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THE COURT

Hello, Jun-hee.

I can't go today. Have you seen me attend our reunion before?

SEOUL 2005

They'll only want to cry on my shoulder. It'll be hard to turn down.

Okay.

Let them blame me.

It's not my time to get blamed.

Yoon, are you already done with the final trial?

I'll call you later.

-Hello. -Where are you rushing to?

This is lawyer Dae-ho Kim who shares the office with me.

He's poor too because he's a public defender.

Hello. This is Yoon-jae Yoon.

We went to the same university.

It's Yoon-jae Yoon who was sent to the Seoul Central District Court this year.

Of course I know. Who doesn't know Mr. Yoon?

Is your brother well?

-Yes. -How do you know his brother?

His brother is Congressman Tae-woong Yoon. You didn't know that?

Really?

Why didn't you tell me?

I thought you knew.

Why did he do that?

If he didn't donate his stocks, you might have been out of here.

What are you talking about? Based on the rumor it was for his brother's sake,

when he closed down his business and went back to school.

Anyway, you brothers are great.

You know everything about us.

A life of a judge is transparent.

Let's have lunch together if you haven't eaten yet.

Let me buy you a lunch as your senior.

My apologies. I was on the way somewhere.

Treat me next time, please.

Great, are you ignoring me because I'm a national defender?

I'm not ignoring.

I pity you. Your monthly salary is too low.

Save it to send your son to a better kindergarten.

I'll see you later.

Also,

I don't eat lunch with lawyers.

Buy me a cup of coffee instead.

A judge's life is transparent.

He's not flexible at all.

He never attends the alumni reunion.

He's self-disciplined. That's why he's been successful.

He has good manners though.

I only need to stop by and renew my driver's license.

Why don't you cook later? I miss homemade food.

-I'm sorry. -Forget it.

Okay. I'll see you later.

Don't add brackens. I don't eat them.

Okay.

What the fuck.

My brother didn't give a single stock to me.

I don't even know how it looks.

All he gave me

is the studio I'm living in now

and this piece of junk.

Six years ago, Tae-woong hit a jackpot with I Like School business.

Also, he created another masterpiece last year.

So this will be a personal mini home page.

Also, you can decorate it according to your preferences.

You can buy your wallpapers, play background music

and put your avatar in front of your gate.

How do you buy them?

With your online money.

Temporary money that will be distributed only on this website.

Goodness.

It's called Dotori .

Mini home pages that my brother developed

instantly got popular among the youth,

making the whole nation become friends.

By hitting a jackpot with his business, his stock became one of the richest.

However, another challenge tempted him.

Also, he recklessly went for it again.

Earlier this year, he donated all of his money

and accepted a job offer as a professor at my school.

He wasn't the only one who took a challenge and has a new start.

There also has been a big change to us for these past six years.

Hak-chan who promised to be back in a year

let us know via emails from time to time, saying that he's learning films.

Sung-jae

is working as a public service worker at a county town hall.

He has started his own new challenge.

Time has passed by.

Yu-jung came to Seoul quite late

and found her new talent as a kindergarten teacher.

It was puppy's poop.

My roommate Jun-hee, who was scared of blood

is a first year intern already.

The last one,

I don't know about Si-won Sung.

I don't know how she's doing now.

Yes. It didn't take much time.

I'm going to have a cup of coffee before I go.

It's raining all of a sudden.

I've been avoiding her so hard for past the six years.

Thanks to that, I wasn't curious about how she's doing.

I didn't even want to know...

Hold on, please.

until I saw her today by accident.

Let me take your order first, sir.

-Large iced caramel mocha, please. -Okay.

Do you want whip cream on it?

I want a lot of them.

Yoon-jae Yoon.

It's been a long time.

Yes. It's been a long time.

How have you been doing?

It's good.

What about you?

Same here.

What are you doing here by the way?

I had business to do around here.

You speak with a Seoul accent.

Haven't you fixed your accent yet?

I'm quite loyal, you know.

By the way, are you dating anyone?

I am.

Really? Your colleague?

A training institute colleague.

It hasn't been a while since we started dating.

Jun-hee, are you available to talk now?

Hey, does Yoon-jae have a girlfriend?

I see. He never answers my phone call.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay. Thank you.

I meant a friend.

A friend who is a girl, a friend who is a boy, you know.

I'm sure you have a friend who is a boy.

A friend?

A friend?

Bullshit.

Because of you,

I avoid reunions and visit your parents the day before you would come.

