[Curtain Call]
[Heungnam Wharf, December 23rd, 1950]
Hurry up!
Boy! Go a bit slower!
Father, hurry!
Hey, hey! Just leave behind useless things,
and take only what's important!
Hurry up!
Why are you rushing so much?
Haven't you heard that the paratroopers are coming?
If we don't get on the American boat, we'll get bombarded and die!
We should hurry up and go too!
- Hurry up and come out! - Hurry!
Aigoo! What are we going to do if we leave that behind?
That was going to be the seed money for when you get married...
Shouldn't we survive first?
- Aigoo! - Mother, be sure to pack and go!
Hurry up and come!
Young Hoon.
- Aren't you cold? - I'm fine.
I'm just worried about our Young Hoon.
Don't worry about our Young Hoon.
He's the son of the woman of Gandongmyeon, Ja Geum Soon.
This is nothing for him.
Oh, look at that!
What is this?
Why are the people on the boat already?
At this rate, we're not going to make it!
Let's hurry!
But how is that we who live the closest
found out last?
Hurry up! Hurry up!
Let's move quickly!
Let's go, Geum Soon.
Hurry up!
Let's move it!
Hurry!
Hey!
Make way!
Make way! Make way! Make way!
Just climb it!
Geum Soon, don't get separated from me.
If we do end up separated...
Why are you talking like that?
Don't you remember how we became a family?
All right.
Let's go.
- Climb up! - Climb up!
Cheol Jin!
Mommy!
Cheol Jin! Please help!
Geum Soon, I'm going!
No, you can't!
Young Hoon's father!
No, you can't!
Young Hoon's father!
No!
I don't like the water!
Hold on tight!
Come over here!
Get on!
- Hurry! - Cheol Jin!
- Oh, my, Jeol Jin! - Hurry!
- Cheol Jin!
My son!
Cheol Jin...
Son...
Cheol Jin!
Cheol Jin, my child!
Thank you.
Young Hoon's father!
Hurry!
Young Hoon's father!
Honey!
Hold on tight!
Geum Soon!
Young Hoon's father!
Survive!
You must survive!
No!
You need to survive!
No!
Young Hoon's father!
Young Hoon!
♫ Even though you can know the start ♫
♫ You can't know when the end will be ♫
♫ I gave away all my love ♫
♫ And yet, I'm left crying by myself ♫
Let's go, Cheol Jin.
♫ You, who are not coming ♫
♫ Where are you, love? ♫
- Excuse me, miss! - Yes?
- One rice wine, please. - Yes, I'll be right there!
Thank you.
♫ All the pain that nobody else knows ♫
♫ I'm waiting for you ♫
Did you come from the north?
♫ When we separated ♫
How did you know?
You're looking at the nearby seaside with such a distant look,
how could I not know?
Have a nice day!
The sun's going to go down soon!
Aren't you going to go?
♫ One day, after polishing my feelings ♫
♫ Because I feel like I shouldn't forget ♫
[Episode 1]
[The Nakwon Hotel]
"I want to provide a resting place for those who are wandering without
a place to stay because they've lost their homes."
The reason why Founder Ja Geum Soon named our hotel, Nakwon*, (Paradise)
was because she hoped that it would be like paradise
for people who float about carrying the pain of war.
She never once lost that hope,
and after tirelessly working to become a paradise for travelers,
Nakwon Group is now the most historic hotel chain in South Korea
with 15 locations all over the country
and is still continuing the hope of the chairwoman.
And tomorrow,
to become a paradise not just for our country but for everyone in the world,
the Hotel Nakwon will open.
Please get me on the line with Hosung Gallery.
The art piece by Artist Jo that you sent us...
That's not the one I saw at the exhibition, right?
You're seeing the course with the least amount of food right now.
You know that consumers nowadays are more sensitive about environmental issues.
Making an effort to not create any wasted food
is something that the hotel can do.
So even though it's difficult, I ask for your kind cooperation.
Hello.
Whether it's luggage from customers getting off a taxi
or from customers getting off a luxury sedan...
