Hey, mister. What's wrong with you?
You caused a commotion.
What?
You shocked that lady.
[soft music]
I understand how you feel.
I reacted the same when I saw my dad too.
But if you act like that here, you could hurt her.
[takes deep breath]
She's not my wife.
I see. Was she your wife?
You're lucky I struck a conversation just in time.
If she was left alone,
the memory data would've been damaged.
What are you talking about?
In this place,
you must take time to adapt.
If you don't, you can't live here.
And her heaven will disappear too.
Her heaven will disappear?
Yes.
Who are you?
I'm Peach.
Do you want to join our group?
It'll be really helpful.
There are many people like us.
EP 3 - RENDEZVOUS WITH A MEMORY
Seri, open the mail from the editor again.
[bell dings]
Why not design your death?
Now you can design your beautiful death.
Connect me to the editor.
[beeping]
Where are you?
Book my interview with Dr. K.
I thought you weren't interested. What happened?
I decided to start being interested.
Okay, great.
But this guy is only active online.
I don't have his contact or number.
You're the one interviewing him.
You should find out.
Do you dream in VR too?
It helps me sleep better, that's why.
You startled me.
Yi-hoo contacted me.
Are you crazy?
How can someone dead contact you?
Watch this.
[sighs]
[bell dings]
I'm sorry I couldn't explain in detail before I died.
I'm here.
I departed
for this place.
It's deepfake technology. They just changed faces.
I almost fell for it.
You're wrong.
I went to meet her.
We even had a conversation there.
What? Where?
BY N BY.
BY N BY? What is that?
[keyboard typing]
I need to have authorization.
What's with all the firewalls?
But...
I'm none other than
the great Hacker Park.
Let's see.
Are they swindlers who make money off of dead people?
Hey, it's the person the editor talked about.
It's Dr. K, right?
Yes.
This.
What? VRorphin?
So you mean they used this
to upload someone's complete memory into an avatar?
This was found on Yi-hoo's body.
Do you still have it?
Call Cho Eun.
[bell chimes] ORGAN COLLECTION TEAM CHO EUN
Yes, Mr. Kim.
Do you have the thing you found on my wife's body?
Yes, I do.
Can we get it from you right now?
Right now?
Another one was found on a doner yesterday.
I feel like I'll keep on seeing more.
So this is a VRorphin.
Yes, that's right.
Other family members say the information wasn't stolen.
The donors gave them up voluntarily.
Gave to whom?
Seiren.
She came the day Yi-hoo died.
Who's Seiren?
Then
that person must be related to Dr. K.
I saw Dr. K at BY N BY too.
Today's the day Dr. K will make a public announcement about VRorphin.
Shall we go together?
Are these many people interested?
Ever since the law on euthanasia passed, people became interested in death.
Come on, smile.
Smile.
Gosh. Father,
how can I smile right now?
I'm not just dying.
I'll see you all later.
We'll stay apart just for a while.
Yes, Father.
Good.
I'm so happy I can go after seeing you all here.
I'll go and meet up with your mom.
We'll follow your lead
and join you later.
Hurry up and let him go.
Father.
We feel that we exist because of memories.
We recognize ourselves
with that ability to remember.
VRorphin is a sensor electrode that can be planted on the cerebral cortex
to pick up microelectrode brainwave signals
as small as one micron
to extract memory data from humans.
And that memory will live in a world that's everlasting.
When