"Mi-sung-Li is a rural village famous for rice and apples.

"
0:59
"To buy anything, I have to go into town."
1:04
"It takes close to an hour to go and come back."
1:09
KIM TAE-RI
1:13
"I came down to my childhood home from Seoul 3 months ago at winter."
1:22
LITTLE FOREST
1:32
WINTER
5:43
"When it's cold, I crave dough soup."
5:46
"The dough must sit for 2 hours. Perfect time to clean the snow."
6:58
Jae-ha?
7:27
"One sip of dough soup when I'm freezing..."
7:56
"There is no more rice or flour left."
8:01
"I have to go into town or report to my aunt."
8:05
Or I could starve.
8:11
"I don't want anyone to know that I'm here."
8:14
Song Hae-won!
8:23
"When did you come down? Why didn't you call!"
8:27
"I was going to after chopping firewood."
8:29
Don't lie.
8:30
You should've called right away.
8:32
I'll fall!
8:40
Welcome home.
8:42
I missed you.
8:45
"But why'd you come? Did you pass the exam?"
8:49
Why didn't you call me first!
8:53
Did your boyfriend pass?
8:55
Well, ah...
8:56
"Some friends hit you where it hurts."
8:59
Eun-sook is like that.
9:01
I get it.
9:03
You failed and he passed, huh.
9:06
"It hurts your pride so you came to hide?"
9:11
You did that before too!
9:13
"- When you did bad on your tests. - Stop!"
9:16
You kept quiet to yourself.
9:20
That's why you came, right?
9:22
No. I came because I'm hungry.
9:27
Not because you're jealous?
9:30
I'm really hungry.
9:36
What?
9:42
Should we call Jae-ha over?
9:44
Jae-ha?
9:45
How long has he been back?
9:49
"Jae-ha went to a university nearby and got a job right away."
9:54
"Since I went to school in Seoul, we naturally lost touch."
9:58
"He helped his parents farm and started a small orchard."
10:05
Number 12, please!
10:06
"Eun-sook graduated from college and got a job at the bank in town."
10:12
"Since she's never lived away, she complains how boring it is here."
10:20
"Her dream is to escape here and live in the city."
10:28
"I worked and studied for the teacher certification exam."
10:31
My life in Seoul was stifling too.
10:35
Instant food didn't fill me up.
10:41
"I meant it when I said I came back because I'm hungry."
10:45
Thanks for the food!
10:59
HOON
11:10
Hae-won, I passed the exam.
11:14
"I don't know how you did, so I can't really be happy."
11:18
Call me. I'll be waiting.
11:46
Who is it?
12:12
"Wild boars come around this time of year."
12:18
Doesn't the elk cry like humans?
12:24
Sounds like a crazy woman crying.
12:31
Stop it, Mommy! Please!
12:45
AUNT BOK-SOON
13:09
What are you doing here?
13:14
Aunt Bok-soon?
13:17
How'd you know I came?
13:19
"There's smoke coming off your chimney."
13:21
I thought your mom was back.
13:25
How've you been?
13:28
Has Mom been by here?
13:31
"I wouldn't know. I don't come by every day."
13:36
"She's not one to come and say she's back."
13:40
Do you keep in touch?
13:44
Oh dear.
13:46
You're just like her.
13:48
What?
13:49
"I thought your mom was odd. You're unique too."
13:55
You're so much like her.
13:57
Of course, she's dad's sister.
14:01
"Come have breakfast and take some food."
14:05
It's okay. I'm not staying long.
14:08
When are you leaving?
14:11
In 3 or 4 days.
14:13
"If Mom ever comes back, don't tell her I was here."
14:20
"- Please? - Okay..."
14:24
Come on. Let's go.
14:36
Eat slowly. You'll choke.
14:43
Why do you look so haggard?
14:46
Eat slowly!
14:50
"- But it's good! - Why you..."
14:53
Try the pickle too.
15:11
"-Long time no see. -Long time..."
15:18
What's the dog for?
15:23
Here.
15:25
Sleeping alone can be scary.
15:31
"How's this going to console me? I'll go back soon anyway."
15:36
"Warm, living things are comforting."
15:39
"If you're leaving soon, why bring all that food?"
15:44
See ya.
15:47
"His name's Fivo! He was the fifth one born."
15:55
Wait! Take him back!
16:23
"Sorry, Hoon. I'll be in touch soon..."
16:46
Hey!
17:08
"A few days after my college entrance exams..."
17:11
Mom! I'm hungry!
17:17
Mom?
17:24
Mom!
17:28
Mom?
