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- (Narration) At Han River, where the cold wind is blowing.
There is a man sadly crying.
Kang Ho-dong is crying.
- Why are you crying?
- Wait a sec.
- Why are you crying?
Why are you bawling?
Did you break up with a girl here at Mapo?
- I keep crying when it's cold.
- Those aren't tears but your guilty feelings, right??
Why are you crying so much?
- Wait.
Don't you get teary when cold wind blows?
- (Narration) With Ho-dong's tears, today's journey
starts here at Mapo Pier.
- Mapo Pier.
Where the boats dock.
- Kyung-kyu, then the guests will arrive by boat.
That's right, it makes sense.
- Who would ride a boat here in this weather?
- That's true.
- Can't you even get yourself a proper meal?
- What do you mean, Kyung-kyu?
- I'm talking about last week.
I heard you ate with a neighborhood dog.
- Kyung-kyu, his name is Jang-goon.
- Jang-goon is a neighborhood dog.
- He's the third son of the convenience store's owner.
- (Narration) Jang-goon barely saved Ho-dong's meal last week.
- You don't want to do this show?
- Why would I not want to?
- One week you got edited out completely, then another week you fail.
- Tears, tears.
- Huh?
- Is that why you're crying?
Reflect on yourself.
- (Narration) Don't cry, Ho-dong.
Just do better next time.
- The newlyweds were such lovebirds.
- Don't even mention it.
They were kissing and everything.
- What?
- They were kissing and everything.
There's no tomorrow for them.
There was no tomorrow for them.
Just living today.
- Looking at the big picture, Chef Choi Hyun-seok will come back...
- What is that?
- What a concept.
- Who is it?
- This is a failure, Kyung-kyu.
It's a failure somehow.
- What I mean is.
- That's a fighter, an athlete.
She just passed by.
Come on!
- Isn't she that athlete?
- What?
- That boxing girl.
- Lee Si-young?
You don't even know her name?
You hosted the Entertainment Awards together.
I don't know, I don't know.
It's Si-young.
- No it isn't.
Kyung-kyu, Si-young is not that pretty.
- Should I throw a punch?
Should I throw a punch?
Come here.
- It hurts.
It really is Si-young.
- (Narration) Our energetic guest for today is Lee Si-young.
- You weren't that surprised.
- I wasn't at all.
- Somebody kept moving around over there.
So I figured someone was coming.
I knew from when you passed behind us.
You ran by so I guessed you were the guest.
- Let's do it again.
- Your concept was too half-hearted.
- No, let's do it again.
- It was good.
- Let's do it again.
Should I come out from the water?
I can come out from the water.
- No, no.
- With your passion, you should've jumped from there.
You should've climbed down one by one.
I think I can do that.
- That's right.
- No, no.
It was very good.
- Are you alone?
- Isn't it just me?
- There's supposed to be two.
Only top stars come alone...
- That's why I'll come out from there if I have to.
- No, no, no.
There will be one more guest.
- And what's disappointing is, Kyung-kyu.
- Now.
- We're talking.
- When I say I'll come out from the water
people usually take my word.
- How can you do that in this cold weather?
- I can do it.
- No, it's cold.
And if you go in the water, you have to take your clothes off
and film everything. It'll take at least an hour.
And when you come out, we have to greet you. It's going to take 2 hours.
Then what are we going to do?
- So what's important is not that Si-young might catch a cold.
- It'll take up too much time.
- (Narrations) Due to time, we will use computer graphics instead.
- Where are we going today.
Do you know this Yeom-ni-dong area?
- Go to the Salt Road in Yeom-ni area and have a meal.
- I know the Salt Road
but not Yeom-ni-area.
- What is the Salt Road?
- On the Internet, it was named as a street to visit before it disappears.
It's famous.
- That's right.
- I don't understand. We're going to the Salt Road,
but why are we opening here at Mapo Pier?
- They unloaded the salt at Mapo Pier and sold them in Yeom-ni area.
- You have this in your head as common sense?
- I used to live around here in Sung-San area and Mapo district .
This is my 'hood.
- (Narration) As Kyung-kyu said, Mapo Pier was
home to salt merchants in the past.
Now, this place has become the Han River Park.
When boats loaded with salt traveled down the Han River and touched the pier,
the salt was carried by this road to the salt merchants' village.
This road became the Salt Road and
the salt merchants' village was in Yeom-ni area.
It was famous for its pretty alleys, but now
the neighborhood and its streets are disappearing with redevelopment.
We're going to set foot on this road.
before it melts away like salt.
Let's Have Dinner Together Episode 18.
Remember the Salt Road.
- Let's go.
- Where do we go then?
Let's go, Kyung-kyu.
- There are no introductions or anything?
- This opening has completely failed.
You won't let me say hello?
- What for?
- To the viewers.
- We don't do that.
- Go say hello. Cue.
- Hello.
I'm Lee Si-young.
They say this opening failed.
I'll do my best.
- She's a hard-working style.
You two hard-workers and me, the really laid-back one.
Let's give this a try today.
Ugh, it's cold.
This is the coldest day of the show.
What's cold about this weather?
Compared to our passion, it's midsummer.
- That's right.
Let's run and not ride the bus.
- Don't talk about passion.
- If it's less than 10km, we could run.
- Didn't you run in the morning?
- I did.
- How many kilometers?
- (Narration) Accompanied by athletes,
our Kyung-kyu is a bit worrisome.
- Ehwa Women's University.
- We need to ride 7611.
- This is 7611, right?
- (Narration) The bus follows the past footsteps of the salt merchants.
- As Si-young said, to think that the Salt Road in Yeom-ni area
will soon disappear with redevelopment, it makes me sort of teary.
- Why do you get teary?
- It's the Salt Road, so it's salty with tears.
- Because it's the Salt Road .
Hey, you get caught on camera like this.
- As expected.
- First, you will walk together and talk with Ho-dong.
The next thing you know, you will be naturally talking with me.
- Is it because I get tired of him?
I get tired of him?
- Of course. Of course.
- Kyung-kyu, the only thing I've never heard in my life
is that someone's tired of me.
- (Narration) Fortunately, before she gets tired of Ho-dong, they arrive at their destination.
- Let's get off.
- Yeom-ni area.
- Kyung-kyu, boxing.
- What is it?
- It's a boxing gym.
- (Narration) The boxing gym appears before them like destiny.
- Really.
- Kyung-kyu, we need to see Si-young boxing. Let's go up.
- (Narration) One cannot merely pass by a mill with sparrows.
- Let's ask for their cooperation.
- You go ask.
Hello, master.
We're here to film Let's Have Dinner Together with Lee Si-young.
Can we film here?
- Sure, go ahead.
- Thank you.
He said it's okay.
- Yeah?
What grade are you in?
What?
- I'll be going up to 6th grade.
- Yeah?
Did you see Si-young box?
You didn't?
- Yes.
- You didn't see her boxing?
Did you see her boxing?
- No.
- Who is she?
- I saw her.
- I'm telling you, that's her.
- She's famous, you little punk.
- You have a match in there?
- Yes.
- Like you're doing a real match?
- Si-young, show us.
Shadow boxing.
- Is she a boxer or not?
- She seems like a boxer.
- Does she look like a boxer?
-Yes.
- No, you need to take off your jacket.
- Try this.
- Hey kids, come here.
I'll show these kids a demonstration.
Hold on right there.
- What? Why?
Why are you doing this to a kid?
- Wow, this guy is working hard.
What's happening?
What's wrong with him?
- So suddenly.
- What's wrong?
Are you the master?
- Ack!
- (Narration) Were you surprised this time?
Our other guest is Yoo Byung-jae.
- Welcome.
- Hello.
Did you happen to be here today, or are you filming with us?
- I've been doing this for an hour.
- He was waiting for us.
- To surprise us?
You didn't notice when he punched the sand bag?
- But there are always people like him
who suddenly work hard when someone comes.
