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Romance Town

Episode 1

And it's over! 21 to 10, we won.

Our players Hyung Jung Hwa and Yang Yung Ja have kept their promise.

They have won the gold medal.

Is your husband going to be late?

Yeah.

Oh, my� aigoo, we're in the Olympics now, too.

Our country is going to become rich now too, right?

They said so.

Honey, what are you going to be when you grow up?

You want to win a gold medal like them?

If you win a gold medal at the Olympics,

the country gives you one million won monthly until you die.

I� nothing less and nothing more, I just don't want our Soon Geum to be someone's maid.

MOM! Don't say that! That's never going to happen.

Is that why you copied me and became a maid?

That's� that's because my husband�

Revealing the truth now, your great-grandma was a maid, too.

You said she was a rich lady!

Did you lie to me?!

That's why if you don't want your daughter to become a maid,

you should raise all the money you can.

With that money you can send her off to college and get her married to a rich man.

Don't give her away to someone like your husband.

Mom! If you're going to say such things, then go home.

You come here for a couple of years and that's what you're going to say?

I'd rather die than see my Soon Geum become a maid.

- Mom. - Maid?

I'm going to make my Soon Geum be the one living with a maid.

- Mom! - What?!

F� f� fire?

Oh my gosh!

Oh my gosh, take your child and jump off!

Grandma, we're on the first floor.

What? First floor?

Take all the things that count and go.

No Mom, you go out first with Soon Geum. Soon Geum, leave with Grandma. Hurry!

No, you go out first, oh my gosh!

No, you go out first, Mom!

- This isn't the smell of something burning. - What is this smell?

I'd rather die than see my Soon Geum become a maid.

At that point, I thought that I had to follow the disinfecting car.

If I followed that car, I thought that I wouldn't itch anymore.

That night, I came back home very late,

and believed that even the poverty that was inside of me was disinfected off.

That way, I wouldn't become a maid.

I really didn't want my mom to die.

[1988 Soon Geum]

After the water, missed the�

Sit down.

Your eyes are all red, what'd you do all night?

Even my son who is in sixth grade watches porn, what should I do, kids?

You get sick of it after about one year.

Just leave him alone.

You get sick of it after watching it for just one year?

Your daughter will watch it, too.

[2003 Soon Geum]

Who are you that you come to school at seventh period?

If I come during first period, I'm late.

If I come during seventh period, that's still late.

Am I crazy to come during first period?

Why don't you just not come to school then?

If I don't even finish middle school, how am I going to get married?

I told you not to use that southern accent.

- Okay. - Okay? Okay?

Unni, Unni, UNNI!

Do you want to go eat pork with me and this awesome pig?

You should give us more meat to eat. Dancing is a real workout.

We keep losing weight so our volume is getting small, too.

Geez, okay then, till one.

No, I have to study.

Buy meat with that, okay!

Hey! It would be nice to stay a little longer and play with the rich boys.

- And if we do? - Who knows?

Are they stupid?

Do you think they're going to stick with us till the end?

At least for just one night.

At least we can get money, not small money like this.

Let's do it! Geum!

When are we going to open a store at this rate?

You said you want to have your mom quit that job as soon as possible.

Let's do it!

Let's eat meat, let's eat meat.

We really are going to go eat meat today.

Where's the money for that?!

Hey! Why don't we have money?

Such an embarrassment...

Geum!

It's dancing in my mouth!

So good, so good!

That's cold!

Yoon Si Ah! I gave you a pleading warning.

In the nightclub, don't have boys, alcohol, nor your lips anywhere approachable.

Hey. What's going on?

You're still here? Leave through the backdoor. Hurry!

Excuse me, we're doing our rounds for checkup.

Can I please see your ID?

I didn't... I really didn't know she was underage.

It really was my first kiss.

So noisy! Shut up!

Your mom.

You open your mouth! Mom!

Are you really going to be like that?

We're going to do it by law, then.

I don't have a mom.

"I don't have a mom"? Why don't you have a mom?

The mom is here.

You!

Come here, missy! There's nothing for you to do, so you go and do this!

Your mom is here and what? No mom? No mom!

Who is it?

Who is that stripped my daughter and made her dance? Who is it?!