17:34
Mom?
17:49
"- Hi, Aunt Bok-soon. - Hi."
17:51
"Where'd your mom go? Didn't she say anything?"
17:58
"She came by earlier and asked me to watch you."
18:03
"She didn't say why. She just left after saying that."
18:11
Did you eat?
18:16
I'm not hungry.
18:20
"You didn't even graduate yet. She's crazy!"
18:27
"Don't worry. She'll be back soon."
18:33
I doubt it.
18:40
Oh dear.
19:10
"In her hidden letter, she wrote about why she left."
19:18
"But I couldn't understand any of it."
19:22
"I just knew that she wouldn't be back soon."
19:28
"We moved to Dad's hometown when I was 4 years old."
19:33
"It was because Dad was sick, but we stayed even after he died."
19:45
"I was angry and curious about Mom leaving so suddenly."
19:50
"I wanted to live well and prove I didn't need her."
19:56
Here, Hae-won!
19:58
Looks like good news.
20:07
ACCEPTANCE LETTER
20:22
"Only I came back without finding answers."
20:27
I wonder if Mom found hers.
21:07
Come here, Fivo.
21:30
Hey, where are you going?
21:34
Can you mash the red beans?
21:36
Hey, I'm a guest here.
21:41
Bang! Bang!
21:43
How can you put a guest to work?
21:48
What's this?
21:51
Am I doing this right?
21:55
Yup.
21:56
You're doing good!
21:58
Yes, ma'am.
22:06
It's all mashed up!
22:10
Now, what do I do?
22:27
So colorful!
22:52
Fivo! Fivo!
22:54
Sit Fivo!
22:56
Fivo sit!
22:57
Give me your paw!
22:58
Good dog.
23:06
Is it done?
23:07
Almost.
23:10
"- Not bad, huh? - What?"
23:13
"Jae-ha. What do you think?"
23:21
You mean as a man?
23:25
Didn't we call him 'Snotty'?
23:28
You see him as a man now?
23:31
You gave him the nickname!
23:34
"Well, there's no other guy in this village."
23:40
He's cute.
23:43
I'm not interested.
23:45
"Damn dating... It's the same in the city and here."
23:49
"Then, keep your eyes off him. He's mine."
23:53
Got that?
24:08:00
"- Hey! - What?"
24:11:00
Don't!
24:13:00
There.
24:19:00
Tada!
24:21:00
How can you make rice cake?
24:30:00
"It tastes just like your mom's rice cake."
24:34:00
I think mine tastes better.
24:37:00
But it's slightly different.
24:40:00
How?
24:41:00
Your mom's tasted a bit sweeter.
24:47:00
Yours tastes slightly saltier.
24:52:00
"How do you remember that? I think it tastes good."
24:56:00
How did he know?
24:58:00
"Mom used pumpkin instead of gardenia, so it'll be sweeter."
25:04:00
"And I put a little more salt in boiling the red beans."
25:13:00
It's cold! Watch the furnace.
25:21:00
"- You said you'd sleep over. - When?"
25:27:00
Will you drive me home?
25:29:00
You live down the street.
25:31:00
"There's no streetlamp! I can't see in the dark."
25:36:00
"Let Fivo sleep outside when it warms up."
25:39:00
I said I'm going back soon.
25:41:00
What's to do in Seoul?
25:43:00
"You failed your test, quit your job, and don't talk to your boyfriend."
25:49:00
Don't go anywhere!
25:52:00
Let's go!
25:55:00
I'll come tomorrow.
25:57:00
Reserve a seat for me at 7.
25:59:00
"- It's cold. Let's go. - Hey!"
26:02:00
"- Why you! - Hey!"
26:05:00
Silly.
26:16:00
That's weird.
26:18:00
"- What? - I don't get it."
26:20:00
Hae-won.
26:22:00
"She doesn't look for her mom. They were really close."
26:28:00
It's her pride.
26:31:00
"She must be curious and angry at her."
26:35:00
"But if she expresses that, she thinks she'd be losing."
26:40:00
"She planned to move out right after high school graduation."
26:45:00
But her mom beat her to it!
26:48:00
It hurt her pride.
26:51:00
Moms and daughters are like that?
26:53:00
"It's because they're mother and daughter."
26:56:00
Hae-won is a proud girl.
27:00:00
"She probably fought with her boyfriend because of that."
27:03:00
She broke up with her boyfriend?
27:09:00
I don't know.
27:16:00
I'll be back soon. Don't worry.
27:19:00
When?
27:22:00
Maybe a week or so.
27:26:00
I'll call when I get there.
