Saimdang, Light's Dairy
Episode 4
I've only written on the ground before so my handwriting is terrible.
To say that you are studying on the bare ground without brush or paper.
Hold on one moment.
Here, take it.
Such a precious thing! Is it okay if you give it to me?
Since you are attempting to learn, although you have tough financial means,
what better reason is there?
Go on.
Th-Thank you, Young Master. Thank you very much.
What were you doing here so late at night?
Mrs. Dam said—
Dam? Did she give you a letter about our marriage?
Is that what it is? Did Saimdang tell you to tell me in advance?
Well, such a response wouldn't have been sent through you.
I heard you reciting the poem as I was running an errand, and without my even knowing I...
Yi Gyeom.
Under the guardian tree...
You want to meet in the Hour of the Tiger (between 3am - 5am)?
That's strange.
Why isn't he coming?
What are you doing here, Young Mistress?
I'm waiting for someone.
What is all this?
I'm going to go to Woon Pyeong Temple.
Why is he not coming?
Shall I help you carry it? I'm also on my way up there to collect some deodeok roots.
Really?
Let's go then.
Is it not heavy? Shall we carry it together?
It's not heavy.
We can carry it together.
No. It's all right.
This is the Goryeo paper made in Woon Pyeong Temple.
Except for here, the others are only called Goryeo paper in name only.
Those are all of low quality.
They say there's a secret to making Goryeo paper,
but my father can make it easily even without that.
Oh my, thank you!
Min Chi Hyung Town head of Pyeong Chang
It's not heavy?
It's alright.
You see this red peony, right?
They say this color comes out of this bug.
Yeonji color. (meaning "rouge") I named it!
Since it's the same color as this Yeonji bug.
Yeonji color?
The ribbon is quite fine.
Did you draw it yourself?
I didn't draw it.
You must have received it from your beloved.
Young Mistress, next time you make the crimson color, I'll go with you.
I also made yellow paint out of gardenia seeds once.
Really?
I also like to paint with the colors I made myself.
Do you know that red color comes from the roots of stoneweeds?
Shall I make that for you later?
Okay, but what's your name?
Seok Soon. I'm Seok Soon.
Seok Soon. Let's go Seok Soon.
Yes.
Woon Pyeong Temple
- Let's give him a drink. - Oh right, give me a drink!
Bring some more alcohol.
The alcohol tastes so good.
Who's that? What are you... Hey!
These dirty things! Making me lose appetite for alcohol!
How dare you put those dirty hands on the feast table!
I'm going to cut those wrists right off...
Sir!
Sir, how can you consider getting such lowly blood on your precious blade?
I will take them and teach them correctly.
Please withdraw your anger.
Please do so. You'll get your blade dirty for nothing.
I'm tired. Alright.
Yes. Fine.
Even if I took all of these and sold them,
it probably wouldn't add up to the cost of this one blade.
Just a minute. What's this?
- That's... - Miss!
The likes of this painting...
- It's the painting I painted. - Miss, please...
Ae Cha Ha Min Sang Cheon Whi...
Gi Myo Chook Gaek Sim Dan Jeol...?
How sad, my poor people...
Those who were thrown out in the year of Gi Myo (1519)...
My heart is broken for them...?
Aigoo, Sir! Sir! Aigoo, Sir.
That child...
Please let her live! She's so young and she doesn't know any better.
Gi Myo Chook Gaek? How dare you!
How dare you talk about those rebels from the year of Gi Myo?
Whose request did you receive that you do this kind of thing?
She's a child that can't speak.
Where did you pick up this kind of thing?
We were wrong. Please spare us just once.
We've sinned. Please just spare our lives this once.
You bastards!
You can't!
How dare you lowly bastards!
Let go... You bastard...
If you take one step,
the blade won't forgive you.
You can't!
What should we do?
Do you want to make it like it never happened?
Do you have an idea?
I have an intellectual plan.
And you have the backing.
Yes, that's right, when I go back (to the Capital),
I will speak well to my father, His Excellency Prime Minister, on your behalf.
Please help me to escape this situation.
Remember this moment really well!
This is the moment that will change your life!
If we let even one of these people live, we will become murderers!
If we annihilate them,
His Excellency, Prime Minister won't forget your efforts.
Attack!
Oh my! Hurry!
Get them!
Giddyup!
Ah! My lady!
