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- Civilian Communist Collaborators Camp -
- Final Episode - Originally Aired on 02/06/1992
Here.
Comrades... Comrades!
Listen to me.
Comrades.
Don't lose courage.
The Liberation Army is going to come back for us at all cost.
So don't you lose confidence, all right?
Every revolution brings sacrifices.
But the great teachings of Marx and Lenin will bring us victory.
For that to happen, we must keep on fighting and never lose courage.
Our Liberation Army will come back for sure.
Did I make myself clear?
Comrades, we're clear, right?
So what I mean, folks, is that we must wait for them until the end.
Because they'll come back for sure.
Ma'am... Ma...
Aigoo, you're here?
- I was told you'd be coming. - Hi there.
Aigoo... It'd still be a huge problem even if the war ended.
You must deal with at least one half to calm things down,
but how do you distinguish one from the other, anyway?!
There are both communist collaborators and families of defectors,
but it's not like they prance around with "I'm a commie" on their foreheads.
It's not like if you have three children you can send one to National Defense,
the other to the People's Army, and leave the third one to chance.
Here you go.
So you're looking for info on the One Eye Army?
Yes, I've heard someone here used to be in that unit.
More than being in that unit...
Ahh... Hey, bring Kim Jeongshik, will you?
- You know, that fella from Oreum Village. - Yes.
He was the headman of the village the One Eye Army stayed at.
That's a commie's nest if you've ever seen one,
although now it's no more.
- By being "no more..." - It all burned down in the fire.
And all the villagers were sent away.
The hell are you looking at?
Kim Jeongshik. Kim Jeongshik.
Come out.
- I was already questioned. - Hurry and get up.
What else do you want from me?
I told you I was already questioned!
Why this again?
Go... Come on.
Get going. Stay away from here.
I told you I did nothing wrong.
The only thing you could blame on me is surviving all that.
Why don't you ask all the other villagers?
We not only fed the commies, but also the police.
- If people point guns at you, what... - Aigoo! I ought to...
Enough with that, and since they want to ask you something, be honest.
So the One Eye Army was stationed there?
I might not have seen this "one eye", but I've heard of them.
But if you were the village headman, their commander must have visited you as well.
By commander, you mean that young fella?
He must have had a scar on one eye.
Scars? It's not like we had any time to stare at his...
I ought to just beat it out of you!
- Aigoo... Why would I lie to you? - Wait.
- Just a moment. - All I did wrong was surviving this!
That'll do.
If they stayed at your house, they must have had briefings there as well.
- That... - So you'd know their mobilization route.
What's a mobilization route?
Ehh Ehh! Where the twats will be prancing around, you fool!
And how would I know that?!
Beasts with two legs go wherever they please, how can I...
So looks like you know that One Eye fella?
I hoped it wasn't the case, but it seems like I do.
He's not a brother or some relative, is he?
I wonder. Maybe I should even call him that...
The hell's that supposed to mean?!
- North Jeolla Province Party Headquarters - (Mount Hwemun)
We were just watching the road.
We never imagined they'd be lying in ambush over the ridge.
We didn't even think of that.
So you're telling me everyone was killed?
Moon Seongbeom as well?
I'm sorry.
I... I'm sorry.
I'm the only survivor.
What I did is what no revolutionary fighter should have done.
That's why I should admit my faults, admit them before you all.
The commissioner is coming.
All right.
I had a dream.
I only slept a little, but it was a long dream.
Enough that I had a hard time waking out of it.
I couldn't realize where the dream ended, and reality started.
Even living here in the mountains as a partisan felt like a dream.
Don't you have dreams?
There is only one dream for me.
And that is Joseon's revolution.
Too bad.
I saw my wife in that dream.
Have I ever told you about her?
If you don't have anything else to say, I'll get going.
Tastes good.
Are you feeling all right?
I'll have to...
You know that Jeongsuk, from the second company?
I do.
Earlier on, she told me.
That she had suspicions about your ideological principles.
Is sentimentalism getting the better of you?
Can't it?
Remember Yoon Hongcheol?
Yes.
