Basketball
Pass! Pass the ball!
I know that it's your hope and dream...
to be the light...
for our people who are in their hopelessness and despair...
by playing basketball, which you're so good at.
You're the one Shin Young chose.
I know that now.
Did you see that?
He made that shot with one hand.
Did you see that? He made that shot with one hand.
- San! - Kang San!
That move you just saw is what you call a one-handed shot.
Korea's Kang San is the only player who can shoot the ball with only one hand!
Kang San! Kang San!
San!
You did it!
Here, San. Have some water.
You were absolutely unbelievable!
That was a one handed shot, wasn't it? Shooting with one hand?
Here, have some water.
You're good at being a team player now that you're giving it a chance.
I'm putting all my faith in the two of you for the second half too, okay?
Congratulations.
It wouldn't have been possible without your help.
Thank you.
Thanks to you... I was reminded of why it is that I started playing basketball.
My calling as a basketball player...
I'll never forget it again.
The time we have left in the game... let's give it our best.
A new conglomerate to head all the other companies will emerge tomorrow.
Under the regulations of this new conglomerate structure
all the other companies in the industry will
fall under the power of one head person...
Once you become the head leader in all of cotton mill industry...
Pyongyang manufacturing company, and every other company alike out there
they will all be beneath your power.
[Choi Je Gook of Kyungin to become the
head leader in the cotton mill industry.]
Newly formed basketball team, Team Baekhwa has
beaten the talented formidable Team Yeonae
to move on to become the final team that will play in the Final Fours.
More importantly, is seems Kang San of Team Baekhwa,
has fully recovered from his finger injury
Director Kim.
Director Kim!
I knew we would win.
I just got a good feeling about it when I woke up this morning.
I knew we'd win this game even if it was their ancestors coming to play the game.
'Time! Time out!'
You were shouting for a time out until you were red in the face.
I had a dream where I was vomiting like crazy.
Now that I've vomited out all the bad energy,
only the good energy will be flowing in now.
Vomiting is a bad omen, not a good omen.
- What are you talking about? - Peeing or pooping is a good omen.
When things come out of a hole that you'd
normally eat from instead of the other holes
it's usually a sign of misfortune.
You'd better be careful and watch yourself.
What a load of crap.
Okay, all of my Baekhwa players...
I know you've all been working very hard.
Let's all cheers in celebration of making it to the Final Fours.
Here.
To my proud Team Baekhwa.
To our victory at the upcoming Final Fours. Cheers!
Cheers!
- Hooray! - Hooray?
I like it.
Wait a minute.
Where's Min Chi Ho?
I don't see Reporter Choi either.
Come on... isn't it obvious?
When a young man and a young woman is missing,
isn't it obvious what they're doing?
Don't you agree?
Okay, whatever.
All I need is my San anyways.
I knew you could do it, San.
After all the suffering that you put me through.
Come here, come here.
It's okay, who cares?
Aren't you going to go in there?
I have to write my article.
Then I guess I'll just have this here.
I actually like it better this way.
The two of us being alone like this.
Why didn't you tell me?
When you told me you wanted to break up, and take some time apart...
Instead of saying something so frightening like that...
You could've just been honest with me and
told me that it was because of your father.
Did you have such little faith in me?
It's a relief.
It's a relief to know that your heart hasn't left me.
The person who's responsible for what happened to your father...
is none other than my own father.
- So how can we... - No matter who your father is...
It doesn't matter to me.
It's because...
I love you.
What's going on here?
Who are you bastards?
President Choi.
Hello, Sir.
Hello to you too, Mr. Gong.
There's no need for you to call me Mister.
You can just call me 'Gong'.
Mr. Gong.
I heard a very strange bit of news today.
I heard that Kang San's made a comeback?
I thought his hand was handicapped.
How did this happen?
I was actually planning on coming by to pay you a visit soon.
Who could've guessed that Kang San would overcome
his handicap to make a comeback like that?
President Choi.
Don't you remember the promise I made you?
I told you that I'll cripple Kang San and bring him in front of you.
If you'll just give me one more chance, I vow that I'll...
Please give me mercy just this one time.
Stop!
President Choi.
President Choi!
Please spare me just this once.
I'll turn Kang San into a cripple and bring him in front of you.
I swear it, President Choi!
President Choi.
Words are cheap.
I'll bet my hand on this promise.
