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I'm MC Yoo Hee-yeol.
I'm MC Haha.
I'm Lee Soo-geun, Hwang Kyu-young.
- Why? - Why?
I'm Hwang Kyu-young.
That means I have no problems.
I have no problems.
A traditional old joke.
What kind of MCs are you?
I'm author Park Bum-shin, being called the dangerous old man after "A Muse."
That weight.
I made it too long, right?
You get talkative when you get old.
He does talk a lot.
I'm doctor Namgoong In.
Neat.
He's handsome.
Let me redo mine.
The courageous have come out to talk.
Busking with words.
"As I Say"!
This is our 3rd meeting.
They call freely performing music on the streets "busking."
We do it with words instead of music.
From Seoul to Jeju, everywhere around the nation,
we talk and listen where anyone can join.
We finally have a doctor in the AA meeting room.
Really.
What was your major?
Emergency Medical Services.
I think they got a doctor because of me.
Because I'm old.
No, what are you talking about?
If something happens,
they got him as preventive measures.
If you're that open, we'll be a bit more rough.
Let's be friends.
- Really? - Great for me.
Then can we speak comfortably?
Just call me 'brother.'
I am a brother.
Isn't that being too greedy?
You know something really weird is happening?
We asked our question to the doctor
but somehow we're talking to Mr. Park.
I said one phrase.
It went over right away.
He said, "They brought him for me" and then...
I said one phrase.
Do you two want to come out next week?
I'd like that.
I didn't know it was to this extent.
The buskers, say hello to each other.
We're a team together.
Nice to meet you.
(Bow)
You three have to perform with words today.
We have to become a team together and do well today.
I agreed to come out, not knowing it was going to be like this.
What program did you think it was?
I thought it was just talking about myself.
I was told Yoo Hee-yeol is the MC
so I thought you'd be asking me about my works and stuff.
I'm sweating over here.
But since Lee Soo-geun is here too, I'll depend on him
and somehow do this.
What brings me comfort is that even if this doesn't go well,
since he's oldest, all responsibility will go to him.
I'm not really sure.
First...
(First busker)
This person has to open this up.
Lee Soo-geun.
How did you decide to come out?
I wanted to meet people and tell them about myself one day.
Whatever that may be about.
But there's definitely pressure too.
I'm sure there are things people are curious about.
I didn't fall because I tripped over someone else.
I fell by myself.
They're probably wondering how I've been and how I decided to come back...
You said you "fell," and that expression is very impressive.
Why did you think that you "fell"?
There were no causes for me to fall at all.
Nothing to trip over, and nothing distracting me.
But I tripped over my own foot.
It was a time for me to think, "I shouldn't do this."
But I think I considered it a little exit for me to relieve my stress.
I think Hee-yeol's way of relieving stress is the right way.
Watching porn by himself...
What are you talking about?
(Hehe)
This guy...
He drives me nuts when we MC together.
I heard Yoo Hee-yeol ruined your life, Soo-geun?
That's all in the past.
At the time...
He's saying it again.
If he just gave a little more attention to me,
I would've been a really famous singer by now.
I went on Riverside Song Festival in 1996.
Hee-yeol was in charge of editing our songs.
He's the best at it.
He was.
He turned one into a Grand Prize winner.
One of them won the Grand Prize
and I was in charge of two people.
But?
He played the piano for the Grand Prize
and for our team, he used his feet.
(Trip down the memory lane)
I was so shocked after getting our song.
It was a song called "Dongdaemun Namdaemun."
I know that song!
("Dongdaemun Namdaemun": Lee Soo-geun's song in 1996)
There's a part in the middle where it changes.
The song changes into a dance song all of a sudden.
In my life,
if I have the chance to erase one song,
I would erase that song.
It said, "Edited by Yoo Hee-yeol" on the tape.
My dad doesn't know celebrity names
but he knows Yoo Hee-yeol.
That he won't let me be?
I think Lee Soo-geun now is the best.
I can't really imagine singer Lee Soo-geun.
That's our image.
He's speaking on my behalf.
Writer Park Bum-shin is with us today--
We're already moving on?
We jump from place to place.
We do.
(Second Busker) The next person... In 1973,
he rises to the platform with
And he's been a famous writer for 44 years now.
Especially through "A Muse," he became the nation's "dangerous old man"
and forever a youth writer who receives a lot of love.
Writer Park Bum-shin.
(Writer Park Bum-shin)
It's an honor just being with young celebrities like this.
They don't really call you when you're old now.
I live in Non-San these days.
When I'm in Non-San, my wife isn't there so I live alone.
I get really lonely and bored.
Should we play all night today?
Let's.
When we do busking today,
there are a lot of young people on the streets.
Are you okay with that?
Yeah.
I'm a youth writer.
I can get closer to the younger generation.
And every human has all ages.
In your heart too,
there's probably a 60-year-old in there.
And a teen at the same time too.
If you're in your 30s,
then I'll play as a 30-year-old today.
I believe this program will bring a lot of comfort to the young people
so I decided to come out.
What if I ruin myself a little bit?
I felt like you would humiliate me a little.
Not at all.
We didn't even start.
If you humiliate me, I'll be humiliated.
I'll just do it.
Brother!
Be prepared.
Him calling me 'brother' makes me feel good.
There's a Q&A time.
Young people these days are very blunt.
- Right. - They express themselves really well.
You might get a little offended when you answer them.
I always communicate in a blunt manner.
So it fits me.
For example,
"Teacher!
When you were young,
was there a secret royal inspector?"
(Mm...) How would you answer that?
There weren't.
You're offended!
This is it!
The typical image of an adult!
I can't do that?
You have to say you used to be a secret royal inspector.
"Teacher, I really enjoyed 'A Muse.'
I heard it's based on your personal experiences."
If that's how you perceived it, that means I wrote it well.
(Wow)
If you think I couldn't have written it unless I experienced it,
I wrote well.
To an old man, "A Muse"
is someone stuck in the youth days forever.
Youth is like a light bulb.
Youth is shining, even the face.
What the old man wants
is being young forever, not getting old.
A dream of something impossible?
