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My Liberation Diary Standard Edition
My Liberation Diary Standard Edition
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Book Introduction
Another life drama written by Park Hae-young, the writer of "My Mister."

The drama "My Liberation Diary," which caused the "Goo-ssi-sal-i" and "Chu-ang" syndromes and ranked first in drama buzz for four consecutive weeks when it was aired, has been published with an original script by writer Park Hae-young.
The JTBC drama "My Liberation Diary," which ended in May 2022, won the Korea Broadcasting Writers Award for its realistic portrayal of three siblings living on the outskirts of Gyeonggi Province, along with Mr. Gu, an outsider, and the people around them, dreaming of liberation to find their own happiness.
Scenes you want to see again, lines you want to hear again, interviews with the writer and actors that allow you to hear their vivid voices, all included in the 『My Liberation Diary Script Book』.


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My Liberation Diary 1

Planning Intention 006
Character 008
Episode 1: 017
Episode 2: 075
Episode 3: 130
Episode 4 183
Actor Interview: EL 243
Still cut 249

My Liberation Diary 2

Character Relationship Chart 006
Episode 5 008
Episode 6:064
Episode 7: 123
Episode 8: 182
Actor Interview: Lee Min-ki 241
Still cut 247

My Liberation Diary 3

Undecided Liberation Diary 006
Episode 9 010
Episode 10: 069
Episode 11 127
Episode 12 187
Actor Interview: Kim Ji-won 246
Still cut 253

My Liberation Diary 4

Park Hae-young's Famous Line Commentary 006
Episode 13 008
Episode 14: 066
Episode 15: 125
Episode 16 183
Actor Interview: Son Seok-gu 246
Author Interview: Park Hae-young 253
Still cut 265
People Who Made Dramas 278

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Into the book
Kijung: (Out of the blue) I was right, it was the Joseon Dynasty.
'From today onwards, that person is your partner.' Then, 'Yes.'
From today on, I will love you passionately.' And if I had just lived like that... I think I would have lived well.
…I find this era of picking and choosing people more burdensome.
---From "Episode 1, Scene 63"

Undecided: (E) All relationships are work.
Every moment you are awake is work.
---From "Episode 2, Scene 61"

Jinwoo: If you keep that in mind, it'll probably be right.
And rather than blindly deciding to love anyone, it would be much more constructive to resolve to make the first move if you find someone you like.

Kijung: As expected, you are an expert.
Yes! If a guy I like appears, I'll definitely try him out first.
Jinwoo: ..Don't push yourself, confess.
Kijung: I'm embarrassed to confess.
Jinwoo: That's what my mother always says.
'You don't have to look for a home or a partner.
It will come when the time is right.' It will come when the time is right.
Come to me.
Kijung: Shall we come?
Jinwoo: Here we go.
Kijung: (Pretending to touch his bag) I think I should give you some lottery tickets.
---From "Episode 3, Scene 46"

Mijung: (E) People get scared when there's thunder and lightning... but I, strangely, feel calm.
/ The world is finally ending.
/ The sea I longed for.
/ I feel trapped, and I don't know how or where to get out, so I guess I just want it to end together.
'I'm not unhappy, but I'm not happy either.
It doesn't matter if it ends like this.' / It's all a road to the grave, so what's so exciting and good about it?
/ Sometimes, aren't broken people much more honest than people who live well without any problems? Yes.
---From "Episode 4, Scene 53"

Changhee: … Being at Yerin’s level means being a woman with a stroller to push and a kindergarten to send her child to… In my opinion, a decent woman is one who can be that greedy… But, I’m the kind of man who can’t do that… / This is my dilemma.
Because I keep meeting women without resolving this dilemma, I keep breaking up with them.
What's different about Dayeon?
His greed is obvious, and my topic is obvious.
---From "Episode 5, Scene 49"

Mijung: Who would make me look better if I were with them?
Who do you pair up with?
Even though I've been so picky and choose, I still don't fully support that person.
You have to be better than me, but not too good.
/ I never gave it completely.
I have never received it at all.
/ Don't do that again.
If it goes well and looks like it's going to fly, I'll happily let it fly.
Even if you say the floor is long, it won't be sold.
Even if everyone in the world points fingers at me, I will only cheer for you as a human being.
---From "Episode 6, Scene 31"

Changhee: When things are good, I just like them.
When my heart races… When I feel like I can have it if I do well.
A storm of anticipation.
Something like this.
I guess what's mine is just mine.
Have you seen your heart race when your paycheck comes in? Why does it race when it's mine? It's not mine, I know it's not mine, but when it feels like I could get it if I do well, that's when my heart races.
The relationship between men and women is the same.
Among married people, when I hear stories of people who said they knew the one at first sight, I immediately thought, '(dumb) Hmm.
It's you.' That's what they say.
It's not like my heart is pounding.
(dumb) Hmm.
It's you.' It's just mine.
Relationships are natural.
There is nothing to long for.
It's mine, so why do you crave it? Have you ever seen rich people crave luxury goods? Just buy them.
When I desperately want something, deep down inside my soul knows.
It's not for me.
I want it but I don't, so I'm going crazy.
(After saying that, suddenly) What the heck.
That's why I couldn't drive a car.
ah…
---From "Episode 7, Scene 9"

