Dong-Chouel and the Harsh and Difficult Winter

* Part 1
* Part 2
* Part 3

Dong-Chouel and the Harsh and Difficult Winter is a Season 2 episode

## Plot

Dong-Chouel's family overcomes the situation in which the family's economy is in a tragedy due to his father's job loss.

## Summary

### Part I

As always, Dong-Chouel's family was living an ordinary life, but their father went home from work and bought expensive tangerines, thinking it's Chuseok in February, But Ms. Chouel said, **"Why did you buy expensive tangerines, when you haven't been paid for months...**

the father reassures him, saying, **" The end of hardship! The beginning of happiness, "** saying that the overdue salary **came .** The family happily eats fried chicken and has a pleasant dinner, but the father worries about the future, saying to himself **, "Eat a lot, it will be difficult to eat white rice in the future..." .** Afterwards, Dong-Chouel studies about the Joseon Dynasty to overcome the crisis.

The next day, Mr Chouel goes to work as usual, but he gives mother a surprise kiss and goes to work. A man with a nose mask sits with Malryong, who is sitting on a bench aimlessly in a snowy park. When the man with the nose cover found out that Mal-ryong was unemployed and said **, "You're the same as me,"** Mal-ryong immediately got angry and said, **"Oh, You have a different face, The different voice, The different height, and The wrong weight!!"** He got angry, but apologized for getting angry right after.

Later in the evening, while drinking at a food stall with a man with a nose pad, Mal-ryong said, **"All of you, Please forgive my starving children. Children, you must study hard.**

Afterwards, Mal-ryong goes home with the masked man, but Mr Chouel freezes on the spot and looks at Mal-ryong's back.

Afterwards, while Mr Chouel is knitting at home, Young-Chouel teases Dong-Chouel from the side, and Dong-Chouel gets angry at this and throws a pillow at his brother. Because of the thought of living, Ms Chouel on the spot. Dong-Chouel and Young-Chouel, completely unaware of the circumstances, are staring at their mother crying without being able to speak. Afterwards, Mal-ryong comes home drunk. Mal-ryong lies that there was a dinner party, but Mr Chouel already knows everything, so he cries while seeing her.

The next day, Dong-Chouel is walking to school fearing about the family's poverty, Swoople and Jimmy will be sent to the animal shelter, while Ki moves with Dong-Chouel's aunt and uncle, he won't have any clothes, he will be not able to eat, he will no longer go to school, and worse, their parents will become abusive, Sid Jeon tells Dong-Chouel to snap out of it, now Dong-Chouel snaps out of it and forgot thinking about the poverty

After school, Dong-Chouel was unable to talk to Lee due to his father's job loss and had no choice but to say nothing, Dong-Chouel tells Lee that his father lost his job,

At night, Dong-Chouel has a nightmare about the same thing about his imagination, leading him into tears

### Part II

the briquette stove was right outside the Dong-Chouel's room, so Mr. Chouel heard everything Grandma was saying behind her back, but without any sign of complaining, she grinded coal briquettes all night for the sake of her family because the floor was so hot that she couldn't sleep

And the next morning, Swoople understands everything about Mr Chouel's job loss. De Chon worries about his son and tells him not to go out now, but Ma Ryong says he has to find a job for him and needs to go out. Dae-Jung wonders if he is ashamed and regretful that he framed Dong-Chouel for several months and got angry.

While Swoople is getting ready for bed, he hears Mr and Ms Chouel confessing about the jobless thing

Now Swoople is having nightmares as a result,

The next day Dong-Chouel says he doesn't want to go to school, he cries and screams at his mother. It's because of their father-in-law's lost job. Harmeoni and Harabeoji lament that there was nothing they could do for their grandson in their room, only listening to their grandson cry. At least Eonnyeon said, **“Can’t you have a penny of inspiration?”** but Swoople also shook his head without saying a word. In the end, Mr-Chouel's backlash pushes Dong-Chouel's crying and he goes to school. Mr Chouel, seeing her back, also sheds tears.

Later, When she sees Dong-Chouel crying, the teacher feels uncomfortable with him, so his expression is not good. he has previously shown that this has happened between the teacher and the principal.

## Trivia

* It is evaluated as the most viewed episode of the 2nd season of Dong-Chouel The Naughty Brother that captures all the family tragedy, emotion, and fun experienced due to the father's job loss due to the recession. This episode won an Emmy award in 1988
* It shows how ordinary families collapsed due to economic recession or job loss in society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Of course, there are criticisms of this episode in 2009 in South Korea that Dong-Chouel lived well because he did not skip meals even though she had a large family, but Mr. Chouel, who saved his briquettes in the winter and kept the house cold, and saved food expenses while putting up with his family's complaints, was very dissatisfied. Dong-Chouel and Young-Chouel also have difficulties in going to school because they cannot pay their father-in-law's dues
* If it was Barley Pass, it would be difficult to eat even a single meal properly, but Dong-Chouel's family did not starve even though the meal was poor. It is one of the devices that show the fact that Dong-Chouel's family still have money
* Kim-Seo does not appear in this episode, this was likely due to her going south for the winter.