Antarctic Journal (Namgeuk-ilgi) (남극일기)

Pole of inaccessibility: A point in the Antarctic

Located at 82'08" South latitude and 54'58" East longitude.

It is the farthest point from the Antarctic coastline.

It was only once reached by a Soviet expedition in 1958.

Lowest recorded temperature was -80 degree

Please...

Please...

Everything happened to be there...

Everything started from then...

Min-Jae. Don't move!

Rope!

Hold the sled!

Everyone pull!

06:49 PM December 24th. Expedition day ten 50 days before the Sundown.

Who's that playing the carol?

Can you hear me? The monitor is not working

Hey Yoo-Jin

Ni

You guys are now on a live on worldwide!

This is all possible thanks to our satellite technology.

Sung-Min? Can you see daddy?

That's enough about you

Why don't you introduce the crew for the viewers?

I'm Jae-Kyung Seo and I am in charge of the video and digital equipments

At home I work at the borough office.

This is our head chef. Geun-Chan!

What a delicious meal!

What is delicious?

We eat same thing every day.

Actually those are desiccated.

All it needs to add water.

Come on... it needs special technique!

Today is Christmas... have you prepared anything special?

We are going to have that porridge again...

Our man. Sung-Hoon is a heck of a rescuer.

And it is his first time to flying an airplane... Isn't that right?

Stop embarrassing me!

Without me. there is no communication with the base!

That's right. He is the one I take to everyday.

Any army stories today?

Stop picking on me!

I'm not the source of trouble here.

I'm going out!

We are in the middle of the interview! Where are you going?

I'm blushing...

Its 7 o'clock in the evening. yet it's still bright out.

This is Antarctic...

Six months of daylight and six months of darkness.

That would be our Lieutenant. Young-Min. over there.

The man's been pretty much everywhere. He is a real pro alpinist.

I wonder what he's taking right now

It's freezing! Close the tent!

Like I'm gonna pollute the fuckin' world with my piss...

damn White men with their stupid pacts.

Captain. you should blow it out.

I thought you didn't prepare anything!

This tastes like ice fruit cake!

This is the one and only ice cake from Antarctica...

Min-Jae. what did you do to deserve this?

That's enough!

So this top layer is decades old...

That is even before I was even born...

Snow falls less than five centimeters per year...

You can't have this anywhere else!

Oh, you know something

This feels weird...

Weird...?

Here... This one is 100 years old.

Cold... this isn't coming out cold...

Young-Min. what's today's numbers?

78230" South Latitude. 142'23" East Longitude.

So we have like 1700km to go?

We still have a long way to go...

You double-checked the GPS. Right?

Machines don't lie. Captain.

Someone asked me before we left. "Why are you going there?"

He wanted to know why I would risk my life to do such a thing.

For a moment I thought about what he said then. asked him back

Does it look like we are going there to get ourselves killed?

He didn't know what to say

I told him

We are going there to live.

Men like us are only alive when We are able to do things where any other men can't do it

That is our job and life

Preparation took longer than we expected

The sun will set in two month

With the exception of Young-Min and I.

It is our first time to work together as a team.

Let's have a drink every 1' longitude we do

And by the time we are done drinking this.

We'll have reached the point where no man has reached before

To Us!

- To Us! - To Us!

Captain. why don't you give me a chance next time?

I even save people's lives for living...

Once I stake the flag at the P.O.I. then I'm going to marry Ji-Eun.

I guess that Ji-Eun will end up just like my wife.

I can't stand her nagging anymore.

Once I'm done with this expedition.

I'm gonna spend more time with my wife and daughter.

Point of inaccessibility it would be the perfect end to my 20 years of climbing.

Don't you think?

Sure

I think you kicked the flint.

Min-Jae. Geun-Chan... Could you look for the flint?

- Look for the flint - Where can I find such a small stone?

Sung-Hoon, look for the flint

December 31st Expedition day seventeen

It's now 11 PM...

But still there's a giant sun hanging over my head.

It feels like both day and night are endlessly dragging on...

Our days are repeating cycles of walking. eating and sleeping

I heard it is New Year's Day tomorrow.

But I don't remember anything anymore...

I can't even remember he festivities.

The sun shines down at us all day long

but it's not warm at all.

And trails us all day long.

When even I look at the sky. I get this strange sensation

I feel like I would get sucked into that blue sky

I feel like we're left in a remote planer in the middle of a galaxy far away

And someone is looking down at us...

Or is it just me?

04:22 PM January 4th. Expedition day twenty-one 39 days before Sundown.

Is this some kind of mark that they gave up and went back home?

It's more like something is buried underneath...

Kid! What does it say?

Antarctic... Journal...? Antarctic Journal...

Some expedition must've left it here

Let me see it

British Expedition... 1922...

So, that makes his over 80 years old.

Not only that. We're in the Antarctica

Even dead animals of thousands of years are preserved its form

It's a completely virus free zone.

Kim Min-Jae!

Yes, sir?

Take it.

Let's start moving!

Why do you hate Young-Min so much?

There is a person you just don't like without any reasons

Then... Who is it? Tell me!

Kim. Min-Jae. Min-Jae...

For real?

That journal could've been worth a lot of money

if it had been sold to an auction houses.

That kid didn't deserve that. Shit...

You're really pissed off. huh?

But that's really cool of Captain.

Fuckin' cool my ass...

It's 19:52 pm

All equipments are checked.

All members are free of injuries. over!

Got that over! Take care. over.

What are you doing?

Is there anything exciting 80 years ago?

Not too different from us really...

The beauty of the Antarctica. How cold it is.

How much they really Want to make it and such...

I Knew that...

Only few pages are readable

but rest... pages are stuck together.

So I'm just looking at the drawings.

Drawings? So it's a picture diary?

Yeah. look... they were also six explorers.

Isn't it fascinating?

What do you think of this picture?

Why do you think he drew the guy's back?

Maybe his face wasn't all that!

Doesn't this look like Captain?

Everybody looks pretty much the same with their snow jacket

Everyone looks like Captain to you. huh?

My parents passed away when I was young...

so I ended up living at my aunt's house.

Well. the thing is

They tried their best to make a home for me, yet

I was still making trouble

Then I saw Captain Choi on TV

That was after he successfully conquered the Everest.

When the reporter asked him how he felt upon reaching the summit.

Without any words... he just smiled quietly.

I wondered what he thinks about mountains.

I begged captain to be in the team.

Since you've been away for so long. you don't know the...

Nothing.

- What? - Forget it...

- What is it? - I shouldn't have brought it up!

I thought it was smudged... ls there anything interesting?

Yeah... I'm in the middle

They're going past the 66th degree line.

But I find something very strange

What is?

Well... in the beginning. there were six explorers

then over here... there are only five.

One is missing...

Because missing one is drawing!

Maybe

What do you think ever happened to them?

Since they were British Explorers

they must got awards or some kind of medal from the queen