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Great Korean Railway Journeys - Season 1 Episode 2 - Suwon to Seodaemun Seoul
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00:01South Korea by rail
00:04These trains are capable of more than 200 MPa the
00:09Opportunity to explore one of the world's most successful countries amidst towering
00:15skyscrapers in gleaming mega cities and
00:18architectural statement
00:21I'll ride the wave of Korean culture sweeping the West. It's got this very spicy sauce
00:27And encounter ancient civilizations and traditions
00:33On a peninsula divided by war along a border between capitalism and communism the sense of tension here is
00:41Powerful. I'll see how out of destruction and partition South Koreans have forged an impressive new identity
01:00I
01:18My journey of discovery in the Republic of Korea continues in its massive capital Seoul
01:25The Korean Peninsula endured a terrible 20th century with a long period of Japanese colonization
01:32Including the Second World War and then the devastation of the Korean War
01:37I'll explore how in the south the state has backed enormous industrial conglomerates
01:42That grew from family businesses to drive economic growth and I'll see how K-pop
01:49conquered the world
01:52Beginning close to the demilitarized zone on the frontier with the North my route has brought me to the capital
01:58Seoul
01:59I'll head south by daijong to the historic city of gyeongju and on to busan the country's biggest port
02:08Continuing west I'll visit guangju symbol of the nation's struggle for democracy
02:13And I'll end my travels on the volcanic island of jeju korea's top on the day destination
02:39even if you are used to the complexities of the London underground this map is pretty mind-blowing it shows
02:4724 different metro lines and no fewer than 302 stations
02:54However as you go along each line each station has a number a
02:59Simple but brilliant idea and it means that during your journey even if you're not fluent in Korean
03:05Even if you don't have the English language, you'll have a very good idea when you've reached your stop
03:14This morning, I'm taking the shin bun dang express line south out of the city to the district of su
03:20won
03:21Where the headquarters of a global tech giant and Korea's biggest company is based
03:29It's one of a few family businesses that in a drive to rebuild the economy following the Korean war were
03:35backed by the government to boost growth
03:40This system has produced companies that are dominant in world markets and it has made the average Korean rich by
03:48global standards
03:50These companies are now huge conglomerates and household names such as hyundai and lg
03:58Here in su won is the biggest of them all samsung
04:03It's south korea's largest exporter and one of the world's leading producers of consumer electronics
04:10This 390 acre site known as digital city employs around 35,000 people
04:17Predominantly in the research and development of new products
04:21Bobby Lim is the director of communications
04:24Bobby hello hello hello Michael what a pleasure it looks like an enormous facility that you have here yes
04:32We have mobile business home entertainment business, and we have great facilities for our employees. It's a big campus
04:41It's obviously now a giant corporation, but everything begins somewhere yes, where did samsung begin?
04:48Well samsung started back in 1938 in korea by mr. Pyeongchul lee
04:54Originally as a trading company and it dealt in everyday products like dried fish and apple selling mostly to nearby
05:02countries
05:02And when did the company get into electronics, so samsung electronics was founded in 1969
05:08In the early years we started making black-and-white televisions followed by washing machines refrigerators and air-conditioners
05:16And you know too many families in Korea at the time there were more than just appliances
05:21They were actually a symbol of progress and a modern lifestyle
05:25Then by the 1980s doubts when we ventured into semiconductors and telecoms and in 2010
05:32We launched our first smartphone and since then we have expanded into everything from mobile home entertainment and smart appliances
05:39powered by AI
05:43In the on-site museum you can see how much things have moved on since the early days
05:50I don't know why it is but technology from yesteryear seems pretty amusing like that
05:571970s black-and-white television ah
06:00The video recorder also from the late 1970s
06:051983 the personal computer
06:07And much the same age
06:10The clumsiest looking microwave you ever saw
06:23Across the site the company's latest gadgets and innovations are tested in a full-size model smart home
06:32Hello tay hello Michael
06:34So i'm going to open the door with my fingerprint let me show you i'm taking a tour with manager
06:38tay lee
06:42Good start
06:46This way
06:49So the home knows that i'm home and i like it nice and bright in my home when i arrive
06:53So the curtains will open the blinds will open lights turn on and the tvs come on that's right
07:00So all of this is very convenient what else can smart home do for us
07:05So these devices that are connected they connect with each other and they communicate
07:09So it will optimize energy consumption so you don't even have to worry about it'll do it by itself
07:16This is a refrigerator but looking more like a television than a fridge
07:20Right so you can do everything you can with a tablet for example um watch even movies here
07:26But here what i want to show you is
07:29In the fridge we have a camera built in and it will manage what you have inside your fridge for
07:35you
07:35It will give me a recipe recommendation based on what i like
07:39Very good as well as suggesting what you might enjoy for lunch the smart house can help you to cook
07:45it
07:46I think this is a very good recipe to start with i'm going to hand you my phone
07:50All you need to do is scan the barcode right here
07:55Okay okay so you want to tap this one right here which is the same as this one
08:00And then tap on step-by-step cooking
08:05Tap on the phone where it says send to order purifier
08:10And place it here just push down on the lever
08:15So you don't have to worry about how much water you need to add for this recipe it will automatically
08:19do it for you
08:20That is insane
08:23So we'll bring the pot back over to the cooktop
08:30Tap on send to cooktop
08:32Of course
08:34So this is another device where it has a screen and it communicates with you
08:38It will automatically set the right temperature for the pot to boil the water
08:44And will it open the packet for me or not?