27:29:00
Why are you there?
27:30:00
Hello? I can't hear you!
27:33:00
Hello?
27:33:00
"The signal's weak here in the country!"
27:36:00
"- Hello? - I'll call you back later!"
27:45:00
Song Hae-won.
27:48:00
Why's your life so hard?
27:58:00
Your life is hard too, huh?
28:51:00
Thief!
28:54:00
It's a burglar!
28:55:00
Thief! Thief!
29:00:00
You scared me.
29:02:00
Why'd you sneak into my field?
29:06:00
Good tomatoes, huh?
29:09:00
"So sweet. The ones in Seoul tasted flat."
29:12:00
"Freshly picked ones are different."
29:18:00
Look at you!
29:21:00
What?
29:22:00
"I'm proud of you. Where'd you learn to farm?"
29:28:00
My dad, the other farmers,
29:32:00
and Internet.
29:36:00
"Little girl, watch what you say to an adult, huh?"
29:41:00
"My birthday is way earlier than yours!"
29:46:00
Hey, your scar is gone.
29:48:00
What?
29:50:00
"Remember when you tried to catch tomatoes with your mouth?"
29:54:00
"You fell over there, cut your head, and bled so much."
29:58:00
"We got so shocked and cried with you!"
30:00:00
Right! Where was it?
30:02:00
I was so scared then.
30:05:00
How about it for old time's sake?
30:08:00
Catch!
30:12:00
Can't you catch it?
30:14:00
Come here you!
30:15:00
Lost your touch?
30:16:00
Okay! I'm ready!
30:18:00
"- Catch! - Okay."
30:23:00
"- Try it again! Ready? - No way!"
30:27:00
Catch!
30:30:00
I'll get you!
30:36:00
One, two!
30:40:00
Timber!
30:58:00
"After a good sweat, you need alcohol."
31:18:00
"On long winter nights, Mom sometimes made Makgeolli."
31:24:00
"Sikhye for Hae-won. Makgeolli for me."
31:27:00
Cheers!
31:29:00
Cheers!
31:36:00
Is it good?
31:38:00
Wanna try it?
31:39:00
Yes!
31:43:00
"It tasted sour, acidic, and adult-like."
31:46:00
It's gross!
32:32:00
"Malt makes it into sweet rice punch, but yeast turns it into wine."
33:13:00
It's perfect!
33:15:00
"It's best to drink it with some company in the cold."
33:26:00
It's really good!
33:30:00
"- It's cold! Close the door! - No!"
33:32:00
"You have to drink Makgeolli with the cold wind!"
33:35:00
"Cut the nonsense and close the door!"
33:39:00
No way!
33:50:00
"- What was that? - No idea."
33:52:00
"- What did I trip on? - Don't know."
33:53:00
Fess up now!
33:55:00
"- Why you! - You wanna die!"
34:00:00
Stop!
34:02:00
Stop it!
34:08:00
What are you doing?
34:11:00
Hi!
34:12:00
What are you doing?
34:13:00
"Can't you see I'm parking my bike?"
34:19:00
"Is Jae-ha here? You called him too?"
34:22:00
Thought I only called you over?
34:27:00
It's not that.
34:30:00
Hey.
34:31:00
Hi.
34:33:00
She pushed me so hard!
34:36:00
Move!
34:37:00
It hurts!
34:39:00
It's freezing.
34:41:00
"- Move! - Hey!"
34:43:00
Cheers!
34:53:00
It's so good!
34:56:00
You drank it one shot?
34:59:00
"Because you came, the three of us can drink."
35:02:00
"Is it our first time drinking together?"
35:05:00
"- I guess. - Right."
35:09:00
"But why come down when I said I want to go up?"
35:15:00
"I was sick of working at a store. It pays peanuts."
35:20:00
I love drip coffee,
35:22:00
"but I can't even afford to buy it."
35:25:00
"Right. The coffee there is different."
35:28:00
"- It's expensive. - Right."
35:32:00
"Do you know what drip coffee is?"
35:36:00
Of course.
35:38:00
She doesn't. I can tell.
35:42:00
Just one more glass please.
35:43:00
"- Stop drinking! - I'm not drunk!"
35:46:00
That's enough.
35:48:00
Hey! Hey!
35:50:00
Are you sleeping?
35:55:00
"I'm cold. Aren't you cold?"
36:09:00
"Living in the city, I could see..."
36:13:00
how great a job farming is.
36:18:00
The sprouts in the spring...
36:33:00
"they look up at the holy sky like small earthly spirits..."
36:45:00
I can't really describe it...
