- All right. / - Now,
let's check the second one.
- Each story is / - I know.
- so interesting. / - It's interesting.
Please reveal the second one.
Please reveal it.
"My friend was a troublemaker."
How many votes do you think you will get?
I don't think I'll get any vote.
- You think you will get no vote. / - I never fought.
How about you, Saeho?
I think I was a troublemaker.
How many votes do you think you will get?
- I think I'll get four votes. / - Four votes.
Okay. Let's check the result.
Let's check how many votes he got.
- The Cuckoo Knows It! / - The Cuckoo Knows It!
One, two, three, four, five.
No way.
- This is nice. / - No way.
Isn't Hyunmoo so thick-faced?
He's getting five votes for everything.
- My friends are ambitious. / - You got five votes.
- What did I do? / - He got five votes again,
but maybe you will talk about me more.
I'm sure they will.
- Let's hear from their friends. / - Let's do that.
Let's hear from Saeho's friends first.
Let's talk about Saeho first.
Saeho is very competitive.
When we were in sixth grade, we played a basketball
game 3 on 3. And we did it on the overhead ladder.
Our team ended up winning,
and Saeho lost his cool.
(He was angry.)
- Do children lose their cool too? / - Yes.
He kept insisting that his team won.
You are Song Yoonkyung, aren't you?
Yes.
- He recognized him. / - He sounds like...
- Do you remember him? / - He sounds like Yoonkyung.
He said it correctly. There was no basketball post,
so we played basketball using the overhead ladder.
That day,
everything from the weather to my condition
made me think that I could beat him.
There are days when you feel confident.
- And did you fight again in high school? / - Did you?
I don't know what happened.
But I took him to the music room on the fifth floor.
When I said, "Hey!"
Saeho suddenly knelt down and said, "Forgive me."
It made me realize he knew what he did wrong,
and I calmed down immediately.
They were close but Saeho was afraid of him.
I will explain. I was the class vice president,
so I had to make kids keep quiet during the study hour.
But Yoonkyung was so loud and naughty.
- So? / - So I told him to be quiet.
- He was the bad one. / - I thought he was
going to listen to me.
But he must've had something against me.
He said, "Come here, Saeho."
Other classmates were watching,
so I said, "I'm not the person you used to know."
- You were in high school. / - Right.
I thought he might hit me on the spot,
so I said to him first, "Hey, let's take it outside."
We went outside, and we were by ourselves.
- What happened? / - And I was so scared.
So I told him we shouldn't fight...
- Right. / - when we are good friends.
And then my feet must have slipped.
- Your knees gave in. / - I don't think I knelt down.
Yoonkyung was at fault.
- Do you remember this? / - I don't remember.
(He knows how to be funny on TV.)
To me,
he was a really good friend.
And that's why we can talk about our fights.
It wasn't a bad memory to me. When he hit me,
- I... / - Did you say it wasn't a bad memory?
- It wasn't a bad memory? / - Was it a scary memory?
- Then... / - I don't hope to see him later.
It was a good memory for me.
- Let's talk about Hyunmoo now. / - Yes.
- He got five votes. / - I don't remember.
Let's see what troubles he had made.
Yes, Sir.
At the time, we used to play dabanggu a lot
- after school. / - I remember that.
At one point, I saw Hyunmoo on the floor,
crying and looking for his mom.
Goodness.
He didn't fall. He was hit on his important part.
That's why he was on the floor and crying.
Suddenly,
Hyunmoo's mother appeared in the distance.
She asked the kid who hit him if he's Cho Bonghyun.
Bongbyun was famous for being big
and scary.
So I told her that he was Choi Seongho.
Why does getting hit make me a troublemaker?
Isn't it my only fault that I got beaten?
- Do you remember it? / - I still remember the pain.
- Eugene, / - Yes?
he has a point.
- I just got hit. / - Right.
He got hit in the important part and collapsed.
How does that make me a troublemaker?
(He is falsely accused.)
Did your friend Bonghyun fight well?
- He fought well. / - He can fight with my friend.
Let's make them fight.