08:47I think that's something for the future
08:50Put it in the pot
08:53So just
08:54Put it in port
09:03Smells great
09:04Say goodbye to overcooked noodles
09:09In the kitchen i always take orders so if it's from a machine rather than a person that's just fine
09:16It's been great to cook with you tay and with your wonderful new technology my pleasure
09:23How do you like it?
09:27They're cooked to perfection
09:30Being in this futuristic country is helping me to glimpse the future
09:47I'm returning to seoul city center
09:51And next to the modern main railway station
09:54I'm intrigued to find an historic building that looks oddly out of place
10:12The building is magnificent although
10:17Strange and eclectic with its granite floor and this massive square byzantine style dome
10:25This is the old seoul railway station built in 1925 it was renovated and transformed into a cultural center in
10:342011
10:36Today it's a magnificent space for displays for exhibitions and for great public events
10:43So young troy is one of the guides here
10:46So young hello i'm michael oh hello nice to meet you i am so young troy
10:50I do too so i love this old railway station but i'm surprised to find this in seoul it doesn't
10:58it doesn't look asian
11:00๋น์์๋ ์ด์ ํ๋ฐ๋๊ฐ ์ผ๋ณธ์ ์ง๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ์ผ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ ์๊ธฐ์๊ณ
11:05์์ ์ด๊ฐ๋ค์์ ์ ํํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฌํ ์์์ผ๋ก ์ด๊ณณ์ ์ง์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
11:10Did the architects of this station use any european buildings as their model
11:14์ด๊ณณ ๊ฒฝ์ฑ ์ญ์ ์ค๊ณํ๋ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ์ถ์ ๋๊ณ ์๋ ์ค์นด๋ชจํ ์ผ์ค์๋ผ๋ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ์ ๋ฝ์ ์ ํ์ ํ์ ๋
11:22์๋ง ์ด ์ค์์ค์ ๋ฃจ์ฒด๋ฅธ ์ญ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ด๊ณณ๊ณผ ๋น์ทํ๊ฒ ์ง์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ ์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค
11:27During japan's 35 year rule it was known as gyeongseong station it was renamed seoul station following korea's liberation in
11:361945
11:38trains continue to run here until 2004 when the bold new terminus opened next door
11:45Do the people of seoul feel an affection for this building in european style and built by the colonial power
11:54the japanese
11:54์ฌ์ค ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ต์ฅํ ์๊ฒฌ์ด ๋ง์ด ๋๋๋๋ฐ์
12:01๋น์ ์ผ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ์๋ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋จ์์๋ ๋ง์ ๊ทผ๋ ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ ์ค์์ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ ์ผ๋ค์ด ์์๋๋ฐ
12:09๊ทธ๋ฌํ ๊ณผ์ ์์์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ์ํ ์ญ์ฌ๋ ์ญ์ฌ๋ผ๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ ์์๊ณ
12:14์ด๋ค ๋ถ๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ์ํ ๊ธฐ์ต์ผ์ง๋ผ๋ ์ด๋ค ๋ถ์๊ฒ๋ ์ถ์ต์ด ์๋ ค์๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค
12:33์ด ์์คํ
์ ๋ฃจ์ฒด๋ก ์ธ์ ํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค
12:34continuing my exploration of seoul i'm drawn again to the fashionable district of gangnam
12:44it's one of seoul's richest neighborhoods and achieve global fame with the 2012 smash hit gangnam style
12:51it's now the epicenter of south korea's pop scene which along with south korean films and tv
12:58is making a worldwide impact
13:07squid game the korean dystopian thriller series is the most watched drama on netflix of all time
13:16in 2020 parasite a korean movie won the oscar for best picture the first film not in the english
13:25language to do so there is no doubt that the world is being refreshed by a wave of korean culture
13:33for which the korean expression is halyu and the field of music is very much included with k-pop
13:42populating the global charts the success of k-pop has led to an explosion of dance and music studios
13:49across the city offering classes for aspiring stars and for those who want to learn some k-pop moves
13:57i'm dropping in at deaf company dance school and music academy which is run by sum kyu yang
14:04it's the yang hello
14:08great to see you um
14:13your academy and your dance school have been going since 2002
