Years of Upheaval (1991–…): Season 1, Episode 30 - Episode #1.30 - full transcript
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Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad
- May 10, 1948 -
It's the police!
Find refuge!
The police are on their way!
- Armed Squads Assault 65
Jeju Electoral Booths -
- Two electoral districts fail to reach
the quorum, making elections null -
- Jeju Recall Elections
Postponed Indefinitely -
- Episode 30 -
Originally Aired on 01/16/1992
Stay down!
Charge!
- May 13 -
Police Benefit from Reinforcement
of 400 strong
Withdraw!
Withdraw!
- May 15 -
11th Regiment Moves from
Suwon to Jeju Island
Retreat!
Fall back!
Get up!
Hurry up and move!
Seongdae... Seongdae!
Seongdae, let's go.
Run!
Get moving!
Mara Island, Gapa Island...
They're all fine.
What are you talking about?
That, Mara or Gapa Island as it may be,
if I only had a boat...
Why, want to run away?
You bet.
Listen to you!
If we leave, then what will
that make of Jeju?
Who ever said I was?
I'm just saying I hope I could.
You... what?!
And where the hell would you go?
Let me go!
- So you're from the north?
- Yes.
Comrade Seo told me about what
you were doing up north.
I need someone to put in a good
word for me up north.
You're going up north?
Yes... We have no chances
of victory as it stands.
We need nationwide support to succeed.
So?
We need the north to
understand our situation,
and find out whether they know
about our heroic struggle here.
I might find a boat,
so you'll have to come with me.
What you really want, then, is someone
who can guarantee your safety.
I've already told Comrade Seo.
I'm still the leader here, so if I run away,
what will all the others think?
Run away?!
This is only...
Then, do you intend to
make it a brief visit?
Why would anyone with such intentions
behave with so much discretion?
This is not like sending your
family away in secret.
I closed an eye on it despite knowing.
- It was against the party, but I still...
- Against the party?!
- Look.
- Comrade!
I had no delusions about the
party from the get-go.
But still, I made a choice in all freedom,
supporting my party.
So I won't forgive anyone using
it for their own means.
Is that clear?
Everyone, stay where you are!
Don't move a finger!
I said don't!
Help... Please!
Look...
We're all locals!
Please, don't hurt us!
We're all Jeju residents!
Ajumma, it's all right.
Don't you worry.
They're on our side!
Our same side.
We're safe!
There... Over there.
You remained here?
Why?
You couldn't find the boat?
No...
So?
Why?
I couldn't leave.
I'm sorry.
I just couldn't.
This is pathetic.
I'm sorry...
You are pathetic.
Daddy...
Will you leave?
Along with your wife and kid?
I almost got married as well.
That woman must be living
somewhere in Japan by now,
and be the mother of several children.
It's the first time I ever heard
you talk about that.
It's the first time I told anyone.
Even while writing my profile
when I joined the party,
I left her story out.
Even though I told them
everything else.
How I started sympathizing with
communist theory while studying in Japan,
and how after being arrested, I betrayed
my colleagues to earn myself a release.
Because of me, all those brilliant
men either died or were crippled.
Why did you break up with that woman?
Because I was an informer.
She spat in my face as she left me.
Isn't that ironic?
After all, I did all that just
because I loved her.
Can you understand?
The fact a man could go through
that just because of a woman.
I wandered about for years,
like a crippled man.
I then managed to join the party
with all sorts of difficulties,
but that label of informer
still keeps haunting me.
And yet, you know what?
She married a Japanese man.
She's probably doing fine.
Isn't that the irony of history?
Or maybe it's man himself who
is a walking contradiction.
If you want to take the kid along,
you better be careful.
The enemy's checkpoints
are no laughing matter.
- Fell asleep?
- No! I just...
- Where are you going?
- Wake up.
- All their lives depend on you.
- Yes.
See you.
It's two o'clock.
We only have ten minutes.
Bear that in mind.
Hey.
Here.
Let's go.
Seongdae...
Seongok, wake up.
Hey!
I'll take them with me.
Are you insane?
No way!
I must!
We won't make it if we go together.
We'll have to split.
The children, all by themselves?
- You can make it, right?
- Are we coming with you?
Yes...
We'll all get on that boat.
Then, we'll make it.
Seongok!
Hold your brother's hand
and don't say a word!
- See that hill?
- Yes.
Go past that, and keep going down.
You'll find a big rock by the beach.
Fortress Rock?
That's right. All you need to
do is reach that rock.
Take to the paddies and avoid roads.
- You can climb over that rock, can you?
