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What took you so long?

Let's make haste when the weather is nice.

With the weather this nice,

we should sweep up conches and abalones.

The weather is just great!

And the sea is calm.

It's a perfect day for diving.

EVER GLOW

I arrived.

You really should make it.

Just keep smiling and be nice.

You hear me?

I'm counting on you.

Right on time for their break.

You heard about her, right?

Yes.

No one argues that she is the number one here,

in diving and losing temper.

They're coming out.

Let me take that for you.

Useless prick.

What took you so long?

Where did you screw around?

Take it.

Hello, ma'am.

Who is this loggerhead?

Our program 'The Portrait of a Lady' shows

the cultural documentaries of high quality.

I don't know shit about culture or quality.

I will accommodate whatever you want, ma'am.

So please listen to me, just for a minute.

If you really want to persuade me,

give me 10 million.

10 million?

Let me take this for you.

I will shoot you real pretty, just like a movie star.

Who do you want to be?

Just name it!

What's the use of looking pretty at this age, I won't do it!

I'll get fired if I go back empty-handed.

Please, think of me as a grandson of yours...

Don't be so clingy, I said no! Go away!

You are really wifty-wafty!

HAN Kyung-hoon?

Why can't you leave me alone?

I told you to tell them I'm dead!

What did you get for this?

How dare I...

When you're very much alive?

It's all because you're too good.

And it'd also make our village famous.

Some would die to be on TV.

Please stop being so uptight.

Care for the pricing atjoint market

if you have time to sell me out.

What's use of working our asses off

when we get paid peanuts for it?

That young man came

all the way to make a living.

Let's be helpful.

To those from the mainland?

To assholes working for TV?

Eat my shit.

Go load this, quick!

Do you remember the school thing tomorrow?

Don't change your mind.

Not again, really!

I know, I know.

We'll be in a big trouble.

I won't change my mind this time.

Will be right back.

You take a rest.

We're late, hurry up!

Let's go.

Please find someone to live with.

Stop nagging. Let's go.

My name is GOH Jin-ok, I'm a female diver in Jeju, 'haenyeo'.

Nice to see you all.

Breathing is everything to a haenyeo like me.

You are a real haenyeo

only when you can hold and control your breath.

You should rise to the surface right away

when the breath gets short

even if you have the precious things in front of you.

Shouldn't breathe underwater being greedy.

If it's too wistful,

like this,

just exhale 'sumbisori'.

Will you be able to do it, not being greedy?

Yes!

Are you sure?

Good, I'm proud of you.

Gather lots of shells

and make your parents happy.

Yes!

You can talk her into it as she's in a good mood today.

Push her even if she keeps saying no.

Seol-hee.

Come here.

Come on!

She's my daughter.

She studied and worked in Seoul.

But now works in 'haenyeo' school.

She helps me and divers whenever she can.

Not saying this as she's my daughter

but she's very smart and diligent.

You two make friends.

What is it?

Did you eat something?

Get to your point, I'm busy.

Here, say hello to him.

TV producer from Seoul.

Right, that loggerhead...

Pardon?

Hello.

Help him with everything.

Especially to persuade her.

She does listen to you.

I have to go.

I'll join in the photo, too. See you later.

Wait, wait!

Didn't know there's a 'haenyeo' school.

Amazing.

Your life must be hard.

Why?

Stop snooping around.

What I hate the most is to be shot on camera.

I'm not interested. Want me to introduce another one?

I don't need anyone else. I want the best one, right here.

Best at diving,

best at beauty,

best at...

being a nasty old one?

Trust me just once.

Screw asking for trust.

Take care of your face instead of following me around.

My face?

Right.

Look at your empty smile

and a deep pain

that you're hiding behind.

Must be thirsty.

Just a second.

Teaching Certificate

Young-mok...

Mommy made a teacher.

What are you doing?

What is she like?

Who?

You mean Jin-ok 'samchon'?

'Samchon'? Why uncle?

In Jeju, we call any senior 'samchon'

Men or women.

I see.

Anyway, to answer the question,

Jin-ok samchon is...

'Yeoungdeung Halmang.'

What?

'Yeoungdeung Halmang.'

You really are a loggerhead.

'Yeoungdeung Halmang' is

a goddess who protects the fishermen and haenyeos.

Goddess of wind and sea.

You must be joking.

But it explains why she's so cold.

Look.

What if...

Jin-ok never agrees to do it?

Eun-Joo

Hello.

What is he doing here?

He's shooting the school promo.

