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We were nothing in the past,
Until we started to have dreams.
Our dreams...
They don't count for much.
Working fervently for our dreams,
But one day we will become a happy person.
Fulfill dreams, devoting all of one's passion into it.
A virus about dreams and passion changed all of our fates.
Dreams and passion.
This is another form of an obstacle, that touches reality.
But they chose to have dreams and passion.
11/11. Last episode, indoor filming venue.
The morning just before completing the filming of the last episode,
time to draw the tiring and tense filming to a close.
Cut, very good, it's been hard on everyone!
It's been hard on you!
The moment when renowned conductor Kang Mae,
turns back into Kim Myung Min in reality.
Thanks, for letting me play such a handsome part.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Start to enjoy your freedom.
Freedom...
It's the end, how does it feel?
I still don't dare to believe it.
The role of the sharp-tongued Kang Mae,
gained much support from the audience.
Theses are all the fruits borne from the hard work of the backstage crew.
Every time it ends, it's a little sad.
One, two, three.
Hard on you.
So happy!
Wait, wait, no! Eat it, eat it.
Would this have been possible without the passion for dramas?
Would this have been possible without the passion of everyone here?
This is the venue for the audition, right?
A gathering of people, who have picked up their dreams again.
Bar trumpeter, office worker, housewife,
Senile old man, problematic teen girl, traffic policeman.
They could be considered outcasts in the world of classical music.
And appearing in front of these outcasts is the world-class conductor Kang Mae.
Tuning.
What kind of a person is Kang Mae?
Even world class performers fear him,
an orchestra killer.
Ahjumma, how long has it been since you last touched an instrument
- My name is Jung Hee... - About twenty over years, right?
- Flute, how old are you? - I'm a music undergrad.
Your standard is of a high school student, you're arguing with me?
Oboe, Grandpa, after you retired have you kept up with your exercises?
Every morning, I climb the hill for an hour...
You have to practice your breathing.
Don't you think your breathing's too weak to play the oboe?
And you...
Me?
- Which cabaret did you come from? - Pukwang Dong's Don't Tell Papa.
You are all just my instruments.
The orchestra's the instrument I play! You are just pieces of that larger instrument.
Old instrument, young instrument.
A "running out crying" dung instrument.
A working instrument, cabaret instrument. Defiant instrument.
We are humans.
No! You are dogs, and I am your master!
So shut your mouths and practice according to what I say!
- Come here! - Hubby, don't be like this.
To the orchestra members...
Obstacles placed in front of them were more than just Kang Mae alone.
What are you doing! Who are you?
Wanting to continue playing the violin, but losing her hearing...
Pressure from family, doing household chores...
Senile dementia and other problems in life.
Tugged at their legs and held them back.
Their dreams seemed like daydreams.
Even the people who have nothing can produce such a performance.
I will show that to you.
But they've never gave up on their dreams,
battling and winning obstacles in their lives one by one...
And lived their happiest, best moment of their lives.
Beethoven Virus created a new image.
Using ability as his weapon, a person that acted arbitrarily,
the arrogant, poison-tongued Maestro Kang Gun Woo.
Luckily it still has some flavor.
It's pretty good.
To me, you are still a pile of dog dung, a bar trumpeter, a senile old man.
And there's something else to add today.
A beggar's instinct.
Because we're close, so what are you going to give us? This is a beggar's instinct.
Nobody can help me, so I can't do this. This is the unique trait of a beggar.
Unwilling to work hard yourself, yet come up with many excuses.
Just want to rely on others, using petty tricks to find a shortcut.
Don't be too proud.
A peasant has to lie down like one.
People higher on the social ladder usually do things carefully,
because of the judgment of society's and their dignity.
Film Critic Shim Yeong Seop
But, Kang Mae is the exact opposite.
In Kang Mae's kind of, independent perspective and actions,
to us it may seem very direct.
Kang Mae's role is something we hope to find, a model of a person in our mind.
Mama!
A man with a poisonous tongue,
he is not accustomed to interactions with other people.
A little unnatural, clumsy, and even comical.
