- Episode 1 -
Today, there will be the first snowfall on Hallasan* (*Highest mountain in South Korea, situated in Jeju Island)
Wow! First snowfall…
Are you waiting for your first love?
Now, we'll play this song for all of you, Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco."
Oh! This is all yours?
You jerk!
Get going quick, fella!
- Really! Hey! - $5 bet!
The one who arrives at school first wins. OK?
OK!
Coming……coming…….coming.
Set out! Set out!
I've won!
Kyung Hye!
He said that sight,
Was more moving than any of the novels of that era.
Giving it all, sprinting over there.
Not knowing the reason,
That couple in a tight hug,
That scene,
Until the moment he dies,
Will live on in his mind, very real.
Isn't the exam on?
Our dear principal has passed away.
The exam will be postponed.
That's great!
Last night, I read my novel until 9.
When I get started with my book, I forget all about the exam.
You ingrate!
That's great?
Our principal has died, and you say 'That's great!"?
You scoundrel! How can you be so inhumane?
Jerk! Go kneel in the staff room.
You have no right to attend the funeral.
My bag...
Get out! Jerk!
In honor of our dear principal, Kim Jung-Bok,
Let's all observe a minute of silence.
Younger than my dad and always arguing with him.
You've got your just rewards, ajusshi.
Right. Attendance will be taken now.
Kang Won Su.
Kim Jung Man.
Hyun Ji Seok.
Hyun Ji Seok is not here?
What?
You called my name, didn't you?
Why didn't you raise your hands?
I didn't say I have to.
When you kneel of course you have to raise your hands up.
If I told you to eat rice, you'd just eat plain rice?
Kneel for another hour. Repent!
I'm going to my class.
I'm going as well.
Oh, her?
Daughter of the Korean language teacher. A bit deaf.
- Why? - How would I know?
She's not deaf but just can't hear well in one ear.
The side without hair covering the ear is the side she can hear.
How do you know?
She comes to our music school for lessons.
She loves to caress her hair when she plays the piano. Always getting scolded by my mom.
Since the exam is postponed,
How about watching porno tapes at your place?
Then pay me an entrance fee of $3.
Low-down creature!
Let's go together. Hey! Wait for me!
Good afternoon, Auntie.
You're here.
Mom, they both want to practise on the piano.
Go on in.
Hey! Give way. Give way.
Money! Money!
She's the new lady.
She comes here twice a week.
She's really good. Simply beyond description.
Hey! Change over. Let me have a look, too.
I know, jerk!
Come, over here.
Like this, like this.
Softer!
I'm waiting for you. Even when I'm waiting for you...
You're not coming back...
Can't even see the woman's breast.
Only the guy's arms can be seen, jerk!
The angle was bad.
Who told you not to lock the door?
Those who don't hear very well usually can play the piano very well.
That's only pretence due to the handicap complex.
Who? She?
A teacher's daughter is like a teacher, too.
So that's a little embarrassing.
What? I'm dead.
Nothing.
Hey! You mean you know which is her playing?
This is what she's playing.
Where do you live?
It... It's over there.
Dad!
Hey! Quickly! You jerk!
Hey! Am I your subordinate?
Take it, jerk!
Get under the umbrella, fella.
No need, kid, since I'm already all wet.
Me too, kid.
I said no need.
Did you speak to her?
You can't say this phrase, "I love you."
What's the use of leaving it to memory?
You are a fool.
If you're gone, I'll be sad.
My heart is missing you, yet I can't say "I love you."
What's the use of hating you?
Go and live well.
I will be sad.
Say it out.
Say it out....
Stop singing!
Not telling? Not telling? Not telling?
"Spring Water, Spring?"
Whose is this? Whose?
Jerks! Speak up!
Looks like you didn't know.
His father prints these.
Your family background's not bad, huh?
Just read it on your own. Why drag them down with you?
You jerk!
I thought you won't turn bad.
You read this at night instead of studying. No wonder your results dropped suddenly.
Can you get into university like this?
I will need to have a talk with your parents.
What is your home telephone number?
You're not saying?
The number at my hostel is...
043-2716.
I'm not asking for your hostel but your home telephone number. The home where your parents live.
Um... My hostel telephone number is...
043-2716.
There's no one home at night.
043-2716.
Good. 043...
You're so cool.
Giving her your telephone number while you're getting punished, so happy about that?
Are you that happy? Happy?
You're such a fool.
Hey! Where are you going?
Very fierce. Her father.
Isn't she home?
Stop calling. Get in, and go to sleep.
We're not calling out. We're waiting for a call.
Didn't she remember my telephone number?
To tell you the truth,
There's no reason for her to call you.
She might not even like you.
Why no reason? You scoundrel.
Whether she like me or not, I sheltered her with an umbrella. At least she should say thanks to me.
