No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다)

Yeah...

Come on, fall!

They must really like you.

Sending you expensive eel.

It's not that they like me.

They're going to work me even harder.

Those Americans too

must know that eels make men perform better.

They even sent it on your birthday.

The kids will hear!

I need eel! Eel!

Come and eat!

Dad sweated in the heat grilling these.

I'll go.

A snake?

Snakes don't taste this good!

Dad's company sent it, for doing a good job.

It's not even a holiday.

Couldn't they give us beef?

Ri-one.

Dinner.

Come on. Let's eat.

Let the cello take a nap.

What's this?

Honey!

Must've been expensive!

Well, I can afford decent dance shoes.

- Aren't Mom's shoes pretty? - Eat up.

I'll be able to dance so well in these.

They say not to gift shoes to your lover.

Why?

Why?

'Cause they might run away in them.

Seems your dad is confident.

Come on.

We need to practice when we can.

Ready, start!

One two three,

two two three, three two three...

Thanks for your hard work and years of dedication to Solar Paper.

Damned paper...

Honey, come here.

Why?

Come on.

Come on, Ri-one.

Ri-two Si-two

Just three minutes more.

One minute...

Know what I'm feeling now?

I've got it all.

You people bought Solar Paper, where I devoted 25 years of my life.

But as soon as you take over, you say

you'll cut 20% of the production line?

And you ask for a list of names to fire?

Names of veterans who taught me their craft?

Names of young men who came of age in this factory?

Innocent workers who lovingly cared for these machines,

you want me to point a gun at their heads?

I can't do it.

Guns are meant to be aimed at one's enemies!

Stop! Think! Act!

I cannot give you that list.

You Americans say

to be fired is to be ‘axed'?

Know what we say in Korea?

Off with your head!

So being fired

is having your head chopped clear off with an ax!

Job for life, old shoes

“If you don't start a union, we guarantee a job for life.”

That beautiful tradition... tossed out like old shoes!

To you Americans...!

Damn, my throat...

I said to do this in the warehouse.

All because you wanted to smoke.

Quit, dammit!

You put so much work into this.

He could've said, forget it.

- But he acts like it's his job at stake. - It is!

If you guys are fired, who will I work with?

Real sense of humanity.

Damn.

Stop!

Hello, sir.

Off with your head!

- So to be fired... - Give back the helmet!

...is to chop your head clear off!

Wait!

What'll he do with that helmet?

They didn't...

give you the eel, did they?

No way, right?

Honey.

What?

You said you'd say something.

I forgot.

Aren't you going to work?

Right, right.

That's right.

Si-two Ri-two, house!

Study hard.

- Ri-one, let's go. - Ri-one!

Have a good day.

Good luck!

I slaved for 25 years!

Deep breaths.

- I am... - I am...

A good person.

A good person.

Man-su!

...person.

- Losing my job... - Losing my job...

- Losing my job! - Losing my job...

is not my choice!

- My loving family... - My loving family...

My loving family...

will support me fully as I seek new opportunities.

...as I seek new opportunities.

My loving family will support me fully

as I seek new opportunities.

Honey.

Can you put in earphones?

Just a sec.

Hired in 3 months

So you must've had sleepless nights?

Are you crying?

Where's that brave bachelor who proposed to a single mom?

I made a new start, you can too.

Sure you can!

Take all your hopes and dreams,

and recite your own incantation.

Ready?

Go!

A new start...

A new start... A new start...

A new start.

A new start.

I'm head of a family.

I'll be born again.

To put food in my family's mouths...

there's nothing I won't do.

In three months,

I'll get hired again!

I feel great!

3 Months Later

13 Months Later

Hi Namgu, I know.

Today at 5 o'clock.

My boss is really curious about you.

Sorry to ask so suddenly, but can you come at noon?

Listen, I'm...

at the retail store, with my wife.

The boss suddenly booked a 5pm flight back to China.

Too much to ask?

No no, hold on.

Wait.

I'll plead with my wife.

That's right. Come over now.

But there's a question he always asks. “What's your weak point?”

Weak point?

It's a crucial-utely sensitive issue, okay?

Okay, thanks!

Weak point?

Sorry, I know it's absolutely impossible to answer.

What's my weak point?

What do you think? You love plants too much.

You're a vegetable.

Last night you called me an animal.

Namgu gave me this awesome tip.

Mortgage Default Warning

If only I can explain my weak point well.

It's a crucial-utely sensitive issue.

If you're hired, you'll work under your former subordinate Namgu.

Tell us how you feel about that.

I was a manager, true,

but I've always considered myself to be blue collar.

So, in that respect...

I don't think you understood the question.

Namgu...

No, of course I understand, my point is...

Namgu came to Papyrus first, so you'll learn from him, right?

Of course!

I am always learning.

I got hired as soon as I graduated from high school.

But even while working, I earned a chemistry degree.

Of course, that was at a distance university.

Of course after that too, I kept... learning.

And of course, safety management.

When I received the 2019 ‘Pulp Man of the Year', it was that aspect

that they singled out in my record.

And that same year,

I finally bought my own home.

The very house I was born in.

Of course...

I'm saying “of course” too much, aren't I?

It's not so much because I'm nervous,

but... self-confidence? Assurance? That's what it is.

Of course!

If you don't mind, could you tell me about your weak point?

No.