Is it you? You?

- No. - Then, you?

I earned this by being a maid.

It has four years of college budget in there.

There's no problem in our finances that I won't be able to send my Geum to college,

so please help her to get into college.

Um... no one from this school has gone to college.

Then you can make our Geum be the first guy...

I mean, first girl, to get into college.

Mom! I'll raise money and make you rich.

Mom, I can help you to quit being a maid. For real!

Bogus.

Either way, teacher, finances won't be a problem for Geum,

so please help Geum get into college.

Then. Come out, girl.

How are you going to raise money? How?

You're going to open a bar?

I'm just selling alcohol, who cares?

The point is that we're making money, who cares!

Girl, you're just...

All of the guys at school said they'll come and buy.

The entire school only has me and Shi Ah as girls,

so if all of the guys at our school come and buy, that's a lot!

Shi Ah has a pretty face,

so she can be the hostess and I can be in the kitchen making food.

You're pretty too!

I won't sell my body!

College is so lame. I'm going to make money.

What is a girl going to do without education?

You can't even rotate a screwdriver right, how are you going to make money?

Especially if you're not going to college!

Get married then.

What smells more? Bean paste money or diarrhea money?

Why?

Diarrhea money?

You think about it and you actually choose one?

What's the point of choosing? What?!

Why are you suddenly talking about diarrhea money?

Because you think so hard and your conclusion is either opening a bar or getting married!

It's the same as wondering whether you should earn bean paste money or diarrhea money!

I can't even get married?

All the guys who like you right now are all weird and not the right ones!

They're all like your father!

Stop it!

Are you showing off that you spent your life working as a maid to raise your daughter?

Someone's daughter was sent to college by her mother who worked as a maid.

You want to hear that! That's why you keep making this mess!

Shut that mouth when I ask nicely.

All the time, you say, "Who do you think I'm living for?"

"Who is it that I'm living this way for?"

I'm so sick of that repertoire that I'm going to throw up!

It's so disgusting, disgusting!

It's your fault for being born as a maid's daughter, who can you blame?

You like it, too. I just wanted to sell some alcohol.

The sound of the rain is best to fall asleep to, Geum.

Should I sing you a lullaby?

While you live, will you hear

One day, the wind will carry the song

As the years pass, will you know then

The reason that the flowers bloom

The people who have left me, will meet me

Your father said that I smell like a refrigerator.

That I smell like all types of food rotting.

Asked if I was a woman.

If you don't recognize me, what am I going to do?

If you too, won't realize who I am, what do I do?

You sleeping?

Are you sleeping?

You are.

[Honey, I'm sorry. I love you, Geum.]

[2008 Soon Geum]

The girl's volleyball team...

Are they neighbors?

They're the maids of the corresponding houses.

Do they still use the word maid?

I'm sorry.

There's nothing to be sorry for.

A maid is a maid.

The word housekeeper doesn't really stick.

The word housekeeper is too long compared to maid.

It's such a hassle.

Yes. Please speak comfortably to me, Madam.

I'm okay, so open the door for our madam now.

Take care of her well.

I think they're back from the honeymoon.

Every time he changes his wife, they get younger.

He's so happy, so happy.

It's a fairy.

- It looks like about a billion won on her. - Huh?

A billion won?

- Money is great, isn't it? - I'll do it.

Why isn't this house's maid coming out?

- Here. - Yes.

You're sure that this is 17 Joong Drive?

Yes. Please get out fast.

Yes, yes.

All I did was just receive the house payment,

what is this mess that I'm stuck in?

They should've parked to the side for her to get out,

my Hyung-nim hates waiting.

Oh my. My bag.

- Oh my... taxi! Wait a minute. - What is it?

There's something important in there! Taxi, stop there!

- Taxi! Taxi! Wait, hold on. - That old lady...

Are you okay? Did you get scared?

- That... that... - Were you startled?

That taxi. That taxi... In that taxi...

You left your wallet.

Beause you had so much to carry with the baby and your bag.

The father is written on there.

The baby's mom left only a letter and ran away,

leaving the baby.

Oh my gosh, what am I going to?

We came all the way here, this is the right place.

What was the father's name?

Jang...

Kang...

Kang?