So I didn't think strangely of it at all.
- I learned boxing too, a long time ago.
- He's good.
- You're good.
Welcome.
- Welcome what.
See how half-hearted he is.
- While we're here, let's see Si-young's posture.
- I'll show too.
- Byung-jae, be the sand bag.
- I've done boxing, so.
I'll flex my muscles.
- Where should I...?
- My abdomen.
- Top or bottom?
- You need to hit the bottom.
- Endure as much as you can.
Wait a minute.
No, wait a sec.
Do it again.
Let's edit this out and do it again.
- Do this again?
- Let's start again.
- Why, why, why?
- No, really.
This is not right.
- You punched too hard?
Consecutive hits.
- She's gonna get him.
She's getting him.
- (Narration) He almost disappeared like salt before stepping on the Salt Road.
- It's Let's Have a Punching.
- (Narration) After finishing Yoo Byung-jae's extreme hazing.
- Byung-jae, are you alright?
- I'm alright.
It's an honor.
It's my first time meeting you.
Ho-dong...
- Wait.
Why are your hands shaking?
- I drank too much.
- Do you have hand tremors?
- I like drinking.
- Then I'll hold it for you.
Because of your hand tremors.
- I'll do it.
Why did you do it like this?
- Hey this is...
Goodness, you wore a broken jacket.
- I bought this yesterday.
- That's it.
- Leave it open.
- Okay, I'll leave it open.
- (Narration) Having met with a strong fist and strong-minded men,
Byung-jae is worn out from the beginning.
What road will spread out before this complete crew?
- Did you see our show?
- I did.
- You came out knowing?
- Since you're a screen writer, your point of view must be different.
What kind of show are we, from a scenarist point of view?
- I don't believe there is a thing called reality show.
- There is no reality in a variety show.
- No.
I think this show is the closest to reality shows.
- If you were to talk about reality.
- Yes, that's right, since the reactions are so real.
- Those reactions come out for real.
Byung-jae, this area is surrounded by colleges, right?
Do you know this area?
- There's Yonsei University.
There's Sogang University too. I've dropped out, but I went there
so I know this area somewhat.
- Hey, is this the Salt Road?
If we go up here, I think it'll be the Salt Road.
- But this Salt Road, does it mean the 'small Mt. Geumg-gang'?
Was it called the Salt Road because it was pretty?
- No, it's just the Salt Road. We talked about it.
- From the Mapo Pier, this area had many salt warehouses.
- So it's called the Salt Road?
- Yeah.
- The Salt Road got its name from the salt warehouses?
- What?
- Because there were so many salt warehouses.
- Ugh, I'm getting tired of this.
How many times do I have to explain? It's just the Salt Road, like how a snowy road is a snowy road.
There were lots of salt on the road.
That's why it was called the Salt Road.
Don't try to know more now.
Byung-jae, you take over.
- Hello.
- We came to visit the Salt Road.
Why is this the Salt Road?
- They had salt here.
- He asked why this is the Salt Road.
- I'm starting to see some murals.
- Oh, it's written over there.
- Here it is, the Salt Road.
- The Salt Road, where the flowers bloom.
- I searched online, and there are dotted lines like this.
- This?
- If you follow these squares.
- This?
- Yes.
If you follow these yellow squares, you can learn everything.
- Here it is.
- You can walk the Salt Road.
- This yellow road right here?
- You can walk the Salt Road.
If you follow this, you're walking the Salt Road.
They have numbers on the telephone poles.
- The telephone poles are yellow too.
- What's this safe house?
- Safe house?
- It's the name of the house.
- That's right.
- It's a safe house.
- Let's search this.
- A children's safe house.
- This house is good.
- There are 24-hour CCTV, so when in danger,
you can ask for help by ringing the emergency bell.
- Oh, this?
- It must be like a nearby police stand.
It says there are six safe houses like this here.
- Really?
- (Narration) With redevelopment, the area was neglected and became crime-ridden.
With Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, the Salt Road became a safe and unique alley
and crime rates actually lowered so that
other countries bench-marked on this model. - Let's go up the yellow road.
- Kyung-kyu, isn't this alley so pretty?
- If it's so pretty, live here.
- Alley...
- Yeah?
- How dry.
- Where people gather, share, and connect.
- Where the flowers bloom, the Salt Road.
- (Narration) Brightening the neighborhood with bright murals,
the Salt Road became a success case for preventing crimes through design.
- This neighborhood looks like a scene out of a movie.
This place must have been used as filming locations.
- Yeah, if they need to film old neighborhoods.
- In films and stuff.
- This place brings back old memories.
- (Narration) But this place is somewhat chilly.
Is it merely chills from the cold winter?
- There aren't many residents walking around here.
- (Narration) There are no people.
- There are no phytoncides here.
There are no trees.
- There need to be trees to have phytoncide.
- (Narration) There are no phytoncides either.
- There's no one here.
- There's nobody in this neighborhood.
Nobody lives here. The front gates are all open.
- Almost every house here...
- They've all moved out.
- Why are these here?
- Aren't these from the move?
- Oh, I see.
- They left these and moved out.
- Look here.
They said these houses will disappear.
This entire house is empty.
- That's true, the house is all empty.
- They left these when they moved out.
- Moved out.
- But there are a lot of places like this.
- Here too.
- They're here and there.
- There were ancestral tablets too back there.
- (Narration) There are traces of residents who have left due to imminent redevelopment.
- These shopping districts aren't in business. They're all empty.
- They all moved away.
What should we do.
- Doesn't it feel like we're at a drama set?
- Yeah.
- What's this.
There's a warning.
- Criminal charge upon trespassing.
- It says the house is empty.
- The doors are locked from the outside
with keys, over there.
Somebody ripped out the front gates here.
- What?
- They ripped out the front gates. It's supposed to be here.
- A lot of houses are empty.
- And they took out the bells when they moved.
- They all don't have bells.
- There are no bells.
- They're all under construction or empty right now.
All the houses are out.
- I know.
This one's all empty.
- Doesn't your heart feel colder than the weather?
- Yeah.
- Our hearts.
- The area and streets are so pretty, but they're all empty.
- This is the worst of the worst.
There's no one at home.
- (Narration) This is the worst circumstance where there's nobody in the neighborhood.
- Hello!
- (Narration) To these guys who have always interacted with the residents.
- Wave your hand, Kyung-kyu.
Come on.
- (Narration) Today's scenery is unfamiliar and shocking.
At a place that quickly turned into ruins
will they be able to meet families who will lend their hands?
- We need to first find out who lives here
and which houses are empty.
If most of these houses are empty.
- These are all...
- Look at this.
- Because of redevelopment.
- It says someone still lives in this alley
so do not leave any trash here.
- As people move out, they're throwing everything out
so this is upsetting for the people still living here.
Kyung-kyu.
- Yeah?
- Byung-jae, people are living here.
The meters are working.
The meters are working, so someone is living here.
We need to catch these details.
- I think someone's living here.
- Food.
- They had food delivery.
- Si-young, this looks good too.
They have a lot of crocks here.
- Someone's living here too, right?
- That's right.
There are crocks right there.
- That's right.
Yeah, someone's living here.
- Look at this, Kyung-kyu.
This house is good too.
- They have a warm heart.
- For the street cats, Kyung-kyu.
- That's right, for the puppies.
- Someone's really living here.
- This is a point.
- Telephone pole 54.
- Perhaps the person we meet today and have dinner with
is having a meal with us for the last time
before leaving this neighborhood.
- Very meaningful...
- A meaningful neighborhood.
- In a way, for that person's life,
this will be a finishing stroke, Kyung-kyu.
- You're not talking about a Chinese restaurant?
A Chinese restaurant.
- Aren't you getting tired of him?
- Yes, I am.
- I'm telling you, I've never heard that before.
- Hey, this says lifespan of 22 seconds, 24 seconds.
This means you live that much longer?
You live that much longer?
Isn't that what that means?