Whether it's a luxury trunk that costs 28 million won,
or a student's backpack that costs 28,000 won...
For us,
they're all the same.
Everyone, please keep that in mind.
Yes! Understood!
Honey.
Hey,
you've added your soul to that punch.
I told you not to do this, didn't I?
But this is just so much fun!
To people who don't know us, they would think I'm your boyfriend.
- And to people who know us? - It's good!
I'll look pathetic!
Wow,
this is really our hotel?
Right?
My... hotel.
Just thinking about it gets me excited!
What do you mean, work?
I told you I came to congratulate you.
You can congratulate me at the opening ceremony.
I seriously hate company events!
Hyung is going to come as the representative anyway.
Se Yeon,
I've always wanted to tell you this.
You're so cool.
Seriously.
You've made the hotel you've dreamed of a reality.
Grandmother needs to see this too.
They're not even letting us visit her because it could be too much for her.
She wouldn't be able to come.
Young Hoon!
Young Hoon! Young Hoon!
Young Hoon!
Young Hoon...
Young Hoon! Young Hoon!
Young Hoon!
Young Hoon! Young Hoon's father!
Young Hoon's father!
Moon Sung!
Chairwoman...
Young Hoon's father...
Chairwoman.
Chairwoman... for now...
it would be best for you to rest a bit more.
How much time do I have?
Excuse me?
You've got...
about three months left.
Manager Jung, I need to go home.
Let's go home.
Chairwoman...
Jung Sook, get ready.
Oppa!
You said you weren't coming today.
What's up?
Didn't you hear?
GM!
GM, there's a major problem!
Today...
Today what?
There's going to be
an emergency shareholder's meeting.
We are now going to start
an emergency shareholders' meeting regarding the sale of Nakwon Hotel Group.
As you may all already know-
What did you say?
Executive Director Kim.
How could you hold a shareholders' meeting without telling me?
Especially,
when it's about the sale of the hotel?
General Manager.
I already sent you a mail regarding this matter.
I guess you haven't received it.
Should I have sent it by email?
In any case, I sent it to you.
If you haven't received it,
well, that's too bad.
Are you playing around with me right now?
Holding a shareholders' meeting without even consulting me,
the third largest shareholder of this hotel...
Does this make sense to you?
It does.
The largest shareholder of our hotel is
the currently ill Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon.
If we exclude Chairwoman Ja,
the second largest shareholder would be
Non-executive Director Park Se Joon.
And the one who personally pushed for the sales of the hotel
to the world-renowned Bilton Hotel Group
was Director Park.
Do you understand, GM?
After conducting our due diligence,
we'll start coordinating the details of the sale.
Is what Executive Director Kim saying
true?
Well,
because the chairwoman was hospitalized due to worsening chronic diseases,
we cannot be sure if she would be capable
of properly making decisions
due to her weak body and mind-
The Chairwoman is here.
What!
Oh! Chairwoman.
How did you come here?
Ch-Ch-Chairwoman, y-y-your body...
Are you feeling all right?
Why?
Are you sad that I'm not dead yet?
No, no! Why would you say stuff like that?
Oh, it's been so long since I've come out like this that I'm craving some coffee.
They wouldn't let me have any at the hospital.
Seung Do.
Make me a cup of coffee.
Yes, Ma'am. I'll get you one right away.
Secretary Yoo. Get a cup of coffee for the Chairwoman.
- Okay, sir. - What are you doing?
Excuse me?
I asked you, Seung Do.
Did I ask her to do it?
M-Me?
When you first arrived at our hotel,
you were responsible for my coffee for about 20 years.
Why are you acting as if this is something new?
But Chairwoman, there are lots of people watching us here.
I want to drink the coffee that you make me.
Sugar, coffee powder, creamer.
You know my style, right?
Two, two, one.
Be on your way.
I'll be right back!
I'll have my coffee with just the members of my family.
It's already been over a month since I've seen my grandchildren.
Grandmother.
I'm fine.
Have you been well?
You're kind of pretty today!