For free.

Whatever it is,

tell him not to shoot me.

I already did. Don't worry.

Guys, don't get too far!

Our teacher is the best haenyeo in the world, right?

Yes!

Raise your hand if you know why.

Me!

She's best swimmer.

That can be it.

Because her voice is loud!

Her voice is loud?

Let's hear the answer from her.

Yes!

I can...

hold the breath really long

in the sea

She really can.

Shall we see now if that's true?

Yes!

Attention everyone!

Kyung-hoon!

Come out!

What's wrong with you?

What are you doing?

Samchon!

You hear me? Open your eyes!

Eun-joo...

Eun-joo...

God, you're safe now.

God, you're safe now...

You're safe now.

God, you're safe now.

It's okay now.

God, thank you.

God, you're safe now.

Why are you here?

I came to thank you.

Go away, don't bother me

Well...

teach me how to make 'sumbisori.'

What?

Just kidding.

I'll be your PA from today. Personal assistant.

PA?

Come on!

You should hurry!

Hey, PA! Do your work!

Yes, ma'am!

Men are useless here.

Where is your husband goofing off?

He's having an affair with Soon-duk.

I'm lovey-dovy with my new hubbie.

I envy you.

Hey, PA.

Come join us.

Why are you so surprised?

Come out. Let's drink coffee.

How are you holding up?

Can't you tell it seeing my face?

It's killing me. Diving and farming...

They are all so energetic.

They're more like

sea buffaloes than divers.

There's an old Jeju saying.

"Better be born as cow than as woman."

I totally relate.

Really?

You're now a Jeju woman after staying together with Jin-ok.

There was something...

I could feel...

only by spending time with them.

Something I can't find in people from the mainland.

That's right.

I feel sad whenever I see them.

As just few of them are left now.

Sort of endangered species.

My mom was also a haenyeo.

I knew it!

She died in the sea.

Now I realized...

I never understood her.

I blamed her a lot.

The reason why she never stopped diving even though it was so hard.

The reason why she kept going back to the sea.

I think I understand why.

Hey, PA! What are you doing?

You're not leaving now? See you in a bit.

Coming right away!

Wow, you harvested a lot!

Careful!

How many are you?

Two.

Sit here please.

We have this kind of place at our neighborhood.

Why are we here?

This guy from the mainland craves for some landfood.

Pick whatever you want, it's on me.

How do you like the food?

Good, right?

Nothing so different.

'Taewak', your equipment...

I thought it was made of some high-tech material

but it's just a chunk of styroform.

Aren't you afraid of going out into the sea

relying on that chunk?

It's just a chunk to you,

but it's the only thing I've got in the sea.

I'm afraid of nothing as long as I'm on it.

Then I'll have to call it Lord taewak.

Excuse me for a sec.

Hey, when are you going to start shooting?

Boss got mad saying you're only wasting expenses.

He could cancel the project any minute.

I can't talk right now. Let me call you back.

Hey!

What are you up to?

Does that granny keep refusing?

Do something.

Get close to her!

Damn frustrating.

Just trust me.

Give me some time, okay?

More time?

Screw you.

Come to Seoul this week. We have a meeting.

What was that?

Pardon?

Your ringtone...

It's nice.

It's my favorite song.

Go on, have some.

We're here.

What are you doing?

Take these.

For the nice food you treated me.

No way. This is too precious.

It's okay, take them.

You should work hard tomorrow.

Stop bugging me.

I'll take it from here.

PA should take care of you all the way.

Watch out, your legs.

I said it's fine.

Wow, the path is pretty.

I'm so happy coming out to work nowadays.

That's what I'm saying.

He's a real eye candy

after all these dull guys here.

We only felt the diving was so hard

because we had no men like him around.

All you talk about is men. Stop it.

I envy you the most, boss.

Having a young man attending you so carefully.

You'll grow fond of him!

How about some romance?

Watch out what you're talking!

They'll say I went senile.

Better than being lonely.

With a man even as young as your grandson?

At my age?

I know my place.

Age is just a number.

Diving our whole life is like

spending half of it in the great beyond.

So it'll be only fair

if we cut our age in half.

Then you would be in your 20s... and me in my 30s.

But he really seems to like you.

He only takes your net.

Right, I'm so jealous.

Don't go anywhere else, straight to the joint market!

Okay!

- See you tomorrow, young man. - See you.

Your PA is good.

Should've been careful!

Go wash!

In there?

Hello?

Nobody's here, right?

