"Produced by Min Film Co." "KMCultureEntertainment" "Distributed by Showbox / Mediaplex Inc." "KIM Kang-Woo" "SOHN Tae-Young" "Screenplay and Directed by PARK Heung-Shik" "The Railroad" "1 month ago" "Even as a part time lecturer, it's hell to grade." "Young-ho and Eun-seu, go out or something?" "No idea, why?" "Their paper is the same." "Who's copied whose, whatever." "Some sneaky ones use only different fonts." "They should go with handwriting." "I flunked both of them." "You'll pay for it, pestered by their obsession for grades." "So C works." "Hey, Ho, I've been working for 2 terms but I am fed up, already." "If you become a full-time professor, nothing changes." "Daughters of Italy" "I need a shoe spoon at your home." "See you, I won't be with you until next week." "But I got class tomorrow at school." "Seeing at work is not what I mean." " Good morning." " How are you?" "Hanna, Professor KIM Ho wants to see you." "At 4, in his study." "I see." " Hi, Hanna." " Come on in." "Long time no see." "Let me give you some coffee." "How have you been?" "I'm thinking of applying for a project to the Korea FUND," "You three part-time lecturers are in it, if you agree to." "Sounds cool." "You noticed I'm desperate!" "I love to, too." "What's it about?" "It's titled "Internal reunification of Germany"" "It's been 15 years since Germany was united but still no smooth ride, right?" "Couldn't that have been studied in other colleges?" "We want to cover social and cultural things too, beyond literary limits." "Then couldn't it be too much for us to cover?" "Political, sociological and educational experts, with degrees from Germany will join you." "And you three are for the cultural section." "I see no big problem with our project granted, as it's interesting enough." "This is a rough outline I laid out." "I want you to develop this and we'll clarify it." "Christa Wolf!" "It's your dissertation, Hanna, right?" "Without Grass and Wolf, we can't talk about anything in literary art." "And Ms PARK, you take care of female and youth literature." "Oh, no, I am not a feminist." "My major is Heinrich Kleist in the 19th, so I don't know my share." "Of course you are in." "We cover a wide range." "I'd be honored if I'm allowed to join you." "Hanna, you're not happy with this?" "I am, sir." "And you are the director of this project." "No, you do it, Ms. PARK." "You're more experienced." "The younger, the more capable." "I, married with 3 girls, am too busy." "How about dinner or something?" "I'd love to, but I should see my kid's teacher..." "My girl scratched a boy, so..." "I take a night shift in Private Academy, so I can't either." "You're well paid?" "I'm telling you, much better than college." "Isn't it illegal?" "If it's, are you calling the police?" "It depends." "It's a part time job." "My friend asked me to, until he finds a new teacher." "How about quitting college then?" "We college part timers are in hell." "Your husband is a good breadwinner, so you quit and take care of your kids!" "What a male chauvinist pig!" "Stop talking." "You wanna quit your job if you get married?" "If yes, I'll find a guy for you." "Am I a competitor to you?" "We'll leave soon." "Doors are closing, take care." "Light!" "Ready!" "Go!" "Restricted Area" "This is for you." "Thanks, sweetie, what an angel!" " You rule!" " You rule too!" "Bye!" "Let's go, sweetie." "Hey, wake up, it's the last stop." "Bye." "Thanks, everything is going fine?" "Yes." " You going home?" " No, a shift in a couple of hours." " Take care, sir." " Thanks." "Pond Monthly" "Alarm Setting" " You're up?" " Yeah, thank you." " Good morning, sir." " Good morning." " Anything stressful?" " No, I am fine." "Please be informed of today's power failure of the railways." "And tomorrow, power is cut off from 1 to 4 am, at Go-Duk station." "Yes sir." "I wish one more day of safety driving today." "Train is leaving, the doors are being closed." "Hello, this is the engine driver KIM Man-soo." "Shall I give a quiz for fun?" "What's the fastest way to go to Busan from Seoul?" "Express Train?" "No." "By Airplane?" "Again, no." "The answer is to go with the one you love most." "Thank you for boarding." "I hope each of you has the best day of your life." "The train is leaving, please wait for the next train." "Put your hands on the sole of the feet." "Put your weight backwards." "Twist your body, like laundry." "If you wanna lose more fat, twist