Mijung: I think about that sometimes.
When you were three… when you were seven… when you were nineteen… I want to sit next to you as a child and stay still with you…
---From "Episode 8, Scene 71"

Wonhee: Why do I hate seeing girls my age shopping in groups at department stores?
Kijung: Because I came to spend money.
There will be a husband too.
And I have a child.
(We don't have any)
Wonhee: … I want to buy something really expensive in front of those women that they can't afford and make them feel bad about themselves.
I want to have a body that can pull off the sexiest and most stylish clothes the best.
Kijung: … I hate families of four more than women hanging out in groups.
That iron fortress.
Wonhee: … We also came from a family.
Kijung: We never go out together as a family.
Are you crazy? It's disgusting to even see it from the corner of the house.
(Quietly looking at the scoreboard) Will the corner of the house we built… be the same as the corner of the house we left?
---From "Episode 9, Scene 39"

Mr. Koo: (E) You… have to kill your instincts… go to the city and dull your instincts.
So, instead of talking about things like frogs bursting to death, you need to know how to talk about boring stories like women's superficial stories and watermelon stories with sincerity.
So boring, so boring… So… A man is so bored that he wants to die… A woman whose instincts are alive is scary…
---From "Episode 10, Scene 10"

Undecided: (E) It didn't exist before 1991, and it won't exist in 50 years.
It feels like it existed before and will exist after.
I feel like I'll last forever... I'm tormented by that feeling, but my heart has never, not once, settled down in any one place.
I feel anxious even under the blanket, and I feel anxious even among people.
Why can't I... smile brightly like other kids? Why am I... always sad? Why... my heart always races? Why... is everything boring? / Humans are all like scarecrows.
A scarecrow who lives by acting without knowing what he really is.
In a way, people who say they live healthy lives may be those who have agreed to put all these questions to rest.
People who have agreed to a lie, saying, 'This is life.'
/ I don't agree.
I don't need a heaven to go to when I die.
I will live to see heaven.
---From "Episode 11, Scene 20"

Taehoon: Since we're a group that gathered together to be happy, we decided on three principles to take a more honest look at our lives.
Fragrance: (nods)
Taehoon: 1.
I won't pretend to be happy.
Fragrance: (calm + serious) Yes.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
I won't pretend to be happy.
Taehoon: 2.
I won't pretend to be unhappy.
Fragrance: (Hmm?) Yes…
Taehoon: 3.
Let's be honest.
Fragrance: … (sighing, squeaking) But.
Why am I… scared of being honest?
Taehoon: Just be honest with yourself.
Inwardly.
Fragrance: Oh, yes.
It's a surprise.
I almost quit today.
Because I'm scared.
ha ha ha.
---From "Episode 12, Scene 22"

Changhee: Every time I'm about to give up, I eat until summer vacation, and if possible, even the Chuseok holiday... Then, because the end of the year is lonely, spring is bearable... I go around like that.
I'm not a bundle of greed like Senior Jeong, who runs like crazy with money in his hands.
I think it's enough to run this far.
It's not my path, so I don't have to keep being pushed around.
Team Leader Kang: You don't need to explain to me... Why don't you know?
Changhee: Honestly, I… don’t have anywhere I want to plant my flag.
Money, women, fame… nowhere.
But… do I really have to plant a flag? Can’t I just live without planting one? It’s not like I can force myself to create a desire that doesn’t exist and keep going…
---From "Episode 13, Scene 52"

Mr. Gu: Have you been liberated since then?
Mijung: (F) … That can’t be.
Mr. Gu: … Have you met a man who admires you?
Mijung: (F) … That can’t be.
Mr. Gu: … Let’s see.
Mijung: (F) … It won’t work.
Mr. Koo: Why?
Mijung: (F) … Because I gained weight.
I need to lose weight.
Mr. Koo: Get out of here within an hour.
---From "Episode 14, Scene 64"

TBD: 5 minutes a day.
If I could just breathe for 5 minutes, I could live.
When I go to a convenience store, I get excited for 7 seconds because of a student who says, "Thank you..." when I open the door.
When I open my eyes in the morning and think, ‘Oh, it’s Saturday today…’ I get excited for 10 seconds… and I fill my day with just 5 minutes like that.
(Smiles) That's how I live without dying.
---From "Episode 15, Scene 19"

Mijung: (E) I think I'm crazy.
…I love you so much.
/ There is nothing but love in my heart.
So, the only thing I can feel is love.
---From "Episode 16, Scene 70"

Publisher's Review
★Winner of the Korean Broadcasting Writers Award in the drama category
★The most talked-about drama of 2022 that sparked the "Goo-ssi-sal-i" and "Chuang" syndromes.

“South Korea was liberated in 1945, but we are not yet liberated.”
The unbearably lovely and happy story of three unbearably rustic siblings.