- 12 seconds longer, 34 seconds longer.
- Because you burn calories.
- We earned 48 seconds.
- But we spent 30 seconds climbing up.
Isn't this a game from our childhood?
- Do you know how to do this?
- Of course I do.
- That's not it.
- What a shame.
What is that?
- You throw the rock like this.
Kyung-kyu, you haven't played this?
- I don't know this one.
- What was this called?
- You do all 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
- You can't step on 3.
-That's right.
- No, no.
With one foot.
No, no.
- If you do that, you die.
- We're good at these things.
For 6,
you need to aim around here
so that it bounces a couple of times.
- Please stop explaining.
- If you toss from here, because of the law of inner desire...
- The law of what?
- The law of inner desire?
- Inertia, inertia.
- The law of inertia.
- That was too calculated, right?
- Try it with inner desire.
With inner desire.
- Here.
- Don't do it, don't do it.
I'm so tired of you.
Aren't you tired of him?
- (Narration) If it's to this extent, one ought to get tired of him.
- So you toss this to 7.
Hi. How cute.
What grade are you in?
- He's lucky.
- Kid, try this before you go.
- Try this.
- Do you do this often?
- Try it.
Start.
One.
Huh?
That's it, that's it.
- He's so cute.
- Okay, okay.
That's right, good job.
Okay.
That's it.
- No, you can't step on it.
- You can't step on the line.
- You can't step on it.
- What's your name?
- Kim Min-joon.
- Min-joon?
- Min-joon.
- Min-joon, do you live here?
- Yes.
- Where do you live?
- Over there at the green roof.
- Green roof?
Green roof?
Down there.
- Give him his books.
Why are you carrying so much books?
- They gave us textbooks at middle school.
- They provided textbooks today?
- Are these new textbooks?
Your name is Min-joon, right?
I know you, Kim Min-joon.
- It's written here.
- Min-joon, did many of your friends move away?
- Yes.
- How many friends in your class moved away?
- I think around 6 friends.
- Really?
How many are there total?
- There were 16 students.
- 16 students?
- Then many kids must have transferred schools.
Many transferred schools.
- Carry this and go.
- Alright.
- See you again, Min-joon.
- Bye.
That child is so loving.
- Huh?
Mister Kang Ho-dong?
- Where are you going?
-To my friend's house.
- Are you going over to your friend's?
- Yes.
- Aren't you in the 4th grade?
- I'm now in 4th grade.
- You just went up to 4th grade?
- Do you know Min-joon?
- You're Min-joon's friend, right?
- Yes.
- He's visiting, so someone's living here too.
- Tell your friend that he'll have guests visiting later.
- Alright.
- I think this will be good to visit later.
- Hey, Jang Ah-ram!
Ugh, that son of a...
- Wait a minute.
Is it okay to cuss at your friend?
You just called your friend...
- He got mad.
- I've heard many curse words but not like this kid.
- You're close friends?
- Yeah.
- That could happen if you're close.
- I ate ramen at my friends' house
and it cost about 1 dollar.
So I need to give him change, but he's not home.
- You need to pay back his money?
- Yes.
- How much?
- 25 cents?
- He needs to give Ah-ram 25 cents.
- It cost 1 dollar but since four of you ate, you need to pay back 25 cents?
- You borrowed money but he's not home.
- He's not home.
- Call him again.
Call louder.
- Hey, Jang Ah-ram!
Hey, the 25 cents!
- Ah-ram!
Huh?
The lights turned on.
- Kang Ho-dong is here.
- Hey, Jung Ah-ram.
- Jang Ah-ram, Jang Ah-ram.
- Ah-ram.
Ah-ram, Ah-ram.
Ah-ram, come here quickly.
Ah-ram.
Ah-ram, come into my arms.
Come into my arms.
Ah-ram.
- Were you sleeping?
- What were you doing?
What were you doing?
- I was playing games.
- Ah-ram, you need to get your money.
- How much?
- 25 cents.
- I did.
- You did?
- Ah-ram, aren't you cold?
- Ah-ram.
You're quite alive.
Aren't you cold?
- Ah-ram.
Aren't you cold?
- Why did you receive 25 cents?
- On our way, I bought cup ramen but he didn't give me change.
- Can't you buy some for your friends?
You could've just treated him.
- He just came.
- When you didn't ask for money?
- Since this will be airing on TV, I'll cover just here.
This is too much.
- Aren't you cold?
- Then say you treated him and give him back the 25 cents.
- Here.
- Thanks.
- You don't speak much?
- No.
- Since you're friends, give each other a hug.
Hug.
You'll come out in Let's Have Dinner Together on TV. Watch it.
Go inside.
Hello, ma'am.
We're filming Let's Have Dinner Together.
- She's his sister.
- I couldn't see from far away.
- Goodbye.
- Sister, are you in middle school?
- 5th grade.
- Elementary school.
- You are very tall.
- She is.
- Come here and take pictures together
with Ho-dong.
- How should we do it?
- Your fashion is awesome.
Wow, you have an amazing personality.
One, two, three.
- (Narration) With Yeom-ni area's chic boy, Ah-ram, and his sister.
- Kyung-kyu, that was awesome.
- My feet are really frozen.
- But what's scary is that the weather forecast
said it'll get colder in the evening.
- It's gonna get colder.
- It's different from an hour ago.
- Look here.
The snow hasn't been swept here and there are warning tickets everywhere
so it feels very spooky and gloomy.
- Almost everyone moved away from here.
- Did they throw these away?
Why are they placed so nicely?
- Place unneeded goods here and take what you need.
- They leave out household items
- rather than throwing them away.
- Throw them away or take them home as needed.
- How heart-warming.
- Yeah, it is heart-warming.
Because if you wash these, they're like new.
- Of course.
- For those who need them.
- It's a cat.
- There's cat, but look down there.
They're all footsteps of cats.
- There are no footsteps of people.
- It seems like people leave and only animals remain, right?
- This neighborhood is quite chilly.
- Nobody lives at all in this area.
- This line of houses right now.
- Yeah.
There's no one at all here.
- This place is 100% empty.
Look over there.
- You can see inside the house.
Look how pretty that baby's room is.
- Long time ago, this was a mansion, right?
This is pretty big.
- That's a three-story house.
How sad.
- Once they're torn down, they get shabby, right?
- It becomes a ruin if nobody lives in it.
- The excavators smashed them.
- How much memories are dwelling in this area?
- These are all old-style houses.
I lived in the next neighborhood, and I didn't know this at all.
- (Narration) The abandoned items silently
speak of memories with their owners.
As such, the Salt Road will slowly disappear into memories.
- They're under construction up ahead.
- Where again?
- They must've started construction.
- Wow, this will all become building, right?
Redevelopment.
They did a lot of that here during the 80s and 90s.
They swept out in chunks.
- Here, here.
Kyung-kyu.
When they redevelop and rebuild here, this place will become like that.
- Apartment buildings will be built.
- A long time ago, before apartments were built here,
this area probably had a similar vibe.
- (Narration) The alleys here will disappear into high-rise buildings
and become a part of the cityscape.
- I think today, in the history of Let's Eat Dinner Together,
- will be the most desperate and difficult day.
And the coldest.
- So each time we ring the bell, we need to pour in our efforts.
- We need to pour in our efforts, but there are many empty houses.
So let's do it, even if we have to shout.
Hello.
Please open the door. Let's do it like this.
I can't speak because my mouth is frozen.
- It's so, so cold.
- It's really cold.
I can't talk because it's so cold.
Is there break time in the middle?
- Huh?
Is there break time in the middle?
- Don't already think about resting.
How can we beat this cold with passion?
The passion of my heart...
- Wait a minute.
- ...never freezes. Something like that.
- Aren't you tired of him?
- Huh?
- Aren't you tired?
- I was already before.
I'm so tired of him.
I didn't know he was this kind of person.
- Where's your perseverance of an athlete?