They say the breathing is the key.
Follow me.
Take a deep breath,
Let it out...
One, two.
Are you going to go in? The operating room.
Of course not.
It's killing me...
One, two.
It's killing me...
Stop!
What are you angry about?
It's his entire fault.
The person who phoned that kind of people for the audition is him.
I really want to cut it off.
Direct, accurately putting forward his views,
Bak Cheol Min as Bae Yong Gi
hurting the other person, to make that person understand his mistakes.
That's his greatest appeal.
In everyday life, he would find those well spoken, the bootlickers, aren't they?
To us, it gives us a kind of wavering feeling,
and I feel that that is his charisma.
That sort of character, frankly, it looks nice only because it's in a drama.
Jeong Seok Yong as Park Hyuk Kwon
But can it really survive in real life?
He strives endlessly for perfection.
Just like Salieri was jealous of Mozart.
Kang Mae, who came to his position only through unending hard work,
qas unable to raise his head in front of his genius friend.
Listen up!
I'm supposed to conduct this bunch of trash,
in front of that fool who became the world's top conductor through pure, dumb luck,
It's all because of you!
What is this place all of you are is called?
Theatre!
Always straightforward speaking regardless of context,
Showing his flawless character.
It reinforces the veil of secrecy around Kang Mae.
No, this is place is the Art Center!
If you don't listen to grown-ups, you'll go to hell later.
You're going to burn to death inside the hot flames.
It's especially these discourses and actions,
Kim Myeong Min as Kang Mae
that it feels over-dramatized.
As compared to reality, it's slightly more actsy.
So that's the way,
To bring about a comparison between Kang Mae and real people in society.
Makes people think that Kang Mae has been brought back from the classical past.
It was surprisingly well received...
So then I tried to bring out that character I originally envisioned 100%,
and my tone became harder.
Saying "Is that so?", "What're you doing?" at the start.
Then, changed to "What do you think you're doing!"
But he's unable to conceal his inner thoughts,
love he gave up for music,
Condemnation, responsibility, all suppressed deep in the heart of the resolute Kang Mae.
They all came back.
Seeing a arrogant, sharp-tongued person, caught between his pride and his sorrow.
It left the audience with a peculiar feeling.
That time, why did you have to do that to me?
However bad the loneliness, I was already used to bearing with it.
But, now I want to rely on someone.
I'm becoming such a childish person.
Feeling responsible for someone, it's really tiring.
I'm not accustomed to it. And furthermore, I've no confidence.
I'm really just making myself angry.
But a person like me...
Before something happens, I can't really know...
And suddenly, when someone comforts me, I...
And so? What do you want me to do?
Kang Mae's antagonistic appeal,
is expressed through Kim Myung Min.
It's because of Kim Myung Min's unremitting commitment.
From his refined expressions and enunciations to his conducting ability...
All of it brought to life the character imagined by the writer.
That is the level of his commitment.
To fuse into one with my character, I did one thing.
No matter how tired, I would not shut my eyes.
Wouldn't lean onto something for a nap.
I think my expectations of myself in this aspect were too high.
I was exhausted then,
but I clenched my fists in front of my colleagues,
and sat there with my eyes wide open.
Once my eyes unfocused, they would ask me whether I was sleepy, and wake me up.
That was too tiring.
But I think that that's something I should do.
Battling with my concentration.
Battling with myself.
I think that's very important in this show.
Kim Myung Min never puts down his script.
Once it started, he didn't lie down the whole night, nor appeared sleepy.
Repeating over and over again his memorized lines.
Overly passionate about acting his role.
There's only one reason why I refused to put down the script.
Looking at it, I'd get some sort of inspiration.
The number of lines was huge, so were the actions.
The state of mind would be very complicated,
and once it gets busy, it's become very messy.
Such as laughing uncontrollably. Suppressing emotions, solemnly...
As if you're unaware. These kinds of shows are aplenty.
The sequence of events from start to end, sometimes you'll be confused,
Sometimes asking for a script from others to check,
it's safest by your side.
Taking a toilet break, having meals, if the script isn't in your hands...