36:53:00
"But I think I chose an incredibly cool job."
37:00:00
"Jae-ha is cool when he's drunk."
37:05:00
He came back here with an answer.
37:08:00
But.
37:09:00
"I couldn't bear it anymore and ran away here."
37:15:00
Hello.
37:16:00
"1 pork and 1 ham and cheese, please."
37:18:00
One moment, please.
37:25:00
Hey! Stop!
37:34:00
"It's not fair to go back after just winter here, right?"
37:40:00
Am I right or not?
37:42:00
Huh?
37:43:00
Tell me.
37:45:00
Huh?
37:54:00
"If I stay till the spring's spirits break through the winter,"
37:59:00
will I find my answers?
38:09:00
SPRING
38:35:00
Thanks for the food!
38:38:00
"Potatoes are planted first in spring."
38:42:00
"Though it's cold, the ground's warmth pushes the potato sprouts out."
38:47:00
"The sprouts, the flowers, and bearing crop..."
38:51:00
It all takes time.
38:54:00
You have to wait.
38:56:00
You must wait.
38:58:00
Wait.
39:00:00
"You have to wait to taste the best food."
39:05:00
"You can get spring greens for free, but potatoes take hard work."
39:58:00
"Spring bracken must be carefully dried and stored to eat in the fall."
40:06:00
I talk as if I'll stay till fall.
40:36:00
"When potato sprouts come up, it's time to plant other crops."
40:43:00
"From then on, there's no time to waste on the farm."
40:54:00
"- Are these peppers? - Hot peppers."
40:57:00
"- I'll take $3 worth, please. - Sure."
41:04:00
"Eun-sook! You're planting it wrong."
41:07:00
It's right!
41:09:00
They're too close together!
41:15:00
"- Plant 'em again. - No! Go away!"
41:20:00
"If you plant 'em like this, they'll get tangled up!"
41:23:00
"- Move! - No!"
41:24:00
Shut up and just go home.
41:28:00
"- It's your fault. - You go home."
41:31:00
"- No! You go home! - Shut up. Be quiet!"
41:34:00
"- What? - Watch. Try it again."
41:57:00
Thanks for the food!
42:31:00
"Aren't you scared to live there with no cameras or door locks?"
42:36:00
What will you do all day?
42:41:00
"I hate the country because of bugs!"
42:43:00
"Flies, worms, and bees! Gross!"
42:46:00
What? Why?
42:47:00
It's a bug!
42:48:00
No!
42:53:00
Why hello, caterpillar!
42:56:00
Did it fall from the tree?
42:58:00
"- You touched it? - Amazing!"
43:00:00
"They don't know that I'm a product of the land and air here."
43:10:00
"Of course, some things are annoying."
43:12:00
"Fivo, Fivo! What's this? Look!"
43:13:00
Hae-won!
43:15:00
Eat it!
43:18:00
Mr. Kim!
43:20:00
"Hae-won? Come have a seat here."
43:24:00
Come here.
43:25:00
"You want to be a teacher? Did you pass the exam?"
43:28:00
Got a boyfriend?
43:31:00
"What happened to your mom? Did she get remarried?"
43:36:00
"So what if she did! I'd get remarried too!"
43:54:00
"CLOSED TO HELP OUT IN FARMING SEASON"
43:57:00
The most annoying thing is.
44:01:00
"Mom coming to mind whenever I cook."
44:05:00
"It's like I'm always competing with her."
44:08:00
Focus.
44:11:00
Cooking reflects your heart.
44:15:00
Please get out of my head, Mom.
44:41:00
It's best to eat it raw,
44:44:00
"but I want to make something unique."
44:47:00
Not again!
44:50:00
How about pancake?
44:52:00
Cabbage pancake?
45:18:00
Lots!
45:19:00
Swirl it on.
45:22:00
Like this.
45:26:00
Wanna try?
45:40:00
What's that?
45:43:00
Tree.
45:45:00
Tree branch.
45:46:00
I'll shred this on top.
45:49:00
What?
45:50:00
That's weird!
45:52:00
Don't do it Mommy!
45:56:00
No tree branch!
46:03:00
All done!
46:05:00
It's weird!
46:06:00
Look! The tree bits are moving!
46:12:00
Wanna smell it?
46:16:00
"It smelled really unique and original."
46:20:00
"- Looks good, huh? - I thought she was a genius."
46:27:00
This looks so good!
46:30:00
Mom didn't create that?
46:32:00
It's delicious!
46:34:00
Excuse me?
46:37:00
"Sometimes I knew she lied, but Mom's cooking was never boring."
