CHOCOLATE
ALL CHARACTERS, PLACES, COMPANIES, AND INCIDENTS
IN THIS DRAMA ARE FICTITIOUS
EPISODE 11
DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
Gosh, hold on.
Hey, I haven't even pricked your finger yet.
Gosh, do it already.
What brings you here?
I heard you're here, so I came to say hello.
I should've gone to greet you first.
You'll be the chairman of Geosung sooner--
That hurt!
You asshole! Keep your hard feelings aside, will you?
Dr. Lee is watching. Watch your words.
Gosh, it hurts.
Did I prick too hard?
He had neungi baeksuk and can't digest it.
He asked me to prick his finger.
Gosh, you're a doctor.
Why not get a shot or take some medicine?
Medically, there's no proof that this works.
What are you talking about?
Ask oriental medicine doctors. There's so much evidence.
Gosh, that's gross. Why are you sucking your blood?
Nothing's coming out anyway.
The food is still sitting in my stomach. Maybe there's something else.
Gosh, I shouldn't have asked this quack for help.
Listening to this man's crazy nonsense
is giving me indigestion.
I'll go take some digestive medicine.
And clean out my ears.
Hey, wait up. Hey!
That prick, seriously.
Who do you take after?
Sorry?
Your father had no ambition for power whatsoever.
That is why he chose not to marry the minister's daughter
and eloped with the daughter of our housemaid instead.
Do you take after your mom?
But she'd at least be able to gauge the situation.
I'll leave if you have nothing else to say.
Why do I keep getting a feeling
that you may not be my brother Jae-hun's son?
But the paternity test couldn't have been wrong.
Your doubtful grandmother got it done three times already,
so I'm sure it's right.
Get back to work.
That punk.
In the past few decades,
there were even tougher challenges than that.
But I endured
and got through them.
If I let myself become weak now,
I'll never rise again, for good.
If I let myself fall apart here,
it'll be the end of me.
Look at you.
What about all the things that I've done to raise you?
Did I spend a fortune on your private education
and send you to med school just so that you can wash
patients' clothes here?
You should be in the operating room now holding a scalpel!
What the hell are you doing here?
I'm sorry.
You're sorry?
I haven't even heard you say that five times all your life so far.
You were always so bright, smart, and competent.
Neither your mom nor I have had to nag you even once.
Do you know that?
So why now out of all time?
Why, at this critical moment?
Why must you be such a hot mess?
Damn it!
Your grandmother told me to come here and help Kang.
She said I should help Kang
so that we can shut down the hospice as soon as possible.
Then she said she wants me to run the silver town
that we'll build here.
She told me to take good care of it
and pass it down to you.
What do you think it means?
She's basically saying
that the crummy silver town is all you and I are going to get.
She'll hand down Geosung to Kang.
It's her way of saying, "Take that and buzz off!"
God damn it!
DIRECTOR LEE SEUNG-HUN
I think it's game over now.
It looks like Mom's favorite
is Kang after all.
I mean, she was going to pass Geosung down to Jae-hun anyway.
Seo-hun.
Who did King Yeongjo pass the throne to even after Crown Prince Sado
died in a rice chest like that?
I would've kicked him out because I'd be afraid he might avenge his father's death.
But anyway, he passed the throne to Jeongjo, Crown Prince Sado's son.
For consistency and legitimacy's sake.
You know that King Yeongjo is my mom's role model, right?
Stop being so on edge all the time.
Get rid of those claws already. And your teeth too.
Don't your teeth hurt? You grit them all the time.
Seo-hun.
What, ma'am?
Enough already.
No one can spit on a smiling face.
Kang is very sweet and tenderhearted, you know.
Just sweet-talk him instead.
Coax him into giving you the things that you want. Then he'll--
Do you think...
I'm a beggar?
I'm just worried that you might end up as one.
This is the first sign that your demise may be near.
Why is this thing even here?
I think you lost your sense of smell due to the injury.
