My husband was my savior.
I need a vacation.
Vacation? How about the kids?
Is this your first time in Otaru?
When did you first see me?
I don't know the reason for why you went all the way up to Otaru to kill yourself,
But I'm not the kind of person who would use that.
Let's break up.
Should I just go for 500 million won?
I'm sorry. I never thought I could do however I pleased.
You know this kind of relationship can't go on forever.
Were you just afraid of being abandoned, that was it?
With those driving skills, you won't get to the airport.
Can't you stay here one more day?
Just....
Give me a day.
Episode 3
Stop!
I thought you'd left me there alone.
I was scared.
Even though I've been always alone...
I felt like I really was alone for the first time.
Who were you talking to on the phone?
I'm sorry. I didn't intend to do this.
But I couldn't handle it anymore.
Are you angry?
Are you laughing at me?
Me, why?
You must have thought I was that kind of man, after all.
Like I was "that kind of woman"?
We're even now.
Are you hungry?
Why aren't you eating?
Who were you talking to on the phone?
Are you really that curious?
It's just that, I felt like intruding on someone else's life.
A friend.
Girlfriend.
You like each other?
Well...
Can't really say. What this relationship is...
You have many secrets.
What secrets?
I'm sorry if I intruded on your life.
But I have no intention of answering to all that useless curiosity in detail.
- I... - Do you really want to know?
What kind of man I am...
Just stay there, I'll go get a room.
Or should I get two?
If you can't decide by yourself, leave it to me.
Will you kindly show me your passport, Sir?
Kang Seong Goo
What the hell! A woman alone at this hour?!
- Hello? - Na Ri?
- Mommy? - How have you been?
Me? I'm doing fine.
No. I'll be back soon.
Are you going to the Hagwon* with Na Rae every day? (*private cram school)
I miss you, too.
Present? What should I get you?
OK, I promise I'll get you one.
Dad?
Daddy, get the phone.
It's Mommy.
It's me.
How are you doing?
Is it fun?
I'm sorry.
Don't worry about us, just have fun.
- Wait a second. - What?
Wait what?
I lost my cell phone just as I arrived in Japan.
You did?
Just, you know, in case you called me and I couldn't answer.
I didn't.
- Really? - There was no reason to call.
Don't worry about us, just have fun and come back.
Should I get Na Ri on the phone again?
No...
I was just worried about you.
You call me like that despite knowing my personality?
I don't know what your problem is...
But shake it all off before you come back. Don't just make everyone at home uncomfortable.
Don't you know why I'm acting this way?
Are you some three-year-old kid? You need to take care of your problems yourself.
Bye.
Dad.
I'll have to go back.
Where?
In the middle of the night?
That's funny.
Didn't you come all the way up to Otaru to kill yourself?
I'm joking.
Nobody willing to commit suicide would call home.
Use this. I'll go get another room.
I felt like a glass of tea lying on a table, or a plate inside a cupboard.
How could I just leave home?
I have a husband and children.
You at least need to go there to die or kill yourself, as an excuse.
Can't you leave everything to me?
Just...
Leave it to me.
Didn't I say not to think about anything?
You came here to die.
To find a place to die.
You know you didn't really come here to die.
Live... To live is what you wanted, so much you were ready to die.
Let me go. Let....
Look at the world once again, through me.
Then you'll find the desire to live on.
Good morning!
Love?
The most familiar, yet the most foreign of words. That's love.
The problem wasn't my husband cheating on me.
The fact I had nothing to tell him about that troubled me.
He didn't marry me out of love, that man.
If I had married this man because I couldn't live without him...
Then I could have overcome every obstacle on the way.
If I was hanging on that deep feeling...
Then even the strongest pain could be healed.
Was he the only one who married without love?
How about me?
It's cold, uh? I just turned the engine on so it'll get warmer right away.
Last Christmas a man died while climbing that mountain, right?
A climbing accident?
Let's see...
Accidents take place all too often here, so...
- If it happened last Christmas... - That day it suddenly started to snow.
I did hear about an accident the first few days of January.
But last Christmas? I don't remember any.
I'm sorry. Has it gotten any warmer back there?
"I left first."
"Our meeting..."
Lee Jun Soo.
Kang Seong Gu.
No deaths in December.
December 27, 2007.
I didn't know when you'd leave, so I paid for the room until tomorrow.
