"The surrogate" " Oh oh" " Madam!" "Oh, oh It's so painful oh oh" "Please, endure, madam" "It's a kind of asceticism for being pregnant" "If you cauterize with the moxa about 200~300 times the whites in your womb will be gone" "Do that way and you can have a boy" "When people treat the deceased cordially" "Kang Soo-Yeon" "Directed by Im Kwon-Taek" "Your grandson and his wife have been married for the last 12 years She soon will be 30 years old" "But they don't have a child" "What a pity!" "The late elder brother only had one son, Sang-Kyu" "Besides I have the only child, Sang-II" "I can't let him be adopted into your family" "Do this way" "I'm worriyng that there is no one to carry on a family line" "My family is the class of Confucian scholars" "It' humiliating to take a concubine" "I am the wife of heir I honor the forefathers" "If my family don't have an heir we can't honor the forefathers" "I really don't know What I am supposed to do" "I feel so oppressed" "Mother!" "I've been thinking about this" "I have a plan" "What is it?" "Yon can take on a surrogate" "A surrogate?" "Many noble families If they don't have sons" "They take on surrogats in secret" "But those women are vulgar" "They are unqualified to be the mother of the heir" "It's ridiculous" "I know that" "However some of them are aristocrats' illegitimates" "We just use their wombs for a little while" "If Sang-Kyu's wife say OK" "I'll have Chaek find a surrogate in secret" "Chaek?" "He chose your father's grave site" "Didn't he?" "You're right And he's trustworthy" "He learns many books and is good at choosing women" "Tell me about the physiognomy" "There are several conditions for having a boy" "First, the girl must have nicely oval eyes, a high nose and reddish palms" "Her back is thick and she also has round shoulders deep navel, well-rounded hips and large abdomen" "And eyelids don't cover the pupils as those of phoenix don't" "How about the girl who can not have a boy" "There're 30 different conditions" "The girl who has yellow or red hair deep eyes, pale tongue longish face, hairy nostril and swollen lips" "She can not have a boy" "Women who live in this village only have given names" "They don't have surnames" "Surrogates' daughters will become surrogates" "Just like female shamans" "Please look at the valley" "It looks like..." "So this village is named jade gate valley" "Oh!" "My goodness!" "Catch the calf" "Calf, the calf, right there Catch the calf" "Catch the calf" "Oh, my goodness!" "You idiot!" "You can't even catch a calf" "How rude you are!" "I'm vexing you" "Bitch" "Oh!" "Sir..." "Long time no see" "It has been years" "Please come in" "You don't have to tell me about your family name" "But before you choose please set the 'hou' price" "What is it?" "Money for taking clothes off" "That means reward" "You tell me 5 patches of field for boys 2 patches for girls" "Giving birth to a girl?" "Boys or girls..." "It's the business of Gods" "I can't affirm it will be a boy" "That's right" "But I came here and take on a surrogate" "It's for having a boy who can carry on a family line not for having a girl She can't be an heir" "You don't have to worry, sir" "If she give birth to a girl she'll take care of her baby" "I see" "You calf!" "Are you going to your home?" "Come on!" "I said come on" "You idiot!" "You lose the calf again" "I ran after him and I catch him at snake village" "Get into the cage" "Or I'll break your legs" "I said to you Treat him like your master" "If Oh-Mok know this she must take the calf back" "I don't care" "We can live without the calf" "Shut up!" "We can't live without the calf" "I don't think so" "Watch your tongue" "The first one is 28 years old" "Her first child was a girl but the second one was a boy" "According to physiognomy she's perfect" "The second one is 30 years old she already had 3 boys and no girls" "Fortuneteller said she'll have 4 boys in future" "The last one is 24 years old" "She lost her husband and 2 sons two years ago" "She is new here" "But I recommend her" "If you take on her you must pay double, sir" "For what reason?" "When she has intercourse the colors of her skin and lips become purple" "Besides her lips become solid that means her upper muscle's solid" "For those reasons she must have a boy" "Please make a decision, sir" "I have a few more girls for you" "But they're not good" "Some of them are over 30 and don't meet the conditions" "The others are too young" "I saw a girl outside" "Where is she?" "You mean..." "A girl who was chasing a calf" "I glanced at her" "I think she's good enough" "She is Pil-Lie's daughter" "She's only 17 years old" "She isn't a mature woman" "She will come into full bloom" "I pay double the price" "Pil-Lie, Where is Oak-Nye?" "Why?" "She is chosen" "What are you talking about?" "She's just a child" "The