Dong-Chouel in Camp

Dong-Chouel in Camp is the 26th episode of Dong-Chouel: Next Generation, and as well the final episode of Season 1

## Plot

Life was better in the old days. Or was it?, That's the question Dong-Chouel is asking himself as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Dong-Chouel isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Chouel home, will Dong-Chouel find a way to survive? Or is going "old school" just too hard for a kid like Dong-Chouel?

## Summary

Samchon moves in with the Chouel family since he can longer afford the rent at Jeju. Ms. Chouel disapproves, but Halmeoni says that as a child, her grandparents lived in the same house as her. Plus, she's happy because they are grown under the same roof. Dong-Chouel thinks that unlike Halmeoni's rosy imagination of the past, in those days, they would have had to bathe Samchon. Samchon picks Dong-Chouel's bedroom, leaving Dong-Chouel having to share with Ki-Chouel, but he's bothered by the long bedtime stories Ms. Chouel tells Ki-Chouel at night.

On Saturday night, they visit Samchon at his job, who is a dustman (throwing trash in the back), which Swoople does not like. They eat ice cream, but Lee-Choi is not hungry.

Chang-Ho says that when he was a kid, kids spent most of their time playing Jegi. Dong-Chouel and Lee had tried that once, but quit to use their phones after thirty seconds. Mr. Chouel says that as a kid, he and his best friend Giles would play make-believe in the woods. Dong-Chouel and Lee tried, but Mr. Choi didn't want them to. Mr. Chouel then says that nowadays, parents are overprotective and as kids, he and Giles roamed free. Halmeoni says that it was safer back in those days, but Mr. Chouel says that as kids, he and Giles buried weapons all over town to protect themselves. Chang-Ho says that the then-boys actually hid silverware to fight with, but had to bring them back, so they used plastic utensils. They then argued about if they'd be efficient for self-defense and Mr. Chouel poked Giles in the butt with a spork and Giles's mother spanked Mr. Chouel. To get Samchon to move out so he doesn't have to share with Ki-Chouel and Samchon (who mopes around the house in his bathrobe), Samchon gets a promotion to dress up as the mascot of Minute Kimchi, who is not allowed to be seen without his head, and who children hate. Samchon drinks through his costume's left eye and Dong-Chouel wonders if the previous Kimmy quit on purpose.

Dong-Chouel talks about the popularity of Hongdo Farms, where he doesn't want to go. Ki-Chouel wants him to go, but Dong-Chouel doesn't want to as Young-Chouel's letters from there are all "Help help get me out of here", and when he went he stayed in bed for two days afterward. All the students are looking for a good cabin, and Lee is looking for someone to bunk with him. Dong-Chouel then narrates how his parents got a letter from the school saying they had to come in for a parent-teacher conference. He worries he forgot to cross Frew's name off of his assignments and was in trouble, but really it was that they were putting him in harder classes, which makes Dong-Chouel worry about tests, but Ms. Chouel says it is good news they need to celebrate, by going to the Minute Kimchi. Samchon stays, probably due to ice cream making his gums hurt. Ki-Chouel tries using that as an excuse, but Swoople and Dong-Chouel doesn't believe it. At the restaurant, Samchon has never shown up.

The Chouels search and find him walking along the side of the highway. It turns out there was a traffic jam, about to make him late, so he got into a car-pool lane where he could go faster, but the rule was that there needs to be more than one person in the vehicle, so he used his Kimmy head as another "passenger", but a cop pulled him over and gave him a hundred dollar fine, then found a broken taillight and an expired inspection sticker, so he towed Samchon's van but Chang-Ho is in there, leaving Chang-Ho to have things thrown at him by children in the vehicles. The Chouels drive home to wash Samchon's costume, but at home, there are cars all over the place. In the yard, all of Samchon's friends are having a party, which Ms. Chouel stops, then Ms. Chouel tells Samchon off and puts him in time-out, however, Samchon had only meant to invite one guy, but accidentally hit "send all" and everyone showed up at once, and then it had escalated into a party. That night, Dong-Chouel finds two party guests in Ki-Chouel's closet, surprising him.

The next day at school, Dong-Chouel wonders if he's unprepared because all the other children have a whole lot of gear than Dong-Chouel. Also, the stuff takes up half the space on the bus, forcing the kids to double up on seats by sitting down on kid's laps. Greg also notices that the kids leaving the group look like they are scared of something and glad to be leaving, and a boy at the back is holding a sign, on which is written: "BEWARE OF THE TIGER MAN".

A boy standing next to Greg says his older brother went to Hongdo Farms a few years ago and told him all about this farmer named The Tiger Man who lived at Hongdo Farms a long time ago, but the county came in and kicked him off his land. Another boy says he heard that after that happened, The Tiger Man went to live in the forest, where he survived by eating slugs and berries

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