Now that you are successful and full and warm, you don't want to do this?
You shouldn't be like that.
Now, even his voice makes me tired.
- You shouldn't be like that.
- Now you understand why I dismiss him?
- Yes.
- Now let's run.
One.
When I say one, you say two.
One.
- Two.
- (Narration) The sun must've also gotten tired and hides itself.
Now, in the history of the show, the most desperate and dark evening as come.
- The more I see you, the more charming you are.
- Show us.
Byung-jae.
- Yes.
- When you ring the bell, what are you gonna say?
- I saw that you introduce yourself first.
Hello, I am Yoo Byung-jae.
- That's right. Hello.
What kind of Yoo Byung-jae are you?
- But truthfully, for me...
- That's the most important.
- I don't have a long career.
- Scenarist Yoo Byung-jae?
First, you need a nickname.
- YG.
- Extreme job. Yoo Byung-jae of extreme job.
- They probably won't know that.
The elders would know that a while ago,
I got sued by the Korea Parent Federation...
- When will you have time to talk about you being sued by the Parent Federation?
- I'm only know by the younger generation.
- Let's be more optimistic.
Not sue or accusations...
- I was acquitted. That's positive.
- I am Yoo Byung-jae, who got acquitted.
- I didn't bring any issues.
- We can't eat.
I don't think we'll be able to eat a meal.
- Let's do our best for now.
- You each do your thing.
What's more important is if there's someone home or not.
- That's right.
- (Narration) That's right.
Something else is more important today.
- Kyung-kyu, we said let's try here.
- The red clay house.
- Each house is precious.
- Kyung-kyu, there's someone in there.
- There's smoke coming out here.
- Someone's home.
The steam is coming out.
Today we need to double check even shut down lights.
- We're trying this places.
- There's no bell here. Can we knock?
Excuse me.
- The smoke suddenly stopped coming out.
- Because you said 'excuse me', they turned it off.
- This is a fail.
- I'm sorry.
- I'll go see one more time.
- Ho-dong, there's no one there.
The alleys at night are different from the afternoon, aren't they?
- I don't think two people can pass here side by side.
- The lights are on here.
- Here it is, here it is.
- This house is that house over there.
- This seems like the house from before.
- Kyung-kyu, can't we knock from here?
- No, we can't.
We can't do that.
- Ho-dong, why don't we try here?
- Try, try.
- Is anyone home?
Do you hear anything?
- Someone came out.
- What's the matter?
- I have something to say. Can you come out just a minute?
- I can't go out now.
Who are you looking for?
- Hello.
I'm actress Lee Si-young.
- My hair right now...
I just took a shower, so my hair's wet.
- She went back in.
- Why don't you say something, Si-young.
- It's her first time.
- Of course she's confused.
She's confused.
Are you crying?
- No.
- It's because you're cold, right?
- I didn't know it was this hard.
- It makes you speechless, huh?
- Yes.
- I'm sorry.
- Huh?
The lights are on here?
- The lights are turned on.
We'll try this place.
- Byung-jae, Byung-jae.
Take a breath.
- Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Is anyone home?
- It's not a trustworthy voice.
- His voice is thinner than expected.
- Excuse me.
Is anyone here?
- His voice.
- Hello.
I'm Yoo Byung-jae.
- We need to go if it's like this.
- If there's no reply like this.
It's really dangerous if you fall over here.
- Yes.
Be careful, Ho-dong.
- I need to be careful too.
- Be careful.
I need to be careful too.
- I need to be really careful.
This is empty.
We're passing by all these dark houses.
- There are no lit houses.
- (Narration) They were prepared for this, but reality is hitting hard.
- Hey, the lights are on here.
- Whew, this isn't easy.
- You guys try.
- Take a breath.
- I smell food.
- Hurry, hurry.
Knock knock.
- Is anyone home?
Hello.
I'm actress Lee Si-young.
- Yes.
- Could you take a moment to talk?
- We're about to eat dinner.
- You're about to eat?
I'm Lee Si-young. Do you know me?
- I do.
I do know but.
- Hello.
We're on JTBC's Let's Have Dinner Together.
We were wondering if we can eat dinner with you.
- I think that'll difficult for us.
- Oh, difficult...
You can just give us rice with cold water.
- I'm sorry.
- This is uncomfortable, right?
- I understand.
Happy new year.
- Yes, happy new year.
- Do you know Yoo Byung-jae too?
- I do.
We're the same age.
- Really?
- Wow, wow.
- Are you his fan?
- No.
- She's not your fan.
Then how do you know his age?
- He was born 1988.
- That's right.
You're not my fan?
- No.
I'm Lee Kyung-kyu.
- Hello.
- Are you his fan?
- No.
- Then are you Kang Ho-dong's fan?
- No.
- Then whose fan are you?
- Among the four, Si-young.
- What about the second?
- Um...
There's none.
- Hurry up and go.
- That was fun.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
Have a good dinner.
- Have a good meal.
- She gave some laughs.
Right?
Her replies.
She's very certain of what she dislikes.
- I think today will be a bit difficult.
There are no people.
- (Narration) It's not easy hearing a single voice this evening at the Salt Road.
- It's so moving.
- Kyung-kyu, the lights are on.
Si-young, Kyung-kyu.
- Try it, then.
Try it.
- Is anyone home?
Are the lights on somewhere?
- A fail?
- This seems like a fail.
- Right now the time is passing by...
- Kyung-kyu.
- This looks good.
- How does this look, Ho-dong?
- The lights are on here.
- Where's Kyung-kyu?
Why does he keep moving separately?
- The lights are turned off.
- Let's stay together.
-What?
- Let's stay together.
- It's not that. I went to look.
- There's nobody?
- Who is it?
- Hello.
I'm actress Lee Si-young.
Hello.
Do you know me?
- Yes.
- Hello.
Did you have dinner?
I don't think we can.
- Really?
- There will be someone upstairs.
The owner lady.
If you go upstairs.
- Third floor.
- Third floor?
- On the third floor?
Hey, nobody's home on the third floor.
We were deceived.
- (Narration) Here, one is hungry for people more than food.
- This isn't easy.
- This place, this place.
Here it is.
- Byung-jae, this one they can see your face.
Show them your face.
- Who is it?
- Hello.
- Yes?
- Hello.
I'm Yoo Byung-jae.
Can we talk for just a moment?
- Why, why?
- Hello.
- What's this about?
- We're on JTBC's Let's Eat Dinner Together where
we visit families, and if you haven't had dinner yet,
it's a show where we have dinner together.
- Dinner?
- Have you eaten yet?
- What is this?
I'm home alone.
- If you didn't have dinner, it's a show where we eat together.
- How many people will eat?
- Two people. Yoo Byung-jae and me.
- Really?
- Could you have dinner with us?
- (Narration) A meal more desperate than ever.
Please.
- We don't have side dishes.
- That doesn't matter.
- Come in.
- No, she said she didn't have dinner yet.
What are you talking about.
Ma'am, you didn't eat yet?
Ma'am.
Is it okay for you to be on the show?
On the show.
And have fun?
- It's alright.
- She said it's alright.
- Our staff, come in.
- I think you can go now.
- Hurry up and go.
- We'll have dinner and go.
- Hey, Byung-jae.
- Good luck.
- Our house is.
- It's okay.
- It's so nice.
And so warm.
- Ma'am.
- Yes.
- (Narration) Today, reality is harder to accept.
- This is just a little thing. It was bearable just a while ago.
Now that the two went in, it became colder.
- Let's gather our strengths.
We can do it.
Shall we go up there?
- (Narration) Cold and hunger rush into Kyung-kyu team's absence.
Will they overcome with passion?
On the other hand, warmth rushes in here.
- You were just about to have dinner.
- Yes.
- You were in the middle of cooking.
- What are you stir-frying?
- These are balloon flowers.
- Balloon flowers.
- It smells so good.
- No wonder I was craving balloon flowers.
