Il-shik scolds him and tells Hina that he hopes that they’ll hear news of her mother soon. She notices the paintings of her mother, and Choon-shik lightly jokes that he can draw Hina’s mother with his eyes closed now because he’s painted so many posters. They ask who this Machiyama person is, and she warns them that it’s better to stay in the dark since she doesn’t intend to use this copy for anything good. Machiyama’s stamp on her husband’s autopsy report. She’s here with another job and asks if they can copy Dr. Hina arrives at the pawnshop while the Il-shik and Choon-shik are working on her requested posters of her mother. The two servants wink at each other as they successfully fool the young servant and distract her away from Ae-shin’s room. Her maid pretends to serve their brewed medicine to sleeping “Ae-shin,” aka a lump of pillows, and chugs the whole thing herself. Ae-shin confirms that he’s there because it’s just a dream.Īe-shin’s servants worry about Ae-shin returning before dinner, and they cover up for her absence by fooling the other workers, claiming that Ae-shin is sick. Eugene asks where that is and if he’s there with her. Ae-shin says that the coffee tastes sweet today and says that she must be harboring a futile hope that she’ll one day travel further than she did today. She takes a sip, and he asks expectantly if it tastes bitter today. He says that he’ll write that it’s unfair because this woman saw the ocean while enjoying canned food.Įugene then offers coffee to Ae-shin, and she remembers it just being bitter. Eugene says that he’ll write about going to the ocean but not seeing it because he was focused on seeing this one woman. Ae-shin says that the name fits him, and Eugene jokes that he had a difficult time living up to it.Īe-shin asks what Eugene will write in response to the letter, which asked how he’s doing with Ae-shin. Eugene credits Joseph for allowing him to live with this name. Ae-shin asks why Eugene’s name is the same in Korean and English, and he explains that a name with the same pronunciation exists in English, meaning great and noble. She says that she can always take it back, so he snatches it out of her hand. He says that he probably would have died without Joseph.Īe-shin takes out the letter and offers to return it to him, but Eugene looks doubtful. He followed Joseph because he believed that was his only way to survive. and how everything seemed so big to him when he arrived - the land, the buildings, the people, even the sky. Eugene explains his hardships in the U.S. She then asks who taught him English and wonders if it was the man he’s exchanging letters with (Joseph). Ae-shin asks who he’s learning Korean from, and Eugene admits that Domi, the young boy worker at the embassy, is his teacher - a strict one, in fact. Eugene finds her reaction adorable and watches her enthusiastically eat her meal. (Googled it and yes - hamburgers were invented and popularized by this time.)Īe-shin marvels at the canned food and asks if this hamburger tastes better than her current meal. He shares that he misses a few things, like the books, music, and hamburgers. She says that her imagination was limited and asks if Eugene misses anything in the U.S. They laugh at his cheesy firework reference (what Ae-shin calls herself) and head on their way.Īt the shore, Eugene prepares canned food, and Ae-shin comments that there are many fascinating things in this world: this novel food, the sound of the waves, and the horizon. Eugene puts his hat on Ae-shin, and she gets all giddy about him fixing the hat on her.Īe-shin wonders if Eugene knows where they’re going, and he says that he’s following a map and heading east - toward the sun, into the fireworks. As Ae-shin catches up to Eugene, her hat flies off into the water, which is apparently the only thing disguising her as a man. As for Eugene, his fate seems to rely on everyone-his saviors, his known enemies, his unknown enemies, and his admirer.Įugene and Ae-shin ride through the hills on horseback on their way to the ocean. Much like Hina, Hee-sung’s fate lies in the shadow of his father and grandfather, though he seems to suffer through the fate befallen on him.
Hina’s fate relies on her father’s reach, and she desperately tries to escape his grasp. Dong-mae’s fate seems to have always relied on Ae-shin, but he willingly gives it up to her. In Ae-shin’s case, her fate relies on those who know her secret and whether they choose to protect her.
It seems that everyone’s fate lies in someone else’s hands.
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