more." "Hold up your legs in the air." "Don't bend your body first." "Look at the mirror and..." "Hello." "I sent money." "I told you not to;" "I can make my living." "Don't think I've got no idea how you live!" "One of your dad's former students visited us." "He's a prosecutor and single!" "I see." "He said hello to you, so what?" " Hanna!" " Gotta go, I am busy." "Respect your mom!" "I'm exercising." "Come home on your birthday." "Don't worry, I'm an adult." "To me, you are such a girl, forgetting to celebrate your own birthday." "Be real, sweetie, this country is overflowing with doctors from overseas." "And your major," "German literature gives you no future." "Your father won't help you at all in this!" "Then use your doctorial degree for finding a man!" "Come home, on your birthday." "I will, don't worry." "I can celebrate with this noodle!" "It's the fourth time to get this;" "can I have your name?" "Thanks." "The train is leaving, doors are being closed." "Emergency, halt!" "An accident happened at the platform." "Human injuries are involved." "Ladies and gentlemen, this train is going to make an emergency stop." "But you'll be all right and please stay calm and stay inside." " When is your shift?" " 8:42, dad." "You could sleep 20 more minutes." "If I'm late 1 minute, my co-worker is in trouble." "Breakfast is ready, son." "Let's dig in." "And when is your shift tomorrow?" "19:13" "Then the train stops on the way." "Well, son, I got to say this.." "It's time to think about marrying, huh?" "What a shame for your mother in heaven!" "Hanna, you are so good at climbing!" "Look, Jung-se is dying!" "You got divorced?" "Nothing new." "Nothing new, I'm single again." "I felt this coming from the beginning." "You, as a banker, find no trouble remarrying, huh?" "Oh, being a banker doesn't guarantee anything." "Hey, you're back on the market!" "Here comes an all-along single." " Sounds cool." "Customer is near!" " Not bad!" "No, thanks." "Oh, loving cucumber means you need something like that!" "So what's your favorite?" "Doughnuts, you can guess." "How about opening a doughnut shop?" "I envy Hanna and Mira, they expanded their study." "Me, too." "I gave up, with no future in sight, and now work for TV." "but..." "Oh, don't say that." "You can't imagine how it feels to be stuck here." "No fun in working as the assistant for the lawmaker?" "So many scandals are in the paper, about him." "Even for me, he's not forgivable." "I'm running for the local government on my own..." "I envy you all guys." "Under this high unemployment rate, at least you have your own job, love it or not." "I feel like I'm worthless." "I mean, not as useful as a street cleaner." "We need a street cleaner but we don't need what I do, right?" "You know what you lack?" "Reality check!" "Just have your own family, and have kids." "When you see your own kids, all conception and ideas are gone!" "Life is so real when you have a family." "The woman in the frame is sitting in fur hat and fur muffler... and long and thick fur tossi on the arms." "And she is showing her arms to the people." " Who is next?" " It's me." "Gregory is starting at the window." "And the cloudy weather makes him gloomy." "The rain fall onto the zinc roof is making sound." "KIM Ho I am in the office" "Leaving one's office" "Come in." "You show up without making appointment?" "Sorry about that, but now I'm a lecturer and you're a professor." "You feel so weird." "What happened?" "I want to do that." "Do what?" "I want to get it on with you now." "You are crazy?" "It must be fun to have sex in a room with a view to the campus" "Come on." "Stop this, it's not like you." "I've got an appointment with a student." "Don't panic, I was kidding." "Next Friday is my birthday." "What do you want to have?" "Night together." "I wanna wake up together in the morning." "We never did." "I see." "Good bye." "Remember the library of Liberty University, when we were in Berlin?" "When it was no people Friday night." "We used to have sex, like crazy." "Just like kids." "Thank you." "Pond Monthly" "Delete" "Next week I'll go on a business trip to Tokyo." "I'll be back on Friday, but I'll tell my wife I'm back on Saturday." "Then I will be able to stay over with you." "How about making a reservation near the airport?" "My plane arrives at 4:30 on Friday." "How about my going with you to Tokyo?" "send temporary file box" "I'd like to but there are others with