Gosh, where is my mobile? I must be out of my mind.

Who let the tap open? So prodigal.

NEED TO GO TO SEOUL WILL BE BACK SOON

FROM YOUR PA KYUNG-HOON

I'm exhausted.

Let's call it a day. It's raining.

Why doesn't your PA come back?

Right.

Is he ever coming back?

I guess not.

He should've said good-bye at least!

No need to be nice to those from the mainland.

That ruthless prick!

We should not trust those from the mainland.

Are you mad that I came late?

You miss me that much?

I don't need you. Don't ever come here.

Pardon?

I don't need you.

I hate a guy from the mainland fooling around in the sea

and following me around.

Above all, I hate that smile of yours!

What are you talking about?

You want me to repeat?

I hate you!

I want you to go away!

Leave them and go away!

I can't.

I know how long you had to hold your breath to harvest these.

I don't know what is with you...

but ease yourself.

We have high seas today.

Was good that you didn't go out to the sea.

Is something concerning you?

What's to concern...

By the way, you are not going back...

To Seoul?

Not sure. Maybe I live here diving with you.

No, you must not.

You live freely as your heart wishes.

Don't be tied up here.

You can't leave the sea...

once you become a haenyeo.

Right!

Heard your PA is sick. Why don't you check on him?

Jin-ok samchon?

You should've told me if you were sick.

It's bomal-juk, top shell porridge.

Eat up. It'll charge you up.

Bomal-juk

Never heard of it.

It's delicious.

What are the drawings on the wall?

You drew them?

Since I'm not allowed to shoot so I drew them myself.

You know I studied arts at college.

I didn't finish it though.

Oh, it's me...

I look like a foreigner with blue eyes.

You said I'm a star. When will I be on TV?

It's PA's job to handle that.

Pardon?

Let's do it.

Your program.

My...

My name is GOH Jin-ok.

I'm the Jeju haenyeo.

Wow, you are natural!

Relax and keep going like this

At first...

I was so excited.

You know everything from the sea was free.

I didn't know holding my breath underwater was so hard

that I could die

as I was thinking everything could be mine.

I risked my life for all those marine life I harvested...

That's how I've held up.

I lived holding up like that...

and here I am. So old.

Samchon, Is something wrong?

Something must've been wrong with the earplugs.

I am getting waters in my ears.

Let me take a look.

It's okay.

Come on.

Don't be alarmed.

You're not answering it?

It's okay.

What is the title of this song?

"Through the Night"

Through the Night...

It's pretty.

Reminds me of the starry night.

The lyrics are even more beautiful.

It's a song about longing for someone.

Longing for someone...

It's done.

Oh, gosh!

Got a haenyeo meeting!

You asked me...

I found one picture.

THROUGH THE NIGHT

It's that I love you...

Welcome.

Feel free to take a look.

Why the forest not the sea?

I don't have to wear that rubber suit here.

It's so tightening.

I hate that.

I always like this place since I was a little girl.

The Jeju surprise lilies.

What a name.

Looks as peculiar as its name.

Does it have a story?

Yes, it has a story of a foolish monk.

A very poor monk.

He loved a woman so much but kept it to himself.

He became this flower,

after groaning inwardly for long.

There's no leaf when the flower is in bloom.

And when the leaves are out, the flowers are gone.

So pitiful.

Let's go.

Let me ask you a personal question.

You kept refusing to be in front of the camera.

Any special reason?

I'm so ugly to be on TV.

No one would watch it.

I have the conscience at least.

Why do you think you're ugly?

You are the pride of your village.

Pride my ass.

I just...

hate my face.

It's ugly.

Why do you think that?

My mother and father...

If not for me...

That day...

on that spring...

It was so brutal.

We were hiding in the mountain

and I cried.

I was a baby

and babies always cry.

But my parents...

they were shot to death

because I cried out loud.

The bullets were

flying everywhere

and people were gunned down

all over the place.

A total chaos.

My mother got shot on her chest,

and dropped me

with her blood gushing out.

The warm blood of hers...

poured on my face.

The villagers ran here and there

to save me.

And my Young-mok.

She is my daughter

My beautiful daughter lying...

deep in the sea.

Why did I bring...

that little girl to the sea?

I had to survive

and wanted to survive...

making her a haenyeo like me.

My greed took her there.

I lost herjust like that.

She must be blaming me.

If I had held my breath little longer...

Just a little bit longer...

Then I could've saved her.

"Salam si min sala ji mae"

"Salam si min sala ji mae"

Life will bring you to live.