Please trust me just this once.
Mr. Gong.
What you just said...
You'd be wise to remember it.
Yes, Sir. Yes, I'll remember.
Escort him back home.
You know what Min Chi Ho said to me today?
That he'll never forget...
his calling as a basketball player.
That's the first time I've ever heard anything like that.
I...
just wanted to succeed.
With Shin Young watching...
I no longer wanted to appear pathetic.
Then when I took a look around me one day...
I realized that I was going about it all wrong.
So that's when...
I told myself that I wanted to be able to stand proudly in front of Shin Young.
That's what I vowed to myself.
But when President Choi Je Gook...
Seeing how President Choi's went after even that almighty Min Chi Ho...
that's when I realized that something was off.
Because all this time...
I thought I was suffering because I had nothing to offer anyone.
But even Min Chi Ho, who has everything to offer...
and even Shin Young herself...
I realized wasn't all that different from me,
Kang San, who had no clout of any kind.
We've all worked earnestly in our own way...
and none of us had ever caused any harm to anyone else...
so why is it that we need to suffer all this agony?
It made me wonder if...
there was something wrong with this world.
Since basketball is all I know...
I may not know what's what in this world.
But becoming successful...
I realized may not be the most important thing in life.
Just like Min Chi Ho does in his...
does my own life have a calling?
If so, then what is my calling?
Do you remember...
what I once told you?
That there's meaning to making this world
a better place through basketball.
Yes.
I think that...
you are now finally ready.
Director.
Is there any open positions within the government?
I have but only one son, and I can't allow him to play basketball forever.
I feel like I would feel so much more at peace
if you'll just give him the guidance he needs.
How is it that you get prettier every day?
Are you even listening to what I'm saying?
But he's doing fine and is successful as an athlete.
But that success short lived, and he can't do that as his career forever.
It's upsetting enough that he's still not
married when everyone else seems to be.
How old did you say he was?
He's 22 years old. Still plenty young, isn't he?
I guess he'll be getting drafted then.
What do you mean by that?
You heard that a war has broken out over in Europe, haven't you?
I'm only telling you this...
but things are starting to get pretty serious.
I'm sure it'll soon start here too.
What's starting?
I'm talking about mandatory enlistment.
Are you telling me that my Hong Ki is going to get dragged off to the army?
Don't think of it as being dragged off, but think of it as being patriotic.
You should know that it's an honor as a man
to dedicate his life on the line to fight for his beloved country.
Dedicate? Dedicate what?
How dare you raise your voice at me?
You know very well yourself.
That my son is a friend, husband, and the sky to me.
Is there any way out of it?
Since you're so high and powerful, I'm sure you can think of a way.
Right?
That would all depend on you.
What do you mean?
Why are you acting coy like you don't know?
What is that noise?
Yoon Bae.
What... what happened to you?
Wake up!
Are you finally starting to come to?
Do you know who I am?
Can you recognize who I am?
Yeah.
That's so great! You're okay!
I thought I was looking at a corpse!
How did this happen to you? What happened?
What do I do now?
Did something happen?
Maybe I should just kill myself instead.
Yoon Bae.
The government had passed down an order to
collect all metal items to help war efforts
so we are here to collect all and any metal
items as mandated by the government.
Wait, what are you doing? Why are you doing this?
What am I supposed to live on if you do this?
No, you can't do this. You can't take this.
Claus five of the new order decreed by the government.
It is mandated that all citizens of this nations must comply with the government
to help out in their war efforts.
I took me 20 years to get all this.
I'll do everything you order me to do, but
you can't do this! Anything but this!
You ignorant and disrespectful wench!
No! Stop beating him!
Please stop beating him! Please!
What I did was wrong. Please! Please don't beat him!
Let's go.
You crazy bastard. Why would you jump in like that?
Honey.
I'm sorry. This is all because I'm not capable enough.
Why are you saying things like that?
How am I going to make a living now?
Don't cry.
I'll take care of you.
Don't cry.
- Have you all been well? - Father...
We're so sorry for all you've suffered, Brother.
Why are you all acting like this?
It seems as though the government is going to take our company away from us.
The government has forcefully taken over many
businesses for the sake of helping war effort.
President Choi Je Gook of Kyungin
has been chosen to lead all of the cotton
mill industry factories for the government.
What do you think about meeting with In-law Choi to talk to him about this?
