Film Scenery
by Lee Myung-sun
### Film Village
**The Student Sharpening a Pencil**
The student was sharpening a pencil. To check if the tip was sharpened to a point, he lightly touched the pencil tip to his cheek.
**The Seat on the Tram**
A pure-hearted student stood up from his seat for an elderly man who entered through the door. However, a thoughtless gentleman abruptly sat down in that spot.
**The Fallen Cigarette**
As a gentleman walked while smoking a cigarette, he tossed the cigarette away and tried to extinguish it by stepping on it, when a beggar who had been waiting approached and pushed the gentleman's foot.
“Excuse me. Why do you want to trample on someone else's cigarette?”
“Hey, is that your cigarette? It's mine.”
“Not at all. What fell on the ground is my cigarette. I didn't even know it was yours before it fell…”
**The Rain and the Newlyweds**
The bride waited at the tram station with an umbrella for her husband returning from work. The two walked home sharing one umbrella, whispering sweet love to each other. The rain quietly stopped and the sun shone. They drew closer to each other, savoring the moment of love.
**Temporary Rucksack**
About ten classmates were all carrying rucksacks, but one clueless middle school student, lacking a rucksack, instead carried a large backpack like a rucksack and blended in with his friends as he walked naturally.
**The Gate and the Bicycle**
A student who couldn't resist the heat of learning and came to the city from a distant countryside studied at night in a night school and delivered newspapers in the early morning and evening. This evening, while riding his bicycle loaded with newspapers, he approached a house's gate when a group of playful children suddenly rushed out, causing his bicycle to topple over.
**Firewood and the Owner**
“How can you not split it like that? Be patient, watch me split it and then try.” The owner said this while trying to split the wood. Deep down, he wanted to split it in one go, but in reality, it only got struck elsewhere. Still, he muttered, “This, the wood is placed wrong. Something like that…”
**Wood Theft**
In a dense forest, a man was cutting wood with a sharp sickle. About two jeong away from him, a small child was fiddling with a kite. At that moment, the wood owner saw the man and got angry, chasing him up from the foot of the mountain. The child, seeing this, stood up holding the kite.
“You, where are you going?”
“I’m going to fly a kite.”
“Will that kind of kite fly?”
“Why wouldn’t it fly? Just try it.”
The children pretended to struggle to fly the kite that wouldn’t fly and ran away to the top of the mountain. And to the wood owner, they whispered,
“Father, the wood owner has come. Quickly hide.”
The wood owner hurriedly pulled away the wood. After a while, he rushed over and asked,
“Haven’t you seen the wood owner here?”
“No.”
**Music and the Child**
A boy who had been sharing snacks with his older brother, after being scolded by his mother and chased out, stopped his feet and listened carefully. This was because he heard the beautiful and sad sound of a violin coming from afar. He was so absorbed in listening until the melody ended that he asked himself.
“Did I cry first, or did I not cry?”
**Sam-nam-i and Crying**
Sam-nam was the best at crying in the neighborhood. Once he started to cry, he wouldn't stop for half a day. So when Sam-nam began to cry, the family members were already terrified and busy giving him chestnuts or jujubes. However, his father, who came from Seoul after attending school, found that Sam-nam wouldn't stop crying for the reason that he was in a bad mood. The family members tried to take out chestnuts and jujubes as usual, but the father wouldn't allow any of that and also wouldn't serve him. Sam-nam became even angrier and cried louder, but the father didn't even look back and after a while of crying, finally,
“I guess I should stop crying now,” he said.
**The Madman and the Knife**
The madman was making a fuss and going wild. However, there was one way to keep this madman from moving or escaping, which was to draw a knife and chase him, causing him to tremble and flee to the corner. This stemmed from an incident when he was twenty-three or twenty-four years old, having an affair with a married woman and getting caught on the spot when Bon-nam tried to kill him with a knife, and he quickly ran away. Since then, he became a madman and became extremely afraid whenever he saw a knife.
**The Conductor and the Pursuing Passenger**
When Yong-nam ran to the tram station, the annoying conductor pulled the bell cord and the tram left. Yong-nam got angry and ran after the tram. The driver in front saw this and stopped. Yong-nam jumped up, pulled the conductor down, and pushed him nicely with 'Baepit'. Then he got on and pulled the bell cord. The conductor also brushed off the dust and got back on the tram.
**The Curved-Backed Old Man and the Bow**
The child, who had no choice but to bow according to his father's command, took advantage of the fact that the other person was a hunched old man, rushed forward to bow, and lifted his head. At that moment, his head bumped into the old man's chin.
“Ah, you rascal. If you bow twice, there won't be anything left on the old man's chin.”
**Water Truck**
Yong-gil, who was visiting Seoul for the first time, saw a worker pulling a water truck and said,
“Hey, are you planning to spill all the water on the street and take nothing home?”