46:45:00
Unique dishes are good,
46:47:00
"but spring cabbage tastes best raw."
46:50:00
"The more you chew, the sweeter it gets."
47:43:00
"I haven't delivered to this place in a while."
47:46:00
Hae-won, right?
47:48:00
Yes. Hello, sir.
47:50:00
Wait! Could you send this back?
47:54:00
Why?
47:55:00
Because...
47:58:00
"I'm going back soon. I don't want mail coming here."
48:02:00
I can't do that.
48:04:00
"There's no address. It can't be returned."
48:07:00
And Hae-won,
48:09:00
"it's your freedom to read it or not, but I must deliver it."
48:16:00
That's a mail carrier's fate.
49:22:00
So? What did it say?
49:29:00
What did your mom write?
49:33:00
Her potato bread recipe.
49:37:00
"I was dying to know. You tried Mom's potato bread, right?"
49:41:00
It was the best!
49:48:00
"I begged her to tell me, but she said she'd teach me later."
49:56:00
"She leaves home and sends me her potato bread recipe?"
50:00:00
How could she?
50:02:00
It's nice and useful.
50:10:00
"Then write her back with a unique recipe of your own."
50:17:00
I don't know where she is.
50:23:00
I think she's living fine.
50:30:00
"That's weird. How did she know I was here?"
51:45:00
SUMMER
52:25:00
"No matter how much I pluck the weed out,"
52:28:00
it grows like my worries.
52:33:00
It's way too hot.
52:43:00
Thanks.
52:45:00
No thanks.
52:47:00
"-It's nice and cold. -I'm good."
52:49:00
"-It's hot, isn't it? -Thank you."
52:51:00
"-Iced coffee? -Thank you."
53:05:00
We fought over nothing.
53:08:00
"Eun-sook complained non-stop about her bank manager."
53:11:00
"He always wanders around outside."
53:14:00
"Then he shows up late when we're about to close"
53:18:00
"and tells us to do the work over again!"
53:21:00
"Why doesn't he tell us in the first place?"
53:24:00
"If I keep working here, I'll get cancer and die!"
53:29:00
Then just quit.
53:33:00
"If it stresses you out that much, it's better for you to quit."
53:39:00
How could you?
53:42:00
What?
53:44:00
How can you tell me to quit?
53:46:00
You don't care at all, do you?
53:52:00
What did I say?
53:55:00
"Why would I stress out about it if I'm just going to quit?"
54:00:00
Is quitting that easy to you?
54:03:00
"A friend should take my side and pat my back."
54:10:00
But you act all high and mighty?
54:15:00
"I can never talk to you! You don't listen!"
54:19:00
You're frustrating!
54:22:00
So suffocating!
54:30:00
What's with her?
54:35:00
She'll come around.
54:38:00
But it bothers me.
54:40:00
This isn't like you.
54:43:00
"Remember when you were bullied in grade 4?"
54:47:00
Me?
54:49:00
You don't remember?
54:51:00
I was really surprised by you.
54:54:00
"Other kids would've cried and had a hard time."
54:57:00
"But you didn't care and just let them be."
55:02:00
"It's like you ignored them instead of them leaving you out."
55:06:00
Soon, they stopped bullying you.
55:10:00
Really?
55:13:00
"I thought you were cool. Don't remember?"
55:18:00
Not really.
55:21:00
"It was Yong-hyun, Min-seok, and Soon-chun."
55:25:00
Yong-hyun is a farmer here.
55:27:00
"Soon-chun runs a pizza shop in Seoul."
55:31:00
I wonder what Min-seok is up to.
55:34:00
I remembered.
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Mom? Kids are bullying me.
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What?
55:42:00
Why?
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I don't know.
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"They don't answer me or let me play with them."
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Just leave them.
55:55:00
What?
55:57:00
If you respond to that,
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"they'll get excited and do it more."
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What?
56:09:00
"I'm upset, but you talk as if it is nothing!"
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You should console me!
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"Know what those bullies want the most?"
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To see you sad.
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So, if you don't get sad,
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you win!
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Turn around.
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Number 21, please.
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Hey!
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What's this?
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La joie de vivre crème brulee.
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Crème brulee for short.
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Here.
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Hit it!
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Mom was like a magician.
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"A magician who can change my mood instantly."
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This is called crème brulee.
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Crème brulee.
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"I created it. It's actually called,."
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La joie de vivre crème brulee.
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"But I shortened it to crème brulee just for you."
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Crème brulee-lee-lee-lee.
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Brulee-lee-lee?
58:40:00
Village chief here.