You feel insecure. You can say it's become a habit.
Kim Myung Min revived Kang Mae from Beethoven's time.
Classical fashion and hairstyle,
Stereotypical actions from that era,
along with the usage of a pocket watch. Ignited the realness of the role.
His appearance while conducting left the most perfect impression on people.
Unnatural conducting actions,
or a lack of understanding of the music,
I'll become a laughingstock.
If that's the case, then I'd rather not be acting.
I really want the role, and there's a sense of pride.
There's something I've always believed in, which is what you reap is what you sow.
It was a scene where he was checking out a house.
Director Lee Jae Gyu.
It was a scene where he basically remarks that the house is dirty.
There were only a couple of lines, and not much instruction...
And I was watching Myung Min through the monitor to see what he was doing...
We actually filmed it 16, 17 times.
Normally he'd practice many times at home already,
But even while socializing with others at the filming location itself,
he'd still practiced, thinking of their lines, immersing himself into the scene.
He's really a very sincere, hardworking actor.
In the span of a few short months,
It'll be impossible to become a conductor with decades of experience.
For 5 months, he learnt conducting from a professional.
CDs never left his side.
He listened thoroughly the sounds of all the instruments.
Though his conducting was an act,
but the experience was on a higher level than acting.
To act a show that one wouldn't regret.
How many of such pieces can one have in his life?
In that piece...
Not wanting to erase away any part of it.
Strive towards that.
But sometimes working hard still isn't enough.
Thereby arising the need to work harder.
Because I'm not a genius!
Eventually, Kang Mae decided to conduct for the orchestra
he wasn't able to wash his hands off.
And also created conflicts with them,
colliding with their dreams.
Yes, very good.
Have you all remembered the rhythm?
Just like this, let's try again.
The motley crew that Kang Mae met,
one of them was the housewife Jung Hee Yun.
Since you're going to grill, why can't you grill more?
Isn't it a little too bland?
Mine's always the smallest!
Remove the bones for me!
The rice's too watery. Let's just have mallow leaf porridge.
Go and get some.
Pressure from the family and household chores,
She still has the dream of becoming Cellist Jung.
You graduated from Music College?
Do you know what the world calls people like you?
Hopeless, disturbance, stumbling block.
There're many such names.
But amongst all this, my name for you is...
A piece of poop.
Not only being humiliated...
But also wrote off totally, Jung Hee Yun, Chose not surrendering, but instead pride.
What's that expression on your face?
You don't like poop coming into your house?
But did you know?
I'm really good at playing the cello.
Jung Hee Yun's a soft-outside, strong-inside type.
Song Ok Suk as Jung Hee Yun
Didn't she fulfill her dream?
I'm Jung Hee Yun!
What right do you have to call me a piece of poop!
Using humiliation as her motivation,
Jung Hee Yun mustered all the strength she had.
An ahjumma left ignored in one corner due to unending household chores...
Started playing the cello with her ten fingers.
Thinking about it, one's life does not need that many moments.
Just this moment.
This performance filled with her dream.
Jung Hee Yun would not have any regrets for the rest of her life.
Likes Hadyn's music...
But because of a poor background,
can only become a cabaret trumpeter, Bae Yong Gi.
Come.
Standing on the stage of classical music,
to a cabaret trumpeter like him, It's like a cultural sanctuary, unreachable to him.
But he broke through all barriers one by one,
and realized his dream.
These things, they need to be dug out.
Look at this.
I will take care of you properly, teacher.
He's quite handsome.
If only his temper was a little better,
he'd be such a good person.
Ah, is it still blocked?
Oh, so much!
He breaks down all the barely visible walls one by one.
Then, in a more relaxed, natural way, interacts with people.
His blocked nose, the boogies that stop the flow of fresh air,
That thing that obstructs his interaction with other people, dig it away.
That nose digging scene...
Myung Min and everyone else were laughing.
Talking about it, didn't teacher Kang Mae say that before?
A little something is missing.
What is the main melody? Isn't there a main melody in the music?
When you want to have something, our dreams become more pressing, more genuine.