me." "And I may share a room with one of them." "Next time, I'll try to work it out." "Sorry about nagging you, have a nice trip." "But I don't like a hotel near the airport." "I like to go to Chejudo." "When you arrive, take the domestic air at the gate 1." "Airplane leaves at 5." "When you are on board, you'll see me next to you." "Honey, go to bed." "Working on the paper for tomorrow." "I put the bathroom stuff, you will check the others." "All right, thanks." "You don't need yours?" "I think this strong color will fit on you." "Hey, can I buy a shoe spoon?" "Oh, you wear our shoes;" "let me give you one free." "Hello." "You are still in bed?" "I'm waiting for you." "Sorry, mom, I worked late so..." "What time will you be at the station?" "I'll pick you up." "Sorry, mom, I can't go, I need to do something urgent." "What's urgent?" "You work only 6 hours a week!" "Mom, I'm not a little girl any more." "I want to be with a man." "Are you serious?" "If you can't come 'cause of a man, it's acceptable." "Wow, what an awesome mother you are!" "I can't not be, when I see an old daughter single for years!" "Just show up with a man, I don't mind his having kids or whatever." "Oh, don't go there, mom." "Hello." "This is Cheju Shilla, can I talk to LEE Hanna?" "Right." "I'm calling you to change your room to a corner suite." "What do you mean?" "We'll give you a better room as kind of a promotion." "It has a bedroom and a living room... with a good view on the sea and Mt." "Halla." "And it's connected with the garden and... most importantly, with no extra charge." "But why?" "We just have things available and you are so lucky." "That sounds great, thanks." "LEE Hanna?" "LEE Hanna, right?" "Yeah, but who are you?" "What a whore!" "How come you flirt with my husband, you bitch!" "What? "l don't like the hotel near the airport?"" "You screwed every professor, to get a full time job, right?" "It's your major?" "You dirty hooker, you don't work for the college any more." "How funny your dad is such a celebrity!" "I'll kick his ass and your whole family is fucked up!" "What a trash!" "Hey, she smells so drunk!" "Hey, miss, it's the last station, wake up and go home." "No more trains to Seoul?" "Sure, long ago." "You should've gotten off at Moonsan." "This station is only for the tourists, to see the tunnel from North Korea." "What's worse, no bus runs any more." "Sorry, but could you wake her up?" "Then this train stays here overnight?" "Sure, you sound like you know trains." "It must've been a tough day." "Take care." "You better stay out of the snow here in the station." "Honey, it's me." "Sorry but I don't know where I am." "I fell asleep on the train through the last stop." "Sorry, I had dinner out and drank too much with friends." "You know Mira, she's been heart-broken lately." "I had to be with her, so..." "Don't worry, I'll take a cab home." "No way for you to drive here!" "I'll take care of myself, just stay home." "Don't worry." "I love you, too." "Hello, honey, are you still up?" "I had some drinks and fell asleep on the train so.." "It's too far, Limjin River Staion." "You mean you will drive here?" "No!" "Don't worry I will take a cab." "Sure, good night." "She's my fiancée." "We'll get married next spring." "By the way, where are we?" "Limjin River Station." "He civilian passage restriction area is just there." "It's so odd to have a station here." "Maybe it's very new." "Have you heard of Dorasan station?" "Sure, President Bush was there." "Oh, was he?" "It is in the civilian restriction area." "Trains go in there during the day but... they should go through a kind of immigration;" "Screening your ID and stuff." "And next is DMZ and then Gae-sung, North Korea." "Well, I've never been this far." "I live in ll-san and..." "Between Seoul and ll-san Station is all I cover every day." "Between Seoul and Shinchon station, and that's what I cover." "How far are we from Seoul then?" "It took 1 hour 23 minutes by train." "How about calling a cab?" "Okay, let me call them." "How about sharing a cab?" "I don't think we can call two, in this snow." "Okay, I see." "You pay the fare up to ll-san." "What?" "No problem." "Give me a number for a cab company in Moon-san." "031-925-0925, thanks." "Hello, I am in Limjin River station, send a cab right away." "What?" "Oh, don't say that, please help." "What?" "No taxi is available, considering the snow." "He said it's not worth it." "No