It was Shin Young's father, President Choi Je Gook.
Everything that happened to your father...
it was all that man's doing.
It won't be any use.
I'm certain that President Choi Je Gook is in
the same league with the government on this.
So that he could take the seat as the head
of all of the cotton mill industry...
he purposely had you locked up in jail for being his biggest competition.
Come on.
You think it's okay to just come in and stay in someone else's home like this?
It's not like we're barging in their bedroom.
This is just their shed, so who cares?
We can't sleep outside in the drizzling rain.
Hey, Squirt.
Don't worry.
I know things are bad right now, but I can still take care of you and your mom.
Gong You Bae.
Words are cheap.
I'll swear it on my own hand.
Please believe me.
Team Baekhwa shocked everyone by winning the
last game to move on to the Final Fours.
They are leading the current game 31 points to 26 points.
The last game was so much more livelier with all those people in the stands...
but the stands feel so empty today.
Are you even listening to me right now?
Yes, I understand.
Just push Kang San into a...
Are you broadcasting that for everyone to hear right now?
Instead of shoving him into something, just break something of his, got it?
Yoon Bae.
But... aren't we going to win our game?
Why wouldn't we win?
Don't you know how much the prize is?
How are we going to win without Kang San?
You think Min Chi Ho alone would be enough?
Over here!
What am I supposed to do?
I heard that the winning team will get a
special pardon from the mandatory enlistment?
Yes.
Yes, I've heard that even a Korean basketball team will be given
a special pardon if they win.
A special pardon from mandatory enlistment?
Madame Park.
Have you thought about what I said to you the other day?
You're really going to pull my Hong Ki out from mandatory enlistment, right?
Of course, of course.
I'm a man of my word.
My wife...
is going back to visit her own family.
So why don't you come over to my house tomorrow?
I'm... putting all my faith in you, okay?
Of course, of course.
Hey.
Who's that jerk my mom is with right now?
Who do you think? He's your lifeline.
Please be careful.
- I'll see you later. - Goodbye.
Your mom is doing what she can to get you
pulled out from the mandatory enlistment list.
Hey!
What do you think you're doing?
There are guests waiting?
Yes, okay.
Bye.
My son.
What are you doing out here? Want something to eat?
Are you hungry? Let me go get something for you to eat.
Don't do it.
- Don't do what? - Don't do what you're about to do.
What are you talking about?
I'll just go to the army, so don't do what you're about to do!
You think it's just army service?
It's a battle field.
You can't even do anything without me.
So what are you going to do in a battle?
You want to get riddled with bullets?
Aren't you even ashamed?
Aren't you even ashamed to be living your
life like that when you're a mother yourself?
I...
I've done the best I could to keep you fed with a roof over your head.
I didn't want you to feel less than others
because you grew up without a father...
so with the exception of killing someone,
I've done everything there is to do out there.
Your mom is too ignorant, so that's all she knows to do.
To make sure that her son is well fed...
and try to raise him better than anyone else.
That's your mom's whole life.
I know there's not a whole lot to be proud of...
but there's nothing to be ashamed of either.
Okay.
We have been given an order to provide the necessary items for the military.
You will all be working the night shift as well starting today.
Don't be lazy, and make sure that you complete
the workload that you each have been assigned.
What kind of a law prohibits you from getting any sleep?
If I could just close my eyes for 30 minutes...
I wouldn't want for anything else.
The lighting is so dim in here, and I can barely even see anything.
Excuse me, Supervisor.
What?
If we have to work overnight, then when do we have to come in tomorrow?
What do you mean, when?
You come in the same time you usually do.
- Then... what about sleep? - There's no time for sleep.
Don't you see all the work that's piled up over there?
All you guys ever do is think of ways to lazy around whenever you get a chance.
You should feel blessed to be working here
during a bad economic times like this.
Don't even try to sneak out of here.
What is it, My lady?
Are you tired?
- Father! - Sir!
It's blood.
Father.
Why did you wait until he was this bad?
We need to get him in surgery immediately.
Will surgery make him better?
I can't guarantee it, but we need to give it a try.
- Does the patient work in a factory? - Yes.
He works in a sewing factory.
That's what I thought.
Patients like him are all too common these days.
Cotton mill factories, and sewing factories.
It's because of all the fibers that gets into their lungs.
Are you saying that he got this way because of working in the factory?
We can't say that it's unrelated.