- Yes.
Never stop or look back.
Run until you get there.
- Can you?
- Yes.
All right.
Now.
Go.
I should have gone first, not the kids.
What the...
They're people.
Stop!
Stop!
What are you waiting for?
What about the kids?
Tell me!
Did you send the kids this way?
What were those gunshots?
Where are they?!
The boat will leave in ten minutes.
Honey...
I had no other choice.
They'll come here looking for us!
How could you be capable of that?
How could I be capable?
And you've got the guts to ask me?
Do you even realize what I'm
doing for you and the kid?
I'm running away.
Choi Daechi is running away from the
battlefield just to save his wife and kid!
Is that what you thought of this?
What?!
- Seen them?
- No.
Shoot them at the first sighting.
I never imagined it'd come to this.
Let's just go.
We can always talk on our way.
I was always nervous.
Asking myself whether you really
wanted us to follow you.
Whether it was what you wished for.
But the more I stay with you, the less I
seem to know who you really are.
So?
Why didn't you go with
Jang Harim when you could?
If you want to stay here, be my guest.
Honey...
I'm not going to ask twice.
Are you coming with me or not?
This won't do it.
Let's just leave.
- Will you go ahead first?
- Comrade Seo!
I can't go by myself.
The party gave me a task to fulfill.
And that's to wait for and
help Comrade Choi.
Listen...
Let's go.
Depart. Now.
Are you alone?
- Can you swim?
- Born and raised on the coast!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!!
- Sep. 1948, Scorched-Land Tactics Launched
by Burning 10,000 Households in 295 villages -
- Go Changdae (Armed Guerrilla Unit) -
Joins Ideok-Gu Battalion,
Killed in Action on June 1949, Samyang
- Oh Soonae (17 at the time) -
Turns Herself in on March 1949,
Executed during prelim. arrests in 1950
- Bu Taejong (Armed Guerrilla Unit) -
Killed in Combat in Saroreum in Dec. 1948
- Go Chunseong (Hagwi Middle School) -
Arrested in June 1948, Sentenced to
15 years, Executed Once Korean War Started
- Casualties of April 3 Incidents in Jeju -
Total Population - 280,000
Jeju Estimates (1963) - 27,719
Korean Handbook (1956) - 40,000
Unofficial Records (1963) - 80,065
- August 15, 1948 -
South Korean Government Established
- September 9, 1948 -
Democratic People's Republic
of Korea Officially Declared
- Pyeongyang -
- Soviet Armed Forces Political Command -
I've been thoroughly informed
of your exploits down south.
Remarkable, you surpassed
every expectation I had.
Especially that...
What was her name, Yoon Yeook?
Your activities with her
were truly formidable.
Superb is the word that
best defines them.
If anything, you were exposed
a little too early...
But that's just pushing it.
So, tell me.
You like your new appointment?
You mean Office 14 of the
Central Party Force?
That's right. On paper, it's under the
labor party's administration,
but always bear in mind it will become the most
strategically important department we have.
Because the reality of things is that it supervises
the formation of guerrilla units in the south.
I'm sure your experience will come in handy.
Ahh... I've heard you and Comrade
Kim Gimun are quite close?!
You were under him ever since your days
in the Eighth Route Army, weren't you?
Have a seat.
I was told you came.
I've been anxiously waiting to see you.
But you came here much
sooner than I thought.
I can see how hard it's been
just by looking at you.
You've had your share of anguish.
I saw our national flag on the banner.
We got rid of the taegeukgi*.
{\a6}*South Korean flag
We set the one we brought
over from China on fire.
I guess we each got something out of this.
They got their taegeukgi,
and we kept the name Joseon.
What brought you down here?
Shouldn't people like you be appointed
to much higher posts?
Wait... Let me think.
You have to go back today?
If that's not the case,
let's drink the night away.
I haven't touched a drink
in quite some time.
And that's because I can't stop
talking when I'm drunk.
Railway labor...
Workers' strikes...
Guerrilla warfare in Jeju.
Impressive, just impressive.
So how was it?
How did it feel to fight side by
side with those workers?
Do you know why I came
all the way here?
Because I was sent by my superior.
What are these "people"?
They're like an amoeba.
Prancing about without even
touching each other. Amoeba.
Aren't they?
They sent me here to investigate on your
sectarianism and right-leaning opportunism.
This is crossing the line...
Are you still sober?
Shouldn't you get drunk with me?
Now that I think about it,
you're not much of a drinking buddy.
You're ruining this precious wine!
Did you know?
You were the last thing I believed in.