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There's a heat wave warning again.
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"While Granny Kim Yong-lae picked peppers yesterday afternoon,"
58:52:00
"she fell from heatstroke and almost died."
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"Please refrain from farming in daytime and drink lots of water."
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Thank you.
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Stop!
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"I'm watering the jujube tree. Look!"
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I'm hot.
60:36:00
"I'm fine sitting still like this. There's a nice breeze."
60:45:00
"- What breeze? - Oh my!"
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What's with all the weed?
60:52:00
"You can't tell if it's a melon field or not."
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I'll pluck the weed later.
60:58:00
"Why do it later? It's best to do it now."
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"- Don't muck around and work! - Yes, ma'am."
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Granny didn't pass away, did she?
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Why would my mom die so soon?
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"Why don't you call her? Stop being so stubborn."
61:33:00
"She was against me marrying your dad, so I stormed out"
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saying I'll prove her wrong.
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I can totally picture it.
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Don't you want to date again?
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Just wondering.
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I hope it's not because of me...
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You've matured.
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It is because of me?
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"If I wanted to date, I would have."
62:22:00
"I dated long enough with your dad, I don't miss it at all."
62:33:00
Do you miss dad?
62:49:00
"Even if it's thrown like that, tomatoes will grow next year."
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It's amazing.
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"In order for it to grow just by throwing it like that,"
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"it must be a ripe tomato grown outdoors with plenty of sun."
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She meant she missed him.
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Tomatoes are weak to rain.
63:51:00
"If it rains too much, the stem turns brown and withers."
63:58:00
"It's a hit or miss to grow tomatoes outdoors."
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It's a miss this year.
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Are there snails around you?
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I don't see any here.
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Hae-won! How much did you catch?
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You wanna see?
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Ow! My eyes!
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There's a lot here!
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There's a lot here too!
64:46:00
Did that to your boyfriend too?
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What?
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Stare at him when he's eating?
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Why do you ask?
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Just because.
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Is it uncomfortable?
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Sometimes it's uncomfortable.
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You retard!
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"What girl makes lunch for her boyfriend these days?"
65:13:00
"That's only on TV, pal. No one does that."
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I wish she'd study instead.
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Don't complain, pal.
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I stopped after that.
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He was probably bragging.
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But I felt horrible.
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That's why you broke up?
65:34:00
What?
65:38:00
We didn't break up.
65:45:00
Why'd you break up?
65:46:00
Who says I did?
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Eun-sook.
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Why would she..!
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You know,
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I came back here and she's there.
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You're so cool about it.
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No. I cried a lot.
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Really?
66:08:00
I balled when we broke up.
66:13:00
"Leaving Seoul wasn't hard, but leaving her was painful."
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I really liked her a lot.
66:24:00
"What did you say when you broke up?"
66:29:00
"That I didn't want to take orders from others."
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Were you drunk?
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Working for a company,
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"there was nothing I could decide on my own."
66:52:00
"I had no time to think or live a life."
66:57:00
"Just waiting for payday to come around..."
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Suddenly, it hit me.
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"Seeing myself live like that, I felt like I'd go crazy."
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So, what did she say?
67:14:00
What?
67:17:00
"She didn't believe me. She said good luck with the bitch."
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I'm here!
67:28:00
What did she bring?
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"What are you doing? Having fun?"
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Don't have fun without me!
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It's slippery here!
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"- What's that? - So heavy!"
67:41:00
"I stole it while my dad went into town!"
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If you get caught, you're dead!
67:47:00
"I'll just fill it up with water. There's lots here!"
67:52:00
"Why'd you bring that? To drink it all?"
67:55:00
Yes! Let's drink till we drop!
67:58:00
Why?
67:59:00
"My damn manager isn't moving to another branch now!"
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"I put up with him because I thought he'd be gone soon."
68:07:00
"I'm so mad! I don't know what to do!"
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Give me a cup.
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"No one leaves until we finish this!"
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Hey.
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It's not balloon flower root.
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Dad used to farm bodark trees.
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Gross!
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"- Bodark? - Come on."
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"- Bodark bark! - Stop it!"
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Bodark bark! Woof!
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Don't spit on me! Gross!
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Hoon?
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I was going to call you.
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It's been a while.
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I know.
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I've been meaning to say this.
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To break up?
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That too.
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I know it's really late,
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"but congratulations on your exam."
69:39:00
Thanks.
69:41:00
"I don't remember what I said after that."
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But I remember one thing.
69:49:00
"I said I didn't leave for here, but that I came back."
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Yes! I won!