He keeps coming to mind as of late.
He had tuberculosis.
It's likely that even if I hadn't killed him, he wouldn't have lasted long anyway.
Are you regretting it?
No... I'm not.
You must never... ever regret anything you do.
Got it?
At times, you might question your judgment.
Ask yourself if history will really be the answer.
What role you're playing in this history.
What's my place in all this.
Still, you must never regret.
After killing Yoon Hongcheol, I cried.
And that's because of the respect I had for him.
Yet, I still believe I did the right thing.
That's how it works.
Aren't we doing what we think is right?
It's because of people like us that new pages of history are written.
What is there to regret, then?
Leave the questions to the future generations,
when they'll have time and peace of mind to discuss them.
A commie who was even sentenced to death...
You're a much bigger name than I thought.
I almost feel sorry for not having recognized your importance...
Treating someone of your prestige like your ordinary collaborator...
I hope you'll forgive me.
Look... Yoon Yeook.
Yoon Yeook!
Do I look like a pushover?
Think I wouldn't find out who you were, even if you kept quiet in a corner?
Look... Meetings like this are not going to go on any longer,
so if you've got anything useful to say, I suggest you confess now.
Because the police will be here by tomorrow.
They're taking you back.
They're going to get you to confess anyway, so can't you help me out and do it now?
Who knows...
If I put in a good word in my report, they might be clement, couldn't they?!
I have a favor.
A favor?
I have five children.
Look!
The oldest is only ten.
Another named Jaeho is crippled.
He injured his leg during the war, and his parents died.
And Youngmi can't even speak.
She's not a mute, but gunshots shock her into tears.
Seokgu is four, and there's even an infant baby.
Still don't get it, do you?
Send them to some orphanage.
Foster parents would be even better.
Keep it up, will you?
The hell are you doing?
Who do you think you're dealing with?!
I didn't ask you to spare me!
Just the kids...
Don't you understand?
If they take me away, I'll die. And that means the kids will die as well.
So at least help the kids. You can do that much!
- Jeongeup -
You know what we're distributing now?
Take it.
It's a civic certificate.
Lieutenant Choi will take a picture later, so you'll need to attach it.
Give five each.
Here.
Starting now, you are free.
You won't have to run away from anti-communist forces,
and you can go anywhere you want.
The hell are you laughing at?
Look at him.
The hell is this little twat looking at?!
- You little son of a... - Let him go.
Insolent little twat.
What we wish is for you not to make that certificate useless.
Go out and find friends, family, relatives, everyone who is part of your democratic villages.
You must know plenty.
Find them and solicit them to turn themselves in.
Because a photo and a certificate like yours, and you'll be free.
What he means is that your job is to go out and convince people.
If you want no part of this, get out of here and that's it.
But remember that if you go back to the mountains,
people there will inevitably have suspicions about you.
Won't they?
Is Jang Harim here?
Commander! Commander!
Commander.
Aigoo... The commander's missus is here, and look at all this mess...
Aigoo... I'm so grateful you came, uh?
I kept losing sleep worrying that the commander might leave us.
Ever since he came here, there are no more commies in sight.
Right...
Darling, stay with him here, uh?
You sure have a talent for surprising people.
I kept waiting and waiting...
But then I finally realized I could just come looking for you.
That's why I'm here.
Your sister-in-law is doing fine.
She got a letter from her parents. So she went back there.
I know. She wrote me a letter.
Ask me how I'm doing, too.
Have you been doing fine?
No... Not at all.
Should I just go back?
So this is it?
Is this the only place we could run away to?
What is it?
What?
Did our mighty Intelligence Department major come here just to fish?
Let's just drink.
Are you sure Choi Daechi is up those mountains?
He might be.
Why?
Shall we do things this way?
Send him word.
To take the partisans and attack the police headquarters.
Deal with the man in charge, that former collaborator.
And rescue that woman as well.
Yeook?
That's right. Yoon Yeook.
She's with Suzuki.
Can you help me out?
Of course I can. It's wartime, anyway.
And martial law is above all else.
But you'll be held responsible. Not me.
