Operation Room Episode 31
Director.
The surgery went well, but he lost too much blood.
I think getting past tonight will be crucial.
Patient!
Patient, are you okay?
Are you conscious?
VIP Ward
Kang San Hyeok!
San Hyeok!
Patient Bong Dae Yong is awake and patient Kang San Hyeok is...
He can't seem to wake up from his sleep. I think it's psychological.
His CT scans show no abnormality. I thought he'd recover soon.
Well, Director...
Someone locked the hospital door from the outside and set us on fire.
I'm sure it was payback for Kang San Hyeok whistleblowing
the contamination case in Miryeong Village.
Kang San Hyeok is in danger. Please help him, Director.
The Miryeong Hospital was destroyed from the fire
and 200 hectare of Miryeong Mountain was burnt.
But fortunately, no fatalities occurred.
So where is the corpse?
I searched through the hospitals in the area just in case,
but there were no patient by the name, Kang San Hyeok.
The probability of his survival is extremely low.
You never know. Search thoroughly.
You must confirm his death.
I understand, Managing Director.
Yes. Sleep as much as you can at times like this.
You lived feeling guilty about sleeping all this time.
Sleep well.
Rest.
And after that, see me. Let's open your eyes.
All right?
It's unfortunate what's happened to the
Miryeong Hospital, but I'm glad you're all safe.
You need to treat Miryeong Village residents.
Until we rebuild the hospital,
you can work here.
I have prepared a separate office for you to look after Miryeong Village.
You all went through a lot in many ways.
He smiled at me.
Just because he's requesting this of me,
does he think I'll stay on here?
It's too late, you know. Way too late.
In any case, the hospitals can't run properly without me.
Hurry up and come. Our Miryeong residents are waiting for us.
The elevator is this way.
This is my turf. This one is not as busy, so it's faster.
We should get the heavy metal poisoning results first.
Executive Director
Yes, Executive Director.
Yes, I'm listening.
Yes, I got it.
It's me.
Are the heavy metal poisoning results on the Miryeong residents out?
[Blood Cell Heavy Metal Test]
Under the suspicion of heavy metal poisoning of the Miryeong residents,
all the test results show that the poisonous element was not detected.
[Heavy metal not detected in Miryeong Village residents]
The Miryeong county will continue to conduct the test quarterly going forward...
I'm sure Kang San Hyeok is dead.
Please forget our ill-fated relationship of the past and
give me the provincial forest development rights to me.
He's here! He's here!
Managing Director, is it true that the contamination
in the Miryeong Village is connected to Taesung Group?
Is it true that you started the forest fire in order to cover up the contamination?
Please say a word!
That is not true.
Putting my father's honor on the line, I insist
that I have nothing to do with this incident.
Were you aware of the heavy metal poisoning in Miryeong Village?
Director, did you know?
Director, one word, please!
San Hyeok! San Hyeok!
San Hyeok, it's me. Do you recognize me?
VIP Ward
Aside from the external wounds from the surgery, he's fine.
You went through a lot, Go Na Kang.
Thank you.
Go Na Kang? (Means Kang Toffee)
I changed your name and the date you were hospitalized.
You never know when the secret will get out.
We should hurry and move you to a safer place.
People who were looking for Kang San Hyeok came by.
Jeong Yeong Jae was my protector?
Was?
I'm currently your protector and I'll continue to be your protector.
What are you talking about?
Lean on me. I'll carry you.
You just stay safe.
Don't jump into the fire for my sake.
Just stay safe.
Promise me, okay?
Okay.
I promise.
Team Leader.
You finally pulled a big one. Crazy bastard.
- Team Leader, you're not normal either. - Geez...
it hurts so badly.
Hey, you, don't even think about resigning, man.
I'll count all your unexcused absences, and I'll only burn your lapel, you jerk.
I got to see your sorry behavior.
Get out now.
It hurts so much that I want to cuss you out, man.
Director! Are you all right?
Dr. Jeong Yeong Jae told me not to come by in case your identity might get revealed.
I was dying of curiosity!
Stop fussing around. Hurry up and get ready.
Get ready? You just got out of the hospital. Get ready for what?