At the railroad strikes, in Jeju... When I
mobilized workers for a hopeless struggle,
even when I forced my woman to
become a spy, I still believed in you.
You were my Lenin, my Mao Zedong!
Don't you get that?
But...
Is this really the man I believed in?
Can you show yourself
to me in this state?
Can you?!
Even acting like this can be hard.
I soon will be summoned by
the Security Department.
I used to say the very same things.
Why should someone with the combat
experience of General Mujeong*...
{\a6}*Kim Mujeong
be satisfied with a mere post as a
commander of a petty unit?
And I even said that in public.
You've been by my side
for a long time.
Should you testify against me,
they'd need no further evidence.
And that's probably the kind
of role they wish you to play.
Remember that.
You can even spit in my face if needed.
If that's what's asked from you,
do it without a moment's hesitation.
You're a revolutionary fighter,
and fighters shouldn't join politics.
There is something else for you to do.
Seonsaengnim...
This is a revolution!
If I was Kim Ilseong, I would have
done the exact same thing.
I'd cut off all the rotten branches
on my way to the top.
And if I happen to be one of
those branches, I should be cut off.
But you're no branch.
Should anything happen to someone
like you because of me,
our people would be losing out.
Am I making myself clear?
I abandoned Yeook.
And that's because I thought
it was for her own good.
But...
It's not.
I only did it for my sake.
Because that Yeook keeps
making me feel insignificant.
And I couldn't stand feeling like that,
every time we were together.
So that's why I abandoned her.
I wanted to tell this to someone.
Next on our agenda is a discussion
on how to deal with...
Comrade Kim Gimun's
right-leaning tendencies.
On the April 12 edition of
the Rodong Shinmun,
the essay penned by Kim Gimun proves
without a shadow of a doubt...
his reactionary beliefs.
With that, he tried to corrupt the socialist
fabric of our factories and communes...
by debating the merits of capitalism!
Comrade Choi Daechi is up next.
Major Choi has been involved with
Comrade Kim ever since 1944.
I...
Comrade Choi!
Go ahead.
- WithS2 Presented -
20th Anniversary Special
E Y E S of D A W N
- Episode 30 -
- Translation and Timing -
Anarchist
- Timing QC -
julier
- Editing -
langdon813
- Coordinators -
ay_link, mily2
Written In The Heavens Subbing Squad
- May 10, 1948 -
It's the police!
Find refuge!
The police are on their way!
- Armed Squads Assault 65
Jeju Electoral Booths -
- Two electoral districts fail to reach
the quorum, making elections null -
- Jeju Recall Elections
Postponed Indefinitely -
- Episode 30 -
Originally Aired on 01/16/1992
Stay down!
Charge!
- May 13 -
Police Benefit from Reinforcement
of 400 strong
Withdraw!
Withdraw!
- May 15 -
11th Regiment Moves from
Suwon to Jeju Island
Retreat!
Fall back!
Get up!
Hurry up and move!
Seongdae... Seongdae!
Seongdae, let's go.
Run!
Get moving!
Mara Island, Gapa Island...
They're all fine.
What are you talking about?
That, Mara or Gapa Island as it may be,
if I only had a boat...
Why, want to run away?
You bet.
Listen to you!
If we leave, then what will
that make of Jeju?
Who ever said I was?
I'm just saying I hope I could.
You... what?!
And where the hell would you go?
Let me go!
- So you're from the north?
- Yes.
Comrade Seo told me about what
you were doing up north.
I need someone to put in a good
word for me up north.
You're going up north?
Yes... We have no chances
of victory as it stands.
We need nationwide support to succeed.
So?
We need the north to
understand our situation,
and find out whether they know
about our heroic struggle here.
I might find a boat,
so you'll have to come with me.
What you really want, then, is someone
who can guarantee your safety.
I've already told Comrade Seo.
I'm still the leader here, so if I run away,
what will all the others think?
Run away?!
This is only...
Then, do you intend to
make it a brief visit?
Why would anyone with such intentions
behave with so much discretion?
This is not like sending your
family away in secret.
I closed an eye on it despite knowing.
- It was against the party, but I still...
- Against the party?!
- Look.
- Comrade!
I had no delusions about the
party from the get-go.
But still, I made a choice in all freedom,
supporting my party.
So I won't forgive anyone using
it for their own means.
Is that clear?
Everyone, stay where you are!
Don't move a finger!
I said don't!
Help... Please!
Look...
We're all locals!
Please, don't hurt us!
We're all Jeju residents!
Ajumma, it's all right.