Aigoo, aren't you too old to be wearing something
so loose
and dangling?
Park Se Gyu! Come over here!
You think I'll go to you if you say, "Come over here"?
It seems like you're just fine, seeing how you're nagging at me again.
Oppa.
I like that your voice is loud and clear.
So that's why,
here. Bye!
I'm leaving.
That boy...
He's like a goblin.
It's bland.
Excuse me?
The coffee that you used to make me...
was so tasty.
The taste of the coffee was always the same.
I found that fascinating.
I wonder if my tastes have changed...
or...
are you the one who's changed?
I'm sorry, Chairwoman.
Forgive me.
I have something to take care of with Executive Director Kim.
I worry that you may hurt your health by over-stressing yourself.
I leave her in your care.
Young Master.
I really didn't know, either.
In her physical condition, she shouldn't be able to come out like this.
I don't know how this happened...
Since the Chairwoman has returned,
it would be difficult to go through with the sale, right?
We're going through with it.
Excuse me?
Only the timetable for it will change a bit.
I've said that my dream is to create a hotel
that can be seen over the horizon, just like a lighthouse.
You've made it come true.
Thank you.
Let's talk more about the details when we get home.
Since today is a busy day for you,
go and tend to your business.
You're not going to the hospital?
I'm not going back there anymore!
Grandmother, you shouldn't be like that.
Se Yeon.
So, Chairwoman...
Let's get going.
Well, all right.
Chairwoman.
Are you okay?
Let's go.
[Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon is ill. Will Nakwon Group be sold or inherited?]
[Rumors of Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon's death, the truth is?]
[Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon is ill. Will Nakwon Group be sold or inherited?]
[The war of succession begins for the chaebol* family] (Wealthy family who owns corporate conglomerate)
In order for Nakwon, the brand that the Chairwoman made,
to spread all over the world,
the deal that's in the works must be completed.
So, does that mean that Nakwon Hotel will be sold?
First, please understand that
we can't reveal the negotiator.
[General Manager Park Se Yeon] Since its establishment by Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon,
Nakwon Group has maintained its pride to this day
as the top local hotel in the nation.
That will not change in the future.
Does that mean that the sale of the hotel will be canceled?
There will never be a sale.
What?
Sale?
You should at least give me an answer.
I'm not interested in anything like that, nor will I ever be.
I think that's a sufficient answer, right?
Then, what would you be interested in?
You?
Executive Director, I think we need to get the Bilton Group to conduct their due diligence quickly.
You know that if dirty rumors spread,
it becomes more burdensome for both the buyer and the seller.
Yes. Please hurry as much as possible.
[Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon is ill. Will Nakwon Group be sold or inherited?]
I feel like I might be able to get even ten done!
Coffee delivery order!
Four cups of coffee!
Here!
Today's busy as well...
Friend,
you're so handsome.
What's this unstable uneasiness?
Are you straining yourself with the delivery work?
Oh, that's good, that's good!
Hey, that can happen if riding a bicycle becomes work instead of exercise.
If you ride a bicycle to the point your legs get wobbly,
then don't you develop problems with your prostate?
Geez!
Gosh, this weakling!
Hey!
My prostate is fine!
[Reuniting family: Rhee Young Hoon, Rhee Moon Sung, Ja Geum Soon]
Mother.
You are...
I'm Young Hoon.
Young Hoon...
I'm sorry I couldn't recognize you right away.
It's been a long time apart...
Please don't cry.
Okay...
This is Moon Sung.
Aigoo. This is like a dream.
How can this be happening?
- Aigoo... - Mother!
You were alive... You were alive...
[Congratulations on your reunion]
Does Moon Sung look that much like Father?
Yeah.
When I first saw your father,
he was about this age.
Since you were six years older than Father,
you have a clear memory.
Your father's face...
as he grew older
looks just like yours right now.
No, I didn't grow to be as handsome as Father was.
Mother,
you look exactly like how Father used to describe to me.
How could I look exactly like that?
I am an old grandma now.
That's not true.