That's how a trumpet should be played.
The ahjummas will like it too.
Are we at a cabaret? Will you please be more serious?
No... Cabaret... you said?
Picking on me from the start.
You're getting defensive, so I must be right.
Let's move on.
Move on? Move on where?
Cabaret! Who are you calling cabaret?
Bae Yong Gi, he's not only kind,
he's also very innocent and pure.
Loves to attract attention, is a hot-headed person,
smiles easily, gets excited easily, cries easily.
He's very similar to me in many aspects.
Like this, it's too easy. It's comfortable when we're together.
I can use my nose to play the trumpet as well!
Is it really ending just like this?
It's not the end for me.
I'm going to continue staying here.
So what if it smells?
It's fine as long as we're happy!
Office worker, Park Hyuk Kwon, is your typical supervisor,
living normally in this world.
Listen, you crazy bastard.
Sunbae...
Are you really planning to quit?
What else can you still do?
To play in an orchestra, why!
Let's do another 10.
Oh, after I give birth, let's renovate the balcony.
Daddy must earn lots of money!
Reconciled with living his mundane daily life,
he took the first steps toward his dream.
But he had to face the harsh realities in front of him.
Why didn't you take that money?
Didn't Kang Mae give it on his own accord?
I thought, if we kept depending on teacher to help us...
So what if we do! Will the scores fly away?
Will the quality of music change?
It wouldn't!
Who was the one who fired us? Isn't it Kang Mae?
Me, I can't even wait to snatch his wallet...
Sunbae, it looks like you misunderstood.
Kang Mae's not the one that fired us.
Of course, from the surface it seems so.
I know, pardoning us...
I understand.
But isn't that money? Money!
Don't you need money? I need it, for living expenses.
The line between dreams and reality...
Caught in between, Park Hyuk Kwon,
his daily life still exists.
That's the first time I learnt an orchestra instrument, the double bass.
Before that I never listened to classical music.
Sacrificing some things for it.
But I feel that once you pick up the courage,
everything will turn for the better.
Kim Gab Yong, wanting to show the purpose of his existence,
trying to shake himself off from the clutches of old age...
Suddenly diagnosed with dementia.
Was I right about the dementia?
No.
I've always thought myself as an understanding person.
I wasn't after money, but pride, dignity and honor.
They're more important to me that my life.
Can I lose my cognitivity?
That I will pee and poop everywhere, shout at anyone I meet,
wandering around the streets like a fool?
Do you think I would not wake myself up?
I'd rather be in hell.
How can I be worse than a beast!
I do not have dementia.
I can't get it.
He didn't yield to it.
Didn't bow down to his dementia.
I'd rather employ a street performer than you.
Those people can perform for 10 hours at a go, no problem!
Grandfather!
People I need, must not only be competent, but also healthy, physically and mentally.
Not people like you, teacher.
There's no upper limit in the arts.
Lee Sun Jae, as Kim Gab Yong.
Once you reach a certain level, you can't go any further,
There isn't any art form like this.
Art charges forward.
Art is in the direction of your dreams,
and can be fulfilled given unending hard work.
Dreams don't end once they're fulfilled either.
Having always been living as an upright person,
using the warmth of his hands, pacified a rebellious teenage girl's heart.
Because you didn't take good care of your daughter of my age,
so you're trying to use me as a consolation?
No, not like that.
I...
Then, why don't you remember me!
I'm not asking for much!
Just remembering my name is enough!
Isn't my name special?
You'll remember it just by listening a few times to Hadyn's pieces!
Where're you going?
For treatment.
I will recover.
I will remember you, Ha Yi Deun.
Granddad!
Their dream is of music,
but even the music comes second after the people.
From the harmony and accord between people comes the most beautiful orchestra.
As shown through an old man and a young girl.
Granddad!
What's up, Dad?
Have you remembered something?
Yi Deun...
It feels like looking at me in high school. How do I put it?
I thought to myself, this is mine.
How should I put it?
I don't know. I've been crying too much as Yi Deun. For 2 months...
I've been crying non-stop this week.