- Isn't it Woon Pyeong Temple? - Yes, it is!
What's going on there?
Hey, it's true! I heard there are some people who saw that in person!
In Woon Pyeong Temple?
It was total chaos! Even at the market place, you could see the fire far, far away from the temple.
The fire was set ablaze!
Young Master! Young Master, why are you here?
Didn't you go with our young lady to Woon Pyeong Temple?
Woon Pyeong Temple?
Aigoo, Miss Saimdang... Our Miss Saimdang...
The young lady went to Woon Pyeong Temple!
What should I do? Young Lady!
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- My Lady! My Lady! - No.
No... no...
Young Master!
Saimdang! Saimdang!
What happened to you? Open your eyes!
What happened to you?
Young Lady!
Lady!
Aigoo! Young lady! What should I do?
Child! Child! Child!
Hurry up and go get the doctor.
Our neighborhood doctor, Doctor Jang left the day before yesterday to go to Mount Geumgang to get medicinal herbs. What do we do?
What about Doctor Kim from Yoo Hwang Valley?
They say that he's gone senile in his old age.
You are saying there's no other option?
I'll go bring Doctor Jang back.
Child! Child!
- Young Master! - Move aside! I'm in a hurry.
Hurry up and go to Lady Saimdang.
I got hurt as well.
I'm in pain, too.
Take this to buy yourself some medicine.
Young Master!
Don't your eyes see me at all?
You left me in the middle of the mountain, and
are you saying it doesn't matter even if wolves feed on me?
That's why I'm saying you should apply medicine!
For your help, I'll pay you back when I come back. Move!
Hey, give us bowls of soup and rice and give us extra broth.
- Why are you so slow? We've been asking for more drinks! - Alright!
We need to leave soon!
Hey!
Where have you been all this time that you came back so late?
Start by doing the dishes!
- More booze here! - Ah, yes.
Saimdang!
Saimdang.
Saimdang...
Aigoo, so nice.
- Hyungnim, let's have a drink together. - You should come in.
I'm going to stay here, drinking. Here, take this shot!
Hyung Min, come over here.
Are you going to pass on this heavenly Samhap?(a dish of pork, sour kimchi and fermented skate) Come on!
There's someone who is alive.
Find the owner of this ribbon.
We have to find her and make sure to kill her.
Yes.
What is it?
Oh my god! Mom!
Oh, please, sir!
Why is the young master from Heon Won Estate not coming yet?
I know what you mean.
This won't do. I'll go to Yoo Hwang Valley at least.
Soon Yi, you watch over the lady well, understand?
Yes.
I heard a huge number of people died at Woon Pyeong Sa.
Yes. I heard it was because of a drawing.
- A drawing? - Yup.
- Nope, I heard it was because of a poem. - A poem?
Aigoo, there's no way that people died because of a drawing or a poem.
Hey, this guy. It depends on the poem.
Ah, it makes me sad. My pitiable subjects.
They even lost all the right ways given by Heaven.
Those who were ousted in the year of Gi Myo, oh, my heart is broken for them.
The year of Gi Myo (1519).
Are you talking about "the Gi Myo Rebellion", when all of Jo Gwang Jo's people got killed?
You'll get in a big trouble saying that! Are you saying there are still some who survived?
Hush! They say that walls have ears!
Hurry up and eat.
Your Majesty.
(In 1519, under pressure from powerful vassals, King Jong Joon ordered the slaughter of supporters of Confucian scholar Jo Gwang Jo.)
If the poem that I wrote has been leaked out, then what happens?
The courtiers?
If the courtiers find out about this, what will happen?
What if they think that I killed off all those scholars in the year of Gi Myo,
but now I'm instigating against those criminals behind their backs,
that I even went around spreading poems?
Me.
To me... Will they do what they did to Hyungnim Yeon San? (His half brother dethroned as a mad king and demoted to a prince.)
Your Majesty! Why are you even mentioning the deposed prince's case? Please calm down.
Does it look like I can calm down?
Kill all of those who received the poems, without a trace, and collect and bring the poems to me. All of them!
All of the poems that I wrote...
I'm talking about all the poems that I wrote.
There are ears that can hear all around. Please get a hold of yourself.
I'll be kicked out cruelly, just like my brother, Yeon San...
Those courtiers...
They could even kill me.
Your Majesty, please calm yourself.
Are my other relatives seeking to take my place?