They should fight without any safety gears.
– They want their friends to fight. / - Let's do that.
I'd imagine Hyunmoo was bad at fighting.
He only fought with his mouth, didn't he?
- I only fought with my mouth. / - Is that right?
It's not that he couldn't fight.
At the time, nobody fought in our town.
- That's what I remember. / - You look
like you would've fought a lot in your time.
That's how people thought of me.
- Nobody fought. / - You didn't fight.
Hyunmoo didn't fight either. Hyunmoo's mother,
like what you've just heard, used to
meddle with children's affairs a lot.
His mother used to meddle with the children's affairs.
Did his mother really do that?
So you mean my mother was a troublemaker.
She was the troublemaker of Mok-dong.
Was his mother the troublemaker?
Hyunmoo once did something really dangerous.
After science class,
- he splashed hydrochloric acid. / - I remember.
- I remember that. / - He spilled it,
and it splashed to his body.
- That's so dangerous. / - It's very dangerous,
but thankfully, it was diluted a lot, so he was fine.
But I got really shocked at the time.
I saw him getting changed after the incident.
And his body was covered in hair.
How old were you?
- So... / - How does that make me a troublemaker?
How does that make me a troublemaker?
He was a prodigy.
- How can I be... / - Hyunmoo...
Was he an elementary school student?
How does that make him a troublemaker?
I was really shocked. We were in elementary school.
I had never seen a friend with body hair before that.
He was a hairy guy who spilled hydrochloric acid.
That makes him a troublemaker.
Stop it, Myungsoo.
You only interrupt to talk about these things.
What's wrong with it?
Perhaps the hair saved you.
- What are you saying? / - You have a point, Eugene.
Do you remember that time, Hyunmoo?
I remember spilling the hydrochloric acid.
I still have...
- Really? / - a really small scar on my belly.
- Do you have it? / - Yes. A lot of hair grows there.
- What? / - A lot of hair
grows on the spot where he spilled
- There's a lot of hair. / - hydrochloric acid.
Please stop lying.
How can hairs grow on that spot?
It all depends on his physical constitution.
Hello. My name is Jung Heeseok,
Hyunmoo's elementary school friend.
We were classmates in fifth grade.
Our assigned seats were next to each other's.
My friend, Hyunmoo was
a fan of X-rated things.
- What did he say? / - I knew it.
- Stop talking nonsense. / - He was quite mature.
When I was young, I often visited his house.
One day, we were playing in his house with our friends.
He took out something from his dad's bookshelf.
It turned out to be an adult magazine.
That was my first time seeing such a thing.
After that, I went to his house more often.
When I did, Hyunmoo
brought out the magazine and showed it to me.
As I think about this now,
I wonder where the magazine came from.
Hyunmoo, where did you get it?
I am not a fan of adult contents.
- I am not certain if I should share this. / - Tell us.
Well...
(This is a bit awkward for me to tell you this.)
It was my dad's.
- Hyunmoo. / - Well.
- I am aware you want to save yourself. / - This is...
- How could you drag your dad into this? / - I mean...
- I'm not saying he was a fan. / - What do you mean?
By chance,
I found it in a cupboard.
That proves your dad was a fan of adult contents.
(He found it in a cupboard.)
My dad used to collect viewing stones.
I saw something strange between two stones,
- but... / - It was between two stones?
Something was rolled up between the stones.
I wondered what it was.
When I was at home, I climbed a chair and took it out.
It was a Japanese magazine.
So I read the magazine
and when it was time for my dad to come home,
I rolled it as it was and put it in the exact spot.
This is probably my dad's first time finding this out.
- It was a perfect crime. / - I put it back as it was.
Don't you think he'd be surprised when he sees this?
- I can't let this happen. / - Imagine...
his dad is watching it with his mom.
I am not certain if Hyunmoo will agree,
but among his classmates in sixth grade,
he had a reputation for liking such things.
I know this because my cousin was in his class.
- Really? / - I see.
One day, my cousin came over to my house.
I ended up seeing a book that I hadn't seen
my entire life.