You might experience diplopia too,
but that will go away with time.
Then,
will my senses of taste and smell also come back eventually with time?
The traditional, on white bread. Medium size, please.
I'll get the same thing, but the regular size.
Did you have a house call?
Or did something bad happen?
Did you cry?
Did your patient pass away?
Do you want mine too?
Ji-yong said this sandwich made him happy.
Maybe eating more of this will make you happy.
Although I don't believe it.
Do I look unhappy to you?
Yes, a little.
But I'm not.
Right, who could be happier than you?
You're a doctor. You're handsome and popular with the ladies.
Oh, right. I got yelled at, big-time.
For telling you that the nurse, Ye-sol, and I
all know about you
having a crush on her.
-What? -The other day, remember?
I told you that I know you have a crush on her.
You were talking about the nurse? Nurse Bae Na-ra?
Yes.
I'm sorry
if I did anything to cause a misunderstanding.
I just realized
It's my mistake
and my fault.
I'm Min-seong's friend.
So, to me, you are...
I know what you mean.
To me, Dr. Lee...
You're still Min-seong's friend.
You're doing great.
From now on, turn down the heat a little bit
and put the salt and seaweed into the pot, and fry it together.
Okay.
Susan.
Thank you.
CAFETERIA
Okay, stop.
When it starts to boil, season it
with salt or soy sauce.
-Okay. -Okay.
Good.
-What's going on? -What?
Oh, hello. Well...
The patient in 303 has food allergies, so I was just checking.
But it's been two days since that patient
passed away.
Right.
He did.
I was confused.
What's wrong? Do I have something on my face?
Could it be...
What is this delicious smell? Is it seaweed soup?
Yes.
Susan, you're making seaweed soup?
Is it Michael's birthday today?
No, I'm making it for someone else.
Who? Who is this "someone else"?
Well, I'm sorry to ask you this,
but could you taste the seaweed soup for me when it's ready?
Me?
You should taste it. You're the expert.
It's good.
Why do I feel like I'm forgetting something?
Ye-sol!
GEOSUNG HOSPICE
Ms. Han!
What's wrong? Why are you crying?
You're bad.
I waited for you because you told me to.
I kept waiting, but you never came back.
What are you talking about?
I told you to wait for me? Where?
You said it!
When you were going to the washroom.
My grandpa didn't even look at me.
I was so scared.
I'm sorry.
Ye-sol, you see...
Well, I was...
Because I was so scared of my grandpa
that I couldn't even give him the wedding invitation.
You said that you'd talk to him about it for me,
so I kept waiting for you there.
You're a liar!
My gosh, I don't remember that at all.
I don't remember what I promised to Ye-sol.
I have no recollection of it.
What do I do?
Remember my replacement, the lady from Taean?
Yes, right.
I know she's supposed to start next month, but could she come a bit earlier?
Well, sometime this month would be great.
She can even start this week.
Yes, please ask her. Thank you.
Were you looking for a replacement?
I was going to tell you first, but I totally forgot about it.
Gosh, I'm so out of it these days.
You shouldn't be wasting your talent here,
but I kept you for too long to fulfill my own greed.
Whether it's Greece or elsewhere,
go see the bigger world out there, Cha-young.
Move to a place where you can prosper with your amazing talent.
Susan.
If you're tired, let's take a rest for a while.
At least the air is clean up here.
Excuse me, are you...
Hello?
Anybody home?
Hello.
I'm Ha Yeong-sil from the hospice.
What brings you here?
Hello.
I'm Susan, Michael's mother.
What the...
Why did you bring that woman?
I heard that you haven't been eating well because of your illness.
We brought some food for you.
I'm here as her guide and interpreter.
Gosh.
I bought everything at the department store,
except the soup, I made that myself.
She said she bought all these at a department store
but made the seaweed soup herself. I'm her witness.
I saw her making it.
-But why? -I beg your pardon?
Why did she make the soup?
She asked why did you cook seaweed soup for her.
