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JANET: Seriously?
APPA: Seriously!!
UMMA enters with her jacket on, carrying her purse and a covered tray of food.
UMMA: To APPA. 그만해 아이씨참!! [Will you two quit it!!]
JANET, with a mischievous smile, exits to the back of the store.
APPA restocks the gum shelf as UMMA puts the tray of food behind the counter.
6. I’m going
UMMA: 내가 이따가 와서 치울께요. [Just leave it, I’ll clean it up when I get back.]
APPA: 주일날 최집사님이 저녁 같이 하자네. 시간돼? [This Sunday Mr. Chae wants to get together for dinner. How’s your schedule?]
UMMA: Picking up LEE’S card. 이게 뭐에요? [What’s this?]
APPA: 어 . . . 그거 . . . 그러니까 그게 . . . Mr. Lee 가 오퍼넌거야 . . . 우리가게. [Oh . . . that’s, uh . . . Mr. Lee’s offer . . . for the store.]
UMMA: 오퍼요? 가게 판다는 얘기 안했잖아요. [I didn’t know you were selling the store.]
APPA: 팔려고 하는게 아니라 . . . Mr.Lee 방금 오퍼를 상의도 없이 주고 갔데니까. [I wasn’t . . . Mr. Lee just made an offer. Just now.]
UMMA: 가격은 꽤 괜찮네. [It’s a generous offer.]
APPA: 그러게 . . . [I know . . .]
UMMA: 은퇴할 수 있겠네. [You could retire.]
APPA: 그러게. [I know.]
UMMA: Beat. Gets herself together. Janet, I’m going. Janet, I’m going to church. Janet? Janet!
JANET appears.
JANET: What?!
UMMA: 엄마 갔다올께. [I’m going to church.]
JANET: Then 가 [go] already.
UMMA: Under her breath as she leaves. 아휴, 이 기집애 때매 내가 죽겠다, 죽겠어. [Ugh, I swear, she’s gonna be the death of me, the death of me.]
UMMA exits. Bell.
7. What’s your plan?
APPA resumes pricing the cans. JANET is organizing her camera lenses and lens-cleaning materials at the counter.
APPA: Janet.
JANET: What, Appa, she drives me crazy!
APPA: Do you have exit plan?
JANET: What?
APPA: Do you have exit plan?
JANET: Do I have a what?
APPA stops pricing.
APPA: Exit plan. You having?
JANET: An exit plan? For what?
APPA: No, like what’s you life plan?
JANET: What are you talking about?
APPA: You is thirty years old now. Have to think what is plan you future. What you think, take over store?
JANET: I don’t want to work at the store.
APPA: What’s wrong with store?
JANET: How can I work at the store, Appa? I’m busy.
APPA: Not work at store. I am talking take over store. Make Kim’s Convenience dynasty.
JANET: Take over the store?
APPA: Yah.
JANET: Don’t you want me to succeed in life? Look, Appa, you did what you had to do, right? And I appreciate that. I do. But didn’t you do what you had to do so I wouldn’t have to do what I had to do but could choose what I wanted to do?
APPA: What?
JANET: I’m a photographer, Appa. This is what I’ve chosen to do.
APPA: Yah, you can do weekend. Hobby, like me. But you don’t make money take picture. Store make money. Take over store: money. Picture: hobby. It’s good deal for you.