I also left the car here. Use it if you plan to stay in Otaru.
Otherwise leave it at any car rent spot.
What is so complicated?
OK, I'll be there in a minute, so let's talk then.
- Stop! - What?!!
- What's wrong with you? - Let go!
- I'm sorry. - For what?
It was my mistake. Uh?
I'm sorry. It's my fault, uh?
Any progress?
The director keeps urging me, you know.
Nothing much.
She just went back and forth from the store to this house.
According to the director, he said she was going somewhere.
Where?
Was it Paris? Or Milan? Don't remember clearly, but somewhere in Europe.
Do you know this man?
They don't look very close to me...
Ahh... I don't know, obviously. It's the director's private life after all.
Anyway, there wasn't much. It's a first for me doing this.
Don't you do this kind of investigation to catch criminals?
Of course that's a different story!
What the director is really curious about...
Is whether she really went overseas, or she just said that and is still in Seoul.
I can't possibly know that. I'm not following her 24/7.
Can't you find that out looking at the departures record?
Civilians can't do that. That's something the headquarters take care of.
Anyway, if it doesn't involve breaking the law, I'll find her.
Should I just give up?
I never linger on with damaged goods on the stock market.
Isn't life the same? If I started looking back then I'd be just stupid.
Wait!
Our president is a great man.
- What? - You misunderstood.
Our president is a really great man.
What are you talking about?
I've heard the reason why our stock prices keep falling down...
Is because you've sold all your shares.
So, what?
Look at this for just a moment.
This is the contract we signed with the Americans.
- Ahhh... why don't you get it? - Director! Director!!
He's the kind of person who buys us houses if he makes any money!!!
He's living in a rented house, but he still buys houses for us!!!
Only marriage didn't go according to plans.
Everything else went exactly as I planned it.
Up until now.
The phone is turned off, after the beep...
I'm sorry, Director.
I thought he was gone already.
Who was that?
You know, the one who gave us a million and you asked to give it back.
He came back with triple the sum this time.
That if it wasn't enough, he'd do everything...
Go get those documents.
What?
The export contract.
But we sold all our shares in that company this morning?!
Go get that contract and buy the stocks back in the afternoon.
Why don't you look more into...
What are you waiting for?!?
Yes, Sir.
Why did you forget our appointment yesterday?
Another one came up.
You were the one who set up yesterday's!
- I forgot. - You forgot?!
I still remembered a few days ago, I must have forgot the morning after.
Have you thought about it?
- What? - Working under me.
I don't really want to.
Isn't it uncomfortable to meet this way?
What's wrong with it? I'm just fine.
I don't know what you do for a living, but what if I pay you?
I'll get you an officetel (office+hotel).
How about a car?
What car?
It's about time you change your car, uh?
The plate is so old, you never know when it'll come down.
You're really buying me a car?
- New or used? - New!
There's one I'd love to get...
It's too narrow in here.
- What? - It's too narrow inside!
It's OK. I'll ride it alone anyway.
Wow... It's great.
Have you thought about it?
I won't interfere with your private life.
The more we meet, you'll want to know this and that.
I promise.
I still don't want to.
If you really don't want to, well. Too bad, then.
I don't want an officetel.
I've got this instead.
Bye!
Goodbye! Goodbye!
I don't know. Nowadays, he's so volatile that I'm busy guessing.
Hyeon Pil, are you trying to win me over subtly?
What? Have you seen last month's results?
It's this. Uh?
I got the contract back, and told them to buy.
If it was this place...
I wouldn't be afraid to die.
What did you say?
I said I wouldn't be afraid to die here.
I finally found the answer.
I didn't come here to die, but to live.
After finding love.
Did you sleep well?
Yes. It's snowed a lot during the night, it seems.
Right around this time, there's no stopping to that.
If you're hungry, should I prepare you something to eat?
- I'm fine, thanks. - Then how about a warm cup of coffee?
- Yes, thank you. - OK.
It will get warm right away.
You started the fire because of me?
There are no customers in winter.
Don't climbers rest here?
This is too rough a mountain to climb.
And it doesn't have that sense of challenge the Everest or K2 gives to climbers.
It's always a very lonely place in winter.
Aren't you scared, all alone?
Even if it is a little scary, I can't leave this place empty.
I can't wait. I can't wait any longer.
Waiting won't have any meaning to me.
If I wait... it won't mean hope to me.
It will just mean despair.
