation, you think that's not strange, either?
That...
only happened after she broke up with her husband.
Did she mention what led them to separate?
I didn't ask the defendant about any possible issue with her husband.
Meaning that you never had suspicions nor asked her anything.
Seems like you trusted her quite a bit.
When and where did you first meet her?
It was in 1944, back in Saipan.
What were you doing there?
I was a medical officer.
The defendant?
What was the defendant doing there?
She was...
Is it true she was a comfort woman?
Could you explain to us what that means?
To my knowledge, those were women prostituting themselves for the Imperial army.
- Is that true? - It's not.
What do you mean?
What is selling your body for money, if not prostitution?
Watch your mouth.
Every single one of them was forced there against their will!
So, what, they weren't paid for whatever they did with those Japanese soldiers?
According to my research, they were granted a nominal fee.
Your Honor, you must stop this!
What are you trying to find out?
Be quiet.
You sold our country and even our women!
That's what those comfort women were. Do I have to spell it out?
I said quiet!
Prosecutor.
Any questions left?
Witness.
Is that how you got to know the defendant?
Did you pay for her services as well?
Prosecutor, shut your mouth!
Your Honor, this is important,
because I wonder whether she was really arrested for being a patriot,
and if women prostituting themselves for the Japanese could have any patriotism.
Say what?
Who the hell do you think you are?
- Let me go. - Quiet... Quiet!!
What gives you the right to say that? Who do you think you are?
It's all the data regarding the comfort women.
I found it among other documents I took from the Japs.
I was hiding when it happened.
I heard my daughter screaming, right as they were taking her away.
My wife only explained to me later.
That she was being sent to a comfort station.
She didn't even know what that was.
But I did.
I was hoping she wouldn't make it back even after we were liberated.
A father...
Hoping his daughter wouldn't come back.
All rise.
Sit.
You may begin your questioning.
Counsel?
Are you going to question her or not?
- Then... - Defendant.
Wasn't there any way you could refuse to do it?
When they took you to that comfort station, and you realized what it was...
Was there any way you could refuse?
You said you were pregnant when you first met Jang Harim, right?
Then, did you have to continue prostituting yourself despite being pregnant?
If they took you there forcibly and forced all that on you,
how could you women go on living?
My daughter was just like you.
And go figure, she survived and came back to me.
Although she eventually died of an illness, she didn't commit suicide.
Counsel.
Counsel, shall we have a word?
I asked her, too.
As she was dying in my arms... I asked her.
Why couldn't she die earlier?
Did you want to survive that badly?
Yes.
I wanted to.
Back when they took me to that comfort station,
I was only seventeen.
Even after I learned what kind of place it was,
I couldn't die in there.
And that's because I wanted to make it back home alive.
We comforted each other, constantly telling ourselves we'd make it back home.
Not one of us did anything we deserved to die for.
We might have sold our bodies,
but what you did was selling our country.
And yet you survived.
So did we.
We might have been ashamed enough to wish for death,
but we did everything to survive.
That last day in Saipan, the Japs slaughtered all comfort women.
All they wanted was to get rid of us all.
Is that what you want as well?
There's someone waiting for you.
He said he's a friend of yours. He's waiting in your room.
Ajeosshi, you're back?
Let go of him.
Let's have another bite.
Careful.
Is this the child Yoon Yeook gave birth to in Saipan?
What is it that you want?
Chief Detective Choi speaking.
All right.
Where is he?
Didn't you tell me to send him to the 38th?
You said you had him!
Thought I might just send him with them.
Remember the congressmen you asked me to send there?
I'm sure you're not going to pretend you didn't know about them now?
Say what?
You're sure?
What are you trying to scheme?
Don't move!
Choi Duil, you're under arrest for violating the anti-national activities law...
and for attempted murder.
Here's the warrant.
You!!
Baek Insu!
Jang Harim... Was it you?
Stop!
You really think you can beat me?
Kim Ilseong's cronies will never have it their way here in the south!
Let go!
Think it's the end of it, Jang Harim?
Dream on!
This is the only thing the Yankees brought over that I can tolerate.
I guess I should begin by thanking you.
Don't bother with that.
Still, there must be a reason for your sudden change of mind.
Why, are you going to reward me or something?
Think it'll be more than what Park Chungeum offered me?
Let's say drinks are on you tonight.
Look... I've got a guest here, but I don't see his glass.