Have you seen our show?
- I don't know.
- It's called Let's Have Dinner Together.
- Thank you for opening the door.
It's not easy to open the door.
We were shivering with cold.
- It smells so good, though.
- Byung-jae, what luck is this.
- (Narration) To suddenly be smelling balloon flowers in front of their eyes.
Really, this seems like a dream.
- But then.
- Ma'am.
- Can I make you rice cake soup?
- That'll be so nice.
- Ma'am.
- That's so good.
- It doesn't matter.
Rice cake soup is good.
- Then I'll make you rice cake soup.
- Byung-jae.
- Yes.
- Coming inside through open doors
and not being inside is such a big difference.
- It's only one door of difference.
- Of course.
This is heaven and hell.
- (Narration) There's only one door difference between heaven and hell in Let's Have Dinner Together.
- Do you usually have dinner by yourself?
- No.
I eat when my daughter comes home.
I'm preparing dinner.
- When does your daughter usually come home?
- At 7:15 PM.
- Does she work?
- Yes.
- How old is your daughter?
- She turned 27.
- 27?
- Yes.
- Is that your daughter in the picture?
- Yes.
- Wow.
- Who is that in the middle?
- My son.
It's his first birthday picture.
- 1st birthday picture.
Is your son in high school?
- He's a college student and studying right now.
- How about the father in the middle?
- He's a public official?
He didn't get off of work yet?
- No, he's not back yet.
- Then your children live upstairs.
- Yes, our children live upstairs.
- Ma'am, you don't know me, right?
You saw me for the first time.
- Yes.
I don't know.
- What?
- I'm Yoo Byung-jae.
- He's Yoo Byung-jae.
- Ma'am, he's an up and rising guy
- on variety shows.
He's a comedy writer and does variety shows
and is coming into the spotlight.
-Oh, I see...
- You're not giving me a glance once.
- It's because she's shy.
She's shy.
Ma'am, where's your hometown?
- It's Gong-ju.
- Oh?
- Gong-ju.
- I'm from Chung-nam.
- It's Gong-ju in Chung-nam province.
- I'm from there...
Where is it... Hong-sung.
I'm from Gwang-chun of Hong-sung county.
You're from Gong-ju.
Please sit.
- (Narration) There are two more mouths to feed at the dinner table with her daughter.
The mother's hands are busier than ever.
A warm rice cake soup with beef leg bone soup and well-ripened kimchi
are enough to fill the hearts and stomach, but this is not all.
- Should I grill some ribs?
- What?
- Should I grill you some LA ribs?
- Oh my, no, ma'am.
You can eat just what you prepared.
How you usually have dinner.
- That's why.
My daughter...
- Your daughter likes LA ribs?
Then let's grill some LA ribs then.
Let's roast some LA ribs.
- I'll grill you just a little bit.
- I even performed in LA.
- I was going to grill LA ribs for my daughter when she came home today.
- Did you make water kimchi yourself too?
- Yes.
- I really like this.
- Ma'am, you have good skills in cooking.
Ma'am, what does your daughter do?
- She works at a law firm.
- A law firm.
She must get off of work on time?
- Yes.
When she has company dinners or meeting with friends
she tells me in the morning.
- That she'll be late?
- Yes.
-Do you think she drinks a bit?
- Drinking?
She's not good.
- She isn't?
I have a daughter named Ye-rim. She empties two bottles of soju.
- Yeah?
Ma'am, I think your daughter is home.
- Yes?
She's here?
They're filming here.
- Hello.
- They're filming us eating.
- This is Yoo Byung-jae.
- Hello.
- This JTBC's Let's Have Dinner Together.
Have you seen it?
- I've heard of it.
- Come on in, we need to eat.
- You got off of work on time.
You came home early because it's cold today.
Come in.
You are saving this show with your dinner.
And your daughter.
She is a beauty, ma'am.
- You must be close with your daughter.
- Yes.
Aren't mothers usually close with their daughters?
- Yes.
- They become sort of like sisters,
as they grow older together.
- My daughter and my wife are very close.
Dads just need to stay out of trouble.
- Gun.
- Gunny?
What Gunny?
Sun Gun.
- Sun Gunny.
- Gun, Gun.
- The last name is Sun and the first name is Gun.
- That's unique.
- Isn't it?
- Thank you.
- That's all we have left of the eggs.
Help yourselves.
There are no side dishes.
- This is so much, ma'am.
- This is more than enough.
- There are no side dishes.
- (Narration) This is the dinner table of a mother and daughter living in Yeom-ni area.
For her daughter, who came back from work, she has prepared
with her own hands a feast full of motherly love.
- These are LA ribs.
- Go ahead and eat.
- Let's eat together.
- Gun.
Come eat dinner.
- She's changing.
- Go ahead, it's going to get thick.
- It's alright.
- It's going to get thick.
It'll get thick.
Go ahead.
- Please eat too, ma'am.
- Thank you for the food.
- Yes.
- Miss Gun.
Miss Gun, please come down and have dinner.
- What are you saying?
- What?
- What are you saying.
- To have dinner together.
- We're sorry.
- When you live life, these things happen.
- Were you surprised?
We'll enjoy the food.
- Please enjoy.
- It's so delicious, the rice cake soup.
- Is it?
- (Narration) The traditional rice cake soup and LA ribs.
Could they have imagined this dinner table today?
The two are frantically eating and enjoying the food.
But haven't you forgotten something?
- What?
- The One Meal Theater.
- We didn't do the One Meal Theater.
We're sorry.
We were hungry.
I didn't know too, but I forgot.
I forgot.
- I mean, I was so surprised.
- I was even more surprised.
- They pressed the bell, and there were so many people standing there,
so I was wondering what was going on.
But Kang Ho-dong was there too. Did he leave?
- He left. He will keep on searching...
- Ho-dong is doing this in another home.
Seeing that there's no call, I don't think they went in.
- Oh, I see.
Around here?
- Yes.
- Oh, really?
Ah, I see.
- I keep failing recently.
I keep falling behind.
- No, we can do it.
We can do it.
Let's gather our strengths.
We can do it.
We can do it. We can do it
Why are you suddenly so down.
- Congratulations.
- Kyung-kyu, together...
Are you going, Kyung-kyu?
- Cheer up.
- It's because my blood sugar dropped.
- No.
Now...
- Over there.
- Huh?
- I'll go.
- Let's go up.
Right, the light is on.
- Is anyone home?
- Hello.
I'm actress Lee Si-young. Do you know me?
- Lee Si-young?
- Yes.
Hello.
Did you have dinner?
- We just ate.
- You are filming Did You Eat.
- Yes.
We're on Let's Eat Dinner Together.
- Oh no, you really did eat.
We must have come too late, right?
- It's a bit late for me.
We're sorry.
- What did you eat for dinner?
- Yes.
- Left-over food from Lunar New Year's.
- Who did you eat with, sir?
- By myself.
- By yourself.
Then who do you live with here?
- With my wife.
- Your wife went out somewhere?
Time is passing by quickly today.
Look here, it's already 7 PM.
- Ho-dong, over here.
- Hello.
- Hello, ma'am.
Hello.
Do you...
I'm Lee Si-young. Do you know me?
- I don't know.
- You don't know?
Hello.
Did you have dinner?
- No.
- You didn't eat yet?
- Explain to her.
- Do you know Kang Ho-dong?
- I don't know very well.
- You don't know Kang Ho-dong?
- Gang-won-do?
- Not Gang-won-do. Kang Ho-dong.
- No I don't.
- You're not Korean?
- No, I'm a foreigner.
- From where.
- I came from China.
- China.
Hello.
Are you living by yourself?
- Yes.
- I'm Kang Ho-dong.
- Yes.
- This is actress Lee Si-young.
- Yes?
- Did you have dinner or not?
- Not yet.
- Then where are you having dinner?
- Outside.
- Would it be difficult for us to
have a simple dinner at your house?
- Yes.