Anyway... you need to go pay for the surgery upfront first.
My father.
My lady.
Hey.
What are you doing over there?
Why don't two people who are close as we are share a drink together?
Wait... but I'm not...
Wait, excuse me.
Have a seat.
And I'll have a seat over here.
Are you hungry?
What's embarrassing about that? Your face is turning all red.
Here.
Come on, go on and take it already.
Here.
Let me pour you a drink.
That's it! What a good drinker you are.
Here, let me pour you another drink.
Hey.
What's your dream?
I'm asking you what your dream is.
Has it always been a dream of yours to rot away in a restaurant like this?
What do you mean, rot away? Who's rotting away?
I'm going to earn some money, and get out of here as soon as I can.
You're finally starting to talk.
That's right, you need to get out of here.
Don't stay here too long.
Unless you want to end up like my mom...
you can't stay here too long.
But my mom...
still thinks that I'm the best.
Just to keep me fed with a roof over my head...
Even though other people would cuss her out,
and dump sewage water over her head...
Hey...
Do you know...
how my mom even raised me?
I...
I was going to grow up and become a policeman.
I was going to shove all those bastards
that tormented my mom behind bars myself.
Me too.
You too?
People always looked down on us for selling booze
to men as a woman without a husband.
Getting yelled at for not consorting with
them if she chooses to keep to herself...
Why are all men such bastards?
I really used to hate my mom.
Even after all the things she's been put through
she still can't stay away from those bastards.
I used to get so frustrated with her.
There were even times when I'd yell and scream
at her and ask her why she can't live without a man.
Me too, me too!
I've said a lot of things to my mom that I never should've said.
What can I do about it though?
People say that a child only grows up once their parents are dead.
Pour me another drink.
Yes, sure.
But you still shouldn't say things like that.
What you said about how one shouldn't live like your mom.
Didn't you say that you're the reason for her being?
If her one and only son starts to look down upon her life and her as a mom...
then how is your mom to live on feeling so alone?
Hey.
You have such a pretty neck.
What the heck? Who are you?
What is it?
Who are you and what are you doing in my room?
Where am I!
Did you... did you take advantage of me?
What do you mean, take advantage?
It looks like you're the one who took advantage of me!
You're still fully dressed!
Let's just forget this ever happened.
What do you mean, forget this ever happened?
Sung Won.
Can I speak to you for a moment?
By any chance...
the money that you're supposed to be getting paid after the competition
is there any way that you can get them to advance you that money?
What's going on?
Bong Soon's father...
he's in urgent need of a surgery.
Bong Soon's... father?
Is there any way?
I'll look into it.
Kang San.
Do you know where Director Gong is right now?
What's going on?
I'm going to go speak to Director Gong.
Go ahead to the hospital with Reporter Choi, and I'll meet you there.
Why don't you go and get some rest?
I'll stay here.
It seems that there's nothing that I can do to help Bong Soon.
You were there for her when she needed you.
Because that's the only thing I can do.
I just realized...
that I'm pretty insignificant as a person.
Ever since I left home...
that thought has popped into my head every once in a while.
Just because a person doesn't have any money...
I don't think that changes the worth of that person.
You have always been... larger than life to me.
Don't become a smaller person.
Don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
I was just... telling you what I thought.
I know.
I never used to be able to see your heart
in the past even when you were near me.
But now...
Kang San.
Reporter Choi!
How did it go?
I don't think Director Gong is going to work out.
He says the money situation is pretty tight right now.
Even though I've asked some of the comrades
for help with the urgency of it all...
but I don't think it'll still be enough to cover the cost of the surgery.
The doctor told me yesterday that Bong Soon's
father's lung disease is work related.
Now that I think about it...
everyone who's worked at that factory for
a long time are constantly coughing.
The lung disease... could be work related?
It's possible that Bong Soon's father isn't
the only one suffering from this illness.
I think I need to get back to the factory.
Are you okay?
How's your father doing?
He just fell asleep.
How did you know that we were here?
I'll come up with the rest of the money soon.
Reporter Choi and I are looking into everything we can think of for help.
So you shouldn't worry too much.
Thank you.
The government officials took away every last bit of money we had...
and we came here to Kyungsung as if we were being chased.
He went out to work in the fields with the rise of the sun...
and he'd only come home from the fields after the sun went down.