kidding!" "031-925-0925" "Hello, I'm at Limjin River station." "I'll pay you double to Seoul." "It's snowing, that's why I need a cab, you idiot!" "What?" "Hello!" "Let's walk." "Hey, let me carry your bag." "You could've told me that earlier." "You just keep walking?" "You got a better idea?" "When we get to Moon-san there must be something." "Yeah, it's the best thing." "How about calling your husband and driving this way?" "If he drives this way and we walk this way, you can meet him on the way." "How about your fiancée?" "She doesn't have a car." "My husband gets to work very early." "If he doesn't have a sound sleep, it may endanger his important work." "Hearing you talking to her, I felt like she has a car." "How did you meet her for the first time?" "What?" "It may take hours in this damn snow." "Talking would help, don't you think?" "You know "Pond Monthly"?" "I do." "Every month, when it came out..." "She came to my train and gave it to me." "You're a train driver?" "Yes." "What a cool job!" "Are you serious?" "Sure, it's a very rare and awesome job." "Thanks." "It's your turn, how did you meet your husband?" "When I was a freshman, he was a graduate." "He was intelligent and handsome, so we girls just admired him." "He went to Berlin, to continue to study and..." "Years later, I did too, so we could see each other again." "When I got there, It was awful and..." "He was almost finishing his dissertation and a great help to me." "So we just clicked like that." " Then you got married in Berlin?" " No." "He came back to Korea and I had to be in Germany for my diploma." "Not long after, he got a full-time professor job." "He was lucky as well as competent." "It's not long ago I came back to Korea." "We got married just recently." "It's so cool." "But maybe without such loneliness back then... we'd never feel for each other." "I lived at the far North-west end of West Berlin." "I couldn't find a room in the school dormitory and..." "I barely managed to find a room at the hospital dormitory." "And just behind the dorm was found a part of the Berlin Wall, which was eerie and creepy." "I was afraid." "Long winter nights felt like no-end." "I had seen some going insane while studying in Germany." "And talking to themselves is the first sign of that." "Then the moment finally came to me when I was in the tub..." "I found myself talking to myself on and on..." "Don't tell me you're insane." "You just made me insane again!" "Sorry." "Then you got the doctoral degree?" "It's awesome, how honored I am to walk with a doctor." "But I got only a part time job." "To me, your job is greater." "Then your major is..." "German literature." "I know Hermann Hesse, I read 'Demian'." "The bird fights its way out of the egg." "The egg is the world." "Who would be born first must destroy a world." "The bird flies to God." "That God's name is Abraxas." "Hermann Hesse was the one who made me major in German." "But I came to study on Christa Wolf." "What is he?" "SHE is from Eastern Germany, a writer." "She devoured my whole youthful ardor like a wolf." "Hey, there's a motel." "What a relief!" "I should be in there, not to be frozen to death." "It's me." "She read your email, she got the password, God knows how." "I got on the plane, and was shocked to see her." "She even came to see you, sorry." "Where are you now?" "It's Cheju, Hotel Shilla." "I begged an apology for hours." "She is now in bed after being drunk." "I just cooked up some reasons and said nothing happened." "No idea what she told you but..." "No 'divorce' thing brought up?" "She did." "It's a big mess." "But you begged for forgiveness instead of being divorced!" "What?" " I just got divorced." " What?" "I got divorced!" "It's 40,000 won." "We need two rooms." "One is enough." "Only a few hours away from daybreak." " You said, 40,000 won?" " Yes." "It's warm and nice." "Look, here is shower gown, too." "I need to take a hot bath." "As to the recent sagging economy and depression..." "Other than high cost structure, high wage level is said to be one of the reasons." "And the statistics shows it makes to the point." "As of 1994, average monthly wage of the factory workers is $1273." "This is MBN Headline News, and we'll call for the weather news." "The worst snow fall ever is striking a fatal blow on the whole country..." "Its damage is estimated to be more than 210 billion won." "Hey, could you turn on the light?" "It's off