Low Life (파인: 촌뜨기들)

ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY BUILDS A STRONGER NATION

HEUNGBAEK PLASTICS

-Hello, you've reached Heungbaek Plastics. -Heungbaek Plastics, how can I help you?

For polytunnels?

Kim, get me the receipts.

- Yes, sir. - Jungsook.

-Yes? -Get me a cup of coffee.

Oh, sure.

- Evening paper. - Thanks.

Heungbaek Plastics. How can I help you?

- The paper, sir. - Thank you.

The president needs those financial statements.

-Jungsook. -Yes?

The statements.

Right.

MV SUNHANG 1 SINKS 18 CREW MEMBERS UNACCOUNTED FOR

IM JEONCHUL

Does it say if they've announced

where they're moving the capital to yet?

Uh… You build one highway, and all of a sudden… Pow!

Land value skyrockets.

100 DAYS SINCE

SEOUL-GANGNEUNG-SAMCHEOK EXPRESSWAY OPENING

- Gangneung, Samcheok, Sokcho. - Oh, just forget it.

It's not like you wanna run a store.

And from what I've been hearing, Daejeon, Cheongju, Yongmun, Cheonan,

-that's worth keeping an eye on. -Yeah?

That's what I heard at least.

If the capital is going there, a new school couldn't hurt.

A caller at this hour?

Well, I wonder…

Hello?

Who is it?

Jungsook.

I love you.

I missed you.

Jungsook.

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LOW LIFE

EPISODE 2, BRING IN THE PROS

Eggs.

Coffee. We have fresh coffee.

Boiled eggs.

- Excuse me. - What can I get you?

Uh… I'd like some eggs and…

- This? - I'll take two.

You want two eggs?

Uh… You hungry? Eat this.

I don't like eggs. They smell.

Uh… Would you like an egg, sir?

No, thanks. You can have it.

Uh… Hey, you want one?

Guess I'll just eat on my own.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

This train will arrive at its final destination,

Mokpo Station, in ten minutes.

-Grab your stuff. -Please make sure to take…

Okay.

Once the train has come to a complete stop…

Here you go. Come on, let's go.

Damn, that was cramped.

Ah… There's that salt.

Smell that air.

It's really boiling down here. Guess that's the south for you.

What's the plan? We're going straight to the inn?

Yeah? Is that okay?

Yeah. Perfect. Mm-hmm.

Hey, Jeonchul.

Keep posing like that,

and the local gangsters might come and kick your ass.

Come here.

Okay.

Obviously we're gonna draw attention here.

So listen. Let's just grab the stuff and bail.

Sir.

Now that's what I like to hear.

Let's go.

Here's the address.

PEACE INN

"Peace Inn." This is it.

What kind of inn is tucked away like this?

- Hello? - Welcome in.

Hi, good afternoon.

Is there a Ha Yeongsu staying here?

Oh! Seoul folks, ain't ya?

I reckon he's over there.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

You in there?

Who is out there?

Oh.

-How are you? Are you Mr. Ha? -That's right.

HA YEONGSU

Mr. Song should've told you we were on our way. I'm Oh Gwanseok.

Would you look at that.

Y'all city folk look real badass, don't you?

How much schooling did you get?

Huh?

School.

Well, actually I dropped out.

I could tell, looking at your face.

You can read someone like that just by looking at their face?

Fuck if I can.

I'm getting some really bad vibes.

What sign are you?

-Huh? -Your zodiac sign.

Year of the Pig, '35.

I was born in the Year of the Tiger,

the Month of the Tiger, the Hour of the Tiger.

Even though the day was off,

I'm definitely a tiger.

Taking orders is the one thing I couldn't do.

You see, not once have I ever let anyone boss me around.

Don't believe it?

- This body, it's got a lot of history. - Oh.

Jeonchul,

- weren't you hot? - What?

You should probably cool off.

Right.

-Where's the tap? -Uh…

Start unpacking.

-Where's the bathroom? -O-Over there.

Uh… It's over this way, I think.

So how was the pottery first discovered?

Well, when fisherman would go out to fish,

now and then, they'd get a piece stuck in their nets,

- give 'em the heebie-jeebies. - Huh?

'Cause back in the day, when you die at sea…

They'd send you off with pottery?

Well, you still gotta eat in the afterlife, don't you?

So they're buried at sea with everything,

- spoons, chopsticks, you name it. - Huh?

I can't believe this. Just my luck.

This one guy was just using it as a dog bowl,

when one day, his brother, a grade school teacher,

came over and thought it looked it was valuable.

-So he reported it to the county office. -County? Why?

'Cause it looked important, hence the county.

He must have figured it was valuable and went after the reward. See?

- Mmm. - Yeah. But what fucking reward?

They gave him jack shit.

Then the Cultural Heritage Administration showed up to look at the bowl.

They could tell it was Chinese and decided it was from the Yuan Dynasty.

Now, what's the biggest mystery?

Huh? Huh?

What is all this Chinese pottery doing here?

Exactly. Give me those cigarettes.

You see, back then, China used to do trade.

In Japan,

JAPAN

Goryeo,

GORYEO

and India.

INDIA - CHINA

But there was no way to sail straight from China to Japan.

Why? I mean, what did they have?

Not motors. They relied on wind.

But the wind don't blow your way.

That's why the Chinese, they stopped at Sinan on their way to Japan.

SINAN

So then, this was their stopover, right?

- That's right. - Mmm.

And then one day, the wind blew crazy strong.

And Sinan is known to be surrounded by islands, right?

The currents are rough, and the waves are high.

The wind was going this way and that way.

And then the boat they were on smashed into pieces.

-Mm-hmm. -Have you seen it, old man?

You don't have to see everything to get the idea.

Do you have to look before you wipe your ass?

You don't 'cause you already know it's there.

This is bullshit.

We're here to find the pottery, not sit through a fucking history lesson.

Digging at the location of the pottery

could send you to an early grave, you fool.

What did you just say?

You trying to put a curse on us or something, you shit?

What's wrong with you?

Don't get your knickers in a twist.

I was just saying.

Hi, sir.

Yeah. Everything's fine.

HAESEONG STORE

It's like I'm in school. I have no idea what they're talking about.

Yeah, uh, all right. Okay.

Take care.

- All right. - Thank you.

Oh, yeah.

You can go ahead.

I'll be a while, I'm calling home.

Then do you mind giving me space?

I'll use the one at the inn.

Damn. He was one good-looking fella.

-Who was? -The young one I mean.

He's got fair skin and a nice looking face too.

Yeah, but he's pretty ignorant about the world.

Well, I was a real Casanova too, you know, back in the day.

Oh, wow. What's this "back in the day" all of a sudden?

Cheon residence.

Hi.