Yoon Yeook was arrested for conspiring with partisans.
She left Seoul with Choi Daechi, I hear?
So?
Once she's released, she'll go back to the mountains.
She might do that.
Then, you'll be held responsible for that.
You'll look as if you helped them.
I guess.
And you might be killed for it.
I know.
So why?
I've heard news of Yeook.
Back in the Soviet Union, I once rode a train.
We traveled for days on end, and yet never left Russian territory.
You can't imagine how much envy I felt.
Why couldn't I be born on such an immense land?
Why did I have to be born and suffer in such a tiny, miserable lot of land...
But then I met this Joseon man at a railway station.
He was talking to himself, passing by.
"Awww.... It sure is cold in here."
The moment I heard our language, I felt strange.
Tears just kept pouring out.
And I started crying.
So, what, does Yeook mean to you as much as our motherland meant to me?
Is she someone you can't abandon or forget, no matter what?
Is she?
She might be.
Go then. Help her out.
And if there's anything I can do to help, I will.
Because Yeook might be your own motherland, but I'm your woman.
- You have the key, right? - Yes.
Here.
- Can you leave us alone a moment? - Yes.
I've heard you followed Choi Daechi.
How about Daewoon?
I'm glad to see you made it.
I worried about you ever since we parted in Seoul.
Where is Daewoon?
Daewoon...
is not with us anymore.
He was killed during an air raid.
I'm really glad to see you alive and well.
I never thought we'd get to meet like this again.
Back in Seoul, only you and the kid left, right?
Without Choi Daechi.
So... Why?
Looks like you might be released on probation.
If anyone starts bothering you with preliminary investigations, let me know.
Looks like you owed me a lot in your past life.
You always end up helping me.
No matter how much suffering that brings you.
And yet there's nothing I can do to pay you back.
I should have never met you in Saipan to begin with...
I must be like bad luck coming back to haunt you.
No... You're not.
Don't you know that better than me?
Quick.
Commander, it's our contact.
Seonsaengnim.
I'm here.
We brought medicines and supplies.
I...
have a favor.
Yes.
Once the war is over and we're given a better world to live in...
Water.
Seonsaengnim.
When the war...
When a better world comes...
Go to Yenan for me.
Yenan?
Go there, find Yoon Hongcheol's tomb,
and bring him back to his hometown.
Bury him there...
I saw Yoon Hongcheol's daughter.
Last time, down in Samseong-Ri.
She's a strong and resourceful woman.
You said she was your woman, right?
When a better world comes...
When that day comes...
- July 10, 1951 - Armistice Talks Begin
The entire world pushed for the end of hostilities in Korea.
Both Soviet Union and China began realizing the limits of their support of North Korea,
and even the United Nations were feeling the effects of the war.
- Naebongjang, Gaeseong - First Armistice Talks
All that was left for them was negotiating.
However, negotiation itself was nothing more than the beginning of another, endless war.
After the establishment of a military demarcation line,
the bone of contention moved on to the exchange of POWs.
- October 25, 1951 - Armistice Talks Resume At Panmunjeom
There seemed to be no end in sight for the negotiations.
But there were things neither the UN nor North Korea wanted to discuss.
And that was a war everyone forgot, or tried to forget.
Stationed at the time along the Jiri, Odae and Taebaek Mountain ranges,
the partisans, irregular guerrilla forces supporting North Korea,
were awaiting their official appointment while waging war in the south.
To them, any armistice would have meant death.
Furthermore, their survival became an obstacle to the negotiations in Panmunjeom,
not to mention the Lee Seungman government.
I'll be damned.
If they keep this up, they'll tear the entire mountain range apart.
Once they're done with the fireworks, ground troops will soon follow.
So what do we do? Shall we just get it on?
Where do you think they might be?
Probably Dalgung-Gol?
My... Then they must have attacked our provincial headquarters!
They might have surrounded the entire mountain range by now.
How many survivors do we have left?
One... Two... Three.... Four.
Five. Six. Seven. Eight...
Nine... Ten... Eleven!
Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen... Fifteen.
