Bestseller AKA Best Seller (베스트셀러 / Be-seu-teu-sel-leo)

Please let me introduce Beak Hee-soo, Korea's most prolific woman writer.

Hello.

Welcome.

This is your fourth best-selling book in a row.

Personally, I envy the fact that you write a new story every time.

Could you please give us a hint on how you write your books?

I always jot down notes.

I write the people and places first and then think about them.

That's how I build them.

If I have an idea to write a story, I would attach the right characters.

Then they become like real people, with behaviors and thoughts.

I just write the story.

You must be very busy, with no time to rest.

Even my daughter and husband are in my notes.

They're all writing material.

Some people I've met today could also be included.

This new book has been a bestseller for three weeks in a row.

Apart from your previous works, how did you write...?

Cut!

What's going on?

What's the matter?

How could you do this?

You really don't trust me?

I've told you many times already. Please trust me.

Don't bring that up again.

You never even tried to listen.

I've never read that book. I swear!

How long will you keep this up?

You could've made a mistake.

Mistake?

I never make mistakes.

Want me to tell you again?

It was submitted for you to judge.

You read that book!

So you're saying that I plagiarized it?

Quiet! Shut up!

Let's stop.

I'm asking you out of all people.

Please, stop this!

Don't you understand me?

You get too obsessed with things.

Just say that you didn't know, or that it was unintentional!

Baek Hee-soo has written many bestsellers in the last 20 years,

but it's been confirmed that she has plagiarized her latest work.

It was one of the books she read during a writing competition.

Two years later

It'll be okay once we get there.

Did you see the picture?

This is very important to Mom.

I need a quiet place with no people.

You understand, right?

Are you going to divorce Dad?

Is it because of me?

No.

Grown-ups, you see...

Sometimes they don't want to live together.

Then is it because of Mom?

What are you doing?

Nothing.

Your daughter is very pretty.

By any chance, are you the writer from Seoul?

But I thought you were coming here tomorrow.

Oh no!

Don't worry about this.

Dad...

You bastard, the memorial is already over.

The writer is here!

Hurry!

The writer! She's here!

How are you, Ma'am?

What a surprise!

When did you come?

It's the writer from Seoul!

She's beautiful!

Please come have some food.

Stop talking and go set up a seat.

Hurry and get the food ready.

We ran out of meat.

What do you mean, ran out?

I told you to prepare it in advance, you idiot!

Shut up and escort her.

We prepared some food for a memorial service.

Take a look at this!

I told him to hang that up yesterday.

Welcome, writer Park Hee-soo!

The wind is blowing too much.

We planned to have that ready before you came.

What's the use now?

I fixed up the house as much as I could.

It looks old, doesn't it?

This house is over sixty years old.

After Korea's independence,

an American missionary named Bates

raised orphans here during the war.

There's no villa like this in Korea.

So many writers from Seoul came here.

The house repairs are almost done.

The roof needs a little work.

When it rains, it may leak.

That plastic is only temporary.

Our youth group will come fix it in a few days.

Please don't let anyone interrupt me while I'm here.

But we don't know when it'll rain.

No one can defy heaven's will.

Yeah, can't deny the will of heaven.

You damn woman!

I told you not to come here!

Why'd she come here again?

Don't pay any attention to her.

When no one's here, she comes here and sleeps.

This is a very nice town to live in.

This town got an award for being crimeless, you see.

Have you seen my daughter?

Yeun-hee.

Yeun-hee!

Yeun-hee!

Yeun-hee!

Yeun-hee!

Yeun-hee!

Yeun-hee!

How could you disappear like that?

It's dangerous.

Yeun-hee.

It's a very old place.

It'll be a bit uncomfortable.

No, but I'd like to stay.

Okay.

How long are you going to hide?

It's been two years!

I gave you enough time.

Don't worry about those bastards who claim that it's plagiarism.

Who said it's plagiarism?

Yeah, no one pays attention to people like them.

You know better, so what's wrong with you?

Everyone is on your side.

They're waiting for your next book.

That's not it.

The problem is me.

I can't think of anything.

You mean going blank in front of the monitor?

That's because you're always cooped up in your house.

Writer's block? That's made to overcome.

Hard to write at home, isn't it?

At the committee meeting last week, I learned of a great place.

Writers said that it's the best place to write.

Oh yeah, the next literary award is still up for grabs.

I've already talked with the committee.

I assure you that all that talk about plagiarism will disappear this time.

Where's that picture? Here it is.

Here.

Despite what people say,

I want you to know that I still believe in you.

There isn't an editor out there who cares for you like me.

Missionary John Bates Orphanage

Do you live here?

What's wrong with your head? It doesn't hurt?

What song is that?

Why does he always get on my case?

Why are you taking my picture?

Oh, it's the writer lady from Seoul.

Is that villa okay?

Be careful. A ghost lives there.

Yeun-hee.

Hurry and go inside.

My mom is very busy.

Really? She'll like the story?

A dragon? What's a dragon?

Is it still alive?

But does it hurt if you die?

Don't laugh.

A lost baby bird

Cries because it misses its mom

What are you doing here?

I'm playing with my friend.

Your friend?

Where's your friend?

She's gone.

Where did she go?

Another hypothesis is that it's an unconscious hypnosis phenomenon.

A book read or a situation seen before

is recorded in the subconscious.

We delude ourselves that it's our own thought.

Unconscious plagiarism is quite common.

More cases exist where the person is unaware of the plagiarism.

Then that must be true for writer Baek Hee-soo.

Stop it.

Why?

That prick.

Change the topic of your lecture.

What brings you here?

Do I always need a reason to be here?

Why'd you do such a useless thing?

You heard?

Hee-soo needs to make her comeback.

We can't let her rot like that.

Don't pull her back in for money.

Hey, I told you that's not why!

A writer who had plagiarized before ends up doing it again.

Who says so?

Mozart plagiarized and so did Einstein.