I read Michael's adoption papers
and I know it was a very difficult time for you.
And I've been told in Korea, when you get birth,
you eat seaweed soup. That's why I prepared it for you.
And I'm guessing after you gave birth to Michael and his twin brother,
you didn't eat seaweed soup.
In Korea, women eat seaweed soup after giving birth, you know.
But you probably never got to eat it after you gave birth to the twin boys.
That's why she made it.
That's ridiculous.
How do you know whether I had seaweed soup or not?
You could see that or what?
She said she appreciated what you have done for her.
She feels like shedding a tear.
No, I'm the one that's thankful.
Because you gave birth to Michael.
That was the best gift anybody could ever given me.
She's grateful that you gave birth to Michael.
Grateful, my foot.
Does she have nothing else to be grateful for?
His dad said
he never told me to get pregnant.
He said I should raise them by myself and ran away.
I only gave birth to them because I couldn't kill them!
She said it was a really hard time
raising twin babies alone.
I didn't have to be there to see that. I understand it would have been difficult.
Why is she being like this?
Americans are so weird.
Woman, you and I are not supposed to embrace
and make food for each other like this, let alone befriend each other.
I abandoned that ill child.
I heard you're rich.
But even with your money, you couldn't help him fully recover,
and you now have to watch your son die when he just turned 20.
You should grab me by the hair and yell at me, if anything.
Why make seaweed soup for me? I don't deserve this.
What's going on?
Huh?
What are they doing here in our place?
They are here to see your mom. Susan wanted to come.
What is this?
Bring some chopsticks and eat it with your mom.
Ask them for money instead of this crap, Mom.
Darn it.
I mean, they just saw our house.
They should know what we're going through now.
I heard Seong-cheol is her only son.
She can give us half of the money they were going to leave to Seong-cheol--
What was that for?
Is it your money she has?
Is it your money that this American woman is keeping?
I mean, Seong-cheol will die anyway...
What if Seong-cheol dies?
What have we ever done for Seong-cheol?
How dare we have the nerve to ask that?
Stop hurting me!
If she's rich, she can share some money with us. It's not like she'll die with it.
We're not strangers. We are Seong-cheol's mom and brother.
I didn't do anything as his mom.
And you didn't do anything as his brother.
You can't say we're his mom and brother.
I'll snap your mouth shut. How dare you say such a thing?
You good-for-nothing.
You low-life scum!
Where's my broomstick?
Come here!
-You punk. Come over here. -Wait!
Gosh. Get lost!
It's okay. It's nothing.
Can I ask you a question, Doctor?
Yes. Go ahead.
Is there a Korean dish
called sujebi?
Yes, there is.
The thing is, it's sujebi which is not exactly sujebi.
I went to Koreatown in LA last year.
Susan?
My mom.
I went to eat Korean dishes with my mom.
Because
I don't like fatty American food.
There was a Korean restaurant
run by an old lady.
And there was this sujebi which wasn't sujebi.
Then I came back to New York.
My mom keeps saying that she wants to eat
the sujebi that isn't sujebi.
So I went back to LA.
But the restaurant was shut down.
I want to see
my mom
enjoy the dish again.
Before I...
leave this place.
The sujebi which isn't sujebi.
"Sujebi which isn't sujebi?"
Yes, Grandma.
Are you getting off work soon? Come home.
Let's have dinner together.
I'm sorry, but I can't...
MOTHER
I don't know what your dad said,
but you will eventually take over Geosung Hospital.
Be prepared, my son.
Then will my senses of taste and smell also come back eventually with time?
When I needed you so desperately
and asked you to come,
you were never around.
What happens when a chef loses her senses of taste and smell,
what I'm supposed to think about this, and how I should react.
I just can't figure it out right now.
Welcome.
Would you like a skewer?
No, thanks.
-Excuse me. -Yes.
I'll have stir-fried sundae,
chicken feet, and spicy noodles.
Okay.
What's wrong? Do you have an upset stomach?
