Melancholia (멜랑꼴리아)

If n is an integer equal to or bigger than three,

and x to the nth power plus y to the nth power equals...

z to the nth power,

the values of x, y, and z cannot be positive integers.

It seems simple, right?

It looks solvable right away.

Put this problem wasn't solved for over 350 years.

Until a UK mathematician managed after working on it for seven years.

For seven years?

He worked on one problem for seven years?

Yes. This one problem.

The mathematician who had spent seven years solving this problem...

said this.

"I loved every minute, every second..."

"I spent working on this problem."

Let's hurry.

Ms. Ji. - Yes?

I finished this book.

Did you? How was it?

I didn't know there was ugly math and beautiful math.

What do you think is beautiful math?

Math about constellations.

Constellations? - It's in the book.

That proofs like clear, simple constellations...

are beautiful.

That's right.

You read it very thoroughly.

Shall I recommend another book? - Yes.

This one.

What is this one about?

It's about a mathematician.

He faced errors and contradictions,

but he didn't give up and kept going.

This is about his proof.

The lobbying for the National Museum of Mathematics,

the personnel transfers,

and embezzlement of government funds.

Once we analyze what we obtained in the search and seizure,

more charges could be added.

Who was it?

Let's begin with the funding.

Using the MOU as an excuse,

is it true you spent funds for your personal gain?

If you call me taking a small cut...

for my efforts embezzlement... - It's unfair?

It was just for money?

Then what? Is there another reason?

You put Professor Cha Seong Won on the board.

Was that so you could spend whatever you needed?

I'm warning you.

Don't think of ruining my brother.

The arrogant punk. - What?

Prosecutor. If you look at how the funds were spent...

Ms. Noh, are you listening?

The committee funds...

were budgeted to promote the National Math Museum.

It can be spent on the students...

who are part of the MOU.

It's true that I recommended Professor Cha,

but I did not put him on the board.

The National Math Museum will become...

a place where math is taught and future talent raised.

All I wanted was to do my best as an educator.

If you think I would give bribes and...

give allies important jobs for personal gain,

I am sorely disappointed, sir.

Minister Shin Seung Jae. Do you accept the charges?

I wasn't interested in the museum from the start.

Noh Jung Ah came up with all the ideas and plans.

You allocated part of the government budget.

You started that important deal with a school principal's idea?

I liked the idea of supporting a core subject like math,

and I fell for her tricks.

Even Assemblyman Sung Min Jun asked for my backing.

I found out later on that they were doing this for their own gain.

If there were any illegal matters regarding the museum,

that would be on Minister Shin who headed the task force team,

and Professor Cha who headed the committee.

Wouldn't those two be most deeply involved?

Didn't you have the bill passed forcibly...

because Minister Shin and Ms. Noh asked you to?

Listen.

I only arranged a meeting for them...

so they could do something for my constituents.

As an assemblyman, I can't be arrested.

Why do you think I agreed to be questioned?

It's because I'm innocent and blameless.

I have nothing to hide.

Did you not make any personal gain...

with the information you got?

I'm a scholar.

I don't know about anything but research.

Recently, your wife Kim Young Sun...

bought 661m² of land that the museum was planned to be built on.

Well...

Unlike myself, my wife knows how to invest.

But I never gave her such information,

and we can't even afford this.

Sung Min Jun, I'm glad we met.

Come here, punk! - Minister.

Try to save face. What do you think you're doing?

Save face?

Did you deny involvement to save face?

How dare you try to avoid the charges?

You should've kept an eye on your people.

The person who reported you.

It was Ryu Sung Jae.

My gosh. Of all the people to betray you...

So what?

Are you saying it's my fault? - Let go of me.

Stop it. - Let go!

I'll make you pay! - What are you doing?

Watch out! - Let go!

Assemblyman, don't...

What's this?

You must see this.

Jenny, did you see this?

What's this? It's the same! - What is this textbook?

How is it just like the exam?

Is this normal? - Were the problems leaked?

What is this? - Did you have this?

What is this textbook? - Some of our students had it.

No way. - Look.

Isn't this crazy? - It's identical.

What is this? - Even the numbers are the same.

This is insane.

How can this be? - This is wrong.

This isn't right. - Our school's crazy.

I don't get it. - Where is it from?

What's this?

How can a textbook have the same questions as our exam?

Didn't you notice in the meeting?

All these questions were from Mr. Ahn.

We're done for.

A privately made textbook...

containing the same math problems from the exam...

of Asung Academy came online and caused quite a stir.

Our kids' textbook is online.

How did this happen?

We returned them to Noh Jung Ah.

What happens now that this got out?

Hang on. This is what Yoo Chan had.

How did this get leaked?

Oh, no.

We received word that someone will testify these photos are true.

Reporters are outside the Office of Education...

waiting for the witness to appear.

Isn't that him? - He's here!

Aren't you Paik Seung Yoo?

Are you here to tell us about Asung Academy?

What will you talk about?

Are the photos online...

of the textbook and exam from you?

Let's not go straight to the Office of Education.

Then what? - I tried that four years ago.

You know how that worked out.

I want to do it differently this time.

I'm Paik Seung Yoo, a teacher at Asung Academy.

My employment was terminated.

Before I submit the material...

I brought to the Office of Education,

I wish to speak to the public first.

Asung Academy of Mathematics and Arts...

has a Global Talent Class for kids aiming for Ivy League schools.

The members are the so-called high class.

Children of ministers, assemblymen, CEOs...

and university professors are in this class.

This is...

the textbook the school provided to just the Global Talent Class.

How does he have that?

Differently how?

Before you submit the evidence, tell the world about it.

You can tell the math problems here...

and the problems in Asung's recent math exam...

are identical.

That textbook was given only to kids of influential people,

and questions from it were in the exam?

Yes.

That's not all. Asung's Principal Noh Jung Ah...

took money from these students' parents...

in the name of a school development fund...

to line her own pockets.

This flash drive contains evidence of Principal Noh's illegal deals...

and enough to support the bribery charges.

I'll submit this to the authorities.

A Ministry of Education hearing?

So?

The board may be dissolved...

if they say there's a problem with the foundation's accounting?

It was you.

You emptied out my safe.

I said not to be too greedy.

You let your dirty deeds hurt Father, me,

and the foundation.

Who are you to disgrace my grandfather's name?