Dongju Page #2

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I thought the world would be my oyster.

You probably know...

I was quite handsome in my youth, too.

Families everywhere wanted

me as their son-in-law.

Then

your aunt got me

to marry into this family.

It's a problem if you're handsome

and study well.

And now even my son is successful.

Are you sleeping?

Be on the watch for writing

that could harm your spirit.

Be careful what you study.

Are you sleeping?

That's Baek Seok's book of poems.

I borrowed it from the minister

forgot to show it to you.

Copy it quick and give it back.

What's the point in just writing poems?

You have to publish.

How can I do that when

I can't win a contest?

So you're just going to

leave them like that?

Listen to me, Dong Ju.

I've thought about it a while.

How about making a literary magazine

and publish your poems?

Let's make our own magazine.

Like "Samcholli."

A magazine?

Now you're looking at me.

You write poems...

and I write essays.

What do you think?

"New Myungdong"?

Mong Gyu and I are making

a student magazine.

The headmaster gave us the

name "New Myungdong."

Listen, Dong Ju.

If you go to medical school

and become a doctor...

think of all the people you could save.

Isn't that much better than

writing a line or two?

As a writer, at best you'd just

become a newspaper reporter.

Father.

Even a liberal arts major

from a good college...

can get good employment.

But you want to study liberal

arts to become a writer!

You can write poems aplenty

after you become a doctor.

True studies must do good for

yourself and for others.

Studies that can't be used anywhere...

What's the point?

Dong Ju, are you here?

Dong Ju.

Uncle.

The reverend wants to

see Dong Ju right away.

The French Revolution

of liberty and equality

and the proletarian revolution in Russia...

both shocked the world.

Isn't that writing inappropriate

for a literary magazine?

What's the use of literature

if it can't change the world?

Is writing some sort of power?

- Ik Hwan, try writing a poem.

- Me?

Sure, anyone can write poetry.

"Bolshevism" by Yi Kwang Su.

This is an economic revolution

following the religious and

political revolutions.

Every revolution has its errors

but we should not miss the great current of

of the people of the world becoming one.

Song Mong Gyu?

Yes.

Even kids are infected by communism.

No wonder the school is

becoming a people's school.

Want to be a revolutionary?

Which school do you want to go to?

I plan to study agriculture

at Soongshil College in Pyongyang.

Why?

I was moved by "The Soil" by Yi Kwang Su.

I want to build the utopia

in farming areas like that.

Yi betrayed the Korean people.

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