I'm sorry. The food...
The food is great. I'm sorry that I'm being like this.
I didn't think you'd go to a chocolate shop.
I've been following around you. I was worried.
I thought you'd do something silly.
Something silly?
What if you got drunk and...
I can't appreciate
the taste of alcohol.
It might taste like plain water right now.
You wouldn't appreciate the taste of chocolate either.
I can appreciate
the taste of chocolate.
It was 24 years ago.
I was locked up
in a collapsed department store.
That day,
a lady who was next to me
gave me chocolate.
I ate the chocolate and held out.
And thanks to the chocolate,
I came out alive.
So even if I lose my senses of taste and smell,
I can tell
what this chocolate tastes like
and what it smells like.
I just know.
Well...
About the lady who gave you chocolate.
What happened to her?
She passed away.
After she gave me her chocolate.
Jun.
Tell Kang to wait for me.
I'll be back with some chocolate for him.
I'll buy some chocolate
and go back to Wando with him.
Will you tell him that?
She said she bought it for her son
because her son liked chocolate.
I'm sorry.
I heard you lost your family member in the accident.
I shouldn't have said that.
I'm so sorry.
Help yourself.
Tell me if you want more food.
Okay. Thank you.
Set another table for the rest once they come home.
Yes, ma'am.
So this is called ongsimi.
Have you tried it before?
I think my mom made it when I was young.
Ongsimi
is what Jae-hun,
your father liked very much.
Dr. Lee Kang is here.
He's having dinner with Chairwoman Han.
Alone together?
Please do not shut down the hospice.
I know saving people's lives is important.
But helping those who are dying
can be just as worthwhile and--
Are you trying to make excuses for your incompetence?
It can be just as worthwhile
and meaningful, from what I've heard.
I've heard that Grandpa said this
as he built the hospice, which was what other foundations hesitated to do.
So?
I believe we should never close down the hospice.
I guess our housekeeper is too old to make this.
The potato is too crunchy.
I should've gone out to eat.
It tastes better with some radish kimchi.
How could she make something like this?
My gosh.
What are you doing here?
I came to have ongsimi with Grandma.
What would your mother think if she saw you right now?
"I'm so proud of my son. He's doing great."
Do you think she'd think that?
Your mother was going to buy chocolate
and go back to Wando with you.
Jun.
YEAR 1995
You won't have to fight with Kang anymore.
Kang's going to leave.
So don't hate him so much, Jun.
I was wrong.
Kang was right.
We shouldn't have come to Seoul.
Is Kang really going to leave?
I know you and Kang
had to go through a hard time because of us adults.
I'm sorry.
Does Kang know that he's leaving?
No, I still need to tell him.
If I tell him that, he'll be really happy.
He really didn't like
having to fight and compete with you all the time.
Jun.
Tell Kang to wait for me. I'll be back with some chocolate for him.
I'll buy some chocolate and go back to Wando with him.
Will you tell him that?
About the lady who gave you chocolate.
What happened to her?
She passed away.
After she gave me her chocolate.
Your mom was going to buy chocolate
and go back to Wando with you.
What would your mother think if she saw you right now?
What did you just say?
I want to know what Jun means to you.
What's that supposed to mean?
I know you had already picked Kang
as the successor of Geosung.
That's why you went all the way to Wando
and forced him to come to Seoul even though he insisted
on staying there with his mom.
What kind of nonsense is that?
I clearly told everyone
that I'll pick the smarter and more talented one as the successor--
No.
You just thought of Jun
as a pacemaker that could provoke Kang
so that he'd become more powerful and tenacious
instead of being weak and uninterested in gaining power.
You've just been using Jun for your own benefit.
You must've lost your mind now that things aren't going your way.
I let you become the queen when you didn't even deserve it.
-You should be grateful for what you have. -I'm not the queen, Mother.
How can I possibly be the queen
when my husband isn't the king?
The only true king and bloodline of this family
is Kang's father, Lee Jae-hun,
my late brother-in-law.