Why isn't she calling me?
Why? Jerk!
I say...
You call her. Why wait for her call?
It's not that easy for a girl to call.
Hello?
It's mom.
Yes.
Didn't you know today is your father's birthday?
Why didn't you call?
Exams these few days, I forgot.
He's been through a great deal.
Don't know where he drank and how much. He collapsed on the way.
To get him home took me more than 2 hours.
On the way, he kept yelling at others so loudly.
I really don't know why he becomes like this whenever it's his birthday.
I'm really.... Whenever his birthday comes, I'm so terrified.
I'm at the phone booth, calling you from outside.
You give him a call. When he's quieted down, I'll go back.
Yes.
Call home. Maybe he's not asleep yet.
You are a fool.
Have some soup.
Hey! Hurry up!
Have a look at your hand.
Open up your palm.
Do you know how to read palms?
You're going to marry your first love in the future.
I mean a little, a little. A little.
I don't know sign language.
Foolish jerk.
Time to cook the noodles.
Close the windows before you do that!
It can all be seen and heard.
Really! What music exam? Do they test this, too?
[Missing child, 6-7 years old, white sports shoes, circumcision done.]
What is circumcision?
Looking for a child who has done the circumcision operation.
Where did you go until now?
Sit down and eat.
Mom.
What is circumcision?
What is it?
Get up and eat. You asked because you didn't know.
Whenever they hear about circumcision, they're going to think of me.
Not just some country bumpkin terms. Not about flowers, too.
Why must it be a word like circumcision?
[Saturday. Let's go to the festival together.]
Lend me some more. I'll return you; It's not like I won't.
I don't have any more to lend you.
Why buy two? Just buy one will do.
What if I buy one and she already has it?
Then call and ask her. Won't that do? Jerk!
It's a present, after all. How can I ask her about it?
That won't do, kid.
Really nothing left.
Only 30 cents left, 30 cents.
Are you trying to embarrass me?
Really only 30 cents left. What to do?
- If I find it on you, you're dead. - Search, search.
You think I won't?
I really don't have any.
Nothing.
Hey, who's this?
Park Jung Ran, long time no see.
Who?
The bank in Jeju with the most cash deposited,
The branch manager's daughter, kid.
Do you have $3?
It's pretty, right?
Grandma,
Will Saturday really come?
Saturday,
Can I really go to the festival with that guy?
Happy to death!
My cells all over the body are bombarding everywhere.
So happy that they're bombarding all over.
Grandma,
Do you know in this world,
Which is the phrase that is most beautiful and most touching?
Hyun Ji Seok.
It's Hyun Ji Seok.
I can't come to get the cassette tapes now.
My grandma just passed away.
I know.
I'm sorry to make you wait.
No.
Hang up quick!
I'll call you later. That's it.
He shouldn't have hung up.
Why are you here, kid?
It's not because you're dead. I cry because I'm sad.
There's no need to pity me.
I don't have a mother nor an elder brother,
All because the one who gave birth to me,
That's you!
Mother, you died.
To see you for the last time is a necessity.
That's all I'll do.
About you, I won't say a word of it to my son until the day I die.
That's all because there is no place here for me.
So I got this fella to come here to pay respects before you.
We will never meet again.
We had nothing to do with you in the past.
We will not have anything to do with you in the future, too.
You died.
You feel no more burden now, so you're relaxed.
Get over here right now!
He thinks he's the only one who deserves pity.
During the war,
Grandma took me and her mother-in-law.
To Jung San village to seek refuge.
Grandpa was off at the frontline.
But, Grandma became pregnant.
Without her husband around,
Anyone could have guessed.
How much grievances she must have suffered.
She hid the growing stomach,
Not revealing any pain or discomfort.
After giving birth, she didn't even get to hold the baby. It was taken away by the mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law was afraid that the baby's cries would be detected by the village folks,
So she tightly wrapped up the baby in blankets,
And sent it out to the father of the child early in the morning.
In that village there was only one young man.
Because her newborn baby was given away,
She lived her entire life in pain.
But she never shed a teardrop.
If her mother-in-law found her crying, she'd be scolded so she couldn't even cry.
Replacing her tears were mucous in her nose. It flowed endlessly.
Such a joke!
That's your grandma.
You must completely forget about the events today.
What I said earlier, you must forget that, too.
I do not have a mother, no brother and no niece.
You,
Don't have an uncle, no auntie,
No cousin, nothing. Nothing at all.
Do you understand?
Let's go.
He forgets my existence again.
Exams are on the next 2 days and you're still playful, you scoundrels!
Even if I grow old like this,
This path that is so difficult.
Hey, Park Duek Gu!
Why can't I go on singing?
No matter who, I just feel like having a fight right now.
I'll settle down once I'm done beating up someone.
Can't I hit you 3 times?
Go ahead.