Your eyes, your lips...
Because Father told me every day,
I recognized you right away.
I see.
It's because Father
missed you so much
that even though so many ahjummas around him told him to get remarried,
Father wouldn't budge.
Yes...
Your father was that kind of a person.
As for me...
I wasn't able to be like that.
When the Reunification of Korea happens, come to Father's grave
and apologize.
He will surely accept your apology.
Of course.
I will do so.
When the Reunification happens, we'll build a house near Father's grave-
If the Reunification can just happen,
I'll make sure that you guys can live without any worries.
Whatever our Moon Sung wants to do,
whatever he wants to learn,
whatever he wants, I'll make it happen for him.
In Seoul, there are many things that Moon Sung will like.
Mother, how come you have no thought of returning to your hometown
- even when the Reunification happens? - What?
Oh, well...
I feel the situation in South Korea might be better for the children...
Forget about it!
Oh, gosh...
Hey, I guess I've made a mistake.
You know it's not a mistake!
That's how you feel, and that's why
you married another man and had kids and grandchildren!
I'm starting to think that it was a good thing that Father passed away early.
- Young Hoon... - Father...
passed away while calling out your name, Mother!
I also have never forgotten your father for even one day.
You're not just similar to him in your looks,
but also in your character.
How are you so similar to your grandfather?
Young Hoon.
Regarding the man that I met in South Korea,
we've had one son together
before passing away early...
and that son and his wife
also passed away a while ago.
Even though I live each day being punished for my sins,
the reason why I endured
was because of my grandchildren who've lost their parents.
I have not...
forgotten you...
nor your father for even one day of my life.
No thanks.
You have to take it.
Because I've grown so old,
I guess the cancer cells are also growing old with me.
They aren't really able to do anything.
I'll be fine even if I don't take medicine.
How about you go to the hospital...
If I extend my life by lying there, I have one year.
If I live here freely, I have three months.
If it were you, Manager Jung,
which one would you choose?
I just want you, Chairwoman,
to be healthy and live a long life.
I'm 92 years old right now.
I'm already past the age where I can say I've lived a long enough life.
What would the extra nine months mean for me at this age?
Unless living those extra months
means I can see their faces one more time.
[Reunion of Families Separated Between the North and South]
You have to stay healthy
until the day we meet again.
Can't you come with us?
Moon Sung.
Next year,
let's meet here again, no matter what.
Okay?
Let's promise.
Like this...
Grandma, we're going to meet again.
My name is Rhee Moon Sung.
Don't forget, okay?
As I promised, I never forgot him,
but I wasn't able to keep the promise of meeting him again.
The touch of his tiny hand
tightly grasping my pinky finger...
I can't forget
that feeling.
Twenty years is a long time.
The little boy that you are thinking of, Chairwoman...
Do you think he's still the same boy from your memories?
It's funny that you're saying that, Manager Jung.
I remember when I first met you.
Very clearly, in fact.
When I think about you from back then,
I wouldn't be able to imagine the Manager Jung
next to me right now.
Don't you think so?
He's the bloodline of the man who was left behind
in order to put on board the boat a child he didn't even know.
He should...
have just turned
a little over 30 years old.
Young man,
Rhee Moon Sung.
After today,
the chairwoman would likely not return to this hospital.
Will she really be okay?
Unless she had a chemotherapy session scheduled,
she would endlessly
just stare outside the window.
As if the time had come to a stop for her.
Between one year of living as if time had stopped
and three months of living moving forward...
Don't you think she made a choice that very much suits her?
Is this her final wish?
Are you leaving right now?
- It's a holiday. - I have a meeting.
Oh, here!
I didn't make it.
Auntie made this for you to drink.
Oppa.
Se Yeon.
Let's talk.
You've given up
on the sale of the hotel, right?
- No. - Oppa.
You know that the stock prices for Airdnd are much higher than those of Bilton Hotel.
What?
A hotel starts depreciating the moment it opens.
And that's why I'm pushing for the sale of "The Nakwon" as soon as it opened.
