The (murdered victim) pictures made you smile, you must be enjoying this. A stroll down memory lane? Do they… excite you? Do they make you smell blood? // Does blood smell bad?

You were lodged upside down and they said the only way out was to cut my belly open. During the surgery, for some odd reason, the anesthesia wore off halfway. I endured it. Because I was afraid something might happen to you if I moved. I heard them rummage through my sliced belly with gloved hands, and I felt it… That's how you were born.

The smell of blood? I like it. That was the scent hanging in the air when you were born.

You must be Jeongho.

I am Inspector Cha Suyeol from the Major Crimes Investigation Unit.

You must be married. Do you have kids too?

I did not come here for a family reunion.

[translated by me]

Day after day, abalone, abalone. Even as typhoons rage, it's abalone, abalone. More cherished than her own daughter, still abalone, abalone.

When she dives below, shouldn't she surface soon? Why then does silence stretch, leaving no news? Is it because the abalone hides, refusing to come forth, or because her breath falter, holding her under the sea?

Her dear child’s heart burns with worry as that darn abalone scorches Mother from within.

A hundred hwan earned by selling abalone. I would pay them to buy a single day’s rest for my mother.

My mother, with her aching back, my mother, coughing and weary. If only, for a hundred hwan each day I could let my mother take a rest.

"Then grow up fast. Grow up fast, and give me a hundred hwan every day."

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Attention.

Whatever you imagined, it's going to be much worse. So watch closely.

You pay attention, too.

Mom... I killed Gyeong Ho.

No. That can't be true.

It's alright. Don't worry.

I will take care of it.

You didn't do it. You wouldn't do something like that.

There's absolutely no way you killed someone.

Aigoo. What a good boy.

Congratulations on remaining in this hellish world.

✋😅 // 😶🤚

Do you eat these days? Do you want to eat this?

Give it to me.

"Be a helping hand to a friend"? I find it strange. Do all friends have to be helpful? Whether we are helpful to one another or not, you should encourage us to get along as friends. Teacher, if it's okay, can I change it?

I wish... I could just disappear like this without anyone knowing.

Or... I wish I could be someone else.

Now playing ▶️

Mom, I was promoted today.

He belittled us for being ex-convicts. // But aren't you an ex-con?

Have you fogotten because it's been a while or are you confusing yourselves for normal company employees because you work like them? Going to jail doesn't erase the fact that you committed crimes.

We got punished for not doing what others think is common sense. If he reminded you of that so that you wouldn't forget it, you should have thanked him. Why grab him by his collar?

From what I see, every single one of you was a bad egg in the beginning.

I know people don't change. But if we stigmatize him right away, wouldn't we be the same as everyone else?

I believe dead wood can be burnt to be used as fuel, or buried to be used as compost. Or, it can miraculously become something better.