Can I really hit you?
Just get on with it before I change my mind.
It'll hurt.
Get up!
Get up quick!
Stand tall.
Bad jerk!
Park Deuk Gu!
You hit me 3 times now.
OK.
Shut your mouth tight.
One more.
Why hit my face?
Try getting hit only in the face.
You try getting hit in the face.
I really don't want to be your friend.
Me too.
I really don't want to be my father's son.
Pay attention.
Who is the Go Mi Yeon in this class?
Go Mi Yeon.
You... I heard you and Hyun Ji Seok are cousins.
What cousins?
Really! Thinking of dating on the quiet?
From now on, date me.
You didn't hear me?
From now on, date me.
Not on a bike, I'll put you on my motorbike. OK?
You think your father is a teacher so you're daring.
A deaf who can't hear.
Don't say anything to your father.
His job is already giving him trouble, if he knew about this...
If he asks, just say when you were seated studying...
It's not like that. When they were studying...
Hubby!
Ji Seok! What to do?
The father runs around trying to make a living,
But the son is not studying hard.
Should have wrapped you up and thrown you away at birth.
If you survived, then you're my kid. If not, that's it.
That should be how I brought you up.
Like how I was brought up myself.
I've done wrong; I'm guilty.
[Festival]
On your way home?
Yes.
I'm off.
Get on.
We said we'd go to the festival.
Get on.
Hold tight.
Must be happy, right? Moving to Seoul.
If I had the money, I'd rather stay here in the hometown.
If we could make it, we wouldn't leave the hometown.
Because you were held at the police station, you have to change schools?
Father has to go work in Seoul.
You're going to be city folks now.
You can take the subway. You must be happy, right? Jerk!
Mi Yeon knows, too?
You should at least mention it to her before you leave.
I'll call you when I get to Seoul.
Come and visit me.
You're not seeing her?
So what if we meet up?
What's there to say?
Ask her to wait or tell her to live well? What on earth?
- How do I know? Rascal! - What rascal?
I'm going to Seoul.
I said, I'm going to Seoul.
Didn't you hear me?
So?
I'm going. I'm going!
I'm sorry.
Because I love you.
I'm sorry.
Because I am my father's son.
Let's shake hands.
Live far away from me. Don't let me find you.
What did you say?
What did you say? What on earth did you say?
[4 years later]
Ji Seok. Hyun Ji Seok! Are you here?
Hyun Ji Seok.
Ji Seok.
He's a student, so of course he's in school.
I didn't lie.
He's good in school. Eats well, sleeps well. Studying hard.
Don't worry. I'll get him home.
Today for sure, I'll bring him home.
Your mom's here. Hurry!
Aren't you coming to me?
Hey! Get over here!
You... you scoundrel.
Auntie, quickly bring some SamGyeopSang* please. (*grilled pork belly)
Yesterday, did your meeting with the Arts undergrad turn out good?
First time I've seen such an ugly Arts undergrad.
Her face is not even pretty. I don't get why so many guys are after her.
What are you saying?
She's the foxy lady that makes my whole body tingle, fella.
Whoever sees her have their eyes all bulging out.
Really!
You've got eyes on top of your head?
No pretty girls in med school?
Why would pretty girls come to the med school?
Why? Why pay for trouble?
You only know wine and women.
Aren't you tired?
I'm not tired yet.
Why are we meeting at your school everyday?
There are two of us here, fella!
I always feel like I'm intruding.
We've met here almost 10 times.
Hey Deuk!
Why is your face swollen? Tell us.
She said she likes me.
So what's wrong?
Is she ugly?
Cute!
Then what's wrong?
You look like this, and she's cute.
Just date her.
There's still the army. How can I date? I'm going crazy.
Do you believe in love?
Lunatic!
Is love some religion?
Love and jogging is exactly the same, fella.
Either you charge ahead or you stop.
Love if you want to. Stop if you don't.
What belief? Just charge ahead!
Hey!
I told you to go home.
Really! Angry for so long.
If I let you stay again,
Your mom will kill me.
And also, you're carrying a pager.
Why do you keep me in chains?
Don't bother. I won't answer, that's all.
You're not poor pretending to be rich.
You're rich. Why don't you live in your big home?
Why come over to my place for nothing, fella?
Go home.
"Father's New Visit" is out now, right?
That should be watched with friends, fella.
Messing with me.
Go!
So petty!
Watch it well all by yourself.
Go stare the whole night and see if those girls come out of the screen.
Come on out....
Just think and you'll know it's only a video.
You think the whole world is like you?
If everyone's like me, it would be fine.
Lunatic!
Go home!
Seok!
Go home! No where else!
Get home quick!
More than 3 minutes have passed.
Hey Miss! It must have been 10 minutes now.
Hello.
It's me, mom.
It's you. Why are you calling now?