14:18when do you think was the origin of k-pop
14:21was able to break through not being in the english language it's the first example really
14:50of a music that's coming from the eastern part of the world and penetrating america and penetrating europe
14:57why does it succeed
14:59ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช
ํด์ง ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ 1๋ ๋ชปํ์ด์ ์๋๋ฉด์
15:06๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ ์ด๋ค ์์
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ ์ด๋ค ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ค ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์คํ
์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ง
15:12์ด๊ฒ ํ๊ตญ ์์
์ด๋ผ๊ณ k-pop์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ ์์ง๋ง ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์ ํ์ด๋๊น
15:19๋ชจ๋ ๊ทธ ์ ์ง๊ตญ์ ๋ฌธํ๋ค์ด ๋ค์ด์์ ์ข ์ฝ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์์๋ค
15:29some of today's huge k-pop stars began their journey to fame and fortune
15:34in classes like this along with group lessons the academy offers one-to-one tuition perfect for enthusiastic beginners
15:45hello hi my name is michael i'm um very nice to see you indeed well how should we start
15:54์ถค์ ๋จผ์ ์ ํํ
ํ๋ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ด์
16:16์ถค์ ๋ดค๋๋ฐ ์ด
16:23I want to show you a little bit more detail.
16:27I'm going to do the steps together.
16:49One step, two step, three step, four, five, six, seven, eight.
17:05Oh, yes.
17:10Yes, yes, clap, clap.
17:17Okay, step step.
17:27Wave.
17:36Bravo.
17:42Oh, oh, oh.
17:44Unlike me, these young stars of the future make it look easy.
17:51Can you tell me why are you taking these classes?
17:55Are you doing it because you want to go into the music and dance industry?
17:59Yeah, I love to try.
18:01The first time I came here, it was like a mess.
18:05And then I started to build up my skills from teachers.
18:10Fantastic.
18:13How long have you been taking these classes?
18:16Two months.
18:17What made you want to do it?
18:18Actually, I've been always to be a singer.
18:23I'm preparing my album on my own.
18:27You're preparing an album? Wow.
18:30Well, good luck to you with your first album.
18:33Thank you very much.
19:01Quite apart from the extraordinary number of high rise buildings in Seoul, there's also an underground city.
19:08You access it from a number of subway stations, and you find there long halls, shopping malls, full of places
19:17selling food and clothing, and they are an integral part of metropolitan life.
19:29This modernity and vibrancy are a big part of today's South Korean identity.
19:35This country has proved its national energy, maybe as a reaction against the first half of the 20th century when
19:42it was occupied by the Japanese.
19:44In the north-west of the city, in the district of So Daemon, is Independence Park, an historic and cultural
19:52site which bears witness to that traumatic period of Korea's past.
19:59Historically, Korea has been painfully squeezed by her powerful neighbours.
20:04For years, she was forced to recognise the authority of the Emperor of China.
20:10In 1910, Japan converted Korea into a colony in which the teaching of Korea's language and history was forbidden and
20:19property was seized.
20:20I've come to this the site of a notorious prison to understand the history of those brave individuals who resisted
20:29the brutal Japanese occupation and paid with their lives.
20:34Following its closure in the 1980s, So Daemon Prison is now a museum dedicated to those who fought against colonial
20:43rule.
20:44Jawan Kim is a professor of modern history at Seoul's Catholic University of Korea.
20:50Jawan, we're at the site of a very forbidding-looking prison.
20:54Tell me a little about its history, please.
21:00This is Korea's first modern prison, built in 1908.
21:05By that point, Japan had already taken the administrative authority of the Korean Empire, including its diplomatic rights.
21:13In general, how did Japan treat its Korean colony?
21:19The Japanese considered themselves civilised, while they viewed the Korean people, who were called Joseon, as barbaric.
21:29Consequently, the Japanese treated the Korean people very disrespectfully.
