For the final artifact I decided to write out my task from Journal 12. I watched the first episode of the Korean drama "W" without subtitles and typed what I understood from the plot. There was a lot of dialogue that I could not understand some of the words, but I was able to use context clues and figure out much of what was going on.
In episode 1 of the drama W, a young man from South Korea named Kang Chul participates in the 2004 Athens Olympics in the shooting competition. He is in the lead for the first eight rounds but makes a mistake in the ninth, allowing another shooter to catch up and surpass him. In the tenth round, the other shooters take their shot, but Kang Chul takes all of the time allotted to gather his nerves and shoots a perfect bullseye. The scene changes to Kang Chul’s family watching the television. The front door opens and his mother goes to see if it is him but shows a face full of terror. The father hears a thud and goes to see that his wife has been shot in the forehead. The shooter then kills the father and then Kang Chul’s little brother and sister and leaves. Later, they arrest Kang Chul as the prime suspect. The police unveils the murder weapon to be the gun Kang Chul had used in the Olympics. While being interrogated, the prosecutor yells at Kang Chul saying something about him not wanting his dad around, which Kang Chul profusely denies it. While in jail, Kang Chul finds out that they held his family’s funeral without him and cries. Later on in court, the prosecutor asks for the death penalty and Kang Chul lashes out at him, cursing at him and calling him crazy.
In another scene are two people sleeping in bunk beds with the phone ringing. The young woman picks up the phone and see that someone named “crazy dog” is calling and tosses it to the young man in the other bed. He answers the call and tells her that “crazy dog” was actually calling for her. She picks up her phone to see ten missed calls and rushes out of the room. She finds “crazy dog” in the hospital and he yells at her before asking if her father really is the famous manhwa writer Oh Sungmoo. She confirms and crazy dog asks her why she is just Oh Yeonjoo if her father is Oh Sungmoo. He goes on to ask for spoilers because he is a big fan of her father’s manhwa “W”. They both bond over how cool the character Kang Chul is. Apparently the series is about to end and crazy dog wants to know who the killer is, but Yeonjoo says her father doesn’t even tell her details, but she calls to ask anyway. She calls his assistant Subong who says that her father has gone missing. She comes to look in his office when Subong tells her that it is strange that he is missing because he never left the room.
Yeonjoo and Subong start talking about the manhwa when Subong says that Sungmoo was planning to kill Kang Chul. He shows her a frame of a bleeding Kang Chul on her father’s drawing pad/monitor and Yeonjoo asks why he would kill off Kang Chul. She finds a picture on his desk and reads the writing on the back. The writing seems to have been some kind of magic spell because suddenly a bloody hand reaches out of the monitor and grabs onto her jacket. The hand drags her into the monitor and the picture falls to the floor. Yeonjoo wakes up on the roof of a skyscraper and turns to see Kang Chul in the human version of the frame Subong showed her earlier. She asks if he is okay and checks to make sure he is still alive. She runs down to a kitchen saying that someone is dying and to call for help. A waiter comes up to see what’s wrong. She asks where they are and he says they’re at a hotel. She says she is a doctor but that she doesn’t have a lot of talent. Kang Chul suddenly struggles to breathe and she sees that his lungs are filling with blood. She takes a pen from the waiter’s pocket and tells herself she doesn’t know what she’s doing but to do it anyway. She stabs him in the chest to puncture his lung and let him breathe. The staff thanks her for her help and she says that this is what a doctor is supposed to do, and gives them her card. They ask her why she is on the roof, which stumps her. The waiter tells him that the man who was dying is Kang Chul and he runs over. Yeonjoo looks at Kang Chul saying to herself that he can’t be Kang Chul since he is a character, that this much be Kang Ta not Kang Chul. Yeonjoo and Kang Chul stare into each other’s eyes before he is taken away. Yeonjoo is now on the roof by herself and looks over to see floating white text that says “continue”. She is suddenly back in the office and touches the monitor with the drawing of a bloody Kang Chul. Subong comes back in the room. Yeonjoo says she’s been gone for a long time but he doesn’t know what she is talking about. He says that her father has turned in the last issue of the manhwa even though he has disappeared. They read the last episode and one of the staff says the series actually has not ended. While reading, Yeonjoo sees herself and everything that has happened with Kang Chul had been written into the story.
Then there is an introduction of the manhwa character Kang Chul. He wasa born in 1987 and his company JN Global is worth a lot of money. He was very depressed after the death of his family and the trial that he tried to kill himself by jumping off the bridge, but saves himself at the last minute by hanging onto the edge by one hand. We go back what happened after the last episode and Kang Chul is fine sitting in a hospital bed. He is talking to his assistant Sohee about finding the doctor that saved him and she believes that there’s something strange going on with that doctor. He says he doesn’t remember what happened, but he has a feeling that the doctor that saved him is “the key to his life”. His bodyguard jokes with him and says that he must want to find her because she’s pretty and he’s fallen for her, but he argues that she’s not pretty. Sohee gives him some attitude and Kang Chul tells her to only speak informally with him when they are alone. Kang Chul looks at Yeonjoo’s business card and asks himself where she is.
Yeonjoo is reading the newest episode where she reads the last scene with Kang Chul asking where she is. Crazy Dog bursts in the room asking why Sungmoo wrote his daughter into the story. Yeonjoo calls Subong and he tells her that the story is getting weird but he still hasn’t heard from her father. Yeonjoo goes crazy saying that the world of W really exists and that Kang Chul really is looking for her. She hangs up and looks at her monitor and asks why Kang Chul is looking for her and why he believes she is the key to his life.
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