Did you just come back from work?
Mom, you don't have to shout.
Oh yes.
The operation was a success,
But I don't know how loud I should be.
It's still recovering. I don't know if you can hear clearly, too.
Can you hear clearly?
Yes.
Dad?
Oh, he's supervising the night shift.
I'm just back from bringing him dinner. He just doesn't want to buy from out there.
Mom.
Thank you!
What?
Not to be nagging dad.
Is it any use to nag?
If the love is not guaranteed by affection, will it last long?
But I'm still thankful that he is beside me, happy and healthy.
All thanks to you.
It's 11 PM. It's late. Go back home.
Yes.
That's it. Be careful going home.
Mom,
I'm very lonely.
Really very lonely.
Although I'm busy and tired,
But my heart is so empty.
It's that jerk.
Who has made me this lonely.
A day will come when I won't be lonely anymore, right?
Maybe one day,
Everything will be fine, right?
Seems like I'm same the as Grandma.
It's quite dirty. Why all this mucous?
Wow! You've become prettier.
Just like a painting, I feel like turning the page.
Did you do surgery, too?
You've really grown prettier.
When are you going to repay the money you owe me?
A long time ago on Jeju Island, didn't you borrow $3 from me?
You said it was for some cassette tapes.
You forgot?
No.
I remember.
What do you take your oppa for?
Oppa is not someone who won't repay $3.
Today, I'll repay you with interest.
It's my treat today.
What do you want to do?
Have you seen "No Sense"?
It's showing at a small theater over there. I heard it's very funny.
If you haven't seen it, shall we go?
Long time no see.
Have you been well?
Fancy seeing you here.
I'm really so happy.
Have you been doing well?
How have you been?
You said 'How have you been?' a few times already.
I... I'm so happy.
Who is she?
My junior.
A junior from my hometown.
Long time no see.
I'm really very happy.
You've come to Seoul?
Yes.
Where do you live?
Really long time no see.
Not going?
Let's shake hands.
I'm really very happy.
I'm off.
What? A junior from my hometown?
So happy, let's shake hands?
Why?
Isn't it better to say I'm a cousin?
Say I'm his cousin.
Then, we can eat and watch movies together.
Isn't that much better?
I can see you occasionally.
That'll be so much better.
He's dating now?
He's got the mood for dating, does he?
I just knew that you'll bring her up one day.
Go Mi Yeon.
You knew right from the start where she was, what she was doing, right?
Hey!
Is she still pretty?
Of course she's pretty, jerk!
You'll surely be vexed. You will.
Maybe that other woman likes me, too.
Even if she does,
I don't know if I can like her back.
You jerk!
Didn't you say in love, one should just charge ahead?
What is this now?
To run or not to run?
Everybody!
Jerk! It's a marathon, fella.
Don't you know we have been running since long ago?
You know why I drink daily?
Why am I acting like a lunatic?
So that I can fall.
If I fall, I'll have to lift the white flag for surrender.
In order destroy myself, I'll run until my heart bursts and I can't run any longer!
You call yourselves my friends?
I know. I know.
You're laughing?
Hey! Park Deuk Gu!
You jerk!
Get out. Get out.
Aren't you leaving?
Aren't you leaving, you jerk?
Get out quick.
I know, jerk!
Hey! Byung Chan,
I really feel like crying.
If this goes on, I will really cry.
So embarrassing.
If you cry, you're dead.
If only I can die, it'll be better.
Better to be dead.
You've been holding out for so long.
Seeing you, I was always worried that you might explode one day.
If you explode, it can't be helped.
Hey! Don't explode.
There's absolutely no way.
Forget it.
Can't you?
I'm going to the restroom.
During this time...
Cry.
Cry your heart out.
Nothing can be done if I explode.
Persevere!
Aja!
Hyun Ji Seok!
I beg you, go back to your own home.
I can't.
Why not?
I can't see my father.
Why? Why? Why can't you?
Whenever I see my father,
I will think of Mi Yeon.
Think of the person most important to me.
The person I most want to see.
So I can't go home.
I can't go.
This song makes me so angry.
I want to just forget it,
But why can't it just go as I wish.
I told you to go far, far away.
In order not to let you see me,
I hid myself from you so carefully.
Be careful, Go Mi Yeon.
Be careful to avoid me.
If we ever meet again coincidentally on the street,
That very moment,
We'll be finished.
How I longed to skip over that painful period.
But, when all the pain has disappeared,
I won't skip over this period so quickly.
Maybe... there'll be a day when we will love again.
I said it before, right?
If we ever meet again coincidentally on the street,
We'll be finished.
We'll love until...
Love until we're sick of it. Then, we'll part.
Please let me off.
Just like how your mother abandoned you, Father...
Abandon me, too!
Please leave us alone.
Let those who are in love, be in love.