21:35At Seoul's Pagoda Park, on the 1st of March 1919, the Korean resistance movement staged its first mass demonstration, and
21:45a declaration of independence was read.
21:51Firstly, following the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference was held.
21:56Around that time, the concept of national self-determination emerged, and inspired Koreans.
22:02Secondly, Koreans already felt a great deal of anger towards Japan.
22:08The first protest was led by students and religious figures.
22:12The Japanese authorities forcibly suppressed the protest, resulting in a number of casualties from day one.
22:21Did the ideas of resistance and rebellion spread throughout Korea?
22:28Koreans nationwide joined the protests, which began at train stations, and then spread from March to mid-April.
22:36Do we know how many Korean people died during those demonstrations in 1919?
22:42There are no accurate statistics on the number of deaths.
22:45However, records show that several massacres occurred at the time.
22:50According to the Governor General of Japan's records,
22:53around 1.5 to 2 million Koreans participated in the March 1st movement in 1919.
23:00Of those, between 19,000 and 20,000 were punished or charged.
23:10One of the youngest and best-known figures of the independence movement was Yu Guan-sun,
23:16a young Christian nationalist who joined the cause as a student in Seoul
23:21and has become a symbol of Korea's struggle for freedom.
23:25Myung Sang-ryu is a descendant of her family.
23:28Mr Yu.
23:29Hello, I'm Michael.
23:31Myung Sang-ryu, nice to meet you.
23:33Great pleasure.
23:34Can you please tell me about Yu Guan-su?
23:40Yu Guan-sun, a martyr for Korean independence, is a distant great art of mine.
23:45You received a Christian education at school and participated in the March 1st independence movement.
23:52You shared what had happened in Seoul with the community elders and the people of her town.
23:57You thought that in her hometown there should be a protest as well.
24:02This became known as the Aone Market demonstration.
24:09A month after the first independence demonstration in the capital,
24:14around 3,000 people gathered in the small town of Chionnan.
24:20Yu handed out the flags and led the chanting of long-lived Korean independence.
24:25However, the Japanese police forcibly suppressed the protesters with guns and swords.
24:31As a result, Yu's parents were killed by stabbing and shooting.
24:38Yu was convicted of sedition and sentenced to five years at Soedemun.
24:43But the teenager continued to fight against Korea's colonial oppressors.
24:50Most of the prisoners were anti-Japanese independence activists related to the March 1st movement.
24:57So, once Yu shouted for Korean independence, the entire prison shouted together,
25:02Long live Korean independence!
25:07But, alas, she died here!
25:10What happened?
25:13The prison authorities identified Yu as the leader and tortured her.
25:17The torture was so severe that she eventually died in prison from the after effects.
25:26Yu was just 17 when she died on the 28th of September, 1920.
25:31gels
25:46Yu Yuen Soong was held in a prison cell like this and she used this wooden floor
25:56to communicate her patriotism to other prisoners.
26:02This love of fatherland, of mother country,
26:07is one of the greatest passions that a human being feels.
26:10And it drives people to do extraordinary things.
26:14Even so, I am in wonder that this 17-year-old
26:19could find such courage to sacrifice her life for Korea.
26:27How do you think such a young person
26:31could be so brave and so filled with Korean patriotism?
26:36How is it possible?
26:38I believe it was possible because she was convinced
26:41that fighting for one's homeland was the right thing to do.
26:45I also think that use Christian faith
26:47enabled her to make this sacrifice.
27:19The 20th century made Koreans tough.
27:23They endured a brutal colonisation by Japan.
27:26And then in quick succession,
27:28the Second World War and the Korean War.
27:32For the last seven decades,
27:34the state-sponsored capitalism of the South
27:36has been in a fierce competition of systems
27:39with the northern communist neighbour
27:42and it has roared ahead.
27:44The so-called Korean shrimp,
27:48sandwiched between the whales of Japan and China,
27:52has become a big fish now
27:54and swims confidently in global economic markets.
27:59Next time,
28:00Is there competition between China and Korea for ginseng?
28:05In Korea's quality,
28:06China's quantity.
28:09The tremendous economic growth in Korea
28:12has affected most people in most places.
28:15And here,
28:15yesterday's hovels are today's chic.
28:21It's extraordinary to touch an object
28:24that is 1,500 years old.
28:29It's tapi kinseng,
28:36It's tรคtรค reason
28:37and the kinseng
28:37And that's the Bundation
28:37and sul่ฅฟ
28:37isฦก
28:56of the
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