I asked my cousin where he obtained this book.
We were in my room. No one was in the room except us,
but my cousin whispered.
"I got it from Hyunmoo."
I feel quite uncomfortable about this,
even if I wasn't involved and it was between them.
I'm sorry to butt in, but this is a special episode.
Was this how Happy Together Friends was hosted?
I thought the program was heartwarming.
What did you say?
Wasn't it a touching program where guests talked
about their memories and heartwarming stories?
However, we're talking about
hydrochloric acid and how he was hit.
Myungsoo, when you observe them,
doesn't it make you want to find your old friends?
This episode is making me not want to find my friends.
(It is making him not want to find his friends.)
- We will go to the next question. / - All right.
- Please show us. / - Please show us.
"My friend was a loyal friend."
(My friend was a loyal friend.)
What if no one presses the button all of a sudden now?
- It will be funny. / - That won't happen.
That's right. We'll find it funny.
- Shall we check right away? / - Shall we?
- Let's check. / - I'm confident about this question.
- Here it goes. / - I'll get at least four votes.
- The Cuckoo Knows It! / - The Cuckoo Knows It!
- One. / - There you go.
- Two. / - Come out.
(Hyunmoo gets 1 vote and Saeho gets 3 votes.)
(He roots for the cuckoo, but...)
- I got three votes. / - No way. My gosh.
(Something has gone wrong.)
Hyunmoo, up until now you always got five votes.
This time, you only got one vote.
Aren't you relieved at least you got one vote?
I don't know who you are, but I'd like to thank you.
Saeho received three votes.
- Right, I did. / - Hyunmoo received one vote.
I was a loyal friend.
- Shall we start with Saeho's friends? / - Shall we?
One of our elementary school friends' name
is Lee Sungkyu.
He was a transfer student
- from Gangwon Province. / - Lee Sungkyu.
Sungkyu wasn't an outcast, but he didn't get along
with the classmates.
- Since he was new. / - Right.
One day, Saeho was
playing with his friends.
He called Sungkyu to play with them.
When Sungkyu came over to them,
Saeho said since Sungkyu was their classmate,
he suggested that they should all play together.
Saeho was quite popular back then.
So other classmates listened to him.
- Sungkyu became friends with them. / - Right.
Saeho took care of Sungkyu.
Sungkyu's mother heard this story
and she still feels grateful for it.
- She still feels grateful? / - Yes, she does.
Saeho.
Perhaps, you did this because you were a transfer
student as well. Do you remember this?
I remember it like it was yesterday.
- I knew it. / - I can remember Sungkyu's face,
the air, and the temperature at that time.
- He remembers the air and temperature. / - He was...
- This is our first touching story / - Yes, it is.
- from their friends. / - It is indeed.
I did that because
I couldn't get along with my classmates.
- After I made a lot of friends, / - I understand.
I tried to take good care of transfer students.
The transfer student from Gangwon Province, Sungkyu
still feels thankful for it. He couldn't
- join us due to a personal matter. / - Really?
I wonder if we could at least listen to his voice.
- What? / - I asked the staff
- to call him before the show. / - There's a call?
- Sungkyu. / - Saeho.
- Long time no see. / - They sound like real friends.
Long time no see.
- We haven't talked after high school. / -That's right.
- I should've been there. / - Exactly.
I had a personal matter.
- I'm sorry. / - Ask him what he's doing.
What are you doing now?
I'm resting at home.
(I'm resting at home.)
(What a shocking twist.)
Sungkyu doesn't make sense. He's resting at home.
(Everyone can't catch their breath.)
Why couldn't he have come?
- Hey. / - Sungkyu.
- If you are resting at home... / - Sungkyu.
Hold on.
You just said you had a personal matter.
- A personal matter? / - What is this?
Actually, I am...
- This is funny. / - What did you say?
- Sungkyu. / - I have a family get-together later.
- A family get-together? / - A family get-together?
- In the evening? / - Goodness. I'm tearing up.
This is too funny. He said it so nonchalantly.
I'm glad my friend is making sure I have some air time.
