Into the Ring (Memorials / The Ballot / Chulsapyo / 출사표)

I'm Yang Nae Sung. I work at the Mawon-gu District Assembly.

I need to pee.

I'm sorry.

Sir, you shouldn't be sleeping here.

Sir, wake up. Sir. Sir.

My gosh, what's this? Constable Kim!

Sir, wake up! Sir!

She won the recent by-election. Her name is Goo Se Ra.

Thank you for coming.

Representative Yang Nae Sung said...

some people want to erase the name "Sarang"...

because of an old accident.

What is this?

How dare you collude with the chief and pass the budget...

without going through the proper channels?

This is invalid!

- It has to be void. - It can't count.

Keep quiet!

You're wrong!

The gentleman once spoke with Representative Yang.

I want to take over and see it through.

I'm his replacement.

I hope that...

you don't trust people too much.

What you see is not all,

and everyone has another side.

Do you see this?

So what if this gets out?

I don't care about that. I'm just a minion.

It's really simple.

Change your addresses to Sarang-dong...

and you get paid a sum.

They're homeless people.

I paid them a sum if they switched addresses.

Then I had them sign the petition.

You wouldn't have done that for fame or fortune.

Who made you do it?

Representative Yang.

Who?

Representative Yang. Don't you know Yang Nae Sung?

Seo Gong Myung. You must know him.

The day of his hit-and-run.

You met him too.

Will you let him go like this?

Then what, call the police?

Take him to a police station?

Representative Yang made him forge the papers.

Why would he do that?

He could be framing a dead man.

Se Ra.

Have you ever met Representative Yang?

No. I haven't met him.

What about you?

Did you really meet him on the day of his accident?

"Meet" is not the right word.

He came to my place without asking me first.

I'm Yang Nae Sung. I work at the Mawon-gu District Assembly.

Up until recently,

you were working at the Ministry of Planning and Budget, right?

I have a question to ask you.

I no longer work there.

So why don't you file a request for whatever file you want to see?

It's not about a file.

You know Chairman Cho Maeng Duk, right?

No. I don't.

He's your father.

After the 2002 Sarang Resort fire,

your parents got divorced.

You returned in 2018 when you were appointed to Mawon-gu Office.

Representative Yang Nae Sung.

Are you spying on civilians?

It's not spying on a civilian.

Your father is Cho Maeng Duk,

a three-time district representative.

Just because of that man,

I don't deserve to be questioned like this.

"That man"?

Then it's true that you two don't get along.

You don't know exactly because you were too young then.

What Representative Cho did in the aftermath of the fire.

Call me if you want to know.

You know what?

I believed this guy that he was going to take care of this.

But I can't reach him.

Representative Yang Nae Sung said...

some people want to erase...

the name "Sarang" because of an old accident.

I'll check it myself.

You called me out here at this hour...

because you wanted to talk about Representative Yang?

I thought that you would give me...

the most objective opinion of him.

Most importantly,

I couldn't wait until tomorrow.

He was a former police officer...

and the first-term representative of Dagachi Progressive Party.

He resigned because of a hit-and-run accident.

And you were his replacement.

I know that much.

What about Representative Yang you knew on a personal level?

He was the epitome of corruption, a dirty politician,

and a two-faced hypocrite.

He would promise to take care of the complaint...

and help the district businesses win contracts.

For the last past three years,

Representative Yang took a lot of bribes under the table.

- Oh, my. - Why are you so surprised?

People always fail to hire the right people for the jobs.

They should have supported a politician like myself.

Anyway, that's why at his funeral,

there was a huge scene.

What?

"Bribery charges"?

You...

- My goodness. Don't do this. - Stop it.

My brother was a police officer for 20 years.

My brother would obey any law,

and someone else framed him!

And everyone knew?

Of course. All the representatives of Mawon-gu knew.

Only I didn't know.

But... Wait.

Drink it.

Last February,

Representative Yang came to see me.

For what?

He asked me if I knew Representative Cho Maeng Duk.

He told me if I wanted to know...

what Representative Cho did...

in 2002 when the fire took place at Sarang Resort,

I should call him.

It was the day...

when Representative Yang was in the hit-and-run accident.

That accident has nothing to do with me.

I have known him for a long time.

- My gosh. - Goodness.

- Go now. - Okay.

Hello.

- Take your seat. - Hello.

Really?

We shall begin the 268th Mawon-gu Temporary Meeting.

Just like Chief Won planted...

Representative Heo of the Conservative Party,

I needed someone to be my eyes and ears in the Progressive Party.

He couldn't be exposed like Representative Heo.

He pretended to join hands with Representative Bong.

But he secretly did a lot of things for me...

by using the complaint as an excuse.

We're getting a lot of complaints these days.

Could there be a way?

Don't worry.

I can quash this with my influence.

I hope you can help me.

Sure.

He started to take bribes...

to settle the complaints...

and to help agencies win the biddings.

My warning fell on deaf ears.

But he was still useful to me.

Getting a lot of people involved isn't my style.

His death was only an accident.

You included Sarang Resort...

in the lot for the Smart One City project.

Why did you decide to change the name when it wasn't critical?

Chief Won included Sarang Resort in the lot...

for the new business.

And I only observed.

Then, you should watch me too.

You'll find out for whom and how hard I will work.

Se Ra is kind,

but...

it doesn't mean a kind person can be a good politician.

That's your way...

of justifying your decisions.

Up to last week, we received summaries...

of documents related to Smart One City.

But today, you gave me the full document.

That's odd.

We always shared both summaries and full documents...

with the council secretariats.

I see.

Okay.

This is odd.

The district documents...

for you have doubled.

Especially the documents with the Smart One City project.

They finally approve of me.

It's been so tough.

We're not out of the woods yet.

It's still tough.

You're still brutally honest with your words.

I met up with Vice Chairman Yoon yesterday...

and asked her about Representative Yang.

He used to take bribes.

So the bribery charge was true.

- So... - I already told you that.

Who do you trust more?

Strangely, you seem favorable toward Representative Yang.

You sounded like that at Saryang Hall too.

It's not strange.