Those who dream of impossible things are the ones who change the world,
those are the great people,
and become light to us.
I feel like he did his busking already.
Wow.
In the short 5 minutes...
Really.
He said earlier that he thought this was a program where he talks about himself.
That's where it's heading.
(Park Bum-shin Show)
When I see those people who are a bit older,
you have to always be serious.
You have to say the answer.
But...
there is a sense of humor that's strong and sharp that you can only have at that age.
And behind that is the perspective that comes from experiences.
I personally think we need more people like that to come out here.
Him saying that makes me feel good about coming out.
(Hand raise)
We'll interview Namgoong In now.
But we couldn't cut him because it wasn't boring
and I was getting heated inside. I feel hot now.
Please introduce him.
(Third Busker)
The legend of the emergency room.
A star of Facebook.
The doctor who writes.
Doctor Namgoong In.
I'm Namgoong In.
When you're working on site,
I'm sure you get a lot of patients that surprise you.
Because it's the emergency room.
There are so many.
There are people who come after drinking moisture-removing water.
How could you drink that?
People do that.
I don't understand.
They must've been really thirsty.
And recently,
someone was brushing his teeth
and thought he wanted to clean his Adam's apple.
There are people who brush deep.
And while cleaning it, he ate his toothbrush.
He swallowed it.
He ate it on accident.
So we tooth that out with endoscopy.
Another person grows Amazonian plants at home
and he ate it out of curiosity.
Why?
He just chewed on it once.
But that's poison.
Amazonian plants have poison.
I have a lot to talk about when you bring up the ER.
So many crazy things happen.
Have you ever been to the emergency room?
I have.
I got in a car accident so I went
but I never knew it was such a place of life and death.
I realized that for the first time.
I was there for about 3 hours.
About 3 people died.
But how I knew that was...
The family members all of a sudden burst into tears.
I saw 3 incidences of that within 3 hours.
I realized it's a place of most life and death situations.
Seeing that all the time in your daily life,
have you ever gone into deep thought about what life is?
Feeling empty?
I actually did
and that's why I started writing a lot.
That brought you comfort?
I would think so.
(Namgoong In receives comfort through writing) I have a question.
Let's say someone fainted.
What do you have to do?
When someone faints,
he might've fainted for no reason
or it could've been that the heart stopped.
So to differentiate between the two, just remember 2 things:
Consciousness and breathing.
Take notes.
Consciousness and breathing.
If someone faints, lie him down on flat ground
and to check if they're conscious, hit them.
Shoulder, or wherever.
And if there's no response,
there's no consciousness.
To check if they're breathing,
lift up the shirt or something
check if the stomach or the chest are moving.
If it's not moving for more than 5 seconds,
then the person fainted due to the heart stopping.
A heart attack.
Then you have to call 911.
And until 911 arrives,
you just have to keep doing CPR.
How do you do CPR?
You have to do this.8
From how you hold your hand.
You can do it. I'll teach you right now.
(Mannequin for CPR demonstration)
You have to learn this.
I'm the one to be receiving it.
Our program feels like "Escaping Crises Number One" right now.
(Everyone learning CPR together)
Mr. Park isn't smiling at all.
He's watching seriously.
(I'm serious)
Kneel next to the patient.
He's like Kim Rae-won right now.
You lie them down on a flat surface.
The position is important.
Then exactly...
you know this part below the collar bone?
In between that and the stomach pit,
in between the two nipples,
give the most strength you could with your palm
by interlocking your fingers like this.
Straighten out your elbow
and straight down,
you press like this.
More than 5cm.
5cm?
No wonder your bones break.
Like this.
You have to do more than 100 a minute.
100?
Until 911 is there.
(Learned something great)
(Useful information for daily life)
I heard from the staff that...
in the midst of your busy schedule,
there was a song that brought you big comfort.
My writings are where I pour out a lot of my emotions--
A lot of emotions--
What's wrong?
(Tearing up just at the thought of it?)
Lie down here, I'll do it on you.
(Witty guy)
(Teasing) (Teasing)
And as I was writing, I started listening to bright music to get some positive energy.
That's how I fell into girl groups.
Girl groups?
There's a song called "Windy Day" by Oh My Girl.
I listened to just that song for about 14 hours on repeat
and finished the whole manuscript.
(14 hours? Wow)
Who do you like most from Oh My Girl?
YooA.
Her face...
She has a round face,
has big eyes,
and I watched all of their stages.
She dances harder than other members on stage too.
Her trying hard is so beautiful.
We have to start preparing for busking now.
Already?
Then Lee Soo-geun.
What's your topic?
My title is "I hope familiarity doesn't become negligence."
(So cool)
Shortly, what did you miss most during your break?
Talking.
I think the hardest part was not being able to talk.
And you have to talk with someone in front of you.
Good thing you came out today.
It's "As I Say."
(Perfect program for him, "As I Say")
In the book by Park Bum-shin soon to be published,
Oh, the book to be released in October.
.
The book ...
There's that phrase, "Wandering around away from home."
"Yuri" refers to wandering
and "gulsik" means getting fed.
I thought it was 2nd series of "A Muse."
After living busily in Seoul and going back to Non-San,
I was so happy.
Non-San is so relaxed.
Living in a remote house by a lake in Non-San,
in less than 2 days,
I wasn't looking at the beautiful lake;
I would look at the road around the lake.
Whether someone is coming.
Whether someone I know is coming to visit me.
I was waiting for people.
There's nothing more sickening than people,
but nothing more lovable than people.
Whether you hate them
or like them, you have to make relationships with people.
(So true)
Then what's your topic today, Bum-shin?
This may not match my age...
but it's "Let's live sexy."
You're already so sexy.
If you think about what "being sexy" means,
it's a face or a feeling that has come out of the routine life.
Life has become much easier for Koreans
but people depend so much on routines and habits.
That's boring.
It's a boring life.
That's not being sexy.
You have to break that boredom.
I want to talk about that.
Why are you scratching here as you're talking?
When you get old, you get itchy everywhere.
I talk like a youth writer
but I can't do anything about the physical age.