now." "Now, it's on?" "Not yet." "Now it's on?" "Yeah, thanks." "Sorry, I pushed the wrong button." "You son of a bitch!" "You didn't know!" "I miscarried your baby!" "Just after you were back to Korea..." "I fell down while smoking in the library... and was carried to ER." "How stupid I was not to know I had your baby, you jerk." "You are okay with my wearing this?" "Sure." "16-hour-non-stop snow storm led to a disastrous..." "Oh I don't need a blanket." "Well, I'll take the bed." "You need a blanket." "You have a full day ahead of you;" "you need beauty sleep." "I'm on vacation." "I got a special leave for 3 days... and I extended it with my annual leave of 7 days..." "Now I'm almost at the end of the long leave." "I lied to you, about the fiancée." "I knew." "How?" "Girls are so quick to smell out a lie." "You don't know her name yet, right?" "You're such a demon." "You know why I went to Gae-wha station today?" "No, why?" "It's the 15th." "She's supposed to give me the magazine." "You saw her?" "No." "I waited for her at the platform all day, but she didn't come." "What makes me so confused is that... my shifts come and go so irregularly, 05:26, 14:13, 11:11..." "Even my family doesn't know it and..." "I got no idea how she got the information." "She didn't show up there because she knows I'm off today?" "Oh, no." "You told a lie about divorcing." "I did." "I was never married." "What?" "To be honest..." "I'm a whore." "Oh, that's enough." "Don't play me anymore!" "What made you become an engine driver?" "Well, I wanted to be a tram driver." "Not the subway train but a tram on the ground." "But we don't have one in Korea." "When I was young, my mom gave me a storybook as a birthday gift." "It was a story about a tram driver... who heals a bird injured by the car and... who brings a runaway kid back home, seeing him on the car all day long." "That's the beauty part of the job, and I was fascinated." "I saw some on TV maybe in North Korea." "When we are united, I can drive one." "God knows when." "Look at Germany, it just happened as no one expected." "To be more honest..." "My parents were not rich and..." "I went to railway college, 'cause the school is almost free." "You must've done something cool, as you got a special leave." "I killed a woman." "She just jumped... in front of my train." "When a person jumps..." "We are supposed to stop the train... and to move the dead body." "to move this horribly torn body onto the platform..." "Come on!" "with my bare hands." "Hey, snap out of it!" "Let me keep the witnesses' numbers, you keep driving!" "Then we write down telephone numbers of witnesses... and keep driving to the destination... as if nothing happened." "Then at the destination, I change shifts," "and come back to this station..." "And write down the statement" "And go to the police and write it down again." "I even went to a shrink." "He said I was lucky... 'cause I didn't see her eyes when she was jumping." "Last year..." "Two drivers, being haunted by the eyes of the victims," "they killed themselves," "After the accident we get 3 days off..." "And then nothing changes." "gotta be back to work as usual." "I extended my days off, but just 2 days from now..." "I gotta be back to work." "You think I can do that?" "You can do it." "I know that." "tens of thousands of people can't go to work." "You can't imagine how many are waiting for you to be back." "1 year later" "Gyeong-ui-seon by LEE Hanna" "This book doesn't sell well?" "Right, the writer is not well known." " Please pack it." " Yes madam." "You buy your book?" "You must've bought more than sold?" "You have the books?" "You don't buy your books since you're a full time professor!" "It's the privilege;" "I'm flooded with books for free." "And your kids already read English books?" "It's not 'already', moms are crazy when it comes to English." "To be frank, it was not until this morning I read your book through." "I like your book." "I envy you." "It only takes time for them to know it." "You think so?" "You presented your books to people?" "I want to present it to some more people, but..." "Mom took the remaining books yesterday to give them to her friends." "You know my mom, it's so her." "I got news from the ground, it just began to snow." "And forecast says it'll keep coming." "Which means a white Christmas, this year." "I wish you all a merry Christmas!" "Take care going home." "I am driver, KIM Man-soo."