Managing Director Kwon Joo Han of Taesung Group,
likely to succeed as the chairman
Get ready to catch and kill Kwon Joo Han.
Wow. I'm breathless. So cool.
Director, you're alive and well!
I thought the ground underneath our station is contaminated.
So why is the county office telling us there are no problems?
They said they didn't find anything on the soil test.
Geez, I don't know if they want us to believe that or not...
The elders who drank underground water have cancer and all kinds of diseases.
But they say the test didn't detect any heavy metals.
This is serious.
All our tests also said they didn't detect anything.
But that makes me feel more uneasy.
Geez, we need our team leader at times like this.
San Hyeok hyung would be the expert at fighting against things like this.
I wonder when San Hyeok hyung will wake up.
Hey...
Aigoo, aigoo!
What if someone hears you?
Why? Is my name taboo?
San... oh, S hyung!
What the heck? Why is S here?
I'm awake now. So you're dismissed from not mentioning my name.
You can bring back Kang San Hyeok and curse me to your heart's content.
Wow, you took quite a vacation.
So, you're coming back to the rescue team, right?
- Who says we'll take him back? - Aigoo...
Geez, you look cool now.
We'd know for sure if we dig the grounds of the rescue team headquarters.
But I think the higher-ups want to let this slide quietly.
I need evidence to support cause and effect.
Were there any cases of cancers or leukemia in the rescue team?
I'm not sure.
We take rotations on duty in different areas, so
we don't hear of each other's condition too much.
From way before I started working here, the rescue team
started using tap water rather than underground water.
By chance, does paralysis count?
- Team Member Jang? - Yeah.
He loved Miryeong Mountain.
So he moved to Miryeong Village and worked here for ten years.
But suddenly, he started having paralysis in his legs.
In the end, he went out on a rescue mission, but couldn't move his legs.
So he got his leg amputated when a boulder fell on him.
If you look at it that way, don't you have more serious issues?
You're from here.
I don't notice any problems myself. And my tests came out normal, too.
But then, I'm worried about my hyungnim.
Did he get his medical exam?
You can't exert yourself yet.
The cuts and burned wounds are pretty serious.
Yes, scary Dr. Jeong.
Don't take this lightly.
If you overdo it, I'll take you and shut you in a hospital room.
See? Where? Where is it?
I'm okay. This is nothing.
I didn't know you'd be like this.
As soon as you woke up, you're chasing
around the contamination issue in your state.
- I think I misunderstood you a lot... - Yeong Jae.
You didn't misunderstand me.
The night you packed up. You're correct about how you felt.
I was going to cover up the residents' poisoning issues and was going to start
the rare earth minerals business.
The reason I'm doing this is completely for my personal revenge.
I don't have a sacred sense of duty like you're thinking.
Why don't you take a look at yourself carefully?
Is Kang San Hyeok really that selfish?
Yes, I'm his son.
I wanted to know the result of the detailed medical examination that he took last time.
Pardon?
Did the test results come out?
As you instructed, I distributed fabricated test results.
And the real ones?
They're all here.
Blood Heavy Metal Test Results
They show 50% more than the standard level of arsenic in the residents.
Here you go. Hello. Not detected
Everything looks normal.
You don't have to worry.
Detected
We, at Seoul Myeongseong University, must prove
that we ordered the fabrication of the test results.
So, keep both sets of the test results securely.
I'll turn everything over to the Prosecutors' Office.
I understand, Director.
You asked to meet me but suddenly went awol.
Something urgent came up at my office.
Who is it?
The tiger cub who'd put the managing director
in jeopardy if we don't kill him off right away.
But those guys who started the fire...
I thought they went to China.
But they came back and threatened me saying they'll reveal everything.
So, where are they?
I gave them some money and drove them out. No need to worry.
I saw them get on the airplane myself.
But it's so strange.
How could there me another fire as soon as that news comes out?
I guess you must've started the most recent fire yourself?
Why? Do you think I'd record you or something?
You'd better not try to pull anything.
I'm telling you that considering our old friendship.
Didn't you say you were going to build a resort?
When you told me to start the forest fire 25 years ago,
you said you were only trying to relocate the residents.
That it's a simple task.