Our family,
this hotel,
the time we've spent together,
and all the efforts the countless staff put in to build this hotel...
Why are you ignoring all of that?
If selling the hotel would be more profitable than maintaining it,
selling it is the right thing to do.
Oppa, you may think that you can put a price on everything,
but that's not true.
Sufficient compensation would be provided for the staff,
and they would be able to keep their jobs as well.
This is not that kind of a problem.
Then what kind of problem is it?
Why would you do business then?
If earning and spending money is the goal,
why do you think I started by serving tables at a restaurant?
Don't you understand?
For me, Nakwon
is not a business.
- And that's the problem. - What?
You're not treating a business like a business.
You love the hotel
and put your life on the line for the business.
I'm saying that's the problem.
Why is that a problem?
Well, okay. You do the work that you love.
I'll run the business that I need to run.
If you want to protect it, then do your best to do so.
Are you going somewhere?
Oh, well...
There's someone I need to see.
Someone you need to see?
How did your talk with Oppa go?
What about Grandmother?
She's okay. Go inside.
How much time...
does Grandmother have...
Rather than thinking about how much time she has left,
let's think about how you will spend
your time with Grandmother from now on.
♫ I remember you from that day ♫
♫ By the breaking waves ♫
♫ In my wounded state ♫
♫ Like a boulder, I'm here ♫
♫ You are cold like the ocean ♫
♫ As if you're going to grow more distant ♫
♫ When we're about to touch, once again, you begin to disappear ♫
- Keep the change. - Aigoo, thank you.
Hyungnim.
It was really difficult making that, you know that?
Man, going out to sea so often, although I was never meant to.
It's not like I'm Columbus.
Also,
what am I, Genghis Khan?
The Manchurian fields, mainland China. I've been everywhere!
So, you should really pay me a bit extra.
I'm not just saying this. I've really gone through hell.
The execution fee is beyond words!
Stuff that down before you start talking.
[Jilin Province, China]
Hyungnim, do you know what North Korean sticks?
Sticks?
It's a drug.
The ones produced in North Korea are quite popular.
He goes between North Korea and China, hiding the drug on his body.
I guess this guy doesn't know what it means to turn back.
Apparently, he has transported over 100 kilograms by himself.
He's a well-known smuggler.
And that's not all he does.
Contractual assault, abduction, murder...
He does whatever makes money.
Really?
There's a basis for the information I'm giving you.
According to that information,
I can guarantee you one thing.
This bastard is a piece of trash.
A reeking piece of trash at that.
How much time do I have?
You've got...
about three months left.
If I extend my life by lying there, I have one year.
If I live here freely,
I have three months.
This guy, Rhee Moon Sung...
I can guarantee you one thing.
This bastard is a piece of trash.
A reeking piece of trash at that.
Unless living those extra months
means I can see their faces one more time.
Chairwoman...
The weather is cold today.
Let's go inside, please?
I'm just waiting for my time to depart.
Don't you think that
experiencing the coldness when the weather is chilly,
and the warmth when the weather is warm
is part of the joys of a life that will soon end?
All this time, my life has been one of sending people off.
Finally,
I'm the one to go.
Chairwoman...
When was the reunion of the separated families again?
That was 20 years ago.
The newborn that I've left behind in the North
had grown up so much.
Even when I was saying goodbye to him
smiling on that day,
I thought that I would get to meet him again.
But...
what met me at the next reunion of separated families was
not him,
but a letter notifying me of his death.
My son whom I gave birth to here...
left home saying he'll be back safe and sound,
but he wasn't able to...
return the same way he'd left.
I just kept sending people off in this place,
and after just waiting for them to return,
I am just...
departing...
in this place.
Your line was continued.
There's Young Lady Se Yeon,
and the Young Masters...
Chairwoman.
Yes.
That's right.
That is correct.
Yes.
I don't know who made you,
but you're really cool.
Oh, Hyo Jin!
Unni?
Look here. I'm taking the picture.
One, two, three! V!
Unni.
You know I've been to hotels pretty much all over the world.