JTBC's 16-episode drama "My Liberation Diary," which ended in May 2022, has been published with an original script by writer Park Hae-young.
This work, which depicts the story of three siblings living at the edge of Gyeonggi Province, and the people around them, dreaming of liberation to find their own happiness, was praised as “a script that resonates deeply, like a delicate weaving of warp and weft of love and reflection on humanity, regardless of the importance of the characters.” It won the Korea Broadcasting Writers Award.
The three-hour round trip between Sanpo, Gyeonggi-do and Seoul, the arduous commute of the three siblings of the Yeom family, reflects the fatigue of the common modern people: the hectic social life, relationships filled with useless words, and the constant effort to avoid being left behind.
The characters, who are slightly behind the norm, are placed in a peripheral city (Gyeonggi-do) rather than the physical center (Seoul), creating a strong sense of outsider sentiment.
The protagonists, who are at the edge of apathy as if their frustration is exploding, declare:
This winter, I will love anyone (Gi-jeong), I will quit my job (Chang-hee), I will liberate (Mi-jeong), I will admire (Gu-ssi).
The drama offers 'liberation' to all of us who repeat boring daily lives that are neither happy nor terribly unhappy.


“Why can’t we just let introverts be introverts?”
Absolute encouragement and support for the introvert who is still shy and cautious even as an adult.

For Mi-jeong, who socializes with her coworkers at work but is a loner and is secretly bullied and harassed, all relationships are work.
Who is the only one who is tired of relationships?
But society does not leave introverts alone.
Mi-jeong, who was forced to participate in club activities by the company's happiness support center, eventually forms the Liberation Club.
There are rules in the Liberation Club, where only so-called 'Type I' people gather.
1. I won't pretend to be happy.
2. I won't pretend to be unhappy.
3. I will be honest.
At least here, we each write our own liberation diaries, vowing to face ourselves and not offer each other the usual advice or comfort.
To find the cause of the feeling of “I feel trapped” and “I have no relief at all,” like the undecided line, and to be free from it.
To be happy.

“It was a bit burdensome to lead the play with a character of few words.
It has to flow rhythmically to captivate the viewers, and the easiest way to create rhythm is to exchange short lines, but these aren't the characters who can show off their eloquence...
So I chose to increase my concentration by speaking concisely.
And I decided to believe that viewers, like me, would have affection for a shy and cautious person.”
(From an interview with writer Park Hae-young in "My Liberation Diary Script Collection")

It may not be easy to make a taciturn character the main character in a drama rather than a novel, but writer Park Hae-young says he likes shy and cautious characters.
Mijung and Gu are not very talkative.
Don't try to fill the gaps with words.
That is why writer Park Hae-young's script contains a lot of meaning between the lines, and readers will be able to discover that invisible meaning in the "My Liberation Diary Script Collection."

Rich in four volumes, each volume neatly organized
The most special way to preserve the deep aftertaste of a drama for a long time


The script collection, consisting of four volumes, boasts a rich appendix.
It will serve as a medium to preserve the warm aftertaste of the drama more deeply and for a longer period of time by including the planning intent, characters, character relationship chart, interviews with the four main actors and writer Park Hae-young, commentary on famous lines selected by writer Park Hae-young, still cuts, credits, etc.

“This work helped me grow as a person and as an actor.” _EL
“There were so many memorable scenes and lines that I couldn’t pick just one.” _Lee Min-ki
“It’s a piece I want to take out and read whenever life gets noisy and chaotic.” _Kim Ji-won
“It felt like I had finally found the script I had been waiting for.” _Son Seok-gu
(From the script collection of "My Liberation Diary," an interview with an actor)

"My Liberation Diary" shined even brighter as the entire staff, including the writer, director, and actors, generously expressed their trust in one another and their affection for the work.
I gathered my thoughts into a script book.
Actors Son Seok-gu, Lee El, Lee Min-ki, and Kim Ji-won, who gained immense popularity with the drama, participated in the interview and shared their memories of Liberation Day.
In an interview, writer Park Hae-young candidly shared his thoughts while writing the script and the meaning of lines that left varying interpretations among viewers.
The last page contains the names of all those who participated in the production of the drama, expressing respect and gratitude to the staff who worked hard both inside and outside the production.

The script collection is available in two editions: special and regular.
The special edition, produced in limited quantities, is bound in sturdy hardcover to ensure a long-lasting experience and features a cover engraved with famous lines from author Park Hae-young. It also comes with a block produced in collaboration with Oxford as special goods.
The block has a high quality depiction of the Yeom family's house and the village bus stop in front of the house, as well as the affectionate appearance of the three siblings and Mr. Gu, increasing its collection value.
The standard edition is bound wirelessly to ensure practicality, making it easy to read anywhere, like a novel.
The cover contains poster cuts of four different themes for each volume, fully capturing the emotions of the drama without losing its aesthetic appeal.
The standard edition includes a free gift of a ‘liberation note’ ​​to be filled with things you want to be liberated from and admire, and a ‘photo card’ that can be used as a frame or postcard.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: January 30, 2023
- Page count, weight, size: 1,068 pages | 2,092g | 140*205*85mm
- ISBN13: 9791130696065
- ISBN10: 1130696065

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