On holidays, I lie about having enteritis or eye infection.

I've made all stupid excuses for past six years.

But you've made all my efforts go powerless at once.

Si-won Sung, you bitch.

Everything went back to the first day of our high school back in 1996,

to the day of our first kiss in 1997,

to the day when I was crying like a madman in 1998.

Everything went back to that winter.

To be more accurate,

Yoon-jae Yoon from the 90s

has just come back.

How can she call you?

I instantly tell her that I had a girlfriend.

How did she think of calling you?

Does it show on my face when I lie?

I've been lived my life with a poker face.

Writers are like that. They're creative.

How is this...

You. How can you tell her that I don't have a girlfriend?

Don't you have a brain? Can't you guess?

Can't you see how it all goes? You idiot!

Damn it!

How can you work as a judge with that stupidity?

I told her that you have a girlfriend.

What?

I told her that you're seeing someone. I said you seemed to start dating lately.

I used all my EQ to make up some stories.

Are you an idiot?

You were feeling guilty.

Die, you bastard.

Goodness.

Let's die.

Die.

Tell me how to kill myself.

Fuck it! Die! Why do you live?

Die! Damn it!

Shit.

Goodness.

Hello.

What are you doing? Are you eating out?

Hurry and get dressed.

Yu-jung's father has passed away.

EPISODE 13

-Hello. -Hi.

-I'm so sorry for your loss. -Don't worry about me.

Thank you for your visit. Bye!

Sir, you're lack of gwang anyway.

It's better to throw two pi now.

Use your bi gwang for defense.

What will you do with those two cards?

Throw any cards and change the table.

As soon as you gain two pi , you can lead the game.

Collect your money and please go home.

-Goodness. -Let's go.

-Let's go home. -Whatever.

Eat something.

You have two more days to go. You should feed yourself and get better.

Your mother is exhausted too.

Your father must have lived a good life though.

There were about 1,000 visitors today.

Let's eat together.

I'm fine.

Never mind. I'll eat with them.

You've got some hot temper there. You could wait and come tomorrow.

Hold on. I'm seeing you two in the same picture.

I haven't seen this for a long time.

We thought about coming tomorrow since it was too late.

But we wanted to stop by and see your face, Yu-jung.

Thanks to Yu-jung's father,

we finally got to meet all together.

It'll be perfect if Hak-chan was here.

It's been a long time.

Don't worry about it.

Don't worry. They broke up a long time ago.

I sent him a text message. I'm not sure if it has reached to Hawaii though.

By the way,

was he suffering from a chronic disease?

You traitor.

Stop using Seoul dialect. It sounds so cheesy.

Why are you targeting me? Both Jun-hee and Yu-jun speak it too.

You're the one who's speaking it the best.

You asshole.

But as a man, Yoon-jae fixed his accents quite fast.

So did Jun-hee.

I had a hard time fixing it too.

Have you ever had a will to fix it?

You have no idea how my college life was.

Nice to meet you. I'm from Pusan.

-I'm from Yangsan. -I'm from Gimhae.

-I'm Geochang. -Geojae.

Masan.

I'm from Hapcheon.

It's nice to meet you. Let's have a good time together.

-Cheers. -Cheers.

How is it possible to learn Seoul dialect in such environment?

You haven't visited home for a long time, right?

Your parents must be waiting. Go home.

You must be all tired.

I want to see you eating first.

They can wait. Eat something. Come on.

Be good to them while they're alive.

Don't regret like I'm doing now.

Be good.

Yu-jung got mature.

He has given you a lot.

Ever since I came to Seoul,

to get used to the new environment and to get a job,

I couldn't visit home for more than a year.

Whenever they call me time to time,

I was rushing to hang up the phone.

Sometimes,

they asked me about my job.

I don't know why I got so annoyed.

I always said,

"I don't know," "I'll talk to you later."

"Next time."

I just hurried and hung up.

I didn't even know if my own father was sick.

He must have been wondering.

He might want to know if I was eating well,

if I didn't get a cold,

if my coworkers are nice to me,

if others don't ignore me for graduating a two-year college.

He must have had

so much to ask about me.

I don't know why

I got so irritated and annoyed.

Do you know what he told me the day before he passed away?

He had a hose in his nose,

having a hard time breathing.

But he told me to go.

He told me to go and take care of my work because he was fine.

He told me to go and work.

He was worried about her daughter getting fired from a kindergarten.

Isn't this too much?