customer is willing to pay double the price" "It's too good for her" "Double, treble!" "I'don't care!" "I won't let her do that" "I was hurt deep in my heart" "I never forget" "She must not tread in my steps" "You are so considerate" "But Oak-Nye is strong" "She's not like you" "Nobody wants to be a surrogate But money..." "Don't you want to be rich?" "I'll give my daughter away in marriage" "She'll marry someone Just like normal people" "Nobody loves surrogate's daughter" "Shut up!" "I'll find someone who can make you happy" "Face the truth We are so poor" "Nobody wants to marry into our family" "I said watch your tongue" "Ouch..." "Don't move!" "To become a good surrogate endure the pain" "They are finished" "Tomorrow" "They are going to hold a rite for having a boy" "You don't have to feel cheap" "You" "You're going to give birth to an heir" "Your back hurts" "You can't work hard" "I can take care of myself" "I worry about you instead" "In customer's house staying at your room all day" "Can you do that?" "For 10 patches of field there's nothing I can't do" "To have an easy delivery take care about your health" "Eat something fat" "What are you going to eat?" "How can I eat food by myself?" "Suddenly you became a good girl" "They just use your body" "Never fall in love with anyone, anything" "Here you are" "Seventeen..." "In those surrogates" "I chose a virgin" "I washed myself" "I said I washed myself" "Ouch, It's burning, ouch" "Ouch, it's burning" "What are you doing?" "Stand up and honor them" "You!" "You should honor them after they take seats" "Do it again" "That's all right" "She's Grandmother of this family and her grandson-in-law" "When did you have menarche?" "Menstruation!" "Fourteen" "How precocious you were!" "Within 28~29 hours following menstruations you should have intercourse" "It's the best time for pregnancy" "Check dewdrops with clean muslin" "If the color is gold odd number days are propitious" "You must be careful" "I'm hungry" "I rode in a rocking palanquin for long time" "I'm starving" "Eat slowly" "Mmmm..." "Last night the surrogate girl arrived" "Why are you doing this?" "It's so silly" "My dear" "It's for having an heir" "Don't hold her so cheap" "Please obey your grandmother" "There are many ladies who had babies in their forties" "You are 28 years old" "Don't give up" "I don't think so" "I did everythig everything I heard" "We made love on February 18th and 22nd" "I went to propitious places and prayed for 1000 days" "But it didn't work" "Keep trying" "You pray with your whole heart" "Gods will give you a son" "I am unable to have a child It's a sin" "Do you want me to be driven out?" "My family can't drive you out" "You and I held my parents' funeral" "According to our manners that is prohibited" "Did she sleep well?" "She suffered from diarrhea all night" "I couldn't sleep either" "What did she eat?" "She's eaten inferior food" "I think fat food made her sick" "Ouch" "You must stay in your room in the day time" "Never try to find out where you are" "Pretend to be deaf and blind" "Mom!" "Hey!" "Don't move!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Come out" "Look at the moon" "Inhale the spirit and energy of full moon for strengthen 'yin' the power of bearing a boy" "Take it deeply" "While I count 8 breathings you shouldn't breathe" "After I count 8 you can take a deep breath" "Put your hands together" "Take a deep breath" "One breathing Two breathing" "Three breathing Four breathing" "Five breathing Six breathing" "One breathing Two breathing" "Three breathing Four breathing" "Five breathing Six breathing" "Seven breathing Eight breathing" "Huh!" "One breathing Two breathing" "Three breathing Four breathing" "Five breathing" "It' a medicine" "It's made of a stone Buddhist image's nose" "It is a cordial for men" "And it also strengthens women's 'yin'" "On the 5th day at 5 AM you should have intercourse with her" "In intercourse to have a boy female's 'yin' should go first and then male's 'yang' follows" "So you need to..." "Uncle!" "I can't..." "It's wrong!" "You listen!" "We honor our forefathers" "It's for requiting them" "How undutiful you are!" "You stupid!" "I'm not asking you to lead a dissolute life" "Just asking you to have an heir" "After you should die who will honor forefathers?" "You should obey" "It's 3 o'clock Please get ready" "It soon will be 5 o'clock Please get into sleeping place" "It's the time" "You should emit semen at the right place or it's going to be of no use" "Please do it" "It's the blood of deer It's from your uncle" "It'll make you feel vigorous" "Please drink it" "The color of muslin It's gold" "This time you should do it on the 4th day of this month at 3 AM" "He hid himself from me for a month" "So I asked her..." "Is it true?" "Master met her in her room" "I tried to stop him" "Then