(Oh gosh)
I shouldn't have said that.
(Scratch scratch)
Namgoong In.
What's your topic?
Has anyone here felt like you wanted to die
or wanted to jump into a road full of cars running?
Have you ever felt that before?
I'm a doctor
but as a human being,
there was a time I shamefully thought of death as something light.
So to those people who are thinking those thoughts,
I want to say a few things to "you who is alive today."
Then we should hurry and go to the talking street now
and listen to the buskers' words.
Today's busking location.
Where is it?
Today's talking street...
is to the north of the Han River.
The place you want to go at least once when the leaves are falling.
Shinsadong Garosu-Gil Road.
Shinsadong Garosu-Gil Road
was created when about 150 ginkgo trees were planted
in between Shinsadong and Apgujungdong in early 80s.
I should've bought land then.
(Sad sad)
As cute little stores came into the street,
it became a safe house for trend setters.
It became a must-see spot for foreign tourists.
Shinsadong that entered fall.
What does it look like right now?
We'll do a live time check.
- We're seeing something? - Yes.
It'll come out here.
I'll tell you now.
This is the street from the Shinsa station.
Garosu-Gil Road is to the left and right of it.
Our talking street.
Weather forecaster Kim Min-ah.
(What?!)
Haheeyeol~
(Haheeyeol)
I am the special forecaster for today, Oh My Girl's YooA.
(Touched)
(This isn't a dream, right?)
Around 5:30 today when busking will begin,
the temperature here will be 21 degrees...
Are you listening?
No, I can't.
It rained a lot this morning
but it's currently not raining.
So you don't have to worry.
Don't worry.
(Okay)
How did you come out?
From the buskers coming out today,
I heard there's someone who really likes me.
So I decided to participate to show support.
Say hello, you two.
Say you're Namgoong In.
In~
Please say a word of encouragement to In.
You'll do well, right?
Oh My Girl's YooA will cheer you on.
Go!
She does it almost like an avatar.
I'll go there right now.
I'll go right now.
Stay there just a little.
Thank you, please wait just a little.
Please wait just once.
It was the special forecaster YooA at Shinsadong Garosu--
No! (Please wait)
Thank you.
(A special thanks to the special forecaster Oh My Girl's YooA)
(A huge support)
I don't want to go to Garosu-Gil anymore.
What would Lee Soo-geun and I go for?
Please don't drag me down with you.
I think it'll be really fun.
(Feels betrayed)
(Just a joke)
(Chuckle)
Finally, it's time for us to go out to our third talking street, Garosu-Gil.
Yes, this is my favorite time.
If you've seen it, you'll know.
There's the "word mouth" there.
We can teleport.
You can meet YooA right away.
I'm going to report it to the academia.
Don't play along with it.
It's really fast so you have to be careful.
And you have to be careful not to fall into the wormhole.
Should I go first?
Yes, you should go first
I'm nervous.
Let's go to the talking street.
Oh, it's really cold.
The temperature is really low.
I'm gonna go first.
Stop it!
(So loud)
(Impressed)
Go to YooA! Go!
(Hop)
Sir, we'll go first. You can come last.
(The 2 MCs go in together)
(Is it my turn..?)
(Comes the opposite direction to get him)
(Everyone safely goes through the door)
(Now, off to Garosu-Gil Road)
(Shinsadong Garosu-Gil)
(The word door in Garosu-Gil)
(The buskers and 2 MCs arriving)
(His acting is so detailed until the end)
I wouldn't have been able to come here without Soo-geun's directions.
If it's going to be this simple, just come.
We have CG.
Over here, sir.
(It's "As I Say"!)
Fast and accurately,
we have come to the hottest place in Gangnam.
We arrived in Garosu-Gil!
I wonder how many people will gather while freely walking around.
We'll wait and see.
How do you feel, being in the busking place?
Coming here from the countryside,
I feel chaotic.
(Get used to it)
Doctor Namgoong is disappointed.
Where's YooA?
YooA.
I think she left.
Since she encouraged me earlier, I'll do my best.
One difficulty that we expect is that it was raining a little bit earlier.
Expecting rain, we prepared the busking zone indoors this time.
For the first time, it's a place with a roof.
(In case of rain)
(Today's busking zone that's like indoors but is not)
We never had a roof.
Should we go to our waiting area?
Yes, shall we?
Let's go!
Why are you so nervous?
(Waiting area prepared upstairs)
(What will today's busking look like?)
It's weird.
Sorry but...
Can I prepare for one more week?
(He's nervous)
I barely got some sleep a little past 7 this morning.
I had so many thoughts.
I thought, 'If I go, I'll do fine.'
But actually being here makes me more nervous.
Your button fell off.
That's a great sign!
(Soo-geun's button falls off all of a sudden)
(The button was perfectly fine earlier)
Maybe you want to go first.
He is showing great courage.
(Pushing him)
They say the first button has to be put on right.
(First Busker: Lee Soo-geun)
The one who goes first draws the map.
I'm the author of .
Let's watch that movie!
You advertise your own stuff really well.
He advertises here and there really well.
We have to set the second busker.
Maybe the young person should go first.
(Grateful) (Grateful)
Then the third busker will be Park Bum-shin.
We are one team now.
I hope we hear that our team was the best.
I'll try my best.
If we're really team, don't do too well.
That gives me pressure.
There's somewhat of a competition here.
The fire is starting.
I went blank.
Everything I prepared to say.
Soo-geun is a pro.
You're a pro.
You're all trained.
What are you doing?
Get out!
This is how we start?
Get out!
(The courageous, go out to the street)
We're a cold program.
(So nervous)
High Five.
We've never had teamwork like this.
Let's cheer together.
Let's go throw a fire to the citizens.
1, 2, 3.
Fighting!
(Nervous)
(Soo-geun, especially nervous today)
(Meeting citizens for the first time after coming back)
(Will Soo-geun...)
(be able to talk about himself?)
Hello, nice to meet you.
Hello.
(Ooh Lee Soo-geun)
Wait, don't stay there.
Come up. I'll give you mats.
Let me invite those who want to listen to me up to the stage.