Corralled into a dark basement without even any ventilation...
constantly working that sewing machine without
even knowing whether it's day or night...
So how is a man like that expected to keep working without getting sick?
He's worked harder than anyone else out
there with everything he does in his life.
He's never once said a harsh word to anyone in his life
and he raised all five of us kids on his own.
So why is it after having lived so earnestly,
he still has to suffer like this to the end?
It's breaking my heart.
Once your father gets better...
let's speak formally to your father and tell him about us.
People who works honestly to make a living...
just like your father did...
I vow to make this world a better and happy place for people like them.
For nothing but for the sake of your happiness...
I vow...
to make the world into that happy place.
Sung Won.
Ma'am.
I've noticed that you're constantly coughing.
When did your coughing start?
- Why do you want to know? - Bong Soon's father collapsing...
The doctor said it's a work related illness
from having worked so long in a space
with a lot of dust without any ventilation.
Haven't you been working in this factory for quite a while yourself?
If you don't do anything about it, your symptoms could get much worse.
I can take care of my own body.
Grandmother, please help me.
If we can just prove that this illness is work related...
then we'd be able to come up with the money for Mr. Go Man Duk's surgery.
Please.
You just need to let the hospital examine you.
Then we can formally request the money for the
cost of the hospital bills from the factory
to get both you, and Mr. Go Man Duk get the treatment that you need.
Grandmother.
Have a seat.
Our Pyongyang factory...
have decided not to follow the new business order.
Pyongyang cotton mill isn't a private company of the Min Family...
but it belongs to all our employees that works for us at our factory.
so it's not something that we can just take
away without the permission from them.
Then what are we to do?
By going on a strike...
we're going to express our resistance to the new order.
Dad.
With the Secretary Commissioner keeping such a close eye on what we're doing...
I don't think we'll be able to avoid getting
punished for what we're about to do.
As the eldest son of our Min family...
Chi Ho...
I've called you in here to speak to you because you have a part in this too.
Okay, then please speak.
The marriage with President Choi Je Gook's daughter...
is not going to happen anymore.
I don't want what's going on between us adults...
to have a negative and harmful effect on the two of you as well.
It wasn't easy for me to come to this decision.
And I'm not oblivious to the fact that Shin Young is of an admirable character.
It's also not out of desire to seek revenge for what he has done to me.
I hope that you can see and understand that.
This matter concerns the nation's fund that is diminishing too quickly...
You father...
and also...
for all your uncles as well...
it's a matter of life or death for us all.
What do you mean, a strike?
What have the two of you been doing... while the situation got to this extent?
Forgive me.
It's just that it hasn't been that long since
Director Choi here has come into his position.
But we will soon have everything figured out.
How are you saying that you're going to figure this out?
Do you have a plan in mind?
Director Choi and I will throw ourselves into resolving this matter
and we will have Min Tae Shin convinced otherwise within the next few days.
With all due respect...
that level of a measure isn't going to resolve the problem this time around.
Then...
do you have something else in mind?
Pyongyang cotton mill's strike...
is a serious rebellion against legislature,
and an act of treason against this country.
We need to gather our powers and resources
to teach them a lesson to show them a private
enterprise cannot disobey an order passed down
from the Secretary Commissioner and the government ever again.
How are you going to deal with the aftermath
of taking governmental action on this?
What if that leads to a halt on the supplies
that are needed and shipped to Manchuria?
Will you take responsibility of it then?
As the head of the cotton mill industry...
if we're to prevent any future events of
anything like this ever happening again...
even if it means that we may suffer some temporary losses from our actions...
we need to take a firm stand to ensure that nothing like this happens again.
I'm telling you that taking a firm stand
on something like this isn't very simple.
Do you know how deep a faith people in Pyongyang have in Min Tae Shin?
I don't think you really know how things work in the government quite yet
since you haven't been working with us for that long.
If we're too hasty about our actions, and stir up the public's sentiment...
Deputy Director.
Do you believe...
that rather than our brave soldiers who are
fighting to their death out on the battlefield
for the glory of our Japanese Empire...
The lives of these lazy and primitive
citizens of this country are more important?
Please forgive me.
I wasn't thinking.
Discuss a course of action with Director Choi
to remedy this situation immediately.
I will allow any course of action if it means
that we can put a cease to their strike.
Yes, Sir!
Who do you think you are? And just what are you up to?