KWANGAN FUNERAL HALL

Yu-jung must have been dearly loved by his father.

This is breaking my heart.

I thought only my father was peculiar.

Father means a lot to daughters.

She must have been going through a lot.

I...

I envy Yu-jung for having memories about her father.

Memories of arguing with your father,

getting mad at each other,

or talking to each other.

Yu-jung has done everything.

I never got to do anything like that.

I don't have any memories of him.

It's always like my mom

and my dad...

I've missed them.

That's an only memory I have.

There's your ride.

Get on the car, Jun-hee. I'll drop you off.

Thank you.

Take a chance and take care of some unfinished business if you have any.

You two are friends, right?

-Bye. -See you.

What? Do you smoke?

Do I still look like a high school student?

Stop talking nonsense. Hurry and call a cab.

It takes hours for a cab to arrive.

I don't have to call a cab.

Let me smoke before the car arrives. Give it back to me.

-What kind of car is coming? -Give it to me.

What car are you talking about?

Did you ask my dad to come here?

I didn't. I just called him.

He had a home game...

-Hey. -He wanted to come out to meet us.

It's way too late.

You think that I didn't stop him?

Get in the car, Si-won and Yoon-jae.

I won the game today.

Hurry. Come back quickly when you're done with number two.

Is this your new car?

Daughter, my foolish daughter.

Are you really my daughter?

It's the car that Yoon-jae bought with his first income.

What?

Get in the car.

I can smell your alcohol.

How can a patient with cancer drink every single day?

Come on.

Don't you know that it's been confirmed that my cancer's been cured?

Besides, I only had one drink to celebrate my victory.

The fact that only one drink makes my face go red is killing me.

I feel cold with one drink though.

You can't be too confident with that. Don't you know?

You learned a lesson last time, didn't you?

You better watch your mouth...

Watch your manners when you're talking to your father.

-Do you want me to cover up with this? -Yes.

Whatever.

Don't you have to go work tomorrow, Yoon-jae?

I'm taking a monthly break starting tomorrow.

I'm going to take a good break at home.

What if they blame you for taking a break already?

It has been less than a year since you started working there.

They won't. I'm a public official.

Come on. Is there anyone who bullies you at your workplace?

There isn't.

That's good to know. But Yoon-jae,

Il-hwa always worries about you because you're not a social person.

If there's a senior who bugs you,

just be cool.

You just have to listen to it and live.

I will.

Don't worry about me.

I'm pretty good with living in a group.

Do you have a transformer on your mouth?

You perfectly switch Seoul dialect to another.

I have always been smarter than you.

What?

I think your phone is ringing.

Maybe it's Jun-hee.

He thinks we're catching a cab. He is calling to see if things are okay.

Give that phone to me.

What are you doing? Hurry up.

Is this a cell phone?

Goodness.

Is this some kind of newly launched phone?

You crazy bitch! Are you trying to kill yourself?

How dare you start smoking, bitch!

Do you want to end your life?

Why don't you inhale bond and gas too?

-What? -It's not mine.

Whose cigarette can it be? It was in your pocket.

-It's Yoon-jae's. -I'm going to shave your head.

Let me shave it again.

It's not mine. It's Yoon-jae's cigarette.

What are you doing? Tell him, you bastard!

Yes, sir.

It's mine. It's the cigarette that I was smoking.

Is it?

I was smoking it.

What the hell?

What was that eye contact about?

Was this all planned out already?

I almost got tricked by you.

I told you to keep your eyes on her in Seoul.

How can you become her subordinate?

It's good that we're at a funeral hall.

We're going to have a memorial service for both of you.

I'm going to kill both of you. Come here.

-Dad. -Please.

-Let's take a quick break. -Please.

-It's my cigarette. -Goodness.

Come here!

-Please. -I said it's not mine.

Let's say it's mine then.

-Please. -Dad.

What's going on here? What's the problem?

Honey, this crazy bitch smokes!

Please. Sit still.

We're leaving now.

It's not mine.

You'll never become a human being.

Why don't you smoke in front of your own father's face now?

Do it.

I said it's not mine. Why can't you trust me?

-Please. -It's not mine.

I'm going to kill both of you.

Are left turns not allowed here?

This road is a mess.

Please calm down.

Sung-jae.

The town chief's tractor is stuck in rice paddies. Hurry and help him.

Sung-jae.

The president of women's society forgot her rice cooker was on

and went downtown.

Sung-jae. Someone's pipe has broken. Go and see what happened.

Damn it.

Are you all right?