Because of this, I'm not too sure as well,
But I feel that I became Yi Deun.
Because of Ha Yi Deun, I've developed a desire to take on new risks and adventures.
I had been living absorbed with my music, and then I saw a glimpse
of a different world...
To a woman of 24...
It's like... a sudden... striking... storm?
A young man's musical genius,
buried in smog and noise.
Never been realized before.
Blame goes to himself for not noticing it,
but...
What's this?
Copied or transcribed.
- What's transcribing? - Writing it out after listening to it once.
Did you do the same as Mozart?
I'm far worse than Mozart.
I didn't manage to write out the last part.
- How many times did you listen to it? - Once.
I heard Mozart also did the same.
Come here.
What's this?
- Do, Mi. - C major and E major!
What's this?
Do and F sharp.
What are you doing? I said say it in notes!
C, D, E flat, F sharp, G sharp!
Yeah, I don't know notes. I'm a musical idiot! Are you happy!?
In order to fulfill his dreams,
the still very 'weak' Gun Woo...
Devoted all his youth and passion into it.
His passion...
Would not let experience and qualifications bury his talent.
Because making music with everyone,
gives him happiness.
To the Jang Geun Suk in real life,
Jang Geun Suk as Kang Gun Woo.
His nature is very...
How should it put it... harder to get used to living in a group.
Maybe it's because I'm an only son...
So maybe it's because of that, but while acting as Gun Woo,
becoming the maestro of the orchestra,
I'll be able to think of every little thing for the members.
As the person from the orchestra, unable to abandon them,
whoever they may be. That sort of mentality.
Through this, learning many new things.
Whether it's to them..
Or to us...
Can only run forward desperately,
but, the minor characters...
Start to have their own dreams.
And in the process of fulfilling their dreams, discover their true identity.
In the hard lives they lead, they spread,
a "virus" of dreams and passion.
Now...
This very moment...
Coming to our side.
In order to spread their dreams and passion.
The producer's level of passion was very high as well.
The scriptwriter and other staff had to endure over a year's worth of planning.
And experience the lack of warmth before broadcasting.
Spend their days being ignored coldly.
They created the minor characters' dreams and obstacles.
Starting from the violinist civil servant Du Ru Mi.
After being scammed, in order to accomplish the orchestra's concert,
went through countless difficulties.
But...
Facing her, as she tries to fulfill her musical dream,
is the harsh reality of losing her hearing permanently.
To act out the role of Du Ru Mi,
she suffered a lot.
While filming the scene of her jumping into the water,
she had to stay in the cold water for up to 15 hours.
Totally exhausted, and cold were all in day's work.
Facing deafness, and an unattainable love...
Du Ru Mi,
showed sincerity and courage.
The brave Du Ru Mi was also very careless.
Ru Mi still fulfilled her dream, of growing from a small civil servant into a violinist.
The hardest part is still scenes of her playing.
Though she learnt to play the violin when she was young,
but posture while playing the violin, if it wasn't enacted very accurately,
the audience would see through the act very easily.
Gelling naturally with real violinists wasn't easy either.
Starting from here...
Start playing.
Though the sound was recorded,
and just acting well would be enough, but that still wasn't an easy task.
Practicing bowing was also very time-consuming.
A very long song...
Lee Ji Ah as Du Ru Mi
It still needs to be fully understood and memorized.
And you've to look at the score,
and at the same time act a deaf show.
Besides that, have to communicate through eye contact with teacher Kang Mae.
This way many actions have to be acted out simultaneously,
So in the end,
it feels numb.
It's the same with the concentration...
That time, performing that fast piece,
unconsciously, starting to apply force from where I shouldn't,
my shoulders hurt, my arm hurt. So, I went for a few massages.
The people in charge of makeup had a difficult job, to cover up these bruises.
But the sunbaes still found out eventually. Teased me, saying that I was a puppet.
Beethoven Virus...
The character expressing the central theme of passion,
Conductor Kang Mae.
His source of passion comes from the deep scars of childhood.
There was only one way out, which was to leave this hateful
world together with my mother.