Sit comfortably.
(Crowding in)
Yes, come. Sit comfortably.
Don't stay in the back.
We're starting now.
Come up.
Come in, come in.
Come in.
(Citizens gather right away)
His voice is full of confidence all of a sudden.
(Overflowing confidence)
He's good.
He was a recreation director for a long time.
On 3, say "gather!" Ready, go!
Gather!
Gather! Louder!
Gather!
(Specialization in gathering citizens)
(Tries Chinese)
Chinese people can come too.
Come in. You can sit in the back too.
Hi.
(A New Yorker comes)
(I'm a Korean comedian)
Come... Come...
(New Yorker leaves)
Wow, he's global.
How many languages does he speak?
I'm jealous.
(Cheer up)
His hand is so cold.
(Warmth leaves as nervousness comes)
(What we need now is CPR)
(Cheer up, Doc)
(Lee Soo-geun, gathering complete)
Make some noise!
(Waaaaa)
(Even outside the busking zone is full of people)
He's gathered the most people by far.
From all our buskings, most people are gathered.
Some of them have spoken only to 4 or 5 people.
Hello, everyone.
I'm comedian Lee Soo-geun.
(Nice to meet you)
(He gathered people...)
(But how to begin...)
(Awkward) (Nervous)
(What will you share with us today?)
Good.
(So hard to start talking)
I came out as the first player.
What is something that pops up in your head when you think of comedian Lee Soo-geun?
Say anything. What pops up in your head?
(Thinking)
National comedian.
National comedian. I compliment you.
I was a little scared you'll say something else.
(Something else?)
How old are you?
20.
Lee Soo-geun in the eyes of a 20-year-old?
You went up a lot these days
so I'm glad.
You're happy I'm doing well these days?
Was I not doing well before?
A short plateau.
What?
Was there something with me?
No, you were always the best in my heart.
Thank you. Someone else?
What are you curious about when you think of Lee Soo-geun?
Your hobbies.
My hobbies?
I like playing pool.
My hobby is playing pool.
And innocently, I enjoy games.
Really.
Did you stop now?
Stop? Stop what?
Stop what? Tell me.
No, no.
What do you know about me?
(Just enough that the rest of the nation knows?)
Honestly, as I was deciding what to do on "As I Say,"
I thought about it a lot.
It hasn't been long since I came back to the public
and before that, I was only home.
These days too, after filming, I'm mostly home.
I developed a habit of not going out much.
I developed that habit without knowing so coming out today...
I couldn't sleep last night because I was nervous.
Honestly, I don't have anything prepared.
Just one word that I like.
You know, as we live, there are words or phrases that we like.
There's one phrase that I consider to be my life motto these days.
It's "Let's not forget the valuable things, fooled by familiarity."
I really like that. Did you know?
Oh, she's heard of it before.
- It's a great saying, right? - Yes.
As you know, I was running well
and once...
I fell straight down.
All at once.
(Soo-geun's wrongdoing that the whole nation knows about)
It took 10 years to go up
but coming down took less than 3 days.
The speed coming down...
took less than 3 days.
People would turn their backs on me,
point their fingers at me
and wouldn't look at me.
That took 3 days.
He was going up a hill
and fell straight down.
That was me.
Doing well,
things were working out so well
that I got famous,
people were looking for me,
and I considered that such a given thing.
So I forgot to be grateful for those things
and without me knowing,
I got used to it.
Getting used to it,
I was fooled by the familiarity and forgot what was really valuable.
I didn't know it was valuable
I started growing greed for other things.
I started being interested in them.
People are starting to laugh at "other things."
Listen to me.
When I say "other things"...
From the beginning,
if I thought, "No!" and made the right judgment at the time,
it would've been okay but I didn't do that.
I knew it was wrong but
I couldn't hide that.
So for 2 years,
I hid myself.
Since I couldn't hide them, I hid myself
and I lived with my head down.
Even now, if you ask when I want to go back to,
I still foolishly think I want to go back to those days.
If you don't recognize the times now to be happy,
the things you don't want to happen...
will happen
and you end up hurting not only yourself but so many others around you.
You can see the people around you hurting so much.
Because of yourself, the people around you are put into such tough situations.
Those who fell by themselves have no one to talk about this to.
One thing I want to say
is...
You know you shouldn't
but you want to.
You shouldn't,
you know it's wrong.
But you want to do it.
At times like that, look back just once.
To your side.
Around you.
There's no one around you, no family or friends.
No one to cry for me whatever I do,
no one to laugh, no one to be sad.
If that's what you think,
These friends aren't leaving because it's boring but because it's time to go home.
(Starting to get fired up...)
(Stand)
If that's what you think...
(High school students leaving all of a sudden)
They have to go home.
Come here.
Why are you leaving?
We have after school.
Yes, after school.
That's more important than listening to me.
That's why they're leaving. Please don't misunderstand.
It was really important.
That's preview worthy.
(They feel the pain)
In the most highlight part..
(The cruelty of high school students)
Where was I?
Look.
If there's at least one person...
then never.
never choose to do it.
At least for that one person. Why?
The hurt they'll receive after...
not just you, but those around you...
that pain and sadness is something you cannot even imagine.
You feel that all at once.
Please don't do it. I beg you.
It's a no.
(Don't lose what's valuable, fooled by familiarity)
Thank you.
I think this is the first time in 3 years
where I'm outside, talking to more than 10 people.
I'm really nervous.
I'm famous for not sweating.
But I'm sweating a lot.
I'm sweating a lot.
Do you...
have any questions for me?
You're the head of one family.
Family is honestly the most "familiar" people.
Yes, family is.
But after such incident happened...
what feelings did you have towards your family
and how were they being understanding?
I...
There's something I promised coming back. It's to not cry again.
I promised I'll never cry again.
My heart aches when I talk about my family.
It's the most hurtful part.
More than me,
those who cried more and hurt more behind the scenes
is my family.
But if something difficult happens again...
the one who'll be by my side is my wife and my family.
My parents.
They probably don't even want to see my face
but they tell me to eat.
You know, right?