Do I look okay?

Stop it. You can't do this to me.

Please calm down.

-Calm down! -Why were you so late?

If a public service agent dies at his workplace,

can he be buried in the national cemetery?

What are you talking about?

Never mind. Good luck with your work.

What's wrong with you?

Excuse me.

The lightbulb at my place is out.

We're closed, madam.

Please come back later.

You can simply change a lightbulb.

Why don't you come with me now?

Madam.

I'm seriously burned out now.

Let me change your lightbulb later.

Please come back tomorrow. Please.

A LIST OF QUESTIONS

These are great mock questions.

You're as good as quiz program writers. Do you want to work for me?

They make you do too much stuff. The youngest writer has to do that?

No, this is for my part-time job. They pay 10,000 won for one question.

I make the most money working on questions for level ten

That's the job that our main writer gave to me.

Also, I made you do this.

You know that nothing's free, right?

Is there something you want to have? I don't have money though.

Make me some ramen. With a fried egg that you did last time.

-Now? - Yes.

-Is it you? - Yes. Open the door.

You must be out of your mind.

It's too late to visit a place where a lady lives alone.

You bought it for yourself, didn't you?

No. My teaching assistant gave it to me.

I brought it because it's too much to eat alone.

You didn't boil water yet, did you?

Right. I have to do that.

I guess that teaching assistant likes you.

I think she's trying to flirt with you.

Do you think so?

If a woman gives me a cake, it means she likes me?

Buying a cake doesn't necessarily mean that she likes you.

But if she buys a cake for a man who like sweets, that means she likes you.

Is she pretty?

I don't think she's prettier than you.

Please. I told you not to talk like that.

People can misunderstand us.

What kind of misunderstanding?

This is a place that a woman lives alone.

If a man keeps visiting me, the security guard can get us wrong.

Are you going to take responsibility if I lose a chance to marry?

Of course, I will. That's what I want.

Come on.

-I said stop saying that. -It hurts.

You've become so cheesy. Do you know that?

What about me?

You're playful too.

Watch your manners. I'm older than you.

You used to be very innocent.

It's all because of you.

What about me?

I have to act like this to show you that I still like you.

So you can be more serious.

If you don't like me being cheesy,

can I...

can I directly ask you out now?

The water is boiling.

To me, you're like Daddy Long Legs.

You're the one who stands by me, and whom I can rely on.

You're a good person.

It hasn't changed a bit for last six years.

It's still the same now.

JANUARY 1999, PUSAN

Don't feel any pressure. Treat it as a normal key chain.

Tae-woong.

I have something to tell you.

I do like you a lot,

but it's not like my heart flutters

or I feel butterflies in my stomach.

Since I'm still so young,

I don't know what it really feels like to like someone.

But, my heart

flutters for someone else.

I'm sorry, Tae-woong.

I don't want anything now.

Take your time.

I'll wait.

I can wait until you like me.

I'll be your guardian angel

Just like now,

I'll be standing by you.

Am I still

your Daddy Long Legs?

Do you know

how the story of Daddy Long Legs ends?

July is the month of property tax payment

Sung-jae,

Hae-yeon Kim is coming to downtown today. Do you want to go?

-Take the wheel. -Really?

Driving through Seoul, Daejeon, Daegu, Pusan!

I'll drive safely for you to downtown. Let me get the car.

Okay.

Please.

Change the lightbulb for me.

I haven't been able to cook because there's no light.

I'm a bit busy today.

Let me change it for you next time. I promise.

I'll go to your place tomorrow.

Please come back tomorrow. I promise I'll do it tomorrow.

I know you're not sleeping.

Come out quickly.

Is your head okay?

Yes.

Your father is still very healthy.

Are you all right?

Speak in our dialect, okay?

Is your freaking head all right?

I'm used to it.

My head has got some callus on it.

You must have been frightened.

I was frightened.

I felt grateful too.

There's no need to be grateful.

If I tell people that I'm an orphan, people treat me nicely for no reason.

Even when I made some mistakes,

people gave me an excuse.

They rather gave compliments by telling me not to be discouraged.

All the teachers, seniors and relatives were like that.

I know that they said it out of love,

but I hate that.

I hate the nuance they have

when they care about me.

I hate their eyes of pitying me.

I don't usually realize that I'm an orphan,

but when this happens,

I realize that I'm a piteous orphan.

I realize that I'm a poor orphan who only got a brother in this world.

It makes me sad.

But all this time,

there were only a few times that I felt that way.