Or wait, was it Hwang?

It's not a Kim?

Is it a Kim?

Kim!

Oh my, this is why it's hard when you get old.

The father would know if he sees the baby.

For the age, I think you're perfect.

- Me? - You're not?

It's not me.

The baby looks like a grandson to everybody else.

Does he have a penis?

Should I open it?

Go away. If he does? If he does, is he yours?

No, it's not me either.

We just came back from our honeymoon.

Then it's not you.

You look like you don't even have the strength to hold chopsticks. Forget you.

What?

Since we're here all together anyway,

Mr. Jang and President Hwang, I bought some great wine.

Let's have a glass together later, yeah?

- Okay. - Come over later.

Okay, go on in.

Honey... did you cause another accident?

Hyung-nim, do you think he still has the strength to?

Why are you trying to pick on an innocent man?

It's not me, I'm telling you.

When you were doing it with me, you lied to Hyung-nim.

I'm not!

Is it really not him?

Is our maid the master of the house? Why hasn't she come out yet?

Don't frown on your pretty face. Yeah? Yeah?

Be careful when you drink.

What?

You never remember anything when you drink, so I'm just worried.

Why are you worried?

We eat from the same table.

Such a small thing.

I remember. I remembered!

She said the baby's name is San.

San? Then what about the last name?

Kang. He's a Kang.

The baby's name is Kang San.

Uncle, looking at the baby again,

he looks like Gun Woo when he was young.

The mouth and nose.

Gun Woo?

Eyes, nose, mouth.

Is there anyone here who doesn't have two, one, and one of those?

Look like? Where does he look similar?

You're supposed to be his friend!

Call Gun Woo.

Who is Gun Woo?

Hey! He's like that after half a cup of beer, right?

Do you think I'm going to get scared because this is a town of rich people?

Who is Gun Woo?

Who is he that he had nothing to do except abandon his own child?

Ahjumma!

Nice shot.

Our Ahjumma knows a lot about our Gun Woo, even more than me.

She knows everything in detail, she can't be fooled.

You can fool me, but you can't fool our Ahjumma.

My son doesn't ever fool our Ahjumma. So let's ask her.

Hey!

What a great thing a baby's mother is doing.

Are you crazy? Did you go insane?

How can you bring the baby to a place like this?

A baby can't come but a baby's mother can?

What are you doing? Take the baby.

I'm working right now!

You said you were going to go work at a mart to raise money for milk.

Is this a mart?

The baby's milk is going to smell like alcohol!

Do you like it if your food smells like alcohol? Do you like it?

Are you going to raise your daughter as an alcoholic? Yeah?

Yeah?!

Oh, really!

I don't have money, what do you want me to do?

What do you want me to do?!

Hurry up and feed the baby.

Just kill me instead.

Just kill me instead!

Peek-a-boo. Peek-a-boo.

Who are you?

You say that you're going to die so easily in front of your own child.

Peek-a-boo.

Ji Min thinks I'm the mom.

She said the word "mom" for the first time earlier in the day.

Really?

What a bitch. Ji Min, say "Mom, mom, mom." I'm your mom.

"Mom. Mom."

That lady isn't your mom, nor is she even your aunt.

So don't ever get it confused.

Can't believe that kind of a girl is a mother.

But I guess she wants to hear the word "mom" though.

Oh.

But this guy...

Seriously.

People like you can drink here all you want wasting your money,

but even a small blanket like this is very valuable to us.

This blanket, this blanket... the blanket that my mother raised me in.

Both of you, you can't do this in here.

Huh?

Here.

What... you don't know each other?

Two people who don't know each other were in that position?

Look here, if you don't have money,

then at least call your friends.

Hey! I'm going to go crazy.

What are you doing?

I'm really not with this person!

Let go. Let go!

I'm really not with him!

Let go, let go.

That's the rent for our house this month.

If I don't give that, the three of us are going to end up on the streets.

Do something!

I'm really not with him, I'm really not!

If you two are strangers, and if you think you got ripped off,

then get the money back from him.

And do you realize that this isn't enough, either?

HEY!

Ahjussi! Ahjussi! Ahjussi!

You took them off so nicely.

You look like you're a son who's been well educated and rich.