It's the truth.
I'm not sure whether it was a dream or hallucination.
But I saw a symphonic orchestra there.
And also saw the person conducting it.
The future me.
It was hope.
It was consolation.
But above all, it was strength.
And I...
became a conductor.
To Kang Gun Woo,
the dream that was hope, consolation and strength,
turned into reality eventually.
Whether dreams can become reality,
ro just remain as a daydream.
The meaning of the dreams and reality portrayed by the choral symphony,
Also became a classic scene.
How would one, through difficult classical pieces, touch the audience?
Everything about music was carried on Professor Seo Hee Tae shoulder.
For Kim Myung Min's conducting scenes,
he worked day and night for 5 months.
Conductor Kang's character was modeled after Karajan.
In the short time filming, writing out the required scores wasn't an easy task either.
Oh, my god!
There's something wrong here.
Here.
One, two!
The whole drama performed over 100 pieces of classical music.
All were new recordings, if it was too difficult, rewrote.
Choose familiar tunes so that the audience feels that classical music is by our side.
Music places emphasis on concentrating.
Music Director Seo Hee Tae
While they're acting, they still need to play. It's really difficult.
Furthermore, they can't sleep, so their concentration level naturally goes down.
Maintain full concentration while filming, It's more tiring.
Depending on the situation,
the recordings sometimes are not held at the theatre, but in a studio.
So we always have to record portions bit by bit, then merge it all together.
That's why, we need a longer time to record it.
For example, a 60-strong orchestra, they can record it in one go,
but we have less than 20 people. About 15 or so, so we have to record it 4 or 5 times,
And we still have to be in sync with the previous recordings.
While filming concert scenes,
Professor Seo Hee Tae tap out the rhythm and shout cues.
The conducting has to be integrated into the scene.
Filming this concert alone, took over 3 days and 2 nights.
Will our country's classical music based drama succeed?
Will it be compared with the previous Japanese drama (Nodame Cantabile)?
With these uneasy feelings, every scene was taken very seriously.
Filming one time after another.
Like in the afternoon,
that scene, we used over 50 different tapes.
Used 25 audio tapes.
These 50 tapes, they all have to be combined correctly
to reduce the error to within 2 seconds. We use these 50 tapes,
look through both types of tapes.
Even if these tapes could only be used for 3 minutes...
Well...
Actually...
We've to repeat this every week,
to Korea's television workers,
It's really not easy for them.
Music overcomes all barriers,
leaving a deep impression in the hearts of the viewers.
Like running water,
Play the melody a little more smoothly,
Behind the stag.
These real musicians, to them, this kind of filming is very difficult.
3 days in a week,
Though the previous agreement was filming for at most 12 hours a day,
But this time limit was frequently exceeded.
Sometimes, the script would be out in the middle of the night,
and they' had to film the next day, but the music still needs to be produced.
We've to call them here that day, going to the studio immediately,
and record till dawn. Then we edit it, and send it to the filming location.
We're all used to this kind of schedule now.
After returning from the filming location,
They couldn't sleep. They've to rush to the editing or recording studio.
It's really very hard.
We don't want to think of that anymore, It's really too scary.
Internationally renowned Korean musicians making cameo appearances,
also attracted the attention of the audience.
This way, he helped to boosts sales of classical CDs and performances.
Violinist Richard Yongjae O'Neill.
The sales of instruments also rose tremendously.
1, 2, 3.
1, 2.
Excuse me, is this place looking for a piano soloist?
My surname is Seo.
I am running a piano class in a small town.
Is that so...
Pianist Seo Hye Kyung
After Beethoven Virus's caused a stir,
the next "virus" that caused a stir was the general public's
interest in classical music.
In the past,
when my wife put on classical music on the radio...
I almost never noticed it before.
But now, every morning, I would listen to this music,
and though I still can't really understand.
But, from my ear, nose, eyes,
and my heart, it enters into my body.
It gives me a comfortable feeling.
This day, will also be worth looking forward to,
live it to the fullest. A wonderful day.
Classical music will give me such a feeling.