Call it resistance, if you want.
Because let's be clear,
I fought for the independence movement all over Manchuria.
I witnessed countless fellow independence fighters die for our cause.
But look at us... South Joseon, North Joseon.
My side, your side... Whatever.
Here's that goddamned "motherland" of ours.
Was it really worth dying for?
The hell with it...
I'm screwed because of you.
Living like a rat for hire wasn't all that bad, to be honest.
If you need a job, just say the word.
I'm sure I'll find something for you.
My father was a gambling addict, you know...
But he never really made a dime.
So of course we all went belly up.
Like father, like son.
Yoon Yeook is a beauty.
I see why you'd risk your life for her.
Think putting Choi Duil behind bars will be the end of your problems?
Don't tell me you're that naive?
- US Military Government -
It's called Bokjori.
We put a fortune inside this, and give it to each other as a gift.
Thank you.
I'll hang it on the wall in my room in Israel.
I wish you good luck.
Harim Jang...
You know the western way to do this.
I'll miss you.
I'll pray for the unification of Joseon.
Thank you.
Thank you for all you did.
- June 1949 - US Army Completes Withdrawal
- June 6, 1949 - Outside the Anti-National Activities Committee Offices
All up!
- Police Infiltrates Anti-National Activities Committee Office, Arresting 35 and Injuring 22 -
As a result of this continuing turbulence, strict measures must be taken.
- June 21, Second Espionage Incident - Several Young Congressmen Detained
Among them is my decision to disband the Special Forces,
hoping for our people's understanding and for the swiftest resolution to this impasse.
- Anti-National Activities Law Revised - All Committee Members Resign
- June 26, 1949 - Kim Gu Assassinated
Let's go.
- Baek Insu Arrested - Executed for Conspiring with Communists, Terror and 1st Degree Murder
- Attorney Park Changseok - Disbarred for Forged Evidence
All rise.
Sit.
Defendant Yoon Yeook.
I hereby sentence you to execution.
This court acknowledges the evidence presented by the prosecution.
The evidence submitted by the prosecution...
- Cheolsan Mines, North Pyeongan Province -
- 145, let's go. - Yes.
289! 145!
Do one more load.
Comrade Hwang!
- What's wrong? - It's collapsing.
The third tunnel is blocked. We've got men trapped down there.
Let's hurry up.
Anyone there?
Comrades!
Comrades...
Is anyone there?
Comrades!
Don't you even bother, 289.
I said stop.
Are you deaf?
There's not enough air, anyway.
So I guess if it's two instead of three, we'll have more air to breathe.
Don't you think?
You really think you'll make it out of here?
Stop deluding yourself, 289.
Is this the people's spirit you always talk about?
Waiting for help to come to you, and dying in silence without saying a word.
You reactionary son of a bitch!
I'm not going to sit here and wait.
That's not how I lived.
How about it?
- Wait... I think I saw someone? - Really?
He's alive!
- Get out of the way. - Careful.
He's alive.
What are they waiting for?
Careful.
Hurry up.
Comrade Hwang!
We're still missing five people.
I can't tell how many made it out alive.
How far is the end of the line from here?
I'd say about twenty meters.
Where did it collapse, again?
545 said it's around the middle part.
Then, the end of the line might have been spared.
The problem now is whether they have any air left.
Ready?
Everything's ready.
Help... Help me!
Please... Help!
Is anyone out there?
Hey! Let me out!
Let me out of here!
Help... Help!!
So where are you from, again?
You went to college, I hear?
My father was a blacksmith.
Right... I knew it.
No bourgeois would be capable of that.
I once got to know a prick like you.
Prick?!
He had this huge inferiority complex against those who went to college.
I think he said he used to plow land and raise pigs, or something?
Was it a Jap?
But there's one thing that makes you different.
The fact he was obsessed with "His Majesty the Emperor,"
while all you ever talk about are those so-called "people."
As if it was the solution to everything.
Reactionary son of a bitch...
I didn't even realize it back then.
How to deal with people like him.
But I think I might have learned now.
Looks like our time is coming.
Goddamn...
I think I might know now.
What's the scariest thing in life.
I see the intelligentsia prattles on even when it's time to die...
You never stop...
Hey... 289...
What's on your mind now?
A woman.
A woman?
My woman.
My son.
Can you see them? Yes!
Keep it up! Quick!
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