What are the other Princes doing right now?
They will be conspiring to commit treason in order to gain my throne.
Your Majesty, that will never happen.
Anybody... I can't trust anybody.
You are in the middle of vacation, Your Majesty.
Peacefully, as if nothing happened,
I will take care of it and return.
Prince Eui Seong is blindly in love with Sin Myeong Hwa's daughter.
He's of an age to not be able to see reason.
Perhaps...
If he broke the engagement, let him live.
If not...
Do you know the owner of this?
What are you doing?
My Lord, there is big trouble!
Oh, My Lord!
Sheesh, there is a big commotion right now! My Lord!
Bring out every single drawing in the house!
The entire neighborhood has been turned upside down and is in a commotion right now.
I don't know what's going on.
Come in quickly. Come in quickly. Quickly.
Get rid of this. This also. And that also.
Wait.
Quickly, quickly. Clean this up quickly also.
No, you can't.
- No. No, you can't. - No.
- No, Mother. - No.
Not this one. It can't ever be.
- No. - No.
- Not this one. - Lady.
No, never!
Just not this one.
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This way, this way.
Do you think it will be alright?
It's Teacher An Gyeon's painting.
We need to return it to Heon Won Estate, too.
Yes.
Sir, they say that there's a girl child that's called a painting genius in North Pyeongchon, but
her father is Sin Myeong Hwa.
Sin Myeong Hwa?
Sin Myeong Hwa, you say. One of the guys who were involved in the Gi Myo Rebellion?
All of you listen up. Saimdang has never once made a drawing.
Do you understand?
Yes!
I heard those gangs who are trying to find the owner of ribbon already arrived in the town next to us.
It's just a matter of time before they barge in here.
Shouldn't we report it to the government's office?
Even the county magistrate joined them, having parties every day and night.
Since the Prime Minister has their back, what can a chief of little town do about it?
Then, what should we do?
I heard that those scholars who left with you from the conspiracy meeting before the rebellion are being killed now.
You must escape quickly. subtitles ripped and synced by riri13
Prince Eui Seong is blindly in love with Sin Myeong Hwa's daughter.
He's of an age to not be able to see reason.
- Perhaps... - If he broke the engagement, let him live.
If not...
Kill Prince Eui Seong, also.
The poem that His Majesty wrote secretly,
how was it leaked out senselessly?
You brought death upon yourself.
My Lord.
What is it?
The second child's illness is getting worse.
Those scary gangs are on their way here.
Please, I beg of you. Give me time to save our child.
Just one day. Please give me just one day.
Please give me just one day.
- No! - Oh, Miss! Miss! Oh, Miss!
Miss, Miss, Miss, are you alright?
Oh, Miss.
If you push forward with this marriage, not only will your daughter definitely fall into danger, but even Prince Eui Seong will.
Find an ordinary man and get her married.
Are you saying that we should have her wedded to someone other than Prince Eui Seong?
I'm saying that we should save the child.
Didn't you see what happened during the Gi Myo Rebellion?
Those scholars whom he had cherished so much until the day before the incident,
he struck them down with one stroke. That is His Majesty.
His Majesty is the very one who is killing people, just to collect the poems he distributed himself.
I don't know. I can't hear anything at all.
Other than my child, I can't see anything at all.
Prince Eui Seong. I'm going to go see Prince Eui Seong.
Wife. Wife!
Mother.
My child.
If we get married,
will Prince Eui Seong be in danger?
My child.
Even his life?
He mustn't get hurt.
I will marry someone else.
Please protect Prince Eui Seong.
My child.
I will marry someone else,
not Prince Eui Seong.
It doesn't matter who it is.
What is going on?
Look here, come quickly.
Ahbeom (a call for an old married servant), what's wrong?
What is it?
At Oh Jook Heon, (The name of Shin Saimdang's house)
they are having a wedding.
What do you mean, a wedding? Who's getting married?
Lady Saimdang.
What do you mean, my Lady Saimdang? Are you sure you didn't see correctly?
The groom is entering!
The bride is entering!
The bride is washing her hands for purification.
Get out of the way.
You can't, Young Master.
The bride is bowing twice to the groom.
- You knaves! - No, you can't go, Young Master!
You knaves! Let go of me!
- Saimdang! - Young Master, don't do this.
- Saimdang! - Young Master, you really can't do this.
Saimdang!
Stop!
