Dong-Chouel's Family Album

Dong-Chouel's Family Album is a Season 2 episode

## Characters

* Dong-Chouel
* Ki-Chouel
* Young-Chouel
* Swoople
* Ms. Chouel
* Mr. Chouel
* Halmeoni-Chouel
* Harabeoji-Chouel
* Halmeoni's Toucan
* Strangers
* Big-Al (as a 10 year old)
* Sid-Jeon (as a toddler)
* Jimmy (mentioned only)
* Myung-Hee (mentioned only)
* Lee-Choi (mentioned only)
* Kim-Seo (Indirectly mentioned)
* Hana-Chouel (Indirectly mentioned)

## Plot

Ms. Chouel shows Swoople a family album and tells a story about how Ki-Chouel was born.

## Summary

It's the middle of winter in Dong-Chouel's neighborhood, Swoople is reading Oliver Twist and imagines him as the orphanage head and Ki-Chouel as Oliver Twist, in which the titular character is denied more food by the orphanage head., At dinnertime, Ki-Chouel feeds his kimchi to Swoople, in which Ms. Chouel scolds Ki-Chouel for it., Swoople tells Ms. Chouel that he threw the kimchi to Jimmy, resulting Ki-Chouel and Swoople to argue, Mr. Chouel tells Swoople and Ki-Chouel to stop arguing, Much to Ki-Chouel's anger., The next day, Mr. and Ms. Chouel show the Chouel kids and Swoople pictures of the Chouel brothers when they were just babies.

The story starts when the Chouel brothers arrive home and hear a baby crying. They then see a baby in a crib, Ms. Chouel comes in and gives the kitten a bottle, and the little brothers ask Ms. Chouel if he had a baby.

In the garden, the Chouel brothers talk about how when they were Ki-Chouel's age, they were his size, but they can't remember, and about how Ki-Chouel has plenty of energy and seems to want out. They put him down but Dong-Chouel falls over. Ms. Chouel tells them to be careful and not play rough, and the brothers promise to do as Ms. Chouel says. Later, Ms. Chouel washes Ki-Chouel which surprises the brothers as it is their bath time. At dinner, Ms. Chouel is too busy feeding Ki-Chouel to help serve seconds, and at bedtime the parents are too busy to read to the brothers.

The next day, Ms. Chouel says she remembered there was a field trip and hands the brothers their lunch boxes. At school, the children were expecting the brothers to get something fancy for lunch but instead they got kimchi, rice and a bottle of water each, which nobody is impressed by. The brothers wonder if it's because Ms. Chouel was distracted. At bedtime, Mr. and Ms. Chouel are too busy putting Ki-Chouel to his crib to read to the brothers, who don't feel like reading to themselves.

The next day Dong-Chouel wakes up Ki-Chouel and makes him cry because he thought he was awake, and Ms. Chouel puts him back to sleep. The brothers are reminded to take their umbrellas but Dong-Chouel forgets. At school, Dong-Chouel doesn't do too well because she is distracted, she even speaks her daydreams out loud. Most of the kids are home, except Sid-Jeon who are being picked up, and Dong-Chouel who has to clean the classroom. Young-Chouel arrives home. After cleaning, Sid-Jeon gets picked up.

At four o'clock, Young-Chouel notices Dong-Chouel has forgotten his umbrella and Dong-Chouel thinks his parents don't love him anymore as they didn't pick him up. he notices the train station people are lucky as they get to go away and decides to ride a train to his grandparents' house, so he rides a train, remembering when he first rode one with his family, and then runs to her grandparents' house. The grandparents dry him off and then Dong-Chouel shouts his mother doesn't love him, so Halmeoni phones up, and meanwhile, at home, and Mr. and Ms. Chouel are glad Dong-Chouel's alright and discuss that they should get more attention. The grandparents show photos of Dong-Chouel and Young-Chouel as babies, and wonders how the grownups could tell them apart then. They then look at photos of the parents when they were dating, and say that Mr. Chouel was shy and Ms. Chouel was noticed by a lot of men then. They then tell the story of how they met: It was windy, and Mr. Chouel had shared his umbrella with her. Dong-Chouel imagines himself in the story.

Then, the family come to take Dong-Chouel home and Dong-Chouel says "What's a little wind?" and the flashback ends with Dong-Chouel singing his father's "I Love the Wind and the Wind Loves Me" song., The episode ends with everyone (except for Swoople and Ki-Chouel) crying, Swoople disappointedly tells the viewers that their crying again.

## Trivia

* This is one of the few episodes where Dong-Chouel is seen crying.
* Jimmy does not appear in this episode.
* The syndicated version removes the scene when Dong-Chouel walks home sadly.

## Broadcast History

### ABC3/ABC Me

* December 23, 2009, 1:00pm
* November 7, 2010, 12:00pm

### Boomerang

* October 3, 2001, 4:30pm
* September 3, 2019, 4:30pm

### CBBC

* August 1, 2009, 5:30pm
* January 3, 2011, 5:30pm
* November 1, 2011, 5:30pm
* April 3, 2012, 5:30pm
* May 3, 2015, 5:30pm
* May 7, 2020, 5:30pm
* May 3, 2021, 1:30pm
* January 14, 2024, 1:30pm

## Home Video Releases

### VHS

#### ABC Video

* Dong-Chouel The Naughty Brother, Dong-Chouel's Family Album and Other Stories, August 5, 1995.

#### Hanna-Barbera Home Video

* Dong-Chouel The Naughty Brother, Dong-Chouel's Family Album, May 1992

#### Warner Home Video

* Dong-Chouel The Complete Season 2, September 13, 2002.

### DVD

#### Warner Archive

* Dong-Chouel The Naughty Brother: The Complete Series, May 7, 2010

###### ABC DVD

* Dong-Chouel The Naughty Brother: Series 2, April 7, 2012