he met her outside" "You should watch her!" "I did, madam!" "I pricked my thigh with an awl but couldn't help falling asleep" "It's all my fault, madam" "You deserve to be killed" "But this time You're whipped instead" "Never do it again" "Whip her!" "Ah!" "Many scholars say a learned man must control his sexual desire" "You shouldn't do that even with your wife" "Shame on you!" "What are you doing?" "What time is it?" "A huge yellow snake appeared in my dream" "It came into my skirt" "I was startled and then realized it was dream" "If a dragon or a yellow snake appear in one's dream she can have a boy" "It's good for you" "Today is madam's birthday" "She gave you this How kind she is" "Hey, you!" "If you make her cry" "I'll kill you" "How dare you are!" "You don't know men" "Do you?" "You know nothing" "The nobilities regard reputation as of great importance" "They observe the decorums even in beds" "It's silly" "Do you understand?" "Ha!" "Ha!" "And what happened?" "In the end, he's expelled" "It's not easy to honor forefathers" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "During the war some people always carried about their ancestral tablets and utensils with them even if they starved" "How dutiful they were!" "Anyway in burning houses many dutiful daughters and virtuous wives took the tablets out first then give up their children" "Where does the spirit live in?" "In the other world?" "In the grave?" "Or in the shrine?" "It's really confusing" "We call out the spirit after someone die" "Yeah" "On the roof, with clothes of the deceased call his name 3 times" "To make the spirit stay in his own body" "That's right" "And before we shroud we put the soaked rice" "into the deceased's mouth thrice" "And we also put the coins thrice" "The rice is food for going to the other world" "And the coins are road money" "Maybe it's a long way" "Anyway I still don't get it" "The sipirit goes to the other world with his body?" "Or without the body?" "Anyway after the body's buried in other words after the spirit's gone" "We carry the tablet along with us and bring the spirit back then start to weep" "If we do that the body of the deceased is in the grave and the spirit of the deceased is in the house" "That's right" "The spirit is in the house now but we still hold a rite for the deceased" "Does that mean the spirit's still wandering in woods?" "Maybe it's because we can't assure ourselves where the spirit is" "But for whom do we hold a rite anyway?" "We keep tablets and spirits of our forefathers in the shrine" "Even if there's no shrine we still keep the spirits and tablets in the house" "So you can say that the spirits stay in the house" "But if we don't keep the tablets in the shrine or house either" "Where are the spirits?" "They must be in their graves" "We honor all our relatives passed away at their graves" "So you can say first, the spirits stay home and then go back to graves where their bodies were buried" "Nobody knows" "Where the spirit goes to and the other world is" "It's a pallbearers' song" "First part of the lyrics" "Even the pallbearers don't know where it is" "Huh!" "Huh!" "Let me tell you a story" "There was a gentleman one day he had to lodge at a respectable home" "Wholly unexpected the day he lodged was the worship day" "So the host and his wife went to the grave to bring the spirit back" "They treated the deceased with respect" "What are you doing?" "You haven't changed yet" "Get up!" "She's pregnant" "Is that true?" "I think she's 2 months pregnant" "She's tried so hard so far" "Congratulate you, madam" "Thank you" "You are pregnant" "Go your room and take a rest" "She loses her appetite It must be a boy" "Shut your mouth up!" "I said when you're preparing food for a rite you shouldn't say a word" "Don't you remember?" "She wants to be served by you so badly" "So here you are" "The heir of our family is in her womb" "So you must serve her with all your heart" "Here's your mother" "Let me see your face" "Mom, try this one There're plenty of these" "They seem to be live for honoring the dead they hold rites even thrice in a month" "How about your back?" "It's OK" "Keep it" "Where did you get these" "Master gave these to me" "He really likes me" "What did I say?" "You shouldn't fall in love" "Don't worry He's not here" "His family sent him to a temple for separating him from me" "Drink it It's red pepper soup" "Red peppers in this soup are from the house that have a boy" "stand up" "Take your skirt off" "I stole the knife that was used by a woman who bore sons" "This trinket is made of that" "All of these are for having a boy" "Take it along with you Always!" "What makes human noble is education" "A pregnant woman must teach the baby in her womb" "It's called prenatal care" "You're illiterate" "So draw pictures and have a clear mind" "I