- It's difficult?
- It's okay.
- Thank you.
Happy new year.
- Happy new year.
- Thank you.
- Excuse me.
Is anyone home?
- Let's go, let's go.
There's no one.
- Hello, ma'am.
I'm Lee Si-young.
Do you know me, ma'am?
- I saw you in a drama.
- Yes.
Actress... Do you know me? Hello.
Did you have dinner?
- I did.
- You had dinner?
- It's so cold outside.
- It's alright.
- Hello.
- You already had dinner?
- Yes.
I came from Australia.
I'm visiting Korea.
- What did you come to Korea for?
- To meet my friend.
- You came to meet your friend?
Then is this your friend's house?
- Yes.
- Where's your friend?
- She went to work.
If she's visiting her friend's house,
it's not easy to invite someone when her friend's not home.
- I'm so happy to see you.
- Thank you.
- Nice to meet you.
I saw you on TV.
- Isn't she pretty?
- She's so pretty.
- Have a nice day.
- You too.
- Thank you.
- (Narration) Ambitious Si-young and
talkative Ho-dong is now silent.
- I smell food.
Right now...
Why is the bell not working.
- It doesn't?
- Did you have dinner?
- Yes.
- Did you have dinner?
- Yes.
- Did you have dinner?
- This doesn't work.
Let's hurry up and move.
- (Narration) At this rate, they might have dinner with the street cats on the Salt Road.
- Oh?
Excuse me.
Is anyone home?
Hello.
- Yes.
- Hello.
- We're from Let's Have Dinner Together.
I'm Korean wrestling champion Kang Ho-dong.
- I'm Lee Si-young.
- Are you preparing food right now?
- Yes.
- Woah!
- Are you a student?
- Yes.
- I love...
I love you, student.
We are on Let's Eat Dinner Together.
- Have you seen it before?
- Yes, I have.
- I'm actress Lee Si-young.
- Hello.
- Do you know her?
- Yes.
- Hello.
- On our show, we meet and freely talk about
this and that in life and... there's beer over there.
We can have some beer too. It's a show where we create
a warm scenery and a warm dinner.
- Yes.
- If you haven't dinner yet, would you eat with us?
- The house is a bit messy.
- It doesn't matter at all.
We can clean it for you.
- We will clean it up and do everything.
- Okay.
- Are you alright?
- Come in.
- Come in, come in.
Come in.
- (Narration) They thought it wouldn't work, but they kept knocking and the doors opened.
- Oh, the front door.
Wait a sec.
- Let me try.
Hello.
- You're in your pajamas.
Were you going to eat alone?
- Yes, well,
my friend's supposed to come over.
- Oh, a friend.
- Yes.
- Oh my, Si-young, look at this.
He's cooking right now.
What were you cooking just now?
- Crab stew and flounder.
- Wow.
Wow, this is amazing.
- Crab stew and flounder.
- Come in.
- If your friend will be coming soon
we can also talk with him.
- Yes.
- Are you a college student around here?
- No, I am...
- Whew, I'm dizzy.
Oh no, no.
-If you live alone, it's all like this.
You're so good-looking.
Shake hands with Si-young too.
- Si-young is probably like a big sister.
- She looks my age.
- Right, doesn't she look young?
- I mean, people usually boil up instant ramen
but you are cooking.
How are you making crab stew and flounders?
- My mother and grandmother cooked for a long time.
So I'm used to cooking from very young.
- Really?
We're so lucky today.
- Then were you at home all day?
- No, I just came back from work and started cooking.
- What work do you do?
- Just a part-time job at a call center.
- What?
- At a call center.
- A part-time job. You just got off of work?
- Yes.
- When is your friend coming?
- In about 30 minutes.
- He'll come around then?
- What does your friend do?
- He does photograph.
- How long were you friends?
- About 3, 4 years ago.
- Oh, you're college friends?
- No.
My major is originally...
I want to do musicals, so I'm preparing to transfer majors
from the Theater and Film department.
- No wonder you were good-looking.
- Yeah, I thought he was good-looking.
- For now I'll...
- Go ahead.
- Yes, the food.
- Do you want some tea?
- You know, your shelf here
is about to topple over if you touch it.
- Like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- Since you had been cooking, you need to do that, right?
- Yes.
- Then.
- Oh, from Top 3 Chefs.
Lee Si-young.
- Can I watch?
- Sure.
- So you put in pumpkins, onions, and white radish?
- Yes.
- The soup will be really refreshing, right?
- I'll make it refreshing for you guys.
- You are making vegetable broth for the crab stew?
- Yes.
- Actually, I didn't eat all day.
- I'll cook you food fast.
- No, it makes me full just looking at this.
- Excuse me.
- How will you clean the crabs?
- I didn't clean them. I only defrosted them.
- You'll just clean the shells?
- Yes.
I cleaned the shells once for now.
- Are you cooking one more flounder for us?
- Yes, so you can eat well.
- Thank you.
We're so sorry.
- Not at all.
- Is it okay?
Is this coke or soy sauce?
- Coke.
I opened it but it went flat so later...
- You're going to use it for cooking?
- No, I left it to use it for cleaning later.
- You're quite a housekeeper.
Your girlfriend must like that, right?
- My mom taught me ever since I was young.
- Oh?
I know how to clean the crabs.
- Will you do it for me?
- I learned just a while ago.
- Did you learn it from Top 3 Chefs?
- Yes.
You cut off the tail part and gills.
Maybe I don't need to clean this much for stew?
I learned how to clean for soy sauce marinated crabs.
- This is a chance for you, and a musical director
might be watching this show.
Sing us a your most confident verse from a musical.
- My most confident verse?
- Yes.
Your favorite passage.
- This moment right now.
My everything.
Even my body and soul, I'll bet give them all.
- The ending, the ending.
- Lord, allow...
My throat hurts from a cold.
- One more time.
- Lord allow me to do so~. - Good, good.
- You're very good at singing.
You put in red pepper paste, soybean paste, and ground red pepper.
Should I mix this?
- We're running short, so I think I need to go buy some more.
- There's not enough?
We're working, but there's someone not working over there.
Ho-dong.
- What?
- We don't have enough red pepper paste and soybean paste.
- We don't have money.
- What?
- We don't have money to buy them.
- We have that money.
Our transportation fee.
4 dollars.
- Where's the nearest convenience store, Tae-gyun?
- Right in the front.
- Go down where you came up.
- There's a lot here.
- I'll go buy them.
- Okay.
- Come back safely.
Actually, I'm more comfortable by myself.
Do you always cook for yourself even when you're alone?
- I usually cook all my meals.
I don't like crowded places, so I don't go out much
except for holidays or anniversaries. I cook and eat a lot at home.
- Oh, at home.
Then what's your girlfriend's favorite dish
from all that you have cooked?
- Steak and pasta and stew.
- You cooked pasta and stew?
- Yes.
- That's amazing.
Wow.
- (Narration) Tae-gyun, who likes cooking,
sent photos of his abundant dinner table.
His cooking skills are amazing.
- How much is the soybean paste?
This one .
- About 4 dollars.
- That's perfect.
- Hello.
- Oh, hi.
Hey, what a coincidence.
What are you doing here?
Is this your big brother?
- Yes.
- And you're the younger brother.
- Yes.
- (Narration) We coincidentally meet an acquaintance made on the Salt Road.
- Take this candy.
This is 2 cents, right?
Now, this is out of real thankfulness.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
Come here.
- Farewell.
- We met twice like this because we have relations.
- Oh, so how should we surprise your friend?
- Stand over here and then jump out when he comes in.
- Or just act naturally as if I had always been here.
- Saying, "Why are you so late?"
- Yeah.
What's your friend's name?
- Park Bong-choon.
- He's here.
- Your friend?
What should I do?
Big sister, big sister.
- My big sister is here.
- Hi, Bong-choon.
- Hello.
- I've heard a lot about you.
- What is this?