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AUTUMN
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"- Hey! - Hi."
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"- Withdrew money? - Yup."
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Anything left in your balance?
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My balance is a lot! Not.
70:52:00
"Don't go to loan sharks if you're empty."
70:56:00
"- Come to me, okay? - Sure."
70:58:00
"- They're scary! - I know."
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"Should we call Jae-ha and eat out in town?"
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He's working. Why call him?
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"Did you tell Jae-ha that you like him yet?"
71:18:00
"After everything I did, he should know."
71:23:00
"If you don't say anything, how would he know?"
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Don't start preaching again.
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Got that?
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"They don't know if you just keep quiet and patient."
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"You have to spit it out or it'll rot inside you."
71:41:00
"- See ya. - Bye!"
71:43:00
"That's what I told her, but I couldn't do it either."
71:49:00
"This card was denied, sir. Do you have cash or another card?"
71:53:00
"Who carries cash around these days?"
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I just used it at another store!
71:59:00
"Swipe it again! Call the manager out!"
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I just took it in.
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You good for nothing twerp!
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"Stop wasting company money and work for your pay!"
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"What kind of irresponsible dork are you!"
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What?
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What are you doing?
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I didn't reject it like Jae-ha.
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You are my special love.
72:37:00
"I'd cross the Pacific and Atlantic oceans for you."
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If you call me, I'll run to you.
72:47:00
"Eun-sook's not one to keep things bottled up."
72:51:00
"She hit her manager's head with a tambourine before payday."
72:55:00
"Luckily, she got her pay and the manager went to another branch."
73:01:00
"Now, I'm the only one Eun-sook needs out of the way."
73:05:00
What?
73:10:00
"If you don't leave here, I won't either."
73:14:00
What?
73:16:00
"Let's fight fair and square over Jae-ha."
73:21:00
What do you mean?
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Think you'll lose?
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What?
73:27:00
Okay...
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"- Holy! - Deal."
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I don't believe this!
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She was Jae-ha's ex-girlfriend.
73:57:00
I was barking up the wrong tree.
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Our ancestors were amazing.
74:08:00
"They made that idiom to explain my situation now."
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Will you give up?
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Her skin is too white.
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I don't stand a chance.
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It could be the right tree.
74:34:00
"Don't give up barking. Once the prey comes down, catch it."
74:38:00
I'm so stressed!
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Got anything to eat?
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"You said if I hit the manager, you'd give me the best food."
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I did?
74:54:00
"The best food is making it yourself."
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Not the cabbage, but peppers.
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Peppers.
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"That's too much! It'll rip up our stomach!"
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I'll eat spicy food and die!
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Is it good?
75:49:00
Totally!
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Did you two fight?
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It's spicy.
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"I'm crying more than when I got dumped."
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Get your own fork!
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"- Where's the girl? - She left."
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Already? Did you fight?
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She was just dropping by.
76:26:00
"Why would she drop by a rural place like this?"
76:32:00
"Why'd she have to come now when I'm over her?"
76:40:00
Are you crying?
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It's because it's spicy.
76:48:00
"I heard later Jae-ha's ex-girlfriend was not over him."
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But Jae-ha said to her...
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I like someone else now.
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"As a child, I heard bears came out in the fall."
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"Though it can't be true, memories have lasting impacts."
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See you tomorrow.
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"I make sweet chestnuts even sweeter to store them,"
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"so that I won't eat them all at once."
79:47:00
"Glazed chestnuts tasting this good means it is deep into autumn."
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"My friend Jae-ha the soon-to-be millionaire!"
80:10:00
Your paddy is filled with rice.
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"Your orchard is covered with apples."
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The rice paddy is my dad's.
80:20:00
Still...
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"I'll give you a sack of rice at harvest, if..."
80:25:00
If what?
80:26:00
"Help pick the apples. Stop loafing around."
80:29:00
What? I keep busy!
80:32:00
"I have to help my aunt pick peppers and sesame."
80:36:00
"I have to find chestnuts and dry persimmons too."
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I have lots to do.
80:41:00
"You say you'll go to Seoul, but you're busy storing fall's goods?"
80:49:00
"Keeping busy like that won't solve your problems."
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Right.
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"I should go back soon and figure out my life, right?"
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See ya!
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Damn it!
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Why are you out in the rain?
82:07:00
Were you scared?
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It's okay. I'm here.
82:44:00
"I called in a tractor to harvest next week."
82:50:00
Heaven can be cruel.
82:54:00
"You worked so hard in the scorching heat..."
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It's not fair.
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"What can we do against heaven's will?"