You couldn't even stop this strike from
happening as the Director of the industry
so what do you think you've done that's so
great for you to keep talking like that? Huh?
Please forgive me.
You think you're that great?
What about you is so great?
You think you're the Secretary Commissioner?
Stop with all your useless babble, and go talk to Min Tae Shin right now.
If you can't convince him otherwise, then
I'm going to torment you day and night.
Got that?
Let's go!
Bae!
Come on, Bae!
- Find an opening! - Stop him!
Chi Ho, pass me the ball! Chi Ho!
Pass me the ball!
Hey, when are you going to get your head on straight?
Why are you trying to ruin a good thing?
Your mom is trying to do everything she can to
avoid getting you on the mandatory enlistment.
I hope that you understand.
The marriage between our family and President Choi Je Gook's family...
isn't going to happen anymore.
What's wrong with him now?
If nothing else but for your sake...
and for people who's worked earnestly to make an honest living...
I want to make this world a better and happier place for those people.
Time, time! I want everyone to gather around.
Hurry up and gather around.
Listen.
What are you guys thinking by missing even the simplest passes?
How can we even hope to win by playing the way you guys are right now?
What would it even matter if we won?
We're all going to get dragged off into a war zone anyways.
What?
How did you know about that?
Don't you know what kind of a place my mom runs?
I heard that the government is going to make a
formal announcement about it this afternoon.
Hong Ki's right.
You guys... are about to be forced into mandatory enlistment.
However...
there is a clause.
Japan is allowing a special pardon to a
team from mandatory enlistment if they win.
Which means...
if you win this upcoming game, you may not get forcefully drafted.
Wait a minute.
Are you saying that we won't get dragged off, or it's possible that we won't?
Can't you be more clear?
You won't get dragged off.
San!
But...
That's not going to be so easy.
The Japanese team we'll be playing against is Team Noki.
It's a team comprised entirely of sons from
all the nobleman and government officials.
No one even disputes anything even if they cheat in the game
and they're the dirtiest players known around.
We're all dead fish in the water unless you all get your heads on straight.
All that prize money will go out the window...
and your own lives may go out the window too.
That's what I want you all to realize.
Now that you all know, what do you think you need to do?
You should probably start practicing, don't you think?
Go!
Kang San.
[Team Noki's Welcome Ceremony]
Thank you.
Thank you, everyone.
I feel extremely honored to have become a part of Team Noki.
Having been born to a Japanese mother, and a Korean nobleman...
I now feel at peace as if I've finally made it back home.
I, Yoshida Takeshi...
With the honor of our family name, and pride of being Japanese on the line...
I vow to do my absolute best to lead Team Noki to victory.
Doing your best is something even dogs and cows can do.
How are you going to beat those guys on Team Baekhwa?
Just leave it to me.
I have a plan of my own.
You.
Come here.
I heard that your son made it to the Final Fours?
Congratulations.
Thank you.
But what to do?
He's going to be forced into enlisting soon.
The government's official mandatory military enlistment announcement.
All physically able men are to be drafted
into mandatory military service.
Want me to get your son out?
You once told me that you would...
do everything that I order you to do, didn't you?
Min Chi Ho is here to see you.
Come in.
I heard that you made it to the Final Fours.
Congratulations. I knew that you could do it.
What did you want to see me about?
Why don't you have a seat?
I was too harsh with you the last time we saw each other.
I'm sorry about that.
It was all because I only want the best for you.
Is your father doing well?
What is it that you want?
You and your family...
must you really do this to me?
The only thing that's changed is that the
wedding isn't going to happen this year.
But aren't our two families pretty much the one and the same now?
Now that I've become the head of the cotton mill industry
who is it that's going to reap the most benefits from my new position?
That would be your family.
I'd give them all the right push, and every advantage.
Isn't that what family does for one another?
It's still not too late.
Convince your father to put an end to this strike...
and tell him to accept the new business order.
I'll put in a good word with the Board of Advisors for him.
No, don't.
All the laws and orders that you speak of...
they don't exist in laws of Korea.
They're not the laws of this country
but it's a mandated order handed down from the Japanese government.
My father is a Korean.
He's not obligated to follow their orders.
And they have no right to force him to follow their orders either.
If you're finished saying what you have to say...
then I'll just be going now.
You.
Are you saying that you're giving up on my Shin Young?
It seems that you think...
that only your family is precious.