Why are you trying to rip off of a girl who's not well educated or rich?

Huh?

I'm really not in the mood to make disapproving calls.

Just make an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth call.

I'm sorry. I apologize.

Are you awake now?

Do you want to get in for the time being?

I can't believe this is happening right now.

I told you not to just protect him.

Even if he is Gun Woo's son, I'll raise him.

Please don't be so harsh on him.

He's already low on his self-esteem.

If he is low on his self-esteem twice, he's going to come in here with twins.

Twins?

Hurry up and find Gun Woo and make him come here.

Right now!

- Do you want to come in and wait? - Wait outside.

- Come inside. - Where are you coming in?

On whose decision are you letting her come in?

It's still chilly at night so the baby can catch a cold.

After Gun Woo comes in, everything will be figured out.

It won't be too late then to ask her to leave.

A cup of water to a total stranger is not harmful.

- Come inside. - The owner of this house is me.

Since when? Until when?

The madam of this house has been changed a couple times, but he's never changed me.

Whoever the madam of this house is, I'm just going to do my job.

Come on in.

Does that woman have Alzheimer's?

No, Madam.

My Ji Min, are you hungry? Let's go eat with Mommy.

Father.

It's you, Shi Ah.

You've grown so much, Ji Min.

Have you been well?

Where's Geum?

Geum will be here soon.

- Okay, okay. - Why are you...

I'm sorry.

[My house]

I hide emergency money here and there.

How much?

A couple dollars.

The bill came out a couple thousand.

Yeah, that's why.

I really want a cup of coffee.

Is coffee important right now? HUH!

You had your wallet stolen too, and we both don't have any money right now.

I don't have much time right now,

so I thought it was best for us to have a cup of coffee,

I drive back home, and I give the money back to you there.

Breathe.

I... said... breathe.

Start going.

We're going to get caught.

There's no alcohol smell at all.

Even if I only drink half a cup of beer I get caught, it's weird.

You don't want to pay me, right?

Then start going.

Then, at least take...

Even your chips are... the best there is.

Sweet? Or even sweeter?

Or salty?

The sweeter one.

If we eat something, it's much safer.

Last time I almost got caught for drunk driving,

but I ate the salty chips and didn't get caught.

It's tastier if you eat it like this.

Please!

He's still not sober.

Please.

What in the world am I doing right now?

You don't remember where you lost your wallet?

There must have been a lot of money in there.

There was a picture of me and Grandma that I took so I can take it to New York,

that's the thing I regret losing the most.

I forced her into taking that picture.

Everything else doesn't matter.

Why?

The grandma must have been really nice to her grandson.

That's why I'm this heavy weight right now.

By the way, what about your wallet?

It was a cheap one anyway, and I used it for a long time now.

Still.

It's not the wallet I lost that matters, it's the money in there that does.

I don't even have money, so the wallet doesn't matter.

Right there. Stop. Stop.

Right there, stop.

You didn't even have money, how did you?

You were singing about wanting coffee.

The corner a block from here, they check for drunk drivers every day.

And after ten drinks, one is free.

You don't seem like someone who drinks coffee from a place like this.

Do I look that poor from just one glance?

Do I just scream poor?

That's where I work.

Every time they want coffee, I always make sure to make the run.

You look like you can beat up a cow, but you can't even drink alcohol.

At that age, you should be driving women around,

but instead you carry around chips in your car.

Your laugh is pretty, too.

I had you ride in the car.

Am I a woman? I'm a debt collector.

You're not a debt collector.

Um...

Should I not go to New York?

Why are you asking me that?

I don't want to go.

I think I made a friend...

I think it'll be fun to hang around you.

I initially didn't want to go.

Do you like me?

Yeah.

What did Ms. Yoon say?

Dad did? Dad did it...

Should we go?

Call me here.

I trust you. I think you're someone I can trust.

If you don't call, I don't know what I'm going to do.

You better. You better!

Your name! Your name...

Customer!

The chair...

Should I help you?

You're really saying "Die, die." Saying "Die, die."

Hello, this is Victor Lottery's handsome anchor, Song Jin Pyo.

I feel air of luck.

- Hello, this is Im Soo Young... - Dad's there, right?