It will be a huge crime to lead your own private army around,
but moreover, in this country where Neo-Confucianism is the national ideology, you're trying to ruin the wedding ceremony of a noble scholar's household?
Are you all wishing to be condemned to death for the crime of abomination?
Bow to each other.
You bastards, let go of me!
Let go!
Let go of me, you knaves!
Let go!
Although we were in the middle of a discussion about the marriage between our children, as you have always been living near us,
I wasn't able to greet you separately even once.
Today, my second daughter is going to marry another man.
Without getting any notice in advance,
you may feel bewildered to get this news,
but I hope you understand that this was the best choice we could make in order
to protect Prince Eui Seong and my child.
Please bow to the guests.
That man is definitely someone from the palace.
Please lower yourself and make sure
to choose life.
Ancestral tablet for the late Lord Sin Myeong Hwa
It's not true, right?
There are some circumstances that are causing you to act out a lie, right? That's what it is, right?
It's as you see it. It's all finished.
Prince Eui Seong and I...
Everything we shared together,
all of it.
How can you do this? How can this be?
Let's run away to where no one knows us so that no one can say anything to us! Let's run away!
We've already had our first night.
Wife.
Wow!!
So, now, on the wall of the main hall at Oh Jook Heon,
that Mount Geumgang is hidden inside.
If we only find that it will be revealed that Professor Min's Mount Geumgang Painting is a fake.
Wait there, Mount Geumgang Painting! They're all dead meat now!
Hold tight, Sunbae!
Hey, where are you going right now?
To Oh Jook Heon!
Are you in your right mind?
How can we go all the way to Gangneung on this? Let's go to the terminal.
Ah, the terminal. Okay.
Gangneung Oh Jook Heon
Oh, over there.
It's not here. They say that it was all torn down and restored in 1990.
Then wouldn't there be some trace somewhere?
They might have used the wall just as is, Sunbae.
Hey! Come out of there.
- Couldn't we see it just for a moment? - No, no, you can't.
Why are people who should know better acting this way? Why aren't you coming down?
- Hurry up and come down. - Yes. - I'm sorry.
It's the room that Teacher Yool Gok was born in. (Yool Gok Lee Yi: Saimdang's son, one of the greatest Confucianism scholars in Joseon)
This is the only building that hasn't been changed at all since the 16th century.
She dreamed of a dragon and gave birth to Teacher Yool Gok.
So this room is called "Mong Ryong Room". (Mong Ryong: Dragon dream)
They say the main building was all demolished.
They say that the Mount Geumgang painting is hidden there.
Did nothing come out when they reconstructed in the 90's?
If there was, I'm sure it would've been "the discovery of the era."
But where could that Mount Geumgang painting have gone?
Ah! Are you really not going to tell me where that book came from?
It's already time for the bus to arrive.
I'm so curious I'm going crazy here.
Sunbae, are you really not going to tell me until the end?
I even bought you the bus ticket and came all the way together with you to Gangneung, so arduously.
You're too much.
Tuscany.
Italy? When you went to Bologna for the conference?
So you're saying that Saimdang's hidden diary was found in Italy.
In that book, Professor Min is now conspiring with Gallery Sun,
trying to get that fake Mount Geumgang designated as a national treasure—
That book even has the crucial clue about the original Mount Geumgang painting!
This is indeed "the discovery of the era," a jackpot event which will shake up the whole art history society!
Where in Tuscany? From an antique dealer? Or a private collector? Who gave it to you, Sunbae?
Let's go quietly, please.
- Well, Eun Soo. - Yes?
About the fact we're living here, let's not tell your school friends or teachers.
That's because...
Because we're living here temporarily, and we'll move out soon, too.
That's right, isn't it?
Let's go.
Oh dear, dressing up in suits in this hot weather? They will die from the heat.
What did you just say?
Do you want to try it? You should chew a lot of these things so that your brain gets smarter!
Forget it! How could you give a child what you were chewing?
Oh my!
You're living in a place with monthly rent, yet wearing suits and sending a kid to a private school? Come on!
This is ridiculous! Whether I'm wearing suits or jammies, that has nothing to do with you!
Oh, that makes me sick! Looking at you snobs makes me puke all of a sudden!
Don't walk on this street from now on! Whenever I see you, I feel like throwing up!
Ah, seriously, this neighborhood is rough. Was there still this kind of area in Seoul?