You completely deceived me. Right?
About those things being buried on our grounds.
Are you blaming me for what you did back then?
Don't you know me? I'm talking about money!
You deceived me when you bought the land with those
expensive elements buried here. You should pay me more.
I'll speak to the Managing Director.
He caused this illness for me. How dare he say he'll do another business?
I'm sure he has no idea that the child who was in that fire was Kang San Hyeok.
The brother of the kid you guys killed.
Take it from that tiger cub, Kang San Hyeok.
Those bastards deserve to be fried in the heavy metal shit water!
Hey! Hey, you! What are you doing here at this hour?
How long have you been standing there?
Hey!
Why couldn't I think of that? Now that I think about it,
we were struggling to have three meals a day. But we suddenly got rich
right after the Miryeong forest fire 25 years ago.
What should I do, Father?
Should I yell and scream and say how could you do such a thing?
Should I ignore it since the statute of limitation expired already?
What do I have to do?
Hey, if I turn myself in at the police station,
will you forgive me?
If you'd forgive me.
If my Chang can live without being tormented all your life,
I'll... I'll do anything. Just say it.
Why do you live like that, Father? Don't you have your own life?
What did you gain by not having a life of your own?
What are you left with, but a sick body?
You...
Do you know about my cancer?
You... I'm not scared of dying!
I'm your baby.
The one you gave birth to with your aching belly.
No matter what you did, I'm always on your side.
Why don't you know that? Why don't you know that like an idiot?
- Father, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - Let go.
I'm sorry I made you that way. I'm sorry...
I'll get better.
I don't have any pain. I'm fine.
The entire grounds of the rescue team have been contaminated?
I also have arsenic poisoning?
The reason you were having frequent memory lapse is not due to alcoholism,
but it could be from arsenic poisoning.
So I didn't only lose a friend in that forest fire from long ago.
Back then, your friend had gone in to rescue a little girl, right?
By chance, did you see anything strange?
The sound of an helicopter.
Not the rescue team helicopter. But I heard another helicopter.
But strangely, the portion about the
helicopter got deleted in the rescue journal.
What's going on? Why are you being so serious unlike you?
I think kneeling will be too dramatic.
Even if I were to say, "How much money do you want?",
you already have more money than I can compare.
I have no answer no matter how much I think about it.
What the heck is he saying?
The reason I have no answer is because I don't think I can ever forgive myself.
My father did something that's not forgivable.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
To you, Kang San Hyeok, and to your little sister...
I'm so sorry that all I can say is sorry.
Let go.
Yeong Jae might misunderstand if she saw us.
You shouldn't say the word, "Forgiveness," so carelessly.
I'll talk to your father directly.
The governor seems to be avoiding our calls.
All right.
He reappeared, huh? Kang San Hyeok is alive.
I'll take care of him myself immediately.
No. Seeing how well he is going around interfering with my work,
I'm sure he's prepared for that.
Then how should we proceed? There are only a
few days left until the Chairman's deadline.
Then we should draw our last card.
The hostage card that we hold.
It's a list of Miryeong residents who were cremated since the 1994 forest fire.
1994 - A List of Deceased People in Miryeong Village (Cremated)
I met with every single chief mourner of their family.
All of them?
I was right.
I was suspicious since there was no record of funeral payment at the county office.
As expected, they all contacted a different party.
Deokin Foundation Social Contribution Team Someone came out from this organization
and paid them a funeral fee only after confirming the cremation.
Saying it's a welfare fund.
Deokin Foundation?
He helps us out with our hospital's medical services.
He's Director Jo Kwang Pil of the Deokin Foundation.
It's nice to meet you, Dr. Jeong Yeong Jae. I've wanted to meet you.
I looked into it and found out that there is no Deokin Foundation
among the foundations that are registered nationwide.
A fictitious organization has been paying the
funeral cost for that long length of time.
Director Jo Kwang Pil
The number you dialed does not exist.
Please confirm and dial again.
There you go. Make sure to take your antibiotics.
- Is something wrong? - Huh?
No, nothing.
By chance, do you know someone named Jo Kwang Pil through this contamination case?
How do you know Jo Kwang Pil?