Jang Geun Suk would always cheer up the workers with his tektonic dancing.
Classical music was a distant thing to him,
and he was totally unrelated to any musical instrument.
If he were to act well as a trumpeter,
he would need to work hard memorizing music scores and fingering.
Instances where a piece we needed to perform the next day, but whose
audio track wasn't recorded yet were aplenty.
On the other hand, even when the audio track was recorded,
often there wasn't enough time for practice due of the filming schedule.
I think, it being shot so well is already a miracle.
Though she had 2 months of practice...
What a normal person can achieve is just a few basic postures.
But she still managed the technique to play a beautiful tone.
Use a little more strength from your arms. Yes, your arm.
To make the concert as perfect as possible,
she needed to look at many DVDs of other cellists for reference.
Teacher would tie strings of different color on my fingers. Red, yellow
green, and white...
And I would remember it in order.
I'll memorize the other.
Initially, I thought what I played would be vaguely similar,
but while filming...
Noticed that the tempo of the music increased,
the note ass over just as I start to play it.
In the end I got nervous and just forgot it totally.
I was always fighting with music in the past.
Opposing it.
An unpleasant relationship.
I'm a music and rhythm idiot.
So while I was in school, I had a hostile relationship with my music teacher.
Basically I didn't go for any music class.
Of course, I didn't go to many of my other class, but I went for music the least.
Because it was the subject I hated most.
So I just continued to hate music, and did my best to distance myself from it.
Music was very distant to me.
But after I took part in this drama, slowly, naturally, I realized that...
Ah, music can actually
let us feel comfortable, and sort of a relaxed feeling.
It can also let us forgive this world and some people in it.
Conducting the unorthodox music of life.
Two conductors of the same name, Kang Gun Woo,
begin their confrontational paths with their mutual feelings for Du Ru Mi.
Bite them.
They're degrading the atmosphere of society.
A deaf and an idiot, a match made in heaven!
I want to... get to know you better.
Our Gun Woo's must have got a shock.
It's my fault, I'm sorry.
I was almost scared to death.
I was... I was almost breathless.
Ah, ah, mike test.
Cockerel, dog poop, babo, idiot.
Just follow my lead and you'll be fine.
A little softly, slow.
Yes, just like that.
You're doing very well, cockerel.
I think I've really fallen for Gun Woo.
Did anyone say anything? Aren't you dating him?
I'm talking about the other Gun Woo.
Not that young, gentlemanly, handsome, kind Gun Woo.
I'm talking about the old, terrible, selfish one, the evil, hard to please Gun Woo.
What can you do with this kind of mentality...
From the Gun Woo that has never received any formal musical training,
nobody can stop his progress.
Not using conventional conducting methods, but expressing his true feelings,
and he enjoys this process.
At first I had my own views, but it feels like you're always stopping me.
No...
- You're not stopping me. - I am stopping you.
I clipped your wings.
Stop, stop!
Where's the crescendo gone to?
Since the composer already did an anecdote, Then you should be playing it as it is!
Do it again.
- I've been tolerating it for very long. - Who's asking you to tolerate?
Let it explode!
Kindness, gentlemanliness, put them all aside!
You're already at a dead end, and you're still acting noble?
Just do what's within your capabilities!
Your ruthlessness, arrogance, killer instinct, let them all out!
So be it.
I'll fight a battle.
Please don't come here anymore.
Please don't interfere or have any part in our affairs.
Don't you want to enter the Symphonic Night anymore?
This is my orchestra.
You can't do it alone.
I'm the conductor!
The strict musical style of Kang Mae
is being wavered by Gun Woo's unrestrained and carefree version.
Though Kang Mae is outstanding in his annotation of music scores,
but he is lacking in the emotion department.
Sort of a suppressed feeling.
A dull, frustrated feel as if he's trying to suppress his own emotions.
Kang Mae, he's nursing a tiger in his own home.
Because someone said you're better than me.
Said that in expressing emotions, you surpass me.
Said I'm raising a ferocious tiger.
Surely I can't sit and wait for the tiger I'm raising to come and eat me?