Why? It feels more humane, nice.
Han Sang Hyeon, that guy, why didn't he register his new address after moving?
At every real estate office, they say they don't know any.
That's the typical pattern of single students. Let's try a bit more.
What a wicked, rude woman! Everything is so lousy here, whether it's the people or the neighborhood.
There is nothing normal here, not even a bit. Geez, we should leave this area as soon as possible.
- Mom! - Oh. Mother.
Hello, Missus.
"What's that noise?" asked Star. "It sounds like
a sick washing machine." "Flat tire," said Blister.
The tire was scorched...
What are you, huh?
B-Boyfriend!
Boyfriend?
Here!
"What's that noise?" asked Star. "It sounds like..."
Mother, why don't you go in and sleep first?
I'll check his homework.
The tire was scorched.
- See me for a bit. - "We can fix this," said Star.
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- Mother, I'm sorry. - I don't need that.
What have you been doing the whole day, running out early in the morning? Tell me all the details, hour by hour.
That's... a bit complicated.
I don't know where to even begin.
So what? Were you with that young man from the upper floor all day long? Is that it?
That's true, but—
Do you take me for a fool? Is that it?
I'm not your mom, I'm your mother-in-law!
We don't even know if your husband is alive or not.
What? Is it tough because your husband disappeared?
But my Min Seok,
he's a husband to you, but to me, he's a son who is also like a husband (figure)!
You shouldn't be like this.
For me, every morning when I open my eyes, it feels as if the sky is collapsing
and the ground is sinking under my feet.
But still, I'm struggling with all my strength to hang in there.
Where is your mind at these days?
That research or whatever, is it that important?
I'm sorry, Mother. I know you're having a hard time.
I also know well you're trying hard to keep our balance intact.
- But— - Quit that right away!
That co-researching or whatever.
If it's not a matter of life or death, quit that work right away. No, even if it's a matter of life or death, don't do it!
Have I ever complained about you studying?
But this is not right. Heed my words. Quit this work now.
Damn!
I used this one sparingly, but now it's almost gone anyway.
Seo Ji Yoon... Where are you going now?
- Eun Soo. - I'll sleep with you, Mom.
Okay.
I like your scent, Mom.
I like your scent, Eun Soo. It's sweet like ice cream.
What about Grandmother?
She's sleeping.
Then, tonight, will you sleep with me, hugging each other tightly?
Reading me a book, too?
Sure!
What is that?
Bill for tuition
But... Do we have money?
A child shouldn't worry about such a thing. Mom will take care of it, got it?
Yes.
Please check in front of your apartment door.
Remembering my father is
still extreme sorrow and punishment to me.
Even I feel this way, so my mother,
who had married off all her children and now lives alone, how big her loneliness and sorrow must be...
Aigoo, my Lady!
My Lady. Aigoo, my joints... Aigoo, My Lady.
Why? Are your knees not well?
I've been using them for 50 years, so it's about time to be rusty.
When I was little, you had to chase after me all the time, so your knees worked hard.
But still, those were the good times. After you leave for the capital now, when will I be able to meet you again?
Father must be waiting for us.
- Oh, right. Let's hurry up. - Let me help you.
No worries, no worries, let's hurry up.
Lord Sin Myeong Hwa's grave
Father... I'm moving to the Capital.
When I leave now, I'm not sure when I will be able to come back.
Whether I can come back or not, there is no guarantee.
Please... For Mother, who will remain here alone, to be well without any trouble,
please take care of her from there.
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Saimdang, Light's Diary - Preview -
You know very well that His Majesty has been looking forward to this marriage.
The painting which left this house 20 years ago,
why is it back here now?
♬I miss that song ♬
- This is our house. - Can I ask from whom you bought this house?
I think he said his name was Lee Won Soo.
What should I do now?
Our Prince Eui Seong says he has a request for me, so let's hear it.
Please nullify my marriage.
The problem is Prince Eui Seong.
Did you just say Prince Eui Seong?
You know him too, don't you?
You're also from North Pyeong Village, where he's from.
How could you do this? The last 20 years couldn't erase you from my memory.
It seems that the young talented and bright boy, whom I loved so much, is now nowhere to be found.
Have I ever had any talent whatsoever?
He came back alive. His painting talent is alive.
What kind of corruption and graft those three ministers and Min Chi Hyeong are committing by using their power,
you should investigate every part and find that out.
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