- Aren't you bewildered?
- What should I do about this?
He came so suddenly without warning.
Do you know me?
You don't.
That was close.
Hello.
I'm Lee Si-young.
- Oh, Lee Si-young?
- Yes.
- Why is Lee Si-young here?
Is it that Let's Eat Together?
- Do you know my name but not my face?
- I do, but I didn't think you would be here.
- Come in.
- Alright.
- Come in.
- What is this?
- I don't know.
- If you wait, we'll cook you a delicious dinner.
I'm helping out right now.
I'm not doing the actual cooking.
Should I start with the flounders?
- Put in red pepper paste with vinegar and boil some more.
- Wait a second.
Bong-choon, can please open the door?
- Excuse me.
Is this Kim Tae-gyun's place?
- Oh my God!
- Tae-gyun, how have you been?
Who is that over there?
- My friend said he'd come over.
- Your friend was coming over?
- I thought just the three of us were having dinner.
- My friend says he's hungry.
- Hi, I'm Tae-gyun's friend.
Who are you?
- I'm Park Bong-choon.
- Park Bong-choon?
Call me Ho-dong.
I'm Kang Ho-dong.
Bong-choon.
Park Bong-choon.
Your name is pleasant
like soybean paste.
- He bought the soybean paste.
- Thank you.
- We make this at home every holiday.
- You just do that and broil right away?
- Where do you buy these ingredients?
Flounders or crabs aren't easy
to choose as main ingredients, you know.
- I bought the crabs when I went to Yeon-an Pier.
I just bought the flounders while grocery shopping today.
- You bought these while doing grocery shopping?
- Yes.
- You're like a skilled housewife.
- I had been wanting to eat flounders.
- You wanted some flounders.
- Nice to meet you.
- Do you come over often?
- His place is close, so I see him often.
- He lives alone and you live with your parents.
You should've brought some good side dishes.
- I do bring some at times.
I sometimes buy some food.
Or when we're lazy, we order delivery food.
- Woah, this is amazing.
This...
This is salted seafood.
- Salted guts of hair tail.
Real players eat this.
I just got acquainted with this too~
- If you put that in rice and add some sesame oil to it.
- He has the tastes of an adult.
- My family fed me all kinds of things ever since I was young.
- This is...
I just got acquainted with these salted guts.
- (Narration) Today was a difficult day to meet people,
and to have met with these precious salted guts of hair tail,
it is a marvelous day today.
- Wow.
Wait a sec.
We have come into Kim Tae-gyun's life
so we need to keep this as forever memory.
- (Narration) This dinner was made by a student living alone in Yeom-ni area
as he poured in his time to make a dinner table to be remembered forever.
It is a feast of seafood created by the master chef of the Salt Road.
- Thank you for the food.
- Thank you for the food~.
- Wow.
- Is it good?
- This is a masterpiece.
Really.
- It's so delicious.
Wow, really.
I feel like I'm eating Grandma's food.
- This is probably the most delicious.
- It's warming up my body.
- This is really refreshing.
The rice is amazing.
- This crab stew is good.
The crab smell is fantastic.
This is so good.
- (Narration) Their bodies and hearts frozen from this cold weather
have instantly melted with this magical moment.
- In a small room in Yeom-ni area
a big star is dreaming his dream.
We are with an actor who will make it big soon.
- With the new year, I think we're all having good luck.
It's destiny that we've all met like this.
So that all four of us will do well.
- Even when Bong-choon doesn't come over
you cook yourself food like this?
- When I'm alone I don't cook this much. I just boil some stew to eat.
- Like this one, you can eat until the next day.
- Yes, and I can put it in the fridge and eat for two days.
- So at first, what made Tae-gyun look different
was that he said he worked part-time
at a call center.
But that's a really hard job.
- But as I live on and years pass by
I realized nothing's easy.
- That's right.
- But if I get depressed because of that, it's only harder for me.
- Wow.
- Then cooking and eating like this
is a way to relieve stress and a time to be happy at home.
- Yes.
When I come home from work and turn on a movie with beer.
That's the best and most relaxing.
- But if you do a lot of part-time jobs
that's precious experience for an actor.
You experience all sorts of things and remember that
to reflect on your acting.
- I think it really helps.
I debuted late too.
Because of that, I had worked a lot
when I was in my 20s.
But it really helped a lot.
- She went to the spa and sold products and earned a lot of money.
- What are you saying.
I was going to do it with my mom but she got sick that time
so I started the business by myself.
It was so hard to face customers during that job.
Because it's the women's spa, there is no CCTV.
So they would sort of...
- Steal.
- They'd steal, and if there was a CCTV, it would've been easy but
when I caught them, they would throw the product and hit me.
Saying that I'm making them a thief.
Like that.
- That's your accusing them as a thief?
- Yes.
So at first, when they took things, I couldn't say a word
because I was bewildered and didn't know what to do.
But after a year, you learn how to catch them.
So customers like that were very difficult.
- It must have been.
- Yes, it was.
- What's the most difficult in Let's Have Dinner Together?
- What's there to be difficult? Everything is joyful.
- You were having the hardest time earlier on.
- (Narration) What job is there in this world that is not difficult.
- I'm sorry.
- What?
- Can I have some more?
I didn't eat all day.
Just half bowl more of rice.
- (Narration) The Salt Road's master chef's crab stew is quite the rice stealer.
- I feel like my body is melting.
This is so nice.
- In my life.
- (Narration) Conversations bloom with the crab stew in this room on the Salt Road.
Kyung-kyu's team is also eating their fill.
- How is Byung-jae?
- He's cool.
- He looks better in person.
- Right?
- Thank you.
- If she's 27, she must like me.
We're close in age.
- Your daughter has a quiet personality too, right?
- Yes.
- Ma'am.
- Yes, she's quiet.
- Boast about your daughter.
- Boast?
She's good at everything.
- She never made you sad?
- She never made me sad, even to this day.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Really?
-Yes.
- Really?
- Not even once.
- Really?
- She's close with her mom.
- Don't I look like my mom?
- We said that before, that you look alike.
- We go to the baths together often.
The baths.
I love my daughter.
- So like...
- We went on a trip during summer vacation.
- Overseas.
- The two of you?
- That's really hard to do.
You two are very close.
- (Narration) Going to the baths and going on trips together.
The look-alike mother and daughter are best friends in this world.
- Ma'am, now that your daughter is home, your face has brightened.
- Of course.
- You didn't look well when you were with us two.
- Is there any disappointments that you have towards your daughter?
- Disappointments?
- Yes.
- That's right.
When I make breakfast in the morning, I tell her to eat
- and she says I'm not eating.
- She says I'm not going to eat.
- Those things are disappointing.
I'll figure it out myself, I'm an adult.
- She says I'll figure it out myself.
- How about you?
- Nagging.
- What kind?
- That I don't make my bed.
That my brother does but not me.
- When your brother does it.
That my brother does but not me.
- That takes only one second. You just do this.
- All moms say the same thing.
My mom says, this doesn't take 20 minutes, it only takes one second.
- How about your son?
Your son?
- My son?
He's a boy.
So he's a bit abrupt.
- That's right.
When does your father come home?
- Usually late at night.
He comes home late.
- My husband is studying.
- Really?
- He's studying?
- He goes to college.
- He's around the same age as me and he is studying?
I drink everyday.
- He must've started studying late.
- He loves books.
He's always studying.
Always studying.
- Like Lee Yoon-seok.
- Excuse me, but what is he studying?
- He entered college again and is studying Korean literature.
He liked writing ever since he was little.
- What year is he in college?
- Third year.
- Third year already.
- Third year already?
- Entrance year-wise, he's a junior to you.
Although not in the same college.
- I think so.
- He likes studying and writing.
- Reading books.
- He always has a book in his hands.
- That's amazing.
- That's why he's boring.
- He never watches dramas. Only the news.
- He only watches the news and reads books.
- Would he answer the phone if we called?