I thank your parents for that.

In this world,

the only people who can swear at me or scold me

are your parents.

I thank them for that.

I feel grateful.

Because of you, I've become such an unkind daughter to them.

You were never helping me at all.

So I disappeared for your sake.

If you wanted to do that, you could disappear forever.

I know, right?

How about now?

What?

You...

Do you still like me?

Let's...

Let's talk later.

Good night.

GIJANG THE CITY OF LIGHT, WATER AND DREAM

-It's you. -Yes.

You're here early. Did you get to eat today?

I couldn't.

Are you available today?

Of course. I'm always available for you. Always.

Let's go.

Are we there yet?

We're almost there.

Do you live near the last stop?

Yes.

Goodness.

It's so hard to visit Pusan twice in two days.

I should've taken a night cruise bus.

Your mom will give you a lot to pack. The car is more comfortable.

Why is Jun-hee so late?

There he is.

Sorry. I think you two should go first.

What?

Sorry. Take care of Yu-jung.

Goodness.

Goodness. You live in a great place with fresh air.

No wonder your skin shines so much.

-Where's your place? Let's go. -Let's go.

Goodness.

You live in a great place.

Water is fresh too.

-Is that a frog? -Yes.

You've got some frogs too.

Hop in.

What?

Okay.

I don't want to ride this car.

Shit!

It runs great though.

All bus tickets are sold out anyway.

Goodness.

You and your brother are so unique.

Yoon-jae, you had money to buy my dad a new car,

but not for yourself?

Does a judge have to live like this?

Tae-woong doesn't want to sell this car

because he has so many memories with you.

Shit.

Shit.

Do you want to listen to music?

Are you tired? Do you want to take a break?

You walked back and forth to change a single bulb?

You took a journey, didn't you?

You were so brave.

How could you walk this all alone?

What else should I do? I have no neighbors.

What about your kids?

Has your husband passed away?

It has been decades since my husband had passed away.

I have a daughter who lives in Jinju.

She unfortunately had poor parents

resulting in her not being able to complete her schooling

She's trying to make it through her tough life.

But you're living alone like this.

Doesn't she visit you often?

Why would she come?

There was nothing I did for her as her mom anyway.

I don't feel proud enough of myself to meet my daughter.

Come on. Don't say that.

She should feel lucky that her mom's still well.

Not all parents deserve to be called parents.

Me being alive is

just a burden to my child.

Madam.

That's bullshit. You're not a burden.

Goodness.

I'm giving you a hard time now too.

Hard time?

This is nothing.

Didn't you go to Pusan?

It's your day off today.

I've got something else to do.

By the way, did you find a roommate?

Not yet.

LOOKING FOR A ROOMATE

Why? Are you interested?

I'll be happy to have you.

Hurry and let me know if you want to move in.

That Jun-ho bastard wants to be my roommate now.

Rather than living with him,

I would live with dogs or pigs.

Until when can I let you know?

Now. Tell me now.

There's no next time.

I like K2 songs more,

but these songs are as good as K2's too.

Should I turn it up?

Why? Don't you like it?

Do you still like H.O.T. music the best?

Grow up.

They've disbanded the group. But you fans haven't disbanded yet.

I do have H.O.T. songs. Do you want to hear them?

Yoon-jae.

What?

Do you need to go to restroom?

Answer my question now.

Do you still like me?

Do you still like me?

What about you?

Why do you ask me that question?

Do you even like me?

Yes.

I like you.

As a man, not as a friend.

I like you.

I answered your question.

What about you?

Do you still like me?

Answer my question. Now.

I've forgotten that all this time.

When she likes something,

she knows how to express that liveliness of her feeling

the way it is without any hesitation. That's her.

I could just say it like this.

I could just ask her to be my girl because I like her.

I could just tell her right away like this.

I was hesitating to say that back then,

and have been hesitating even now too.

Goodness.

Thank you.

There's no "later" that's more desperate than "now",

because that "later" might never come.

To talk about something that hasn't happened yet,

or to talk about a chance that might never come later,

life isn't that long.

I have a friend named Yoon-jae. Let's sleep there when we visit.

If you give up now and give excuses,

there will be no hope next time.

If you're in love now,

this is the best time

Take an action before it's too late.

You should confess your love now.

You never know what would happen later.

Next chance might never come.

Who is there?

I have a package to deliver to you.

What? Maybe that's not mine.

To: Judy

Judy.

Subtitle translation by Ji-soo Hyun