- This is really funny. / - At that time,
we heard you were grateful to Saeho.
Saeho
was cheerful and made his friends laugh a lot.
He was also very loyal.
Are you reading off a note you wrote down?
He does sound like he's reciting something.
People don't use the word, "cheerful" that often.
People say, "He was a funny guy."
Have you ever commented on
online news about Saeho's appearance on TV?
When someone wrote a hateful comment,
I wrote that
he wasn't what he seemed like.
Did you really write that comment?
When I did that, that person replied to my comment.
The person wrote, "Saeho, stop writing comments."
(Saeho, stop writing comments.)
(Sungkyu turned into Saeho.)
- He's a good friend. / - Thank you.
- He's helping you. / - Sungkyu is...
a true friend after all.
- He's rooting for Saeho. / - What a loyal friend.
Why don't you two say goodbye to each other?
- Sungkyu. / - Saeho.
I will definitely ask the staff your number.
I will give you a call. Let's meet.
Let's do that. I'm available all the time.
You are available all the time?
Yes, I am.
- I guess today was an exception. / - But not today.
- Sungkyu. / - You weren't free only today.
- This is fun. / - Can he be around here somewhere?
- It's fun. / - It's quite fun.
Is he calling from the waiting room?
- Anyway, thank you, Sungkyu. / - Thank you.
- Bye. / - Thank you, Sungkyu.
(Proud)
- We can't stop laughing today. / - No, we can't.
After listening to his friends from his childhood,
I think he must've been kind.
Right. He still is.
- He can't be funny without being kind. / - True.
How can he be mean and be funny?
- There are rare cases. / - There are some exceptions.
Myungsoo is an exception.
- I was all alone. / - I see.
Someone voted for the question that
- he was a loyal friend. / - Let's hear this.
- There will be only one story. / - It will be.
Which one of you will be telling the story?
I remember Hyunmoo being mischievous until
- middle school. / - I see.
I just thought he was just playful.
There was a popular community website back then.
- I remember that. / - Right.
He posted on our school community website that one
of our classmates went missing.
He wrote the post to find that friend.
I also contacted any friends to find out.
I couldn't find him.
Later on, his body was found.
Someone had to identify the deceased.
The friend didn't have a father.
The friend's mother was physically not well.
During the night, Hyunmoo received the call.
Hyunmoo probably called other friends,
but at that late hour,
no one could go and identify the body.
He went there alone.
He identified the body and took care of the funeral.
It is a completely different side of him we see now.
He was truly loyal.
I was quite moved by his action.
That's what I think.
Did you know about this story, Yeoju?
I did. That friend was studying for a national exam.
After that, we lost contact.
Hyunmoo did call me when he went to identify the body.
Back then, I was young and scared.
I was terrified of identifying the body
in case the deceased was really my friend.
I told him that I couldn't bring myself to go there.
I think it was near Yanghwa Bridge.
He got a taxi and went there all by himself.
He identified the body and arranged the funeral.
So I went to the funeral.
When we were drinking together,
he cried a lot.
I remember what Hyunmoo said.
He said he didn't have any idea that the friend was
struggling even though they were close.
The fact that Hyunmoo was in the dark
about the struggle broke his heart.
So he cried quite a lot.
There was a reason I was close to him
although he could be annoying.
- Hyunmoo is warmhearted. / - He's kindhearted.
He fools around a lot, but he is kindhearted.
- You know that he's quite successful now. / - Right.
He can't be successful if he's only mean.
You are right.
Hyunmoo, do you remember when this happened?
I remember. We were really close.
The friend was really smart
and was following the perfect academic path.
I suppose there was a lot of pressure.
I wrote that post and went to the police station.
When I heard the news, I was in a state of shock.
I was terrified, but I went there to identify the body.
I remember going all the way to the cemetery as well.
Even though it was only one vote,
- it greatly showed his loyalty. / - I agree.
I don't remember Saeho's stories about his loyalty.
Is there another story for me?
- No, there isn't. / - There isn't?
- We're wrapping up. / - We are?
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