And the welfare of your future wife's family
isn't even in the realm of your concern.
A person who treats my woman so awfully...
why wouldn't I keep him within my realm of concern?
Excuse me, Sir.
Oh my goodness, look who it is!
It's Kang San, the basketball player!
Yes, hello.
Come here, everyone.
Basketball player, Kang San, is here!
Don't you know Kang San, the basketball player?
But... what are you doing here at our factory?
Um...
You cough often, don't you?
Can you tell me when you started coughing like that?
By any chance...
did you start coughing like that when you started working at this factory?
Can you tell me? Please, Sir.
Hey!
Who the hell are you? What are you doing at my factory?
Mr. Go Man Duk's lung illness is most likely work related.
He got sick from working in a dusty factory without any ventilation.
How dare you come in here and go on about
some made up illness based on a lie?
It's not made up, but the doctor himself told us that.
Everyone at this factory with a cough needs to go in and get examined.
Their condition could turn
really dangerous just like Mr. Go Man Duk's did.
Who are you?
You're in the same circle as that wench, Choi Shin Young, aren't you?
What did you say?
Ugh, you scoundrel! You worthless scoundrel!
How dare you come to a place like this and cause all this ruckus? Huh?
- Get out of here immediately! - It's not like that, Grandmother.
You need to get examined too.
Don't you know to listen to your elder?
Come over here right now.
You need to be taught a stiff lesson. Come here right now!
What's your relationship to that new girl that started working here?
Even the factory supervisor asked you earlier
what your relationship is to that young woman.
- Why do you want to know that? - You little scoundrel.
How dare you talk back to me when I've just
saved you from getting a certain beating?
Don't you think that I know how you secretly
stayed in hiding behind the front gates
the other day to keep sneaking glances at that new girl?
You... like that new girl, don't you?
- No, I don't. - What do you mean, you don't?
You'd have better luck trying to fool a ghost, you scoundrel.
Go stand proudly before her if you like her,
who go sneaking around her back like that?
You think she'll ever even notice you like that?
Shin Young...
is engaged to someone else.
Ugh, you foolish scoundrel.
That penis of yours is wasted on you.
How's Bong Soon's father doing?
We don't have enough money for his surgery.
The doctor told us that he needs the surgery as soon as possible.
Is a diagnosis all you need from me?
Don't blame those people in there too much.
It's because they're too afraid.
They can't lose this job if they want to keep their family fed.
I don't have any kids to support or care for...
and I'm already old and over the hill.
So there's nothing for me to even fear.
I have an easier way to go.
The marriage between our family and President Choi Je Gook's family...
isn't going to happen anymore.
Are you...
giving up on my Shin Young?
No matter what kind of a person your father is...
it doesn't matter to me.
It's because... I love you.
If you're looking for a ring to propose to your beloved fiance with...
you can't get any better than this ring.
Here, take a look.
Soo In.
Yeah, it's been a while.
Listen...
I was wondering if you could lend me some money.
Really?
I see.
Shin Young.
Chi Ho.
So this is where you've been.
I've been looking everywhere for you.
I'm sorry.
Bong Soon's father has suddenly fallen ill.
I'm sure that must've been hard for you.
Sorry I couldn't have been there for you.
What are you doing here?
I came because I have something to say to you.
I'm not sure if this is the right place for me to say something like this...
but both of our fathers... are opposed to us getting married.
I don't think it'll be easy to convince either one of them otherwise.
But I still...
can't give you up.
I'm going to protect...
the person I love.
I'll protect you.
I promise that I'll win when our team goes to the Final Fours.
Once I get the prize money...
we can move in and live together then.
Shin Young.
Will you marry me?
Shin Young.
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Are you saying that you're actually going to marry his daughter?
Don't ever mention her name in front of me ever again!
Not just once, but twice? How can you do that to Kang San?
if I don't do as I'm told, then he's going to kill me instead!
Long time no see, Kang San.
Isn't that a bomb?
I think there are freedom fighters within the team.
Remember what I told you about a possible
suitor for your daughter the last time?
- Get her ready to meet him. - President Choi isn't even human.
He'll think nothing of sacrificing his own daughter if it's to benefit himself.
I'm going to take everything you have away from you.
I think you and I have two different paths to travel down on.
Are you telling me that you're going to to live as President Choi's daughter?
Don't go to Min Chi Ho, and don't go to your father either.