Festival Page #4

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to return the hairpin to you

when I cut your hair?

Here, take this.

You'll be fabulous

with this one on.

Mother, if you miss me,

look at this.

Mother, find father again and

live happily in a better land.

Oh, I forgot something.

Grandmother, I'm sure you'll

go to a better place, right?

Here's your travelling expenses

to the other world.

Grandmother.

Take my painful waist with you.

And my painful knees, too.

About a month ago...

She looked sound in mind

and she showed this to me,

saying that she's taking this

with her when she goes.

Later I found out

that those are Buddhist amulets.

She went to three different temples

in one day and collect these

during the leap month

that comes every three years.

She seemed to believe

that it would bless her children.

Usually she'd never be near a temple

but she walked up and down

looking for famous temples,

three different temples in one day...

In order to collect

these amulets.

This weak old lady went through

all those rough mountains.

No one would know

how she managed to do it.

But it's obvious for whom

she did it with all her heart.

Here, take a look at it

and put it in the coffin

by yourself.

To collect all those amulets,

it must have taken

at least 10 years

but I never knew

while we're under the same roof.

She must have kept it a secret

lest the hard work might

leak even a little...

Grandmother became even shorter.

She looked like

a younger child than I am.

Even her speech and action

became closer to that

of a small child.

She would go into her tantrums

asking me to play boring stuffs.

And sometimes she even ruined

the stuffs that I cherished.

Hey.

Eun-ji.

Watch your behave.

Grandmother's been taking

care of you since you were born

and she became a kid

sharing her age with you.

So now you should take

good care of her, right?

I grew up well thanks to

her ceaseless love and care.

I felt shameful about

grumbling at Grandmother.

Finally, I realized that

now I myself was her guardian.

One, two...

Why is the stick so short...

Because those who let go

of their parents are sinners

and they can't stand straight

and look at the sky.

That's it!

You should understand the meaning.

We're supposed

to be sinners here.

You are not here

to show off your dress.

Stop being a slut even for a day!

Get rid of that horrible dress

and change into a ragged cloth, OK?

I'm just trying to ease her soul.

I didn't ask you to pay

for the dress so don't say anything.

Didn't I tell you?

I do it my way.

Look at how she talks!

Since you came in for the funeral

I was trying to

take it as commendable

and you're saying that you're

pleasing her with this eye-sour on.

How thoughtless you are!

Right, then you're so thoughtful

to lock her up and cut her hair.

- What!

- Mother is going to sigh on her way.

I beg you to stop this

until the funeral is over.

You two are old enough to know

how to behave in front of others.

Setting up the funeral room

Setting up the funeral room

Father, I'm sorry

for not coming here sooner.

I could've come here

if I had decided to.

What's wrong with those dogs?

Dogs can be bored, too.

Ask them if you

really want to know.

Yong-soon is an important part

of your family history, isn't she?

Why haven't you ever

mentioned her in your works?

She doesn't seem to have

good feelings towards you.

Is it because you didn't

take care of grandmother?

It might be the reason.

It's true that I didn't

have her with me in my house.

But that's not all.

I'm looking for Lee Joon-seop.

Yong-soon!

What brought you here?

One day, she paid a surprise visit.

It was first time to see her

since she'd left us.

I heard you got an award

for your novel "Snow-covered Road"

and that you got

five million won for the prize.

How do you know that?

My roommate is quite into literature.

At that time I barely made

a living working at a magazine company

and was often drunk in daytime

for a feeling of helplessness.

One day, I got an award.

I took it as a good luck

for an unknown author like me

but it turned out

to be a trouble-maker

I never had sour pork before.

Actually I came for a favor.

There's a bar called 'Paradise'

in Cheon-ho-dong.

If I get a corner there,

I can make a lot of money.

So my friend and I

decided to give it a go.

Can you lend me

the prize money?

I'm not asking you

to give it to me.

I'll repay within a year.

That money is to be used

to rebuild the house in Jang-hung.

You know the situation there.

Grandmother is staying

in a rented room

because the family

doesn't have a house.

They aren't having it

built right now.

I promise I'll pay back

within a year.

Is the house

such an urgent matter?

What if you didn't win the prize?

Fine.

Why would you lend me money?

I'm just an illegitimate niece

that you have no affection for!

I must've been crazy

to come here.

Right, you're an exalted novelist

selling out the hard life

of the family for your success.

It's no wonder that you don't

take me as a human being, huh?

I won't ask your money.

Instead, don't you ever sell my story!

Rock, scissors, paper!

You guys, come over here.

Mr. Woo-rok is here!

My condolence...

How deplorable...

Listen, you don't know

how to season vegetables?

If you can't tell sugar from salt

you shouldn't have cooked!

Who's going to eat

this sweet vegetables?

Don't yell at me!

It won't transform

the sugar into salt!

This is Mr. Woo-rok,

who will locate the tomb site.

From the left, former school principal,

former head of town, and

former head of Farmer's Associate.

These are the family elders.

Though we have a lot of

geomantic topographer in town

Joon-seop especially

asked to invited you.

It proves that

you're quite a specialist.

So how are you planning

to locate a propitious site?

The immediate propitiousness

comes from the virtue

of the deceased person.

The propitiousness

in the long run

depends on how

the descendents take care of it.

I only follow

what the reason of the world says.

Confucianism is

a present-oriented religion.

It's more of a philosophy

and rules than of a religion.

But Confucianism makes an exception.

It allows the name of god

only to the past ancestors.

Filial piety while the parents

are alive is a virtue

but after their death,

it's religion.

That's how much important

and holy the filial piety is.

Confucianism could be considered

as a religion for that.

Then funeral must be

the contact point

between life rules and religion.

Exactly.

The traditional funeral process

is so complex

that it used to

last for 3 years.

This must be considered

as confucianist way of turning

someone of this world

into a subject of religious belief.

Ancestral rites are religious

ceremonies to express filial piety

and funeral is

the most important part of it.

Ok, I'll tell that to Joon-seop.

What? He went to the mountain?

How can the chief mourner

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