Honestly, I've been to more hotels than you have.
I guess that's true.
Then from my discerning eye and experience,
this hotel would be in the top 1% in the world.
It's because your father built it so nicely for us.
Oh, no. That's not true.
The philosophy of the building owner manifests itself in the construction of the building.
This hotel clearly manifests Park Se Yeon from its very concept.
Me?
It's probably our Chairwoman Ja Geum Soon's philosophy.
What's so different between your chairwoman grandmother and you?
Don't you think?
The building structure, the service, the people, the food,
the bedding, and even the tableware...
There's just one standard.
Nakwon.
Yes.
That's why I can't just receive money and hand it over.
I was...
able to complete my mission thanks to you, Friend.
Thank you.
Is today your last?
If it is fate, won't we be able to meet again?
Yes.
Reunification of Korea...
When the Reunification happens someday.
Go Jung Tae, Go Jung Tae!
You are surrounded.
Give yourself up!
If you don't give yourself up, we will fire.
I repeat!
Go Jung Tae, you are surrounded.
- You, son of a b****! - No!
It's not me!
I didn't report you!
Who else is here besides you?
Did you do it?
Because you said, he came from the North...
The Democratic...
People's Republic of Korea...
Move!
No...
You sons of b****es!
In the heavens above,
there won't be any 38th Parallel, right?
When we...
meet in the heavens above,
let's have a drink together
no matter what.
Jae Heon oppa!
So cool!
You're so cool!
So cool!
[Sunflower Small Theater]
Hyung!
Hyung.
The PR...
Yeah.
There is hardly anyone in the audience.
So what if the actors are good?
You're the theater director, Hyung.
PR is your job,
and you need to start promoting the theater.
Still, there were people who came to watch us.
- Is the number important? - Geez!
You know...
Hyung...
I s-should have known better w-when you said you were writing a play
about a shipwrecked North Korean soldier!
People would come to see it if it were Hyun Bin! They'd never come to see us!
When trends are changing so quickly?
To think that I've spent the past few months
practicing North Korean dialect for this performance...
I'm so proud of myself!
All right. I'll try my best.
Hey!
Jae Heon oppa! I loved your performance!
Oh, you're here! How did you manage to come here!
Thanks, thanks!
Okay, I'll sign, sign.
- Heart! - Thank you.
Wait, wait!
A photo, a photo, a photo! Let's take a photo. Phone!
Hyung. Let's get closer together.
I'm going to take the picture!
One, two, three!
- Jae Heon hyung! - Yeah?
Someone's looking for you.
- Me? - Yes.
- Who? - I don't know.
It's an ahjussi I've never seen before.
- Hello. - Whoa!
H-H-Hello...
I really enjoyed your performance.
I see.
And your North Korean dialect...
You were very fluent.
It was an impressive performance.
Thank you.
But you need to come out from there now.
Yes...
Oh, I'm sorry.
Unauthorized people aren't allowed to be on stage.
It's not like I've watched a lot of plays,
but to display someone's life
on this little stage...
I think it's quite amazing.
Yes, well...
What I do
isn't anything grandiose,
but it is amazing, I guess!
I'm sorry to ask, but...
which production company are you from?
Thank you.
[The Nakwon Hotel, Manager Jung Sang Cheol]
Do you...
want to put on a play with me?
Excuse me?
On a large...
and beautiful stage
that can change your life?
♫ You, who are not coming ♫
♫ Where are you, love? ♫
♫ What I want to say to you keeps increasing ♫
♫ All the pain that nobody else knows ♫
♫ You, who are not coming ♫
[Curtain Call]
A grandson who appeared out of nowhere?
What are you scheming, Manager?
Who is this Rhee Moon Sung?
First, shall we see the designated acting performance?
- Aren't you going to take the exam? - After one more performance.
I made the reservation, so I can be near you.
Why am I so scared?
A new young master is coming?
You really don't know anything.
100 million won a month
is quite a bit of money.
Wouldn't that be a scam?
Do I need to quit my part-time job?