She probably doesn't even want to see me but tells me to eat.
And she doesn't just put whatever on the table.
She would cook amazing things...
And I would feel so bad even while eating.
At times like those,
if I show my weak sides, they'll fall even more.
So even while eating, I would immaturely try to make them laugh.
Even at moments like those.
That's what I did.
That gratefulness.
Like I said before,
the most familiar family...
in the hardest times, whatever I do...
they will not rate me for that.
No matter what criticisms I received from the society,
I'm first her husband
and their son.
That's what it was.
So what I said earlier...
The word "family"...
refers to people you eat with.
"Shik" for eating and "gu" for mouth.
"Eat." That word...
I'm a parent too
but my kids are still young. (Soo-geun has 2 sons)
So they don't really know how their dad lives.
The incident happened when they were in kindergarten.
It would've been really hard if they were in middle school or something.
They're in elementary school now.
I promised not to be a shameful dad.
I want to show them.
I try my best.
Now, everyday is so happy.
I'm aging
but passion and such...
are back to my 20s. My energy.
I barely drink.
I haven't been smoking for about 8 months now.
I'm changing.
I wanted to show those who were disappointed in me that I'm doing something.
And trying my best living like that,
I know that will bring me forgiveness
and pay back to them.
That's why I'm trying my best.
Thank you.
(Soo-geun's story told for the first time)
And what I'm proud of...
You know there are various ways to make someone mad, right?
But...
there aren't many ways to make someone laugh.
I consider myself a technician who has those few skills.
As someone with such great skills,
I shouldn't waste these skills at something useless
but I'll use them to make many people laugh in our country.
I'll work hard.
Thank you.
(Great job)
I got such great energy from you today.
I am comedian Lee Soo-geun. Thank you.
(Lee Soo-geun, busking over)
I'll see you again, everyone! Thank you!
Thank you, thank you.
(Rush out)
(Sigh... Finally over)
(A place where you meet on the streets and hold conversations)
(Busking Rule: donate $1 with credit card if the busking story moved their hearts)
(What a new experience)
Wow.
(Sweating Soo-geun)
We really enjoyed your story.
(Bum-shin is jealous of Soo-geun who's done)
I kept talking on and on.
I found out you have a lot of hunger for talking.
My whole body is wet in sweat.
You're sweating so much.
I don't remember anything I said.
We remember it.
While you were resting, did anyone come to see you?
I was in Kanghwa-do for about 3 months.
Oddly, I wanted to go hide.
I wanted to avoid people.
Someone came to see me late at night.
It was Ho-dong.
Ho-dong?
He didn't want to ask me so he asked my managers
and he came to see me.
And we drank all night.
Ho-dong honestly couldn't say much.
He's a talkative guy.
I was so desperate to talk to someone
so I talked all day
and he said he's sick of me.
(Ho-dong sickened)
That's how he left.
He said I'm sickening.
That's what he said as he left.
He left the next morning.
If you see, as we were talking,
everyone who was in the busking zone have left.
(Worried)
Next busker, Namgoong In.
Are you going to be okay?
I went on a diet to come out here.
But I lost weight even though I was eating.
Because I was nervous.
I think I've hit the peak.
If you go down, you're on the verge of getting a heart attack.
(Emergency)
What are you doing?
Get out!
(Sets out after taking his jacket off)
Fighting!
Go, Namgoong In!
How handsome!
Wow, what a cool shirt!
His face as he goes down.. is so odd.
It's a blood-drying feeling.
(Determined)
Ah, ah.
I...
(Who...?)
There was a famous guy here just now
but you're disappointed that a non-celebrity came out, huh?
(A little bit...)
But I'm going to share something important
so please come just for a bit, about 10~15 minutes
and come in and listen.
You can just grab the mats and sit.
(Citizens aren't easily coming in)
(This won't do)
(Goes into the crowd) Please come in for a bit and sit.
Please sit.
Thank you.
(A foreigner comes in first)
A foreigner came in too.
Really, I'm going to share something important.
Will you come in and listen?
(People are starting to come in and sit)
(Citizens gather at an instant)
He's getting great responses.
(People on Garosu-Gil are open towards busking)
Thank you.
He has a lot.
(Second busking on Garosu-Gil)
(Nervous)
(To you who is alive today)
Hello, everyone.
(Hello~)
I...
don't ever want to see you again.
(...What?)
That's a cold phrase for someone standing here to say, right?
But...
When you hear what my job is,
you'll understand right away.
You can only meet me...
when you or your beloved ones are hurt or injured.
I'm a doctor.
I'm a doctor who treats patients in the emergency room for 24 hours.
I'm an emergency medicine doctor.
I was reading an article online at home once.
That article...
talked about criminals or shady politicians.
They're horrible people.
Right?
As I was reading it,
I thought they were horrible people.
It made me mad too.
So I scrolled the mouse
and I read the comments below the article that I could relate to best.
But the comments...
were saying...
that death penalty should be brought back and sentence all of them to death.
That those people
are bad so they wish they'd all die.
That they hope they'd get cancer.
We say those things easily, right?
But...
when I see others talk so lightly about others' death,
I feel weird and uncomfortable.
I want to talk about a patient I met.
It was a patient who got in a car accident after drunk driving.
He got injured really badly.
His head was split open
and one of his legs got completely broken.
He hit the car in front of him
and there were 2 people on that car.
But those two didn't come to the emergency room.
Why do you think they didn't come?
They died.
They died on the spot.
Then the person in front of me...
is a criminal.
He killed two people, he drove after drinking...
But just because he's a bad guy,
you think I could've said, "I won't do my best"?
Not at all.
But...
when he wakes up,
I wanted him to be recovered to the point he could reflect on what he did wrong.
Right...
That's how I went at it.
We barely got his leg restored.
He somehow recovered the broken head too.
But his organs in his stomach were damaged so it was swelling up with blood.
We needed to do a surgery on him.
But his status was so bad
that he could've died even if we did a surgery on him.
And...
he drank
so he lost all his ID cards.
So we didn't even know who he was.
No guardian,
and no consent.
That means there are financial problems too.