He took my signature stamp saying he's building a trauma center.
I wasn't suspicious at all since he was introduced
to me by the hospital director in Seoul.
It looks like the Deokin Foundation paid for
the deceased Miryeong residents' cremation.
Why would he take my signature stamp?
I'll take care of it.
What are you going to do?
I'll take care of it. So, don't worry.
No. This is my business.
You can't be in a bind or compromise with them because of me.
- I got it. So, you just... - This is my business.
Don't do it your way.
People who ignore evil are evil, too.
I will never compromise.
If he's plotting something, I'll face him to the end.
Don't butt in with my business.
All right, I got it.
Deokin Foundation Executive Director, Jeong Yeong Jae
This is Kang San Hyeok.
I believe it's time we meet again, Managing Director Kwon Joo Han.
I guess being in love is an amazing thing.
You knew full well that you'd die here, yet you came voluntarily.
First, keep your promise.
Are you talking about this?
The proof of embezzling the slush funds that ED Jeong Yeong Jae signed off.
I should give it to you.
If you can take it with you.
There's a question I get asked very frequently.
What is the meaning behind your smile on your face even in dire situations?
Is it composure or mockery? What do you think it is?
The only emotion that can be felt by Taesung Group's Kwon Joo Han.
Do you think the ordinary commoners dare even imagine it?
The sin of imagining something you don't dare imagine.
And the sin of challenging the power you should never attempt to challenge.
That's the reason you'll die.
The last episode will air soon.
Final Episode
S♪♪♪load #3, don't step on that.
You shouldn't step on the name belonging to the ultimate beauty in the universe.
Director!
How dare you step on her name!
How dare you!
Hyungnim!
My underling made an error.
Please forgive me.
We should follow your orders, huh?
What are you doing?
Yes, sir!
Hyungnim.
Let go!
Hyungnim!
Let's go. Go!
All right then, have a nice time, you two.
You'll go to prison. I found all the evidence.
But your crimes are too grave to send you off to prison in one piece.
So, I spent some money.
The sin of thinking you're the only one with money.
The sin of provoking anger that calls for all
types of payback, yet you have no idea why.
That's the reason...
you'll get beaten to a pulp.
You trashy a♪♪hole, how can you just stand there and watch a child die in fire? How?
Who are you? Who the hell are you?
Someone who'll make you live in hell without dying.
I'm a superhero...
who'd make your life a living hell until you breathe your last.
San Yoo!
Oppa!
San Hyeok!
This is for my San Yoo.
How do you feel?
Please say a word!
How do you feel?
How do you feel right now?
One word, please.
What do you think about your charges?
I will say that I will cooperate with the Prosecutors' Office investigation.
I apologize for creating problems.
Please say a word!
Taesung Group's managing director Kwon Joo Han who is facing charges of arson
to cover up the heavy metal contamination in the Miryeong Village
[ Taesung Group's Managing Director Kwon Joo Han Called to the Prosecutors' Office]
was summoned to the Prosecutors' Office.
Director Kwon Joo Han is denying all charges,
but the video clips of him ordering murder and
arson are being distributed on the internet quickly.
There is no choice but to cover the issue with a bigger issue, right?
Let's make a great night.
Taesung's Kwon Joo Han orders arson and murder, yet he denies everything
Managing Director Kwon liked to videotape things and keep them as mementos.
I'm ready.
There is no choice but to cover the issue with a bigger issue, right?
The Prosecutors' Office seized the fact that
Taesung High Tech which Kwon Joo Han represents
put 300 billion won in company fund toward Miryeong Mountain development project.
They're conducting search and seizure on Taesung High Tech.
If the charges are proven, Director Kwon Joo Han will be charged with arson,
ordering murder, and embezzlement additionally.
The result of his upcoming first trial on the 5th
is expected to be unfavorable for him.
Kang San Hyeok buried Soon Ae and his sister
in the Miryeong Forest in their remembrance.
Jeong Soon Ae, Kang San Yoo's grave
Here he comes!
Ask for forgiveness, evil corporation Taesung!
Case number 2019 Gohap 1775.
We'll commence the trial.
Defense
Witness
At the arson location where Kwon Joon Han started the fire 25 years ago,
I witnessed Kwon Joo Han.