This is my burial ground.
It's here... where I have to bury myself.
Bury myself.
You waited for this a long time, didn't you?
Just like that sister of yours...
Shut up!
Didn't I tell you? I can forgive you for anything, but not for insulting my sister.
Is it that embarrassing? Your sister?
Stop!
Step on me all you want.
All I am is a dirty fool who bites rotten flesh out of a crocodile's teeth.
Every time you insult me, I feel delight.
Yes! I need your money. I'll do everything you ask me.
If I can just endure you I'll be happy. But!
Not my sister. With her you can't.
Because she's the last shred of pride I have left.
Be careful. Don't mess with my last inch of dignity!
Seong Gu!
Seong Gu, hold my hands.
Don't let go!
Seong Gu!
Let go. Why are you so gutless?
You hate me! Enough to kill me.
Let my hand go, then you'll obtain everything you want.
Let go, let my hand go!
If you let my hand go, you'll become Kang Seong Gu.
You'll be able to live my life! You'll become just like me!
Seong Gu! Don't let go!
Seong Gu! Seong Gu!!!
Seong Gu!
Even the inside of your shoes got wet.
You'll get frostbite if you don't take those off and warm your feet.
Where have you been?
Have you gone searching for your friend?
I'm sorry.
I ruined it all.
I wasn't catching anything. I ruined it all.
Something like you with a single, lone string connecting him to life.
And I cut that string.
I'm sorry. I ruined you.
Who cares about who this man really was?
No matter what happened to his friend.
Whether he just died, or was killed. It has nothing to do with me.
Youth, how beautiful and brilliant a thing.
But to me, it was a mere castle of sand.
Better, did anything like that ever happen to me?
All I saw were fragments of a flashing light,
feebly passing through a dark tunnel.
Can't you just jump ship while you're at it?
I think the big suits were ready to start with three to four billion won.
Who would ever recognize your talent selling that?
A few mistakes and they'll look at you like worn out shoes.
Hell, you could even start off with a big one (ten billion).
That would take care of everything, wouldn't it?
If you just make up your mind, you could become our company's biggest fund manager.
Of course you'll also receive incentives.
Oh, right.
Is your wife doing well?
Someone told me they saw your wife at Hokkaido airport.
The last time I jumped ship, I got a new wife. Even a new car, too.
And this too.
What are you doing there?
All the lights were turned off inside.
I told the housemaid to leave the lights on when she was leaving. She must have forgot.
- Get up. - The kids?
I sent them to their aunt's, since they have no school tomorrow.
What are you doing? Get up.
I must have fallen asleep like this.
When did you arrive?
I took the railway once I got off the plane, and then grabbed a taxi.
If you told me you were coming home today, we would have met at the airport.
- You're busy anyway. - I would have sent one of the guys over.
I'll bring my luggage in, then let's go get the kids.
Tomorrow.
I'll go park the car, so go in first.
The kids...
Oh, it's me!
Home? Nah... I'm going somewhere.
It's not that. Just one month.
Since you're waiting, tell them to wait just one more month.
I told you it's not that. Jumping ship is not as easy as you think.
Of course I want it. You think ten billion a year is a joke?!
OK. Oh... Don't let the word get out.
By the way, I liked that car.
Get me a seat for one of those.
OK, bye.
Dinner?
How about you?
I'm fine.
Me, too.
I'll go out a moment.
Wait.
What is it?
I have something to tell you.
- Is it that urgent? - Yes.
I'm not really in the mood. Can't we do this later?
No.
We can't?
All you do is household chores, you leave your husband and kids home...
And go have fun somewhere, travel around and suddenly come home.
Now all you have to say is "we need to talk"?
Fine. What is it. What you need to talk about now?
I said, let's do this tomorrow.
I found someone I like.
What did you say?
I said...
I found someone I like.
Really?
- I'm sorry. - Fine.
Yes...
I found someone I like.
- Do you believe in love at first sight? - I don't.
From now on, you become me. Become Kang Seong Gu and hit on her.
Do you know I didn't go to Tokyo? That I went to Hokkaido?
So it was the sentimentalism of a teenage girl resurfacing?
Aren't you rich? If your father opens his hands, then money will pour out.
I came back because of your call. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have.
This man, who did you say he is?
Kang Seong Gu. The son of Chairman Kang, of Daeseong Industrials.
He's not dead, isn't he?