They need a consent but there was no way for them to get his family.
From the hospital's point of view, if they do the surgery...
in such chaos,
do you think doctors were able to think,
"Since he's a bad guy, we wouldn't have to do a surgery. We can just leave him"
or "We can let him die"?
Not at all!
Doctors went at it without even a moment of hesitation.
We cut his stomach open,
got drenched in blood,
cut all the organs, sewed them up,
and somehow finished the surgery.
This person now had an artificial leg
and his head wasn't completely healed
but he lived.
In this situation...
there were no other standards taken into account other than keeping him alive.
I want to talk about another patient I had.
It was a grandpa who tried to end his own life.
In the subway platform,
he jumped in.
But he stepped on the tracks and fell back.
So...
the subway went straight on his thigh.
The whole subway.
(Ah...)
So he came to me.
Only the top half of his body came.
He was bleeding and he was losing his consciousness.
So we gave him blood,
gave pressure on his legs,
and kept him alive.
So...
the grandpa lived.
And he wakes up.
I said to him...
"Sir, fortunately, you kept your life."
"But...
you will never be able to walk again."
The grandpa tried to end his life
but he stayed alive and now he can't even walk.
He must resent the doctor.
So he said to me...
"Either kill me,
or give me back my legs."
But I had no choice.
We couldn't get his legs back,
and I couldn't kill him.
It was a horrifying sight.
There's something I want to ask you.
Did you...
ever want to die?
Or you want to throw yourself into a road full of running cars?
What about falling off the roof?
Did you ever, at one point in your life,
think such things because of hardships?
At least once? I would think so.
No one?
Are you all full of hope for life
and everything works out smoothly?
You've never been depressed or anything?
That's great.
But...
That's how I was.
I'm someone who used to think so.
I had a pretty bad depression.
I...
published an essay book 2 months ago.
The first sentence in that essay book is...
It starts like this.
"I have definitely tried to die before."
It starts like that.
At that time...
it felt like the world was not on my side.
It was so hard.
I broke up with my girlfriend,
there was trouble with my parents,
my grades were bad,
and my friends would say hurtful things.
All of these things...
were surrounding me
and bullying me.
It was a tunnel-like period for me.
So at the time,
I started writing.
At home. I recorded them.
When I look at those now,
a man is contemplating on how to die
and it harshly talks about how he should die.
But this man grows up
and becomes an emergency doctor.
And he faces crazy situations like the story of the grandpa I told you earlier.
And I began doing work
that brings people on the verge of life and death into the life side.
I think that's one of the greatest things a person can do.
Facing that reality...
guess what the first thing I felt is.
It was shame.
I was so ashamed.
I considered my life so lightly.
I thought it was okay for me to just die.
But I realized after seeing that reality.
Ah, it wasn't something I can easily say and write about like that.
That's what I realized.
There's something called "damage of human life."
If one person hurts another person, that's "damage of human life."
But if that person
injures himself, that's still damage of human life.
I...
came out here today because I want to reduce all kinds of "damage of human life."
I'm not saying my job is noble.
What's most noble...
are the patients I met, all the lives I met.
And the lives of you who are sitting in front of me today...
I wanted to say that those are what's most noble.
This guy is an amazing guy!
I'm about to burst into tears.
(The ingenuity that touched their hearts)
This may be cliched.
That you shouldn't consider life lightly,
that life is more valuable than anything else.
But I think this is something that we oftentimes forget.
That those people can die.
that that person has no hope for life.
That I deserve to die.
Why don't we consider a person's life important, even with our words?
And why is our country
almost rank 1 on suicide rate out of OECD countries?
So here, I speak with the calling and reality of my career.
We must feel ashamed about our lives.
We must remind ourselves of the value of life.
The life of us who are alive today.
We must keep it in this world for a little longer
and make efforts to live longer.
There is no value greater than that.
And...
you can't forget that you and your lives are included in that worth.
I am doctor Namgoong In.
Thank you.
(To you who is alive today, -END-)
(Touched)
Awesome!
The best! So sexy!
I want to live long!
Let's live!
Live!
You better do that when I'm out there too.
Does anyone have a question?
To write an essay,
you need a lot of time.
But as a doctor in the ER,
you lack a lot of time.
How did you decide to start writing?
Any specific purposes?
In the ER,
as I said before, I faced a lot of death.
I became numb to death.
Oh, this person died. That person died too.
I go to sleep, go to work, and another person dies.
Then my emotions forget the horrifying moments that I've seen.
So I wrote in order to not forget them.
I wrote
in order to make my emotions not go numb.
And I wanted to show people that such reality exists.
That's where I was feeling rewarded.
Yes.
I was honestly not sure if I could ask this.
Thinking about the matter of life,
I was reminded of euthanasia.
I was curious what you think about that.
I actually wrote about euthanasia too.
I am one who holds the value that I need to keep people alive.
So other than keeping someone alive,
my job's calling isn't one that can say "This person can die now."
But there are scary sides to reality.
So I did write to let those things be known too.
Euthanasia doesn't align with my job's vision.
If you thought what I shared touched your heart...
if you scan your card there, it'll donate $1.
Haha and Yoo Hee-yeol will use it for good causes
so I ask that you make donations.
Thank you for listening.
I'm doctor Namgoong In.
(As second busking is over...)
(The citizens' hearts are gathering by the donation box)
(Returning to 2nd floor waiting area)
Doctor Nam.
(So cool)
You're so cool.
You did CPR with your words!
(An effect that makes him look handsome)
I respect you.
So handsome.
How does it feel to be done?
Relieved.
All the people are leaving.
(Empty already)
It's currently 8 o'clock.
It's gotten dark.
It's time for people to be drinking and spending time with each other
so I'm scared to go out.
I should've gone first and then gone home.
I regret it.
What are you doing?
Please get out. (Polite)
Fighting!
(Receives energy through a hug)
Bro!
I want to gather people for you!
Give us great energy.
I'll try my best.
So sexy!
Park Bum-shin!
(Writer Park Bum-shin sets out)
Things like that are what pressures you.