Don't you worry.
They're on our side!
Our same side.
We're safe!
There... Over there.
You remained here?
Why?
You couldn't find the boat?
No...
So?
Why?
I couldn't leave.
I'm sorry.
I just couldn't.
This is pathetic.
I'm sorry...
You are pathetic.
Daddy...
Will you leave?
Along with your wife and kid?
I almost got married as well.
That woman must be living
somewhere in Japan by now,
and be the mother of several children.
It's the first time I ever heard
you talk about that.
It's the first time I told anyone.
Even while writing my profile
when I joined the party,
I left her story out.
Even though I told them
everything else.
How I started sympathizing with
communist theory while studying in Japan,
and how after being arrested, I betrayed
my colleagues to earn myself a release.
Because of me, all those brilliant
men either died or were crippled.
Why did you break up with that woman?
Because I was an informer.
She spat in my face as she left me.
Isn't that ironic?
After all, I did all that just
because I loved her.
Can you understand?
The fact a man could go through
that just because of a woman.
I wandered about for years,
like a crippled man.
I then managed to join the party
with all sorts of difficulties,
but that label of informer
still keeps haunting me.
And yet, you know what?
She married a Japanese man.
She's probably doing fine.
Isn't that the irony of history?
Or maybe it's man himself who
is a walking contradiction.
If you want to take the kid along,
you better be careful.
The enemy's checkpoints
are no laughing matter.
- Fell asleep?
- No! I just...
- Where are you going?
- Wake up.
- All their lives depend on you.
- Yes.
See you.
It's two o'clock.
We only have ten minutes.
Bear that in mind.
Hey.
Here.
Let's go.
Seongdae...
Seongok, wake up.
Hey!
I'll take them with me.
Are you insane?
No way!
I must!
We won't make it if we go together.
We'll have to split.
The children, all by themselves?
- You can make it, right?
- Are we coming with you?
Yes...
We'll all get on that boat.
Then, we'll make it.
Seongok!
Hold your brother's hand
and don't say a word!
- See that hill?
- Yes.
Go past that, and keep going down.
You'll find a big rock by the beach.
Fortress Rock?
That's right. All you need to
do is reach that rock.
Take to the paddies and avoid roads.
- You can climb over that rock, can you?
- Yes.
Never stop or look back.
Run until you get there.
- Can you?
- Yes.
All right.
Now.
Go.
I should have gone first, not the kids.
What the...
They're people.
Stop!
Stop!
What are you waiting for?
What about the kids?
Tell me!
Did you send the kids this way?
What were those gunshots?
Where are they?!
The boat will leave in ten minutes.
Honey...
I had no other choice.
They'll come here looking for us!
How could you be capable of that?
How could I be capable?
And you've got the guts to ask me?
Do you even realize what I'm
doing for you and the kid?
I'm running away.
Choi Daechi is running away from the
battlefield just to save his wife and kid!
Is that what you thought of this?
What?!
- Seen them?
- No.
Shoot them at the first sighting.
I never imagined it'd come to this.
Let's just go.
We can always talk on our way.
I was always nervous.
Asking myself whether you really
wanted us to follow you.
Whether it was what you wished for.
But the more I stay with you, the less I
seem to know who you really are.
So?
Why didn't you go with
Jang Harim when you could?
If you want to stay here, be my guest.
Honey...
I'm not going to ask twice.
Are you coming with me or not?
This won't do it.
Let's just leave.
- Will you go ahead first?
- Comrade Seo!
I can't go by myself.
The party gave me a task to fulfill.
And that's to wait for and
help Comrade Choi.
Listen...
Let's go.
Depart. Now.
Are you alone?
- Can you swim?
- Born and raised on the coast!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!
Comrade Seo!!
- Sep. 1948, Scorched-Land Tactics Launched
by Burning 10,000 Households in 295 villages -
- Go Changdae (Armed Guerrilla Unit) -
Joins Ideok-Gu Battalion,
Killed in Action on June 1949, Samyang
- Oh Soonae (17 at the time) -
Turns Herself in on March 1949,
Executed during prelim. arrests in 1950
- Bu Taejong (Armed Guerrilla Unit) -
Killed in Combat in Saroreum in Dec. 1948
- Go Chunseong (Hagwi Middle School) -
Arrested in June 1948, Sentenced to
15 years, Executed Once Korean War Started
- Casualties of April 3 Incidents in Jeju -
Total Population - 280,000
Jeju Estimates (1963) - 27,719
Korean Handbook (1956) - 40,000
Unofficial Records (1963) - 80,065
- August 15, 1948 -
South Korean Government Established
- September 9, 1948 -
Democratic People's Republic
of Korea Officially Declared
- Pyeongyang -
- Soviet Armed Forces Political Command -
I've been thoroughly informed
of your exploits down south.
