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[OSEN=김재동 객원기자] In 1986, Cho Yong-pil (played by Ji Chang-wook) and Jo Sam-dal (played by Shin Hye-sun) were born. The two Mijas (Bumija and Gomija), who are fellow mothers from the same neighborhood, were certified as ‘matchmakers made in heaven’ by Grandmother Samsin, who said they left the boat at 1 o’clock on the same day (5 minutes before Jo Samdal).
In 2002, Yong Pil-mo Bumi-ja (played by Jeong Yu-mi) died while working.
In 2005, Cho Sam-dal, Cho Yong-pil, Cha Eun-woo (Bae Myung-jin), and Wang Gyeong-tae (Lee Jae-won) headed to Seoul. Only Sang-do (Kang Young-seok), unable to buy a plane ticket, remains.
In 2009, Wang Gyeong-tae returned to Jeju.
Cha Eun-woo returns to Jeju in 2011.
In 2015, Cho Yong-pil returned to Jeju and Cho Sam-dal headed to the United States.
The three Jo Sam-dal sisters return to Jeju in 2023.
The above is a brief chronology of JTBC’s Saturday-Sunday drama ‘Welcome to Samdali’. The reason for organizing the chronology separately is that as the hostility of Yongpilbu Jo Sang-tae (played by Yoo Oh-seong) towards Jo Sam-dal’s family becomes more and more concrete, the story of the breakup of ‘natural partners’ Cho Yong-pil and Jo Sam-dal is rising to the surface.
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In particular, in episode 8, which aired on the 24th, Samdal’s pleading with Jo Sangtae was recalled in detail. “No sir. I hate you, man. I can’t do it. mister!” “Samdal, I can’t do it either.” Go out and see how you are and live. Three months! Jo Sang-tae refuses, saying, “Why should I leave you with this resentment in my heart?” “I can’t do it without Yongpil. mister!” Jo Sang-tae, who hung on for three months again, said, “I can’t do it without my son!” Samdal, shaken off and intimidated by that stubborn expression, slips away from his grasping hand.
So eight years ago, Cho Sam-dal packed up all the items containing memories of Cho Yong-pil and left for the United States. In 2015, when Samdal left, Yongpil also gave up living in Seoul and returned to Jeju.
What exactly is the ‘grief of not being able to see three months’ that Jo Sang-tae spoke of? It seems that it is related to Bumija, a man named Yongpil. In the same episode, Cho Yong-pil asks his father, Jo Sang-tae, who is drinking alone. “Father, but do you still hate me that much?” Jo Sang-tae gives a short answer. “uh!”
The problem is that even looking back on 2002, there are no circumstances that suggest Samdal was particularly connected to Bumija’s death. Yongpil, who heard the news of her mother’s accident, ran out of school and rushed to the scene, and Samdal just chased after her, crying and worrying about Yongpil.
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However, Yongpil’s recollections of that time seem to give some clues. In front of the door that Bumija had entered and locked, Cho Yong-pil cried with the utmost sorrow. “Mom, Mom, please open the door for a moment!” As Yongpil continued to weep loudly, Jo Sangtae was drinking in the kitchen with a broken expression on his face, as if he were about to cry. In the doorway, there was an open and thrown away trunk and clothes that looked like Yongpil’s were strewn about.
Since Bumija was alive, Yongpil was at most a freshman in high school. It is a flashback scene that conveys the nuance of Bumija trying to kick out the young Yongpil. Jo Sang-tae is in such a mood that he can’t stop him and just drinks alcohol while feeling upset. According to the interpretation, what mistake did young Yongpil commit and what connection did Samdal have with that mistake?
A unique appearance can also be seen at the scene where Bumija’s body was recovered. Go Mi-ja, who sits down in her haenyeo uniform, cannot even get close to her body and just stands and wails. She was Samdali’s best friend and partner, and was no less important than her family. Her appearance is read as an expression of remorse, as if she had committed some sin.
However, it is difficult to say that Gomija was involved in Bumija’s death and that Jo Sangtae could not see his daughter, Samdal. Samdal’s father, Jo Pan-sik (Seo Hyun-cheol), after hearing through Go Mi-ja that Samdal had encountered Jo Sang-tae, said, “If I had known that Samdal would come down, I would have moved,” making it clear that the object of neighbor Jo Sang-tae’s hatred is Samdal. did.
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Bumija died in 2002. And Jo Sang-tae separated Samdal from Yongpil around 2015. Even this temporal gap is questionable, but in any case, it seems that three months is unacceptable to Jo Sang-tae.
And it seems that no one knows the story except Samdalne and Yongpilne. Otherwise, let alone the five immature eagle brothers, the haenyeo division, whose specialty and hobby is jeonju, would not have watched and applauded the Cho Yong-pil and Jo Sam-dal scandal.
Anyway, due to Jo Sang-tae’s intervention, Samdal had to break up with Yongpil. But the two have never let go of each other. Yongpil said, “Have you not forgotten Samdal yet? Or are you just forgetting everything and just being friends?” He said to the inquiring Sang-do. “I haven’t forgotten about three months. I haven’t forgotten. “I have never tried to forget for three months.”
The same goes for Jo Sam-dal, who tried to forget Yong-pal. I deleted the cell phone number I was whispering to and erased the data. I also threw away the photos. I also crossed the Pacific Ocean. However, when I see a sweet lover, I think of it, and when Cho Yong-pil’s ‘Dream’ is played at a Korean restaurant I happen to visit, I have to leave the table. His heart was too numb to endure.
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Even after returning home, Samdal had to sit down and shed tears when the smell of perfume sprayed by someone at a subway station passed his nose. I miss Yongpil’s body scent so much. That longing cut into his heart so painfully. Samdal also insisted that he had completely let go, but the truth was that he was holding on to Yongpil with all his heart, just like Yongpil was.
When the sea swallowed Bumija in 2002, the fern rainy season had arrived. And when the fern rainy season came again in 2023, Samdal’s Eomeong Gomiza held her heart and sank into the sea.
Gomija’s longing for Bumija, whom she cannot reach while alive. So will ‘The Story of Two Mijas’ end like that? Will Samdal and Yongpil be able to restore their romance despite the opposition of Jo Sang-tae, who comes like a rainy season? And since Jo Sang-tae cannot be undone, will he be able to get rid of all the resentment he has been carrying for his entire life? I am curious about the next chapter of ‘Welcome to Samdali’.
“You should hate me too. “Why is your mother dying?” Judging by Jo Sang-tae’s words in the trailer for episode 9, it feels like there’s still a long way to go until the end of reconciliation.
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Kim Jae-dong (zaitung@osen.co.kr)