(Finally)
(Stands on Garosu-Gil)
(The dangerous old man "Park Bum-shin")
People might mistake him for Choi Baek-ho.
(Choi Baek-ho of the literary world)
Hello.
This is JTBC's program "As I Say." Come up.
I am writer Park Bum-shin.
You can come up.
(But)
(Hesitant)
(They're just watching)
(Citizens aren't gathering)
(Gets up)
I'll go.
(Soo-geun and Haha go down)
(They have come for Bum-shin)
Hello, please come up and listen.
(The youth)
He's the writer of .
Please come up.
You have to listen.
You have to.
(Relieved thanks to the team members)
(Haha joins too) Writer Park Bum-shin--
will be sharing something good.
It's free!
(Those who were just watching) Come in, come in!
Go up and listen with us.
Come up and sit.
You can listen to teacher Park Bum-shin's great words.
(Working so hard) He's the writer of !
Come up.
Muse, come up.
If you think you're a muse, please come up.
Come up.
Everyone, you're wasting your youth.
(Citizens have gathered)
Come over here.
Don't take the mats, please.
(Hands out the mats himself)
Sit here.
As one of his fans,
I'm happy to be giving him an experience like this.
(Busking zone is filled)
Thank you.
Thank you, Soo-geun.
Sorry for kicking those two out.
This is my time.
I can't do it if those two are here.
I told you, I'm a huge fan of his.
Please stay here and watch.
Can I go down and listen?
(The dangerous old man Park Bum-shin) I'm writer Park Bum-shin.
As you may know,
I'm the writer of the movie .
I'm also the writer of that was released recently.
I'm going to talk with you for about 15 minutes and then go up.
(The fan joins)
I'm worried about how to keep you entertained.
Maybe I should sing a song.
I'll sing if you clap.
Sing! Sing!
From the books I published last year, there's one titled .
Why aren't you singing?
This is the theme song of .
Choi Baek-ho sang it.
(Of course)
Let me sing.
(A song he wants to sing to the young generation)
(Was it a long dream?)
(Those long years of life...)
(I walked in the tough wind for so long)
(Green leaves bloom)
(and birds sing)
(The scents of the fence)
(All the beautiful times have passed)
I'll stop there.
When I see you young people,
I'm reminded of my young days so I was reminded of this song.
You may not know how beautiful and how much you shine right now.
Life is hard these days, right?
There are your passions,
and you're born into different classes.
Raise your hand if you're a gold spoon (born into a rich family).
Who's a gold spoon?
It's not a bad thing. It's nothing to hide. Raise your hand proudly.
Dirt spoon (born into a poor family)?
(Everyone raises their hands)
My fate is to be around dirt spoons.
That's the literary world.
Playing with the dirt spoons.
I was like that in my young days too.
There was so much darkness in me.
Life was devastating
and it felt like there was no way out.
And there was no way of communicating with the world.
If I thought I was normal,
the world seemed crazy
and if I thought the world was normal,
I seemed crazy.
So I tried to kill myself several times too.
When I attempted suicide twice in high school,
my dad said...
He would go on the train a lot to do business and he said...
"Even on a full train, if I look closely,
there's a spot for my butt to sit on.
Why are you in despair,
not even looking in the first section of the train?"
Those words became some sort of energy to me all my life.
Even now, those words from my dad
help me realize that to adults, my face was shining.
I was in despair
and I wanted to die,
but even in those times, to my parents,
I was like a shining chandelier.
I regret if I think about it now.
If I had considered the energy in me valuable,
I may have shone even more.
I think that now.
How old are you?
- Twenty. - Twenty.
You said you're a dirt spoon, right?
No?
Don't embarrass me.
Do you want to switch with me?
I'm 70.
You can have everything I have as a 70-year-old
but you just have to give me your age.
Can you trade?
No, right?
See? All of you...
have something valuable that you wouldn't trade even for everything that I have.
As I was coming out here today, my topic was...
"Let's live sexy."
Let's live sexy.
Living sexy...
is living lively.
Life's habits, life's customs...
Leaving the routine and daily customs
and living with the face of being surprised.
So I can say "Let's live sexy" means "Let's live lively."
Our society is too centered around ranks right now.
Everyone is so valuable and shines so much
but just because you have something less than another person,
you put yourself down
or you talk down on yourself.
They say it's the generation of "Hell Joseon."
I think "Hell Joseon" means 2 things.
One is...
a strong criticism against the unfair system of the society.
The first meaning is a good one.
If the unfair system is deep without any desire to change,
we should make the path ourselves.
We have to rebel.
Another meaning is...
is just saying "I'm just a dirt spoon."
It's a self-destructing way of giving into the environment.
Since the unfair society is so deep,
you say "I'm a dirt spoon"
and try to walk only in the safe sidewalks.
That's the general mindset of the young generation today.
But from my point of view as an old man,
that's so heartbreaking.
Yes, I was like that in my 20s too.
Living sexy is, as I said earlier,
taking the risk of walking in between the sidewalk and the road.
I want to say that to young people.
You have something so valuable that you cannot trade with me.
It's not that "You're young because you hurt,"
but that "you're young because you defeat hurt."
You have many days left ahead of you.
You've trained yourself to communicate with others.
That's a great saying.
It's not "You're young because you hurt,"
but "you're young because you defeat hurt."
In early 90s,
a citizen's average income was $8,000.
It's $30,000 now. It rose by 4 times the amount.
But happiness rate has not gone up even 1%.
The whole nation became 4 times richer in the past 20 years,
but no one is any happier. What does that say?
That means we're living comparing ourselves to others.
Regardless of how high or low you are,
what's really important in live is taking care of your mountaintop.
Getting your own mountaintop that you can say is your own.
It doesn't have to be higher than others'.
But we only care about how high or low it is,
so we seem pathetic and useless to ourselves.
Don't consider your brightness worthless.
Follow the light of that brightness.
If you could just do that,
if you could just believe that you have something valuable,
you'll be someone much more famous than I am in 20 years.
But if you compare yourself to others
and say, "I'm just a dirt spoon,"
being immersed in your own emotions,
20 years from now,
you'll still be in that "dirt spoon" life.