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Don't work too hard.
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I should've gone back yesterday.
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We'll never get this done!
83:46:00
"Stop yapping and work! We'll be done soon."
83:52:00
It's endless!
83:54:00
Ow! My back!
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The storm hit here too?
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"- Hi. - Too bad."
84:33:00
"Lesson learned for a newbie farmer."
84:39:00
"You enjoy living like this when farming is this hard?"
84:47:00
"Getting hit hard like this is upsetting,"
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but farming suits me.
84:56:00
"At least there's no scamming or cheating in farming."
85:02:00
"My body may hurt, but I'm not stressed."
85:12:00
What's wrong?
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I put up rice stalks yesterday.
85:19:00
You're in pain just from that?
85:22:00
What? I almost died!
85:26:00
"Wish I can show you my back covered with pain relief patches."
85:31:00
Ow! My back!
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Just go home.
85:36:00
Take some fallen apples with you.
85:38:00
Make apple jam with them.
85:41:00
Can I really go?
85:43:00
Yes!
85:45:00
It's better if you go.
85:57:00
Wait!
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Take this.
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This apple is fine.
86:05:00
"I wanted to give you that before this."
86:09:00
"It held out through the typhoon."
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Unlike you.
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Jae-ha was right.
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I ignore what's important
86:57:00
"and evade the problem by pretending to work hard."
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You chose this life not me.
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What will you do in the city?
87:13:00
"What's to do here? Cooking and plucking weed?"
87:17:00
"You may want to live here forever, but not me!"
87:22:00
"If you massage it, it'll become a soft dried persimmon in winter."
87:30:00
"Winter has to come to eat good dried persimmon."
87:37:00
What in the world!
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I'm going to school.
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Eat before you go.
87:49:00
Mom, I'm late!
87:52:00
"I'm going to live right next to a bus stop in Seoul."
87:57:00
"And it's less cold in Seoul. Bye!"
88:30:00
"Hae-won, you'll leave here for college soon."
88:35:00
"I want to go and try things that I had given up to get married early."
88:44:00
"I may fail, and I'm worried that it may be too late,"
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"but I'll walk out our front gate and make my own time."
88:56:00
"I always said everything is about timing."
89:00:00
I think the time has come now.
89:04:00
"I didn't go back to Seoul after your dad passed away"
89:10:00
"because I wanted to plant and have you set root here."
89:16:00
When things are hard,
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"remember the scent of the land, the wind and sun here."
89:24:00
"Then I know you can dust yourself off and get up again."
89:31:00
"Let's think of it as the start of a long trip to return home well."
89:45:00
"I love you always, Hae-won. From Mom."
89:55:00
Finally, I understand Mom's letter.
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Mom?
90:12:00
Mom?
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Where are you?
90:18:00
Mom?
90:29:00
For Mom,
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"the nature, cooking, and her love for me"
90:35:00
have been her little forest.
90:39:00
"I should find my own little forest too."
90:52:00
I wrote back to Mom that night.
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Dear Mom,
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"If dried persimmons taste this good,"
92:54:00
it means it is deep into winter.
93:27:00
"Whoever sees this first takes care of Fivo and the hen."
93:39:00
"She makes me so mad. How can she not call once?"
93:45:00
"She's like a salary passing through a bankbook."
93:49:00
"You think she'd stay, but vanishes in a flash."
93:55:00
I don't think she ran away.
93:57:00
What?
93:59:00
Are you two keeping in touch?
94:02:00
"I just have a feeling Hae-won will be back soon."
94:06:00
Really? Why?
94:09:00
Permanent planting.
94:12:00
"Maybe Hae-won is preparing for permanent planting."
94:32:00
Onions start out as seeds.
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Plant the seeds in the fall.
94:40:00
"Cover it for a week with a straw mat until the sprouts grow."
94:50:00
"Then you move and plant them in a good, fertilized field."
94:56:00
That's permanent planting.
94:59:00
"It means no transplanting, but planting for good."
95:08:00
"If you protect them until they set root,"
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"they won't die and wither in the frost."
95:16:00
"Onions that endured winter are sweeter than spring onions."
95:26:00
"Hope she knows we did this for her in the cold!"
95:32:00
It's freezing!
95:45:00
"Here's your order of salad rice bowl."
95:48:00
"Let me know if you need anything else."
95:50:00
Thank you.
95:53:00
"- Water, please. - Yes."
96:20:00
It's spring!
97:53:00
Fivo!
97:56:00
Fivo! I missed you!
97:59:00
How'd you come here?
98:12:00
Fivo!
99:30:00
Hello!