**Christian Believer and Cheek**
Yong-gil met a Christian believer preaching on the street.
“Since you are so diligently encouraging, you must be a remarkable believer yourself, right?”
“Yes, of course, I am a believer.”
“Really?”
“There is no falsehood among Christian believers.”
“Then I will test you once. I will hit your right cheek now, so quickly present your left cheek.” and then he struck.
**Streetcar Seat and Woman**
A college student was sitting in a streetcar seat, looking only at the entrance, waiting for women to come in. When a hunched old man came in front of him and said,
“Let's sit here.” he did not listen, and when a young woman who boarded last approached, he quickly stood up and said,
“Please sit here.”
**Cow and Carrying Pole**
On the way to gather wood in the mountains, Choi-dong and Kim-dong from the countryside were walking. Choi-dong, standing in front, was still singing ‘Bang-a-taryeong’ without realizing that the carrying pole was dragging behind him. Kim-dong, who was running from behind, grabbed Choi-dong's carrying pole and shook it,
“Hey, hey.” he said.
**School Studies and Cow**
A boy who had just graduated from elementary school was celebrating his birthday for the first time while plowing a field, but the cow would not listen. His father,
“School studies are useless. I can't even handle a cow.” he scolded. Then the boy calmly replied,
“This cow doesn't understand Japanese because it didn't study at school.”
**Yong-gil and Gogi-jongdram**
Yong-gil went fishing by the riverside on a warm day with his father. While engrossed in catching fish, he chased after them and accidentally kicked Gogi-jongdram, who was right in front of him. With a splash, both went tumbling into the water.
**Yawn and Fist**
As his mother yawned, Sam-nam pushed his fist into her mouth,
“Is this a remedy for yawning?”
**Wind and Hat**
When the wind tried to blow the hat away, the gentleman, while adjusting his disheveled appearance, asked,
“How is it?”
**Wagon and Children**
On the way home from school, two boys by the roadside came up with a plan with the same two guys. The two of them rode at the back of the wagon, while one chatted amusingly with the wagon driver in front. They all laughed together and rode the wagon home.
**Grass Whipping and Jangdugan**
While Sam-nam was distractedly whipping grass with his friends, he accidentally dropped a stone on the lid of the neighbor's Jangdugan. A woman coming to shop was startled and hesitated, then boldly shouted over the fence,
“Who broke our Jangdugan lid?” Sam-nam calmly replied,
“We don’t know. We were just whipping grass.”
“You whipped grass, so you broke it.”
“Damn it. The stone broke it, not us. If you're going to scold someone, scold the stone.”
**Fight and Friendship**
While Sam-nam was beating up the neighbor's kid, the kid's father came out lazily. Sam-nam gently patted the kid's head,
“The dog is barking and crying. Don't cry.”
Then the child looked at his father,
“No, it's him who is barking.”
Sam-nam calmly said,
“That guy named Dog Poop, I think he's lost his mind. Don't cry.”
**Train and Cow**
While a boy was plowing his field next to the train tracks, a train passed by with a loud 'bang'. The cow got startled and ran off with the cart. The boy being dragged along looked pitifully miserable. He barely pulled out the wooden post and plowed just one and a half rows of the field before heading home.
**Woman and Rain**
Suddenly, it started to rain at the tram stop. Fortunately, a city man with an umbrella approached the woman standing in the rain, pondering how he could start a conversation and invite her under his umbrella,
“Hey! Please take shelter under the umbrella. Can't you see the water dripping from the edge of the umbrella?” he said. The woman gave him a sharp look. However, the city man considered this a fortunate turn of events and replied,
“What!? I didn't know. On the left, it suddenly started to rain... You must be getting wet. Come in here.”
“No. Who would go under that kind of umbrella...” the woman shot back once more. It wasn't even a matter of physics. The city man's umbrella was a terrible one with holes all over it.
**Topknot and Sleep**
In the old village classroom, the teacher had gone out and the students were reading books. Park-dol had his book open in front of him and was dozing off. Even while dozing, he still nodded back and forth. Yoon-chul folded a piece of paper into a crane and placed it on top of Park-dol's topknot. The crane wobbled back and forth as Park-dol dozed. The children in the classroom all gathered around and exclaimed, "Oh my!" At this sound, Park-dol was startled and looked around in confusion.
“What did the teacher say...?”
Yoon-chul stepped forward and greeted naturally. The other kids also took turns to step out and greet. At that moment, the teacher came in.
“You have returned now.”
Everyone lined up to greet. The teacher glanced at the children, then looked at the crane on top of Park-dol's topknot,
“What is that on your head?”
Park-dol touched his topknot with his hand and swatted the crane away, finally realizing the children's prank. However, calmly,
“I think I was reading Hyo-gyeong in my dream and was saddened by my father's aging.”
“Then, you were taking a nap!” the teacher said, slapping his cheek. But again, calmly,
“No, I was reading so intently that I couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.”