Dongju Page #3

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He's given her this much talent.

Can't have given her looks, too.

I've seen some brilliant

girls at medical school,

and I realized God was fair with them.

With this level of writing talent,

her face must be a total mess.

I don't ever want to meet her.

Gosh! You scared me!

Who are you?

- This is Lee Yeo Jin.

- I am Gang Cheo Jung.

Lee Yeo Jin.

Guess I don't have to introduce myself.

You seem to know me well.

I'm Lee Yeo Jin, the total mess.

You're such a moron. Come here, Yeo Jin.

Read this, would you?

Who wrote this?

That's written by our dear poet Yun.

Did you write this?

Yes.

Isn't it great?

He's got lots more better ones, too.

FUKUOKA PRISON:

Is he Korean?

Yes, sir.

Three injections a week.

How about infection?

Not yet, sir.

What are you staring at?

Do the math, quick!

"A Night Counting Stars"

The sky where the season is passing

is full of autumn.

I am to be able to count

all the stars in the autumn

without any worries.

The reason why I cannot count

all the stars engraved

in my heart one by one,

is that the morning is coming too fast,

that I have tomorrow's night.

And that my youth has

yet to come to an end.

As for poetry...

there's none worth publishing

aside from Dong Ju's.

Prose is better for spreading your ideas.

Take out as much poetry as possible.

Literature makes people

weak sentimentalists.

- It's late. You don't have to go?

- It's okay.

- I want to read some more.

- Anything worth looking at?

This one has good writing but...

it's like something Yi

Kwang Su would write.

Throw away anything imitating

traitors like Yi Kwang Su

or Choe Nam Seon.

You used to read nothing but Yi's work.

Come on.

That was when I was young.

You still are.

Making rash judgments, blinded

by convention and ideology.

I am doing this to overthrow

convention and ideology.

Are you upset because I

said to take out the poems?

I have my own reasons and goals

for doing this literary magazine.

It's not I disregard poetry.

Poetry is also good enough

to express your ideas.

When it uncovers the truth

living in people's hearts

literature gains power...

and that power gathered

together can change the world.

How do you gather that power?

That's just hiding in literature for

lack of courage to change the world.

People who only use literature as

a means would see it that way!

So how did you change the world

using literature and selling art?

Who has ever changed the world that way?

Patriotism, nationalism, communism...

Are those ideas worth selling

off all our values for?

Is that your way of

overthrowing convention?

Isn't that indeed...

a rotten convention trying to

hide in the trends of an era?

Hey, this is getting brutal.

You are both right.

But, we really didn't get

any good poetry this time.

I get your point, Dong Ju.

Yeo Jin, you should go. It's late.

Yes, I should get going.

Could you walk me home?

Why should I?

Get some fresh air.

You haven't been out all day.

I have something to ask you, too.

Go ahead.

You're majoring in literature, right?

Yes, I am.

English literature.

Who's your favorite poet?

Well, I like them all.

Francis Jammes,

Rainer Maria Rilke,

I call the names of these poets.

They are too far away,

like the stars in the sky.

It's just that Mong Gyu loves the world

as much as you love poetry.

What?

I'm saying he isn't disparaging poetry

carried away by ideology.

I see.

Memories to a star.

Love to a star.

Loneliness to a star.

Longing to a star.

Poetry to a star...

I am going to visit master Jeong Ji Yong.

Do you want to come along?

I'm not a published author.

And I heard he cut all contact

with literary people.

- He still sees students.

- Does he?

I have read

other poems that you wrote.

How?

Mong Gyu showed them to me.

He took them without my

permission to print.

They really aren't good

enough to show others

They were good like your others.

But after I read them,

I somehow felt a little lonely.

I wonder why.

I should go to Mong Gyu.

Dong Ju!

You want to meet Mr. Jeong, right?

Let's go see him together.

You're back.

Why did you show them to her?

What?

Ah! What did she say?

She likes them, right?

I don't know.

Why don't you ever...

I told you I wasn't going

to show those to anyone.

You bastard.

I told you those poems

would work with girls.

What did she say?

After reading them...

- She felt lonely.

- It worked!

Make yourself at home.

You, too.

So...

You are a poet.

Pardon?

I've read your poems. They're good.

You're a poet.

Have a drink.

But you should stop writing poetry.

Changing our names to Japanese ones...

They want you to write Japanese

poetry under a Japanese name.

They are going crazy.

- So, you go to Yonhi College?

- Yes, sir.

Heard Yun Chi Ho will

be appointed dean soon.

A stepping stone before

putting in a Japanese dean.

They won't be able to teach

in Korean anymore either.

What are you going to do?

You're a poet, aren't you?

I'm thinking about it a lot.

Whether I should stay in Korea.

Thinking of going to the

provisional government?

You'd be better off going to Japan.

They have good teachers, too.

I enjoyed my time in Kyoto.

I'm not sure...

if I should study abroad at the

cost of taking a Japanese name.

Going to such lengths to study abroad

makes me feel sort of ashamed.

Of course you feel ashamed.

I feel ashamed not to be

able to say anything.

I feel ashamed to just be

drinking all the time.

And ashamed to recommend to

you to go study in Japan.

But...

you know how difficult

it'd be to live unashamed.

Listen, poet Yun.

Knowing shame is not

something to be ashamed of.

It's those that know no shame

that should be more ashamed.

Finish changing to

Japanese names by August.

Coming to school is going to get tough.

Yi Kwang Su even wrote a

statement of encouragement.

What are you going to do?

I don't know.

I'm going back home to think.

It's vacation time.

APPLICATION FOR NAME CHANGE

I... won't wait for Mong Gyu.

See you after vacation.

Hey! They can see you.

Take care of Yeo Jin.

She's from a good family and has

a lot of sensible elders around.

Like master Jeong Ji Yong.

She could help you a lot.

Why are you always like this?

The world needs me.

How can I just read books?

Are you...

thinking of going to Chungking?

Curious about a lot, aren't you?

You don't need to know.

Why don't you ask me to come with you?

Dong Ju.

You need to stay here.

Don't worry.

Did you know that Song went to Chungking

after leaving Yonhi College?

No.

On orders from the provisional government

Song actively raised military funds.

He almost exposed the provisional

government's Beijing organization.

Why do you think he did that?

I don't know.

You don't know?

Didn't you visit him at

the Ung-gi police station

when he was arrested by the Jinan police?

It's on the record.

Dong Ju.

It's good to see you!

I knew you'd be home for summer vacation.

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