Teacher, what are you trying to say?
Jealousy!
I was jealous of you.
So I tried to get rid of you.
Care freely...
Not easily giving up even if failure was just ahead.
Full of warmth and unlimited charisma, Gun Woo.
Standing above the others with his superior ability,
and having a cold charisma, Kang Mae.
These two people, show to us a new form of appeal of music.
Whether to be traditional or original?
Is it the outcome, or the process?
In the end, what exactly is real happiness?
Kang Mae, he places emphasis on the outcome,
Drama critic Yoon Seok Jin
While Kang Gun Woo, he's the kind of person that emphasizes
the process over the outcome.
But to people of our generation, which kind of person do we need most?
If we look to a man who focuses on the process, there's a chance
that the result would not be favorable.
But take someone who focuses solely on the outcome...
In his drive to accomplish the end goal, the morality and the ethics of the means...
May become overlooked or destroyed.
But, Kang Mae had already left a very deep influence of Gun Woo.
Wait a moment.
Aunt.
Can you concentrate a little?
Noona, you're still playing it too heavily.
And, is this a place for you to come and dance?
What do you mean dancing?
Your words are a little...
Noona, if you're gonna play like this... Just wear revealing clothing and dance!
A real match with that bar trumpeter! A match made in heaven!
One is kind and easygoing.
Film critic Shim Yeong Jeob
A very caring person at heart.
These 2 types people are present in Gun Woo and Kang Mae.
These persons, standoff and process of reconciliation,
gives us the enjoyment. It's a real reflection on our everyday lives.
A process that we work towards.
The main character in Beethoven Virus, Is not Kang Mae.
The real major characters,
are those that would not be suffering if they did not have dreams.
The minor characters.
At the People's Concert next week...
We're performing "Swan's Dream". I trust everybody still remembers?
Let's use this concert, as our orchestra's ending performance.
Our last performance before we're disbanded.
It hasn't been an easy path getting here.
All of you...
You've done very well.
Really.
You've done really well.
All these days...
Thank you for your efforts.
Gun Woo...
Has it really ended?
I'm holding a farewell party.
Gather at the resting room for the performers at the arts center.
Come prepared with formal clothes and your instruments.
Yes, teacher!
I'm giving you 30 minutes.
Run!
But I can't bear to watch it anymore.
Letting teacher conduct a pop song, it really makes me...
If you continue to try to convince me,
then you're saying that I'm not qualified to even conduct a pop song.
In the end...
The cold, uncaring Kang Mae,
also caught the "virus".
If this is can be called a beautiful dream,
then the obstacles met in the process are wonderful as well.
To put it simply it is an enjoyment.
The desire of the people wanting to chase their dream,
wanting to escape the world's expectations.
A director friend once said,
"Life has chosen me, and I have chosen happiness".
I like this sentence very much.
Our drama has also exhibited this sentence.
Life has always been forcing me, and even brought me pain.
But, I still want to continue in my search for happiness.
You can say that because of financial problems,
trying to find help, having no one to rely on.
They're interdependent on each other,
and regardless of their status, everyone has the right to have dreams.
And as for the process in realizing dreams...
It gives people a reason for their lives.
This is reflected in the drama.
While I was filming this drama, I understood fighting.
For the dream that I have
Passion and hope...
To fight for it.
Happiness does not last long,
and life still goes on.
But, enjoyment of life will not disappear.
Dreams, they will seem unreachable.
Life's filled with obstacles,
but the time spent working hard to fulfill the dream is a happy one.
What is your dream?
Dreams, don't you have one?
Have a dream, but unable to realize it?
You might as well give up if you're going to be like that.
You can give up if you want. But I will continue chasing my dream,
and those people like me, they will also continue chasing their dreams.
Without hesitation, passionately for their dreams.
Passion.
While devoting their passion to their dreams,
it is at this moment that you will hear melodious music.
Happy?
Knowing what's important to you, at this moment, are you happy?
In our too common lives, the things that we value live
on are forgotten. Dreams and passion.
These precious things,
Can it be...
You've lost them?
And I've lost them?
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