The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 (장사의 신 - 객주 2015)

Stop it, stop!

I'm the one who had the opium,

so I'm the one to be punished.

Why do you bother punishing my family?

Alright.

You all will die anyway,

what difference does it make if you die right away or after you get beaten.

Boss!

Boss!

No! No...

Don't!

Could please stop?

Yut-dol!

Come to your senses!

No!

No!

No!

Oh no.

You can't do this!

Yut-dol!

You can't do this!

Oh, no!

No!

Sir!

Sir!

He's dead!

Sir!

Sir!

Sir.

You bastards!

I'll kill you all!

Kill them!

Yut-dol!

Yut-dol!

No way.

No way.

My father did it for Chun's Gaekju.

Please forgive him.

What happens if you're caught doing illegal trafficking?

Boss!

You fools!

Are you trying to destroy Chun's Gaekju

and make everyone die here?

Hey you!

Arrest me...

Just arrest me alone!

All of you vulgar merchants

caused a huge mess around here,

and you want me to just end with you?

What a shameless fool!

Chief.

Please punish me for everything.

I'm not a merchant who deals with opium!

How dare you touch me?!

I'm Chun Oh-su of Chun's Gaekju.

Let me in to Hanyang.

I'll go to Hyungjo Court to let them decide.

If you're Chun Oh-su of Chun's Gaekju,

I'm Kim Hyung-joong, the Chief of Euiju.

How dare you low class merchant try to add value to your name?

Oh, Chief! Chief.

Three syllables of the name 'Chun Oh-su' do have some weight.

You can decide what to do tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

No need to rush.

You don't need to get rid of him tonight.

Line them up, and lock them in jail!

Yes, chief.

Put all of them in jail!

Yes, sir.

Chief!

Open.

Yes, sir.

Look, Merchant Chun.

A soldier died from getting hit by a rock.

If you were the Chief,

would you go "Yes, I'll let you go to the Hyungjo Court," huh?

Then, let them decide if I'm guilty or not.

Then, would you be willing to hand over your dried sea cucumbers as a bribe?

They're worth 10,000 nyang!

Does that make sense?

Well, yeah.

But you know what?

Even if you go to Hyungjo,

there's not going to be a difference.

People will chase after your money here and there.

And they have more people there,

so you'll have to give them more money.

This world won't let you vanish quietly.

Wouldn't it cost you less to bribe here at Euiju,

than to bribe at Hyungjo?

Think about it.

Alright.

Those dried sea cucumbers

I will hand them over to you.

Really?

Good, good.

You made the right decision.

There's a high level of security here,

but I will do my best to release you. Okay?

It's 3 dried sea cucumbers with some opium in them.

That much,

any merchant keeps handy for household medicine.

If that is so, how did this happen?

The one who was inspecting today

couldn't differentiate what's real or not.

Chun's Gaekju's dried sea cucumbers are worth

at least 10,000 nyang.

You should just flog them and let them go.

We can give 100 nyang to the family members of the dead solider.

And they will be so amazed that

they will keep their mouths shut.

You're saying we're partially responsible too,

then flog them...

Flogging?

Do you really think flogging is enough?

Oops! I forgot you are here.

Take this, sir.

Chun's Gaekju got caught with opium trafficking.

You shouldn't be easy on them...

Oh, hey...

Oh. Hey!

Oh, oops! Oops.

My gratitude overflowed.

Too much is worse than too little.

I had too much of gratitude.

And you, my stepbrother, are way too damn nosy.

Too much is worse than too little.

Too much is worse than too little.

Ugh.

Ugh!

-Euiju Government Office--

I will buy those dried sea cucumbers.

Come on in!

Um. Boss?

3,000 pieces of silver from Qing.

They are worth 15,000 nyang.

The dried sea cucumbers are worth 10,000 nyang, and

you're giving us 5,000 nyang more?

It's the cost of beheading someone.

Even though you're the stepbrother of the governor of Gaesong,

how dare you joke around with me!

If I spread the words about this incident, Hanyang will become noisy.

What?

Opium was found at Door 3.

Two soldiers died from getting hit by a rock.

I just can't believe how they can get away with being flogged.

If people in Hanyang find this out, you will get rebuked, no?

Then, what do you want me to do?

Just think simply,

as this is a simple matter.

A man who has to die, dies.

Just follow the law of Geunmoon and behead him.

And if you want the dried sea cucumbers,

accept them as an indemnification of the dead soldiers.

Open it up.

Yes, sir.

Look, Merchant Chun.

It's 10,000 nyang for bribery.

But what do you mean that all of our family members are being forced to labor?

It's not like you're going to die doing the labor.

Forced labor is better.

Flogging will kill you,

if not, permanently hurt you.

Two national army soldiers died.

To be fair, Chun's Gaekju should give up one more life.

I begged the Chief to find out who secretly put the opium

in Chun's Gaekju's bag and behead that person.

Therefore, find out who did it

because we will interrogate after the morning assembly tomorrow.

I made a huge effort for this.

We'll find out who secretly put the opium

in your bag and behead that person.

So-gae. Hand me your bag.

Warden. Warden!

Please call the head inspection director. Warden!

I just made a fool out of myself, huh.

I just wasted 15,000 nyang.

I used up all that money,

and Chun Oh-su is about to get away with it back to Gaeseong.

Damn it.

You fool.

You immature fool!

A son is revenging for his father.

Isn't it reasonable?

Don't you know my father worked endlessly for Chun's Gaekju?

He would wake up early in the morning

and work all day long selling goods.

He didn't get remarried,

he didn't go to bars with women,

and he didn't even gamble around!

He had no annual salary,

and merchant was merely a title.

How is that different than slavery?

He worked that much.

And you killed him like that?

What's so bad about entering into Yook-ei-jeon?

Why? Why!

So-gae.

I'm not saying your father was bad.

The way he approached to get into Yook-ei-jeon was wrong!