We haenyeos live with the words

engraved in our hearts.

The words make us

endure everything.

From holding our breath

in the deep sea

to overcoming our tough lives.

That helps us to survive.

I guess...

I've gone senile.

Life will bring you to live.

Life will bring you...

to live.

Salam si min...

Sala ji mae.

Samchon!

Jin-ok samchon!

Here... Everything seems to disappear at night.

Right.

Even all the stars are hiding tonight.

Frankly, before I came here,

I thought myself as the loneliest in this world.

I whined a lot.

But I feel ashamed seeing you.

Everyone is lonely in their own way.

They just grow used to the feeling.

Jin-ok samchon...

The truth is...

My girlfriend...

Eun-joo...

is also lying deep in the sea here.

From the accident 3 years ago...

We couldn't find her.

That's why...

I hate the sea.

But the sea understands...

Our sorrows...

You can cry if you wish.

When we are born...

the first thing we do is crying.

Nothing to feel ashamed of.

Cry out loud.

As much as you wish.

Tonight, I send the glow of a firefly

to somewhere near your window...

just like letters on the sand

where waves were

I feel you'll disappear I always miss you...

Hold on a sec.

What's this? It's embarrassing.

You don't like it?

Are you okay?

What is with you?

Why are you so happy?

Jeju surprise lily...

I think it is...

the most beautiful flower in this world.

There should be a short yet glowing moment

when the flowers and the leaves are out together.

The secret moment...

that only two share.

The dearest and...

affectionate moment.

You're right.

It's special not peculiar.

First time ever in my life.

To go in there without the rubber suit.

With a man.

Are you still afraid of water?

You don't have to try if you don't want to.

It's so nice here.

Look at you. You almost look like a local.

Good job.

The broadcaster signed the contract watching your footage.

Boss is tickled pink.

Let's wrap it up fast and hurry home.

You didn't have to come.

Of course, I have to. It's our project!

I arrived in Jeju sir.

Of course, we'll finish it within next week.

Yes, he's right beside me.

Don't worry. We'll finish it up.

"I MISS YOU" BEST, GOH JIN-OK

Yes, bye.

Why do you like...

someone like me?

Won't you regret this?

I saw something in you.

What?

How do you say...

'l love you" in Jeju dialect?

Our hard days are over!

I can feel your affection all over.

Did you two go out or something?

How about some drink?

I'd like that!

It's on me. Let's celebrate.

You're drinking too fast. Slow down.

Sam-dong.

I don't want to go back to Seoul.

What are you talking about?

We need you in the post.

What is it? You've got a girl here?

That's...

Yes.

Who is it?

The one from haenyeo school?

What is it?

No way.

Tell me it's not.

No way!

Why not?

It's disgusting.

Samchon.

Jin-ok samchon.

Samchon.

Jin-ok samchon.

You lied.

You're so pretty.

What is it?

Let's go.

You look so absent-minded lately.

Are you agitated as your PA will leave soon?

Get in.

Will take you to Seoul.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

Let's go!

Straight to Gimpo Airport!

I...

breathed underwater.

What?

I'll leave here...

with him.

What?

Damn it!

I'm going to scold him right away!

Let go!

Bastard...

The words...

I've never heard,

something I imagined

to hear only after I die...

something nobody ever said to me.

He said that to me.

He said I'm pretty.

Jin-ok...

Are you absolutely sure?

Samchon...

I'm on your side.

I'll pick you up.

I'll meet you at the airport.

You dived whole your life.

What does it mean to you?

The sea?

That wicked one.

Honestly, I'm sick of it.

But even when I turn my back against it,

It keeps waving at me Alluring me into it.

I hear the waves whispering to my ears,

then I have an itch to dive.

A haenyeo belongs to the sea.

It's our fate.

So excited.

Will I look pretty?

Of course.

I hope I look fine.

Can't wait to watch it.

Which channel is it?

Channel no. 7.

Sumbisori...

Please tell me about it.

When I first made that sound, I cried a lot.

The faces I wanted to meet

appeared along that breathing sound.

It's natural.

As there's nobody under the sea.

I'm all alone there.

To me...

Sumbisori is

more like the longing for someone.

That's right.

The longing it is.

Tanned and wrinkled faces of Haenyeo...

That beautiful face is...

Jeju island and the blue sea.

Also the glowing love itseif.

You, loggerhead.

How do you say...

"I love you" in Jeju dialect?

"Inyeok...

"sorang haemsuda."