Sixteen.
And I'm the seventeenth.
Seventeen? Eighteen in total.
Is that all?
Nineteen.
And twenty, Sir.
Anyone has a tourniquet we can use?
Stay down!
Down!
- November, 1951 - Baekya Line Command HQ Established
- Total Forces - 3 ROK Army Divisions 4 Auxiliary Police Regiments 7 Police Auxiliary Police Battalions
- December 1, 1951 - Emergency Martial Law Declared Nationwide (Except Daegu and Busan)
- December 2 - Counter-Guerrilla Operation Launched in the Southwest
Comrades.
We're going to divide ourselves into smaller teams.
They'll start from a minimum of two,
and increase all the way to six to maintain maximum mobility.
Our priority is avoiding confrontation and surviving at all cost.
Our conflict right now is a fight for our own lives.
Here... Let's meet again at our second cordon.
- First team. - Yes.
- Second. - Yes.
Be careful out there.
Don't you worry. I have plenty of experience.
I've been doing this for so long, even the bullets avoid me.
I have nothing else to lose.
I might have lived the rest of my life as a servant,
but these few months spent with you in the mountains...
is the first time I ever feel free.
I haven't had to worry about what other people think,
and was treated with respect, able to say whatever I wanted.
What else could I ask for?
You must survive.
We've got a lot left to do. Got it?
- Let's go. - Yes.
You take care of Comrade Jeongsuk.
Here... Let's get going.
Comrade.
Stay in line, you twats.
We can go for Suncheon in the middle, Gurye and Gwangyang on the right.
and Jangheung and Beolgyeo on the left.
124 killed in action and 51 POW, Sir.
All right.
Ohh... Commander Jang.
- Let's have a word before you go. - Yes.
How is the situation?
We're redrawing our plans with a new perimeter in mind.
All the boys are quite satisfied.
With the strategy map you gave them.
You know, the one of the partisans' position you drew?
How's Yoon Yeook?
Fine, I think.
How about that wife of yours?
Fine.
That's interesting.
You risked your life for someone you didn't even end up living with.
Commander Jang... I know Yoon Yeook is a commie, I'm sure of it.
She might be.
But you're not.
Is that what you think?
You think too much to be one of them.
You told me this, back in the day.
That there are things a simpleton like me could never understand.
I remember.
But, know this?
The fact that it's simpletons like me who help this country go on.
I was an excellent policeman.
Looking back, I have nothing to feel ashamed for or even regret.
I guess you could see it that way...
Bear this in mind.
People can never live alone. They need to be part of something greater.
Because if you have no affiliations, you risk being attacked by both sides.
And if that happens, nobody will be there to honor your death.
I'm soon going to hand in my resignation.
I've heard you'll be joining politics.
What the police need is fresh talent.
And it's to people like you that I wish to pass the torch.
Did you know that?
I liked you from the very beginning.
Aren't you eating, Sir?
When did you join them?
Say it.
What's your name?
Your affiliation.
The hell is wrong with you... Will you speak up?
Speak.
Still looking for that One Eye commander?
- How long has it been? - What?
- Since the operation started. - Over twenty days.
By now they must have run out of supplies.
Don't you know those partisans' saying?
"Partisans can die of cold, hunger, or by beating them to a pulp".
Those commies are scary, all right.
The hell are they prancing around in the cold for, without a damned thing to eat...
Boys... Bring the commander his meal.
I'd like to ask them the same question.
So you and that commander must have been close?
Wouldn't really say that... We never had the time to get to know each other.
I could have spent a night talking to him side by side...
I had that chance once.
Asking him what kind of world we were so desperately fighting for...
Hear him and discuss it.
Aigoo... What kind of world?!
What kind of world can a pile of dead bodies possibly make?
All it does is make you suffer.
Boys, are we bringing him some food or not?
Here you go.
Feel anything?
It's frostbite.
Looks like I'll soon have to cut it off.
How many days have you been fasting?
Just as many as you all.
We ran out of rations six days ago.
I plan to go out looking for supplies tonight.
Comrade Lee spotted a house, so if we go there...