You have youth in you that I'm jealous of.
Consider that valuable
and live a life sacrificial for yourself.
I wanted to tell you that.
That's why I came out on this program.
I'll end it here.
Do you...
It's not easy meeting a writer this close.
You can even ask how much I get paid for my work.
If there's anything you want to ask a writer,
I'll answer honestly.
Yes, this man over here.
This may be a bit presumptuous,
wealthy people in the U.S. like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett,
(Top richest people)
They donate 99% of their money to the society
instead of handing them down to their children.
Like you said, our starting points are so different.
How could we start from the same starting point?
That's a very heavy question.
If someone asked me something like that, I would've fought him.
What are you talking about?
I would've cried.
I'm sorry!
I don't think that'll easily change.
A capitalist society,
because of its supreme task of constantly having to yield profit,
has a violent side to it of not being able to take care of those outside the margins.
And I think right now
is a turning point of that violence being mass produced.
But I don't think this will last long.
Humans...
don't get discouraged from a limit.
You can only trust people.
One day, our voices to change this unfair system
will cover this world.
I trust people.
A poet named Robert Browning
once said, "The best is yet to be."
It's in one of his poems.
But let's say someone has more days ahead of him than me.
You do.
There's a much higher possibility of you seeing great things than me.
Don't let go of positive thoughts
and be critical of the dark reality.
I think that should be the young people's attitude.
I think this is too heavy and serious for an entertainment show.
Yoo Hee-yeol is raising his hand.
You told us to live sexy.
What is your dream as the 70-year-old Park Bum-shin?
It's my dream to live sexy.
I have no age.
I'm a youth writer.
The natural ego inside of us is like a monster
so it doesn't age.
Being sexy
isn't being sexy with makeup.
If your eyes are shining because you become passionate about something,
that's an amazing sexiness.
That's what I mean when I say to live sexy.
My dream is to die as a writer.
Until I die,
I want to be with writing,
fighting against the world.
I still have that dream with me today.
So I consider myself sexy.
I say to myself that my thoughts are sexy.
Yes, over here.
I have a question.
Then if you had the chance to be born again,
would you want to live a different life?
Yes, I do.
First, I don't want to be a writer.
If I were to be born again,
I want to become a singer like Yoo Hee-yeol and hold a guerrilla concert.
Because--
when writers are writing in their own rooms,
they are alone in loneliness.
But one day on TV,
they ask a singer to take off their eye mask and--
people were cheering for them.
That's where they're working, singing.
That's something I can't ever have.
When I work, there's no one in this world.
I do it alone.
If I am born again,
I want to do something that's with people.
Work where you're face to face with others, fighting.
That's what I want to do.
Please just remember this.
The youth writer Park Bum-shin said
that he was jealous of me.
He was so jealous of the young me.
He was so desperately jealous.
What do I have in me that he's jealous?
There must be something valuable that even Park Bum-shin doesn't have.
You have to realize that.
Consider your energy valuable.
If you live your life like that,
you'll all become great people.
I have that assurance.
Over.
(Park Bum-shin's busking complete)
Bravo!
(Living sexy)
(In the midst of repeating daily routine,
a story told by an unforeseen fate)
It's not that "You're young because you hurt."
It's "You're young because you defeat hurt."
(Are you living a sexy life?)
So sexy!
(Sexy Park Bum-shin returns)
I was so nervous.
I couldn't say what I had prepared.
You're so sexy.
You have a new nickname.
From all gods, the sexiest god Park Bum-shin (shin = god).
(His new experience)
There was no one so I lost all confidence.
Have a seat.
Soo-geun and Haha saved me.
How does it feel?
We want to hear.
Even if it's not for a show,
I should come here often and have time to talk to young people.
I feel like I'll get more in return.
(Busking Complete)
We're curious how much we accumulated today.
How many hearts did your stories move today?
Wait.
Do we get individual amounts or a sum?
Just trust us and follow us.
We only reveal the sum.
We'll be revealing Lee Soo-geun's amount first.
You said you're going to say the sum.
The first one is an exception.
Why? Why?
It's a sum anyways.
The average until now has been $11.
Lee Soo-geun's donation is...
It took 10 years to go up
but coming down didn't even take 3 days.
Lee Soo-geun's donation is...
$10!
That's 10 people.
10 people.
10?
(Sad)
(Smiling so big)
Next, with Namgoong In added...
Our life that is alive today.
There's nothing more valuable than that.
With Namgoong In added...
Congratulations.
$22.
(Feels happy and sorry at the same time)
Why? Why?
What's wrong?
Why did you do that?
I don't know why but I just felt happy.
It's $22 so far.
Wow, I really can't tell how much.
There's no way of knowing.
Lastly, with Park Bum-shin added...
Today's total donation collected is...
(His lips are getting dry)
My dream is to live sexy.
Today's total donation collected is...
$39!
(Standing ovation)
Congratulations.
What are you congratulating him for?
I don't know. I just felt like it.
I'm not sure.
We've done this for episodes 1, 2, and 3...
and he has the highest individual amount!
You calculated it?
Look at Soo-geun's face.
(Sad)
There's another great news.
The return rate of mats on Garosu-Gil is...
100%!
Amazing!
Of course they'll return them.
Who would take that?
That's what we consider to be most important.
Really?
With today's $39 added from today, the total so far...
is $116.
It entered the 100s.
The donation will be used for good causes through Happy Bean.
Thank you, everyone.
Yes. Like today,
we may appear out of nowhere.
If you run into us all of a sudden...
(We can do it)
Haheeyeol~
Please greet us like that.
We didn't hear that a single time.
What are you all doing?
Get out!
Thank you!
(If you have something to say? Follow "As I Say" official account @talk_road)
(The "first"s of buskers have come to Gundae University!)
(The first "hallyu" busker)
(SHINee's Key)
(His honest story!)
(The busker who can speak 4 languages)
(The language genius, writer Jo Seung-yeon)
(The first actor busker)
(The scene stealer of , actor Heo Sung-tae)
("As I Say", Wednesday night 9:30PM)
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