And due to that fire, I lost my sister.
And most recently, I almost lost my life from the fire Kwon Joo Han started.
To cover up the contamination caused by the excavation, I clearly state that
all this began from the decisions made by
Managing Director Kwon Joo Han of Taesung Group.
This is the helicopter flight record from the day of the fire 25 years ago.
Helicopter flight journal
The pilot who quit the rescue team
and started working for a private sector sent me this.
As you can see, Kwon Joo Han flew from Seoul
to Miryeong in an helicopter at that hour.
When the forest fire was at its peak, Kwon Joo Han was there.
I drank underground water for a long time.
One day, I started having paralysis in my leg all of a sudden.
He said he'd pay us more if we cremated the body without telling anyone.
I drank the water from the mountain longer than any other families in the area.
Now, I can't use my legs.
Kwon Joo Han told me to do everything.
I only followed his orders.
To get what he wanted, Kang San Hyeok didn't hesitate to blackmail.
Of course, he bribed.
Could you believe the words and the evidence such a person submitted?
I never received any types of orders from Managing
Director Kwon Joo Han regarding Miryeong Village.
It's not true.
Managing Director Kwon Joon Han never ordered such a thing.
Your Honor, I bring in my last witness.
I don't have many days left to live out.
I came here because I felt that I had to ask for forgiveness before I die.
To bid farewell to my son without shame,
I thought I had to say these words.
25 years ago...
I started that forest fire on Miryeong Mountain.
- Oh, my world... - Even if I had ten mouths to speak...
I have no words. Judge
I'll receive my punishment in due time.
However, I'll reveal the truth from that day.
Witness, is the person who ordered you to start the fire in this room?
Objection, Your Honor!
Defense, be quiet.
Continue, Witness.
Well, this guy, Taesung Group Managing Director Kwon Joo Han
paid me to start the fire.
What nonsense is this!
I've worked with trees all my life.
I did all the carpentry work in his office.
Prosecutor, please show what's in the blueprint that I gave you.
Take a picture of this.
Where the star mark is.
Taesung High Tech, Taesung Group...
1994 Miryeong Special Rescue Team
It's not clear...
Nice.
Oh, my God!
You have to capture stuff like this.
A village that's about to disappear and tragic children.
Isn't this meaningful?
You deserve to die!
Please stay calm!
Everyone, calm down!
Please sit down!
Have a seat!
Ask for forgiveness, Kwon Joo Han! / Evil corporation, Taesung Group!
I'm sure you'll get out with the power you have.
Then, I'll put you back there again.
If you get out again, I'll find something else to put you behind bars.
If you get out again then, I'll put you back there again.
The power of money. I have enough to drag you to hell.
So try it.
I'll go only after you my whole life.
Kwon Joo Han.
San Hyeok should get some rest after going through such an ordeal.
He's going to report to Team Leader Bong the trial results and discuss
the underground contamination beneath the rescue team headquarters.
But is it okay for you to be here and not be at the fire school?
- Do you want some water? - Yeah, sure.
Here you go.
I had a question all my life.
Your parents who bore you and raised you so well until you were nine years old...
Did they really try to harm you?
Why do you bring that up out of the blue?
Dr. Yoo from the NIS came to give a special lecture
at my fire school and spoke of the incident.
Since I adopted you after that incident, he had just put it away.
About your birth parents.
Don't tell me. I don't want to hear it.
He said your parents were trying to save you.
Retrace your memory carefully.
When I went to rescue you,
you were still breathing in the back seat in
the spot where the water didn't fill up, right?
These are crime scene photos that Dr. Yoo gave me.
Here, look at it carefully.
The window of the front seat is open this much.
But if the window was open from the start,
you couldn't have survived by the time I got there to rescue you.
The water would've filled up inside the car.
That means the window opened later.
Then who do you think opened it?
No...
You're saying this because you don't know.
I'm sure...
I'm sure they tried to...
This is a photo of your parents' palms.
The straight line that was indented while opening the car window.
Both of them had that.
When you settle down a bit, take a look.
They did throw themselves into the water to die together.
But seeing their beloved daughter die
made them realize what they were doing.