You needn't come back with us.
What are you trying to say?
Hide if you can, or else just surrender.
Comrade!
It might be even harder than just dying here.
Because whoever surrenders will have to go through great difficulties.
They won't give you any respect.
If you're looking for someone to rewrite history, choose someone else.
I have no intention of smiling in my enemy's face.
Do you hate the enemy that much?
I only regret I can't kill them all.
Am I among the enemies you'd like to kill?
I had to kill your brother, there was no other choice.
I know.
He left us for the sake of our revolution.
Revolution?
Revolution might actually be the easy way out.
But there's something even more difficult.
Know what that is?
It's getting rid of all your hatred.
If hatred survives, then even a revolution will make no difference.
They're coming.
Commander, something doesn't feel right.
I don't see Comrade Kim.
Run!!
This way, quick!
Go!
This way!
Come this way!
Go ahead! Now!
Commander!
Ajumma.
Ajumma... Remember me?
It's me.
Remember? You cooked for us that night.
You even gave me some cloth to cover my feet.
It's me... Don't you remember?
I do.
Ajumma.
What did I tell you? I told you she'd help us hide.
Don't you worry.
Daewoon?
He's sleeping.
Really?
He's always like this... Not even realizing his father is here.
Jang Harim has been put in charge of the counter-guerrilla operation.
Several of our men had to suffer more than once because of him.
- You know that? - Yes.
Does he know you're staying here?
Have you met him?
I see... I knew it.
But if it's him, I can rest assured.
Because if it's him...
You'll be taken care of.
I never imagined you'd be here.
If I had known, I wouldn't have come.
That face of yours is so beautiful.
Have some.
- The commander? - We better find some medicines.
Go back inside.
Commander!
Sorry.
Ajumma...
Sir, we just got a report.
- What is it? - Two partisans were spotted in Osu-Ri.
Let's go.
This is headquarters. Repeat, this is headquarters.
Two partisans spotted at Osu-Ri. Two partisans spotted at Osu-Ri.
Prepare to deploy.
Quick, inside.
We're late. They've already fled, only leaving the children behind.
Commander. Commander!
Blood stains.
Keep going.
Stop!
Commander! Blood stains!
Comrade.
Is it morning?
Don't die on me, Commander.
No!
Move.
Why did you leave?
I wish...
we could have...
been together...
I surrender. I surrender.
Surround him!
Is there a commander here called Jang Harim?
Commander Jang Harim?
Is Commander Jang Harim here?
Were you looking for me?
My commander wants to see you.
Is his name Choi Daechi?
He's dying.
Is it just him?
How about Yeook?
Let me go, I'll capture them.
Second platoon, with me.
I'm going alone.
Should anyone follow me, he's going to pay.
I knew you'd come.
Long time no see.
Is Yeook still next to me?
Yeah... She's here.
I can't even see your face.
Are you staring at me?
I am.
All right, then.
Will you tell me something?
It's too quiet here.
I first met Yeook in Saipan.
Right... So it was in Saipan.
She was pregnant back then, but I was impressed.
By the courage she showed to protect her child.
Yeah... I bet.
She kept talking about you.
She was sure you'd still be alive.
Because you promised each other to meet.
So I ended up envying someone I had never met before.
I never did anything for her.
So every time I thought of her, it felt like a wound that would never heal.
That's not true.
It's because of you that Yeook kept fighting to survive.
You gave her the strength to go on.
I lived life to the fullest.
And even if I could go back, I'd have no choice but to do it all over again.
- You know, right? - Yeah.
It's too bad for you.
You have your whole life ahead of you...
But moving on and living a normal life won't be easy.
Yeah... It won't.
Thank you for coming.
Yeook's still by my side, right?
Yeah.
Right... I want to rest now.
The winter of that year.
It was in a nameless valley in Mount Jiri...
that I buried the woman I loved,
and the friend I could never come to hate.
They are now gone, leaving me behind.
But there must be a reason why I alone was granted survival.
Couldn't we call that hope?
For only those who never give up hope...
can conquer these ruthless times of ours and survive.
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