Where are you right now?

I know that you're with Dad right now.

Ahjusshi, WHERE ARE YOU?!

Your daughter.

Answer it.

Dad! You better not move from there.

I can sell all my underwear and bras...

No, even all my rags if you asked me to make you money, but you can't, Dad.

You really can't, Dad.

Please wake up to reality, Dad.

Mom is going to come running from her grave.

If your mother comes back from the dead, that's great.

Look here, stop making your daughter worry so much.

She has a great instinct for living,

so even if you dropped her in a desert, she would dig up a fountain.

Are you that proud of her?

So you would drop her in a desert.

Let's go.

Such a waste. Why are you wasting it?

This time I really need to strike gold.

Who is going to be the lucky winner?

The wine...

I need an opener. Where is the opener?

Right where you can see it.

Where?

- It's right there with the spoon. - Where?

Seriously!

Here.

Da Kyum, I'm going to starve to death.

How can you not find what's right in front of you?

Do you want a cup?

No, it's fine.

Grandma Young can't come.

They have a big situation right now, I don't think she can.

Then if the lottery ticket we buy from this game gets first,

is she exempt from winning the money?

Of course she is.

So selfish.

Hit the Ddong.*

* The name of the card just played

Trying to give me the Ddong, huh, you little girl...

Have a taste of my cards!

- What? What? - What? What?

- That... - What, what, what?

What? First place?

- Second place? - At least third place...

We got all of it!

It's not!

Why isn't it? Let me...

Hey! How many times do I have to tell you that the six numbers have to be in the same row? Huh?!

But they're right...

You idiot!

How many times do you do this and still...?

Geez, I thought I had a heart attack because of you.

I don't know.

What do you mean you don't know?

Beause of what you said, I thought we won.

I got excited for nothing.

What place do we have to get for me to go back to Vietnam to live with my siblings?

What place do we have to get Yee Ma, Do Ma, Ah Ma, and Go Ma educated?

I'm going to...

Your mom had so many without thinking it through.

So make my heart contract like that.

My blood is getting dried not only doing the madam's work,

but also doing the mistress' work, too.

Hey, I was really curious about something for a while.

Can I ask you something?

What are you trying to say now?

The master... does he sleep with his madam or his mistress at night?

Are you curious?

I'm curious.

You guys are curious?

I wonder...

Doesn't he sleep with the madam during the day and with the mistress at night?

Is it you, Soon Geum?

You came back, Soon Geum?

Did you meet your father?

While you live, will you hear

One day, the wind will carry the song

As the years pass, will you know then

The reason that the flowers bloom

I earned this by being a maid.

It has four years of college budget in there.

There's no problem in our finances that I won't be able

to send my Geum to college, so please help her to get into college.

What is a girl going to do without education?

You can't even rotate a screwdriver right,

how are you going to make money?

Especially if you're not going to college!

Stop it!

Are you showing off that you spent your life working as a maid to raise your daughter?

Someone's daughter was sent to college by her mother who worked as a maid.

You want to hear that! That's why you keep making this mess!

It's your fault for being a maid's daughter, who can you blame?

Come inside and sleep.

You're going to catch a cold.

I'm so embarrassed right now.

The down payment for this house, it's not even mine, it's yours.

How can... how can he do that when you have a child, too?

Someone who's called a father.

He knows that you and I barely make it through the day.

The one place that we have as a home...

how can he think to gamble it off?

Why are you crying?

Just swear at me.

You're crazy.

At least your dad comes to rip you off from time to time.

My daughter's dad wouldn't even come if his daughter died.

Are you saying that to cheer me up right now?

If someone else is worse off than you, doesn't that cheer you up?

It works for me.

See it works, right?

The money... he's going to call, right?

Who?

Did you drink?

I'm sorry.

Gun Woo.

Save your father.

You're going to leave for New York tomorrow, anyway.

Your father can't live without that woman.

Hey, let me enjoy my newlywed days.

When you come back, I'll reveal the truth.

When are you going to study while working?

I'll send you a good amount of money.

Father...

My nice son.

Oh... here.

Ahjumma. Ahjumma!

I'll really do everything I can.

Please don't put the room out for rent. Ahjumma. Ahjumma.

