Midnight Diner (Late Night Restaurant / 심야식당 / Simyashikdang)

Around this time every year

there's a dish my regulars like to ask for.

It's the dish that comes to mind during the summertime.

Barley-dried corvina.

It's here, right?

Thanks to Mr. Kim, who loves fishing and calls himself 'Kim Tae Gong'

I get good quality fish airlifted to me by each producer at a cheap price.

My whole body aches in the summertime because I want to eat this so much.

This and soy sauce marinated crab really whet your appetite.

What doesn't whet your appetite?

Master, please give me another bowl of rice.

Okay.

This was originally made by drying yellow corvina.

If you say yellow corvina in Classical Chinese

it means to help vitalize.

So, during the summer, when you don't have an appetite

this one dish will do the trick.

Pour in more.

I don't understand that phrase the most.

Why wouldn't you have an appetite, when there are so many things to eat?

It tastes so good.

A bit more.

It tastes really good.

But, it seems that this taste

incited Kim Tae Gong's suppressed skill.

Seriously, my fishing skills are amazing.

I was going to show them off once.

But, why don't you go fishing these days?

I was completely drunk the last time I was fishing.

I almost fell into the water and died.

After that, my wife...

told me to stay still at home without even breathing.

I'm coming to this restaurant to breathe.

This is really amazing.

Seriously.

My body's aching because I want to do this so much.

Who can I tempt to go fishing with me?

- Let's go. - I don't want to.

You were quiet for a while. Now you're starting up again.

In the past, you went around using my name for your advantage a lot.

Back in my glory days, when I was at my very best

I would say I was going fishing with him, but actually play around the whole nation.

I had several women in each district.

Hey, let's go.

You really have to be good to your wife.

Your wife is a great catch in the world of wives.

Hey, the fact that I've been living with only one woman all this time

is already a big achievement.

I have five siblings.

But all of them divorced at least once while I haven't.

My father, grandfather, and even the people above them

all had two or three lowly concubines.

But I'm the only one who isn't following my family's disposition

and living my whole life with just one person.

My kids said that they're grateful for that one thing too.

I can't get married because I'm worried I'll meet a man like this.

No, I'm not going to do something else this time.

I'm really going to go fishing.

There's an excellent spot that only I know about.

You can only catch the big fish if you go fishing at night there.

I don't want to.

We don't want to either.

It's a bit scary to go there alone though.

In the end, his fishing partner was Min Woo.

He said he got time off from all his part-time jobs for summer vacation.

- Are you hungry? - No.

I'm not just taking time away from a student who should be studying, am I?

No, you're not.

Yeah, you need to come to these kinds of places sometimes too and get some air

so that your brain works better.

Yes.

The air's so fresh!

I really wanted to do this kind of thing once.

Do what?

I wanted to do this kind of thing with my dad.

Hey, real dads don't bring their kids along to these kinds of places.

I took my kids around when they were little too.

After they've grown up, they can't even remember.

Now that they're older, they refuse, saying they're busy.

So I don't take them around.

That's possible.

If you're bored, try cooking up some ramen.

Ramen tastes the best when you eat it at these kinds of places.

Mister, I'm the best when it comes to cooking ramen.

Ramen is the one thing that I can cook more deliciously than Master.

- Please wait. I'll cook it deliciously. - Okay.

Yeah, try cooking it.

Why is my stomach being like this?

What's wrong?

My stomach's been hurting since a little while ago.

Why is it hurting more when I haven't even eaten that much?

- This is a big problem. - What do we do then?

I'll just do my business somewhere over there.

So, you watch the fishing rod carefully.

- Okay? - Okay.

Watch carefully for any bobbing movement.

Come back safely.

- Saying something that makes sense. - It's true.

Yeah, right.

I parked the car less than 10 meters away from where we were.

I was doing my business behind the car.

I didn't see a woman like that.

I was with her for sure.

Did you come to fish?

Excuse me?

I'm sorry.

You were startled, weren't you?

No, I wasn't.

But, why are you here all by yourself?

I came out to get some air for a little while because I felt suffocated.

I'm guessing you came to fish.

Yes.

Would you like to have some ramen with me?

No, it's okay.

Then how come I didn't see her?

I don't know.

I mean, I'm a person who jumps right out bed for women.

Did you see that woman's legs?

Do you think I'm like Mr. Kim?

Why would I look at her legs in that situation?

Hey, ghosts don't have legs.

Hey!

You saw them, right?

Well, that's...

Seriously, why are you being like that?

What should we do about him?

He must be possessed by a maiden ghost.

So, why did you drag a kid who should be studying to a fishing spot?

I'm a man who just gave up on fishing and came back

because I was freaked out by what he was saying too.

I couldn't even eat the ramen properly, so I'm extremely hungry.

- Make some hot soup or something for me. - Do you want spicy roe fish soup?

Seeing as how he keeps hallucinating, it seems like his body's weakened.

I think you should really boil some beef bone for him.

No, I wasn't hallucinating. I think she was really there.

Do you want me to cook something warm for you?

No, it's okay.

It's true. I'm sure that...

That scared me.

Master, please give me a beer and beef jerky.

Okay.

You saw a woman there?

Yes.

What does she look like?

She had long hair and...

Was she wearing a sky-blue dress?

How did you know?

What the...

I think it is that woman.

Is she a woman you know?

I have a friend who does the alligator job.

Alligator job?

Getting paid to find the bodies of people who drowned and died.

That's known as the alligator job.

My friend said that not too long ago

he recovered the body of a woman who looked like that from the reservoir.

He said that a man cheated on her or something.

It seems that at first, the man did it just to intimidate her

while they were arguing.

But, she really fell into the water and struggled.

The guy tried to save her at first.

But he thought that he would die like that.

So even when the woman was grabbing and clinging onto him

he shook her off and got out.

When my friend got the woman out

he said he saw that she was clenching a bunch of hair in her hands.

- What the... - Oh no.