So they opened up the window with all their might in order to save you
and pulled you into the water to push you out through the window.
Yeong Jae, they made a wrong momentary choice,
but they tried to save you.
No...
You don't know, Dad.
I don't know.
Yeong Jae.
Even if that may be true, I can't forgive them.
I can't forgive you as your daughter Ji Soo.
But as Dr. Jeong Yeong Jae, I want to say something.
Mom. Dad.
In the next world, I'll be your mom to both of you.
As a mom, no matter what hardship I may face,
I'll never give up and stay by your side.
If one door closes, another one opens.
As long as I endure and withstand, there's another door that's waiting to open for me.
I'll show you through my life.
Yes, Father. Did Yeong Jae go somewhere?
Yes.
♬ You are always there like an overgrown tree. ♬
♬ Always ♬
If you fall into the water, you become a ball.
♬ Always ♬
If you cuddle and stay still, you'll float slowly.
♬ the memories of being around you. ♬
Then you become a leaf.
You spread out your body as if to say, "hooray."
♬ Because I will love you ♬
♬ Like a day which will never return again ♬
♬ Because I will love you ♬
♬ I love you. ♬
♬ As always at that spot ♬
♬ Always ♬
♬ Accidentally, the times you face me, I will seep into your heart ♬
♬ Always ♬
♬ Yes, with your warm breaths, ♬
♬ fills me up ♬
Yeong Jae.
♬ Because I will love you ♬
♬ Like a day that will never come back to me ♬
♬ Because I will love you ♬
♬ I love you ♬
I rescued myself.
Thanks to you.
Yes. Jeong Yeong Jae is like that.
That's how you'll be.
Now, you rescue me.
♬ On a bright day, hug me, dear ♬
I love you.
I love you too.
♬ Because I will love you ♬
♬ I love you ♬
♬ As always at that spot ♬
♬ Always ♬
- Hurry up and come! - Hey.
You try to be sick and see if you can walk as fast as I'm walking.
I know you're doing that because you don't want to go in.
You've tried all kinds of great therapies
that your cancer didn't spread and you're in great condition.
Hurry up and let's go, Dad-in-law.
Dad-in-law? Not yet.
I didn't approve of you yet.
And you call me Dad-in-law out in the open already.
Yes, yes, my Dad-in-law is coming.
- Let's go. - Hey, hey, hey!
Mr. Choi Jeong Mok is walking.
How is the graduate school going?
I'm dying here.
Endure through it.
You said you'd study psychological counseling and cure all our trauma.
You were so confident saying that.
If Dr. Jeong Yeong Jae was going to do this,
I didn't have to enroll in a graduate school.
- That guy... - Hey...
What's with him?
That's also a type of trauma. So, you should cure him, Hyungnim.
That's your major.
Geez...
Sanyoo Hospital and Miryeong Forest / Groundbreaking Ceremony for Trauma Center
Here is Dr. Park Jin Man who has been appointed
to be the director of Sanyoo Hospital.
♬ Oh at the sound of a whistle ♬
♬ I hum without realizing it ♬
♬ Drunk on a cup of coffee ♬
♬ I also don't realize ♬
How is a psychiatry internship going for you?
Of course. Being colleagues with much younger juniors
makes me feel so young. It's nice.
I'm so happy that I get to study what I wanted to study.
Great.
I'm happy as long as you're happy.
You only get to see me on weekends.
You're still happy when you don't get to see me?
What a pervert.
Come here.
Come.
I'm kidding.
I think you mean it.
- Come here! - Don't come.
I'm going to get you!
♬ Only you in my heart ♬
♬ Wu - - Ah - ♬
Thank you for watching "Forest."
♬ Will you come to me? ♬
♬ Sometimes on rainy days ♬
♬ we remember together walking together ♬
♬ An intimate ending ♬
♬ You and I are going to create one ♬
♬ I try saying anything. ♬
♬ Rather than what you want ♬
♬ Listen to the answer I've prepared ♬
♬ By the time the sun sets ♬
♬ We will sit and face each other blankly ♬
♬ We can fall in love ♬
♬ Even doing nothing at all I feel good ♬
♬ Anytime with you ♬