don't know how to draw a picture, madam" "Don't you understand?" "You draw well or not That isn't important" "It's for teaching the baby" "Hold the brush!" "What are you doing?" "I met master in my dream" "I was worrying that I might have a girl" "He said he doesn't care" "He also said the deceased they're only ghosts" "He said the same before" "Tomorrow is the worship day of his great grandfather" "He must come home" "Master!" "Master!" "You always think about him" "He's a aristocrat and we are not!" "Baby moves, mom" "It kicks so hard makes me startle" "It is said that a hard kicker must be a boy" "Let me feel it" "Don't do that!" "She's right It must be a boy" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Here you are six eggs at the sixth month" "Are they going to hatch?" "Absolutely!" "Oh, my goodness" "Oh, master" "Please don't..." "We will be punished" "Leave us alone for a moment" "Master" "Leave us alone, mom" "Did you study at a temple?" "What?" "I just went on a tour" "What did you do there?" "I was thinking about rites for the deceased" "As the proverb goes This world where we live in is better than the other world" "So the deceased want to stay here with us" "Did you miss me?" "Did you think about me?" "Baby's kicking" "Feel it" "Sometimes I startle" "Don't do that" "We will be finished" "No matter what happened you shouldn't let her do that" "Drub her!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Mom!" "I'm sorry I'm sorry, mom" "My back..." "It's killing me" "It's getting worse" "Why was you beaten before?" "Ouch..." "I became a surrogate at 21 years old" "I gave birth to a son" "After I was paid for the boy I left the house" "But I missed my son so much" "When he was six years old I went to meet him" "I broke the rule" "Here!" "Right here!" "Here!" "Hey!" "Come on" "Come on" "Oh, my boy" "Ah!" "Then I went to jade gate valley" "I was hired again" "But this time I bore a girl It was you" "And then nobody wants to take on me as a surrogate" "That's the story" "No!" "No!" "It's wrong" "Madam?" "It's too large" "Get rid of some" "Yes, madam" "Put your shoulders like this and don't forget to move heavily" "Yippee!" "Madam knows this..." "She must be crazy I don't know" "My goodness!" "Watch your steps" "My goodness!" "If someone watch a masked dance" "He can't even hold a rite in this house" "What is she thinking?" "Ouch!" "Hey!" "Look at yourself" "How ugly you are!" "Anyway" "Your mother gave birth to you..." "So ugly..." "Hey!" "Let me see..." "There's a monk" "What are you doing?" "Asshole!" "What's this?" "I shoo him away" "There's a 500-year-old snake He's sticking out his head" "How filthy!" "Hey!" "Listen to me!" "She is in labor May it be a boy!" "Push!" " Oh!" " What's wrong?" "Oh!" "Give me a chamber pot!" "I got it" "Ouch!" "The surrogate girl has labor pains" "You should pretend to feel pains" "Madam is in labor" "Get ready for that" "Turn over the laundry stone And make a fire" "Hurry up!" "Oh!" "Madam, she seems to have a hard labor" "Give wheat-flour paste to her" "All right!" "Take one more push" "Oh!" "Eat the paste" "No!" "I won't!" "It's good for you" "She's right" " Eat the paste" " Eat this" "Oh!" "Because you are so young You have a hard labor" "You're too young" "May a boy come down from heaven" " Oh, Mom" " It's alright" "Stand up, yes Stand up" "Sit on the corner and you can gain strength" "Make your feet hot" "For an easy delivery" "Stand up" "Stand up on it" "Mom!" "It's burning!" "Go to your master and tell him" "Make the girl hold his waistband" "Yes, madam" "Oh!" "Master!" "She's dying" "Yeah!" "Oh!" "I want to run away" "You are not going anywhere" "Take one more push" "Try one more time" "Oh!" "Oh!" "It's coming" "It's coming" "It's a boy" "Mother!" "Congratulate you!" "It's too good for us" "Congratulate you!" "Thank you" "Mom, give him to me" "This is the land register" "It's 10 patches of paddy field" "Live in there and never come back" "You should leave tonight" "You was in labor I know you don't feel well" "But it's an order" "You should leave" "I want to see my son" "Before I leave I want to see him again" "Take me to him" "Face the truth" "They won't let you see him" "He's my son" "I have the right to see him" "I have to see him" "He's not your son" "Let me go" "Master will allow me to see him" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "I don't need money I don't need field" "I want to take my boy along with me" "He's my son" "I can't give him to them" "I feel pain I feel sorrow" "I'm human So are you!" "No, we are not" "Even if we look like human" "We are not treated as human" "Huh!" "It's the last chance to see her face" "Look at her!" "One year later Oak-Nye killed herself at the village where her son lives in" "She was victimized by a notion of preferring sons to daughters"