Post by TheBo on Mar 10, 2012 22:27:38 GMT -5
Ep.74-
At a Buddhist temple, Queen Hyeoui daily performs the 3000 bows for Song/Ui Bin, Dowager Hye learns, and she’s been doing it for a month.
San asks Ui Bin’s brother Wook if he knows Catholic missionaries who are also doctors, and sends Dae-su to Qing to bring back Western doctors. He will save her, even if it means Western surgery. Ui Bin begs D-S not to go, saying it’s too late for her and San must give up these foolish dreams of her recovery. D-S scolds her for taking away San’s only reason for living—to cure her. He will bring back such doctors, and she will hoard her strength and wait for his return, D-S tells her. He rides night and day--even his men can’t keep up with him.
So Ui Bin goes outside her rooms and sends for San so she can paint his portrait. She tells him she will paint to gather her energy and to have hope for the future, if he promises to withstand anything that happens. He promises.
Ui Bin declines rapidly. D-S returns with word that a doctor who has cured liver cancer is on his way, but Ui Bin, putting the finishing touches on her portrait of San, loses San’s sash to a high wind and then disappears. San finally searches her out, but she has fainted. She tells him she has to leave and to always remember her love. Then, well, she dies.
Poor Dae-su can't process it. There is general mourning in the palace. Even Dowager Hye wishes she’d been nicer to Ui Bin. At Dowahseo, gnashing of teeth and crying. While brother Wook quietly sits shiva by Song’s body, D-S wonders how he’ll manage to live on. San replaces Wook by her bedside. He ties his sash around her arm and tells her to take his heart with her to their son Hyang, and he’ll join them by and by.
Mr Jung happily invents and innovates at Suwon, with Sir Min getting spy reports. San makes a cabinet announcement: Everything moves to Suwon soon—capital, peoples, markets—everything. So Choi and Tebi Mamah call a meeting of Norons and the now-less-powerful (because of the Dragon Guard) military commanders, where they sign a pledge saying if San makes them give up their lives, so must he. Except D-S has spied upon the meeting. San tells his men, they’ll try to stop me at my new fortress—so that’s where I’ll wait for them.
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On a lighter note, loved the funny little glasses San tied around his head. Clever.
At a Buddhist temple, Queen Hyeoui daily performs the 3000 bows for Song/Ui Bin, Dowager Hye learns, and she’s been doing it for a month.
San asks Ui Bin’s brother Wook if he knows Catholic missionaries who are also doctors, and sends Dae-su to Qing to bring back Western doctors. He will save her, even if it means Western surgery. Ui Bin begs D-S not to go, saying it’s too late for her and San must give up these foolish dreams of her recovery. D-S scolds her for taking away San’s only reason for living—to cure her. He will bring back such doctors, and she will hoard her strength and wait for his return, D-S tells her. He rides night and day--even his men can’t keep up with him.
So Ui Bin goes outside her rooms and sends for San so she can paint his portrait. She tells him she will paint to gather her energy and to have hope for the future, if he promises to withstand anything that happens. He promises.
Ui Bin declines rapidly. D-S returns with word that a doctor who has cured liver cancer is on his way, but Ui Bin, putting the finishing touches on her portrait of San, loses San’s sash to a high wind and then disappears. San finally searches her out, but she has fainted. She tells him she has to leave and to always remember her love. Then, well, she dies.
Poor Dae-su can't process it. There is general mourning in the palace. Even Dowager Hye wishes she’d been nicer to Ui Bin. At Dowahseo, gnashing of teeth and crying. While brother Wook quietly sits shiva by Song’s body, D-S wonders how he’ll manage to live on. San replaces Wook by her bedside. He ties his sash around her arm and tells her to take his heart with her to their son Hyang, and he’ll join them by and by.
Mr Jung happily invents and innovates at Suwon, with Sir Min getting spy reports. San makes a cabinet announcement: Everything moves to Suwon soon—capital, peoples, markets—everything. So Choi and Tebi Mamah call a meeting of Norons and the now-less-powerful (because of the Dragon Guard) military commanders, where they sign a pledge saying if San makes them give up their lives, so must he. Except D-S has spied upon the meeting. San tells his men, they’ll try to stop me at my new fortress—so that’s where I’ll wait for them.
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On a lighter note, loved the funny little glasses San tied around his head. Clever.