- He usually doesn't answer.
He doesn't answer when studying.
- How do you know he's studying or drinking.
Then where's your son?
- He goes to Sogang University.
- I went to Sogang University too.
- Really?
- When did he enter college?
- 2009.
- We might have passed by each other. I'm 2007.
- Really?
- What's his major?
- Economics.
- If it's Economics, I might have met him.
I have a few close friends in Economics.
- Try calling your son.
- If you ask if he knows Yoo Byung-jae.
- Ask his son.
- He's probably studying.
- This household only studies.
- We're boring.
- Wait a minute.
- Let's see if he's really studying.
- I'm not sure he'll answer.
- Because he's studying?
- Yes.
- Sogang University students...
- Hello.
- He answered at once.
- Yes, son.
Wait a minute.
- Put it on speaker phone.
Hello?
- Hello.
- Are you the son?
- Yes.
- Is that so?
- Yes.
- Guess who I am.
- Who is this?
- You attend Sogang University?
- Yes.
- There's a senior from Sogang University.
Say hello.
- Hello.
Do you know my voice?
- No, I don't. Who is this?
- I entered Sogang University in 2007, your senior.
- Yes.
- I'm Yoo Byung-jae.
- Oh, yes.
Hello.
- Hello.
- He knows you?
- Before me was Lee Kyung-kyu.
- Ah, yes.
- We are visiting your mother's place at Yeom-ni area
and filming Let's Eat Dinner Together.
- Oh~.
- So we gave you a call.
- I see, I see.
- You took Female Psychology with me before, right?
- Did we take the class together?
- I sat in the back.
- I also sat in the back, not in the front.
- I sat farther back.
- Really?
What's your name?
- I'm Sun Seung-beom.
- Ah, Sun Seung-beom.
- Do you know him?
- I think he's pretending to know.
- I heard you are studying Economics and entered school in 2009.
- Yes.
- You knew me, then?
When we took classes together?
- I saw you at school a few times.
- Really?
Were you studying right now?
- Yes.
- Studying?
Were you studying right now?
- Yes.
- Be honest.
- Yes, I was studying.
- At the K Building's reading room?
- No, I'm studying at a cafe near home.
- Oh, at a cafe.
- Aren't you with your girlfriend and not studying?
- I don't have a girlfriend yet.
- You're still single?
- Yes.
- Say a compliment to your mother.
- My mother?
- Yes.
- She's always devoted.
- Always devoted.
- She gives to people she doesn't know.
- She gives.
- We wouldn't know.
- She opened the door today and gave us food.
- I know.
Do you have any disappointments?
- I don't think in particular.
- Is that so?
Your mother had a disappointment.
- Oh...
- What that disappointment was.
- Yes.
- That you're a little abrupt.
- When you come home, she wants you to act charming and cute
but you don't talk much and stuff.
- But she complimented you that you make your bed well.
- That you're good at making your bed.
- Alright.
Study hard.
- Yes, thank you.
- If we see each other at school, let's say hi.
I'll buy you coffee.
- Alright.
Thank you.
- Study hard and come home safely.
- Our country is a small country.
In Korean society, you know someone through another person.
Here too, he's your college junior.
- But this Salt Road in Yeom-ni area.
About 70~80% moved away because of redevelopment.
- If you go down there, it's all dark.
- I think it'll be scary to walk by.
- But when it's summer or nice outside
there are a lot of people taking pictures around here.
- Because they designed this area so pretty.
It's nice that apartments are coming in
but on the other hand, these things will be sad to let go.
Because these narrow alleys will be gone.
- How much is the monthly rent here?
- About 500 dollars.
- That's pretty expensive.
- It's because it's near the college area.
- Oh, it's because it's near the college area?
But it really is on the expensive side.
- Then you pay the rent, living expenses, and food.
There must not be much money left for living?
- That's right.
It's not easy.
Sometimes I have a deficit, some times barely get by.
- What do you when you have a deficit?
- Then I borrow money from my mom and pay back on my pay day.
My mother is strict about public and private affairs.
- She doesn't ask for interest.
- No.
- Then living expenses must be tough. How much do you use per month?
- I think I use around 1,000 to 1,500 dollars per month.
- 1,500 dollars at the most?
- Yes.
With the rent and lesson fees, a lot of money goes out.
- Then you are on the frugal side..
- What lessons do you take?
- Singing lessons.
- You take singing lessons.
- So when you're grocery shopping, you carefully consider
and go to traditional markets and such.
- I like going to the traditional market better than large markets.
- This is sudden, but youth is quite hard.
What's youth?
What are your worries right now?
- I have a dream that I really want to achieve
but there are so many walls along the way.
Financial problems or other problems to consider.
- That's right.
- I think financial problems are the biggest.
To learn singing or acting or dancing,
they cost a lot of money.
- How about Bong-choon?
- I'm not yet 100% sure if
I want to take this path
so I'm trying to find my way, but that's really hard.
Trying to find that takes time and money too.
- I haven't yet found my dreams.
- That's right.
- I think you are at that age, around 25, 26.
- I'm working for my dreams, but the next moment I know, I'm only working.
- That must change.
That's right.
When I was your age, it was the same for me too.
I had a dream of being an actress, but nothing was working out
and I did part-time jobs, but that suddenly became my main job.
I was drifting farther away from my dream, but I had to survive.
When I was chasing after my dream, things didn't work out
but once I eased my mind, I met with an opportunity.
If you keep trying
I think you get rewarded in any way.
I believe you'll do well, and I hope we meet
somewhere again as good acquaintances.
- Our respectful actress Lee Si-young
has talked to you guys with her heart.
Because she gave courage with her heart, my heart has been moved
so I'll do the dishes tonight.
Wasn't that a good ending?
Slightly sacrificing myself and bringing the emotional stuff all to myself.
It's all about the timing.
Do you not have hot water?
- No, I do.
You need to turn the handle to the hot side.
- Oh...
I just discovered that.
My hands are freezing.
- (Narration) A visit to the disappearing Salt Road in Yeom-ni area on a cold winter day.
Our 21st and 22nd homes have given meals to remember forever in our memories.
- Hello.
- We have received our photo with Let's Have Dinner Together.
Next time you come over, we'll treat you with a good drink.
- Goodbye.
Maybe we should've said make a big hit?
- Hello.
We made many good memories thanks to Let's Have Dinner Together.
We hope you'll have lots of good meals in the future.
- Oh?
Oh, Mr. Jung Jin-young.
- Is this Let's Have Dinner Together?
- Nice to meet you.
You're not our guests today, right?
- No.
- Why are we meeting so many people?
Can we open this door?
- We can't just open...
- Hello.
- The national dog of England.
- Between Ask Us Anything and Let's Have Dinner Together.
- I like Let's Have Dinner Together.
Because Ask Us Anything is scary.
- It's scary.
- Do you have a boyfriend?
- Is this hard for you?
We're here!
- You haven't seen our show?
- No.
- Stop and go away.
- I feel like I'm watching TV.
Ho-dong keeps talking and Kyung-kyu keeps going.
- We'll succeed, right?
- I think we will.
I'm actress Park Bo-young.
- I don't really know.
- Do you know Park Bo-young?
- I don't.
- Lee Bo-young, cheer up.
- Lee Bo-young?
- I mean, Park Bo-young...
- You make these decisive mistakes.
- (Narration) Time to say goodbye after a dream-like meal.
- Don't give up, and let's meet at the broadcasting stations.
- (Narrations) When hope was fading, some things brightly lit up these alleys.
- Kyung-kyu, this is fun.
- Huh?
- This filming is fun.
It fits me well.
- It does?
It fits you?
- (Narration) There were the warm hearts of a mother and daughter.
- It was an unbearable cold.
- (Narration) And there were young dreams that made us forget the cold.
- Now, let's do a high-five.
- Yeah!
- (Narration) Today will disappear with tomorrow.
Who will you be having dinner with?
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