I mean,

he came here breathless, saying your mother was going to die, asking for the down payment.

Then what was I supposed to do?

He said that I can raise the rent fee, so I gave it to him without thinking twice.

My mother passed away four years ago.

I don't know. I'm going to put it out for rent.

Ahjumma. Ahjumma. Ahjumma. Ahjumma!

He's not going to call.

Who knew that you would be the first to become a father in our town?

I can't figure you out.

Can't figure you out, can't figure you...

I really don't know...

No matter how you look at him, he looks like your father.

I just winged it saying that the baby looks like you,

did he make you take the blame?

Yeah?

You got played.

Got played.

He's the one who ate the serpent soup,

but why is he blaming you, who hasn't even been able to eat a worm yet?

Then, who's going to raise the child?

Either way, the father should take care of the baby.

Does it make any sense to send the father off to New York like that?

It's a mistake a young man made one night,

we have to send him off like we planned.

Or do you want Gun Woo to raise the child?

We'll just hire someone.

Still! I'm...

Sleep more.

You're going to get more wrinkles thinking about stuff like that.

How many hours was it from Italy?

I heard riding in a plane for a long time is bad for your skin.

I don't know.

What is this for a newlywed?

A grandson... oh my gosh, I'm a grandma.

That's disgusting.

You're not going to see him off at the airport?

He's a grown man.

I'm going to go see the young master off at the airport.

Okay.

Who's going to watch the baby?

Go ahead.

They can't see each other for three years, let it go.

Who is she that she acts like the madam of the house?

It's because of you that she acts like that, not knowing her place.

Do I look like someone who wants to work for a maid?

It looks like she got treated really well working for a house with two men,

but it's not going to be that way!

Fat Boy, are you not going to call?!

He called.

Hello?

So heavy.

- I'll eat it well, thanks. - Yeah.

The boy... the boy from yesterday.

She's struggling. Look at the way she's holding the baby.

Are you the one that called?

Oh, what's wrong with him?

Hey...

The baby is going to cry to death.

Give him to me.

Stop. Stop!

My arms... oh my gosh.

Peek-a boo. Peek-a-boo.

Who is she?

You take care of babies really well.

You're the one that called, right?

Take care of your health.

Hopefully the food is good.

I know. You don't have to say.

Please take care of Father.

If you're not the baby's mom, what do you want?

Money?

I'll give you twice the amount, whatever you want.

Instead...

[3 years later]

Dad!

My child, you're suffering much, right?

I'm not.

What are you doing at someone else's home?

Let's go home.

What in the world, you saying to go home?

My daughter... follow me.

I have to make food.

They're not going to die from missing one meal.

This family does.

Those ignorant fools.

Soon Geum, just follow me for ten minutes.

Ten minutes.

Don't follow me for too long, just ten minutes.

Just ten minutes.

Dad. Father!

Geum! Soon Geum! Geum!

Father!

Don't you smell something burning?

The rice is burning!

Yes!

It's almost done.

Did you sleep well?

Ahjumma dreamed for the first time in a while, but I forgot it.

You were hungry, right?

I think the money from GoStop is too small.

Every night you play, but all you buy is a 5000 won lottery ticket, is that enough?

You always lose.

We don't buy the lottery really thinking we'll win.

If we win, that's great.

If we don't, then we just take out our stress. It's for the fun.

- Bye. - Bye.

Wow, what the heck?

Hey, what's the special occasion that you're buying two?

Just because.

The group's is on the right. Mine's on the left.

Why?

Is there any difference?

I can't mix them up.

The housekeeping group's is on the right.

Mine... left side.

The town is the same, now and then.

Yahoo!

Yahoo!

GRANDMA!

Seriously!

That bitch, that... clean this up!

I'm so bored. This town is really boring.

A maid is a maid! A kitchen worker is a kitchen worker!

Ahjumma.

Ahjumma, don't leave.

Isn't Hyun Joo a little suspicious these days?

She looks like a dog who's having an affair.

Good thinking, Ji Won.

You know how scary the mouths of this town's maids are.

So...

So, that's why...

Can you get Soon Geum for me?

That doesn't make your son my son.

Gun Woo!

Thank you.

Let go!