Remarkable, you surpassed
every expectation I had.
Especially that...
What was her name, Yoon Yeook?
Your activities with her
were truly formidable.
Superb is the word that
best defines them.
If anything, you were exposed
a little too early...
But that's just pushing it.
So, tell me.
You like your new appointment?
You mean Office 14 of the
Central Party Force?
That's right. On paper, it's under the
labor party's administration,
but always bear in mind it will become the most
strategically important department we have.
Because the reality of things is that it supervises
the formation of guerrilla units in the south.
I'm sure your experience will come in handy.
Ahh... I've heard you and Comrade
Kim Gimun are quite close?!
You were under him ever since your days
in the Eighth Route Army, weren't you?
Have a seat.
I was told you came.
I've been anxiously waiting to see you.
But you came here much
sooner than I thought.
I can see how hard it's been
just by looking at you.
You've had your share of anguish.
I saw our national flag on the banner.
We got rid of the taegeukgi*.
{\a6}*South Korean flag
We set the one we brought
over from China on fire.
I guess we each got something out of this.
They got their taegeukgi,
and we kept the name Joseon.
What brought you down here?
Shouldn't people like you be appointed
to much higher posts?
Wait... Let me think.
You have to go back today?
If that's not the case,
let's drink the night away.
I haven't touched a drink
in quite some time.
And that's because I can't stop
talking when I'm drunk.
Railway labor...
Workers' strikes...
Guerrilla warfare in Jeju.
Impressive, just impressive.
So how was it?
How did it feel to fight side by
side with those workers?
Do you know why I came
all the way here?
Because I was sent by my superior.
What are these "people"?
They're like an amoeba.
Prancing about without even
touching each other. Amoeba.
Aren't they?
They sent me here to investigate on your
sectarianism and right-leaning opportunism.
This is crossing the line...
Are you still sober?
Shouldn't you get drunk with me?
Now that I think about it,
you're not much of a drinking buddy.
You're ruining this precious wine!
Did you know?
You were the last thing I believed in.
At the railroad strikes, in Jeju... When I
mobilized workers for a hopeless struggle,
even when I forced my woman to
become a spy, I still believed in you.
You were my Lenin, my Mao Zedong!
Don't you get that?
But...
Is this really the man I believed in?
Can you show yourself
to me in this state?
Can you?!
Even acting like this can be hard.
I soon will be summoned by
the Security Department.
I used to say the very same things.
Why should someone with the combat
experience of General Mujeong*...
{\a6}*Kim Mujeong
be satisfied with a mere post as a
commander of a petty unit?
And I even said that in public.
You've been by my side
for a long time.
Should you testify against me,
they'd need no further evidence.
And that's probably the kind
of role they wish you to play.
Remember that.
You can even spit in my face if needed.
If that's what's asked from you,
do it without a moment's hesitation.
You're a revolutionary fighter,
and fighters shouldn't join politics.
There is something else for you to do.
Seonsaengnim...
This is a revolution!
If I was Kim Ilseong, I would have
done the exact same thing.
I'd cut off all the rotten branches
on my way to the top.
And if I happen to be one of
those branches, I should be cut off.
But you're no branch.
Should anything happen to someone
like you because of me,
our people would be losing out.
Am I making myself clear?
I abandoned Yeook.
And that's because I thought
it was for her own good.
But...
It's not.
I only did it for my sake.
Because that Yeook keeps
making me feel insignificant.
And I couldn't stand feeling like that,
every time we were together.
So that's why I abandoned her.
I wanted to tell this to someone.
Next on our agenda is a discussion
on how to deal with...
Comrade Kim Gimun's
right-leaning tendencies.
On the April 12 edition of
the Rodong Shinmun,
the essay penned by Kim Gimun proves
without a shadow of a doubt...
his reactionary beliefs.
With that, he tried to corrupt the socialist
fabric of our factories and communes...
by debating the merits of capitalism!
Comrade Choi Daechi is up next.
Major Choi has been involved with
Comrade Kim ever since 1944.
I...
Comrade Choi!
Go ahead.
- WithS2 Presented -
20th Anniversary Special
E Y E S of D A W N
- Episode 30 -
- Translation and Timing -
Anarchist
- Timing QC -
julier
- Editing -
langdon813
- Coordinators -
ay_link, mily2