Kang has always been your first choice.
What are you talking about?
Your eldest son, my husband, and Jun's father, Lee Seung-hun,
isn't your husband's legitimate son.
What?
Father didn't pass away
because he got shocked due to his siblings' betrayal.
It's because he was shocked and betrayed by the fact
that his eldest son, Seung-hun, who was born prematurely
wasn't actually his legitimate son.
Housekeeper.
Housekeeper! Come!
I asked her to go home.
I really wanted
to speak to you about this today.
I want you
to pick Jun as the successor.
I promise I'll keep this a secret until the day I die.
So pick Jun...
Nurse Ha told me
that you'll be returning to the hospital.
So I waited for you.
Thank you
for everything.
I'm going to quit my job here.
I was going to wait until someone else got hired.
But someone from Taean agreed to help
starting from tomorrow.
I still thought I should say goodbye before I left.
Take care of your health.
Goodbye.
Something that is Sujebi
but isn't. Do you know what it is?
Michael
keeps asking me.
But I have no idea.
I thought you might know.
Michael told me that he really
wants to figure out what that is
before he dies.
Sujebi that isn't sujebi?
The dishes I can think of right now are...
Wonton soup.
Ongsimi.
And olchaengi guksu.
Olchaengi guksu.
That's all I can think of.
Can you just make that before you leave?
For one last time.
I'll help you with that.
Okay.
Wait a second.
Here.
Coming through.
Patient coming through.
Mother.
Hey.
Jun, why did your grandmother collapse?
-I don't know. -Her life won't be at stake, will it?
I don't know.
What is it that you know?
My goodness, you're a doctor.
Mom!
Mom...
You can wait in your office.
I'll call you once it's all done.
I'm sorry.
I won't look. I'll give you some space.
That bottle of soju.
Can I drink it?
Go ahead.
I was going to use it for cooking.
Okay.
I don't drink when I cook.
Oh, I see.
Are you going to go back
to Greece after you quit?
I'm sorry.
For what?
I...
misunderstood you.
About what?
Is there anything else I can help you--
Can you please leave?
I feel very uncomfortable being with you
in the same space like this.
I'll text you once I'm done.
Okay.
Hello, this is Lee Kang.
Is this really Lee Kang's number?
I'm O Jeong-bok from Wando.
I called the hospital,
but they constantly refused to tell me your number.
They finally gave it to me after I kept begging for it.
I'm sorry, but I don't think I remember you.
It's me, Jeong-bok.
I used to live next door back when you lived in Wando.
I'm Uncle Dong-gu's niece.
Kang,
Uncle Dong-gu
passed away yesterday due to an accident.
I heard this is Belgian chocolate.
My buddy who works on a deep-sea fishing vessel brought it.
Don't save it for later, and eat all of it, okay?
Shall we jump into the sea together?
His burial will be held tomorrow.
You have no idea how long he waited for you to come back, Kang.
But he never even got to see you again.
Here.
Isn't this yours?
Yes, thank you.
Wait.
You drank earlier.
-I didn't drink much. -Wait.
But still...
You drank.
You should call for a chauffeur service.
I need to go to Wando.
Then can you take a cab?
There won't be any buses or trains since it's too late.
Then
how about you go tomorrow morning?
Then I'll be too late.
Tomorrow is his burial.
It takes about six hours to Wando, right?
If we go right now, you'll at least be able to see his funeral.
I'll drive you to Wando. Get in.
You'll have to pay me for driving.
So you don't need to feel sorry. Hurry up and get in the car.
Subtitle translation by Young-ju Kim
I need to go back right away.
You should go bid him farewell and come back when you're ready.
Can you wait and go back with me?
I didn't want to take you
to just any restaurant.
Thank you for the meal.
This food is so delicious,
it's making me unbelievably happy.
That's why I can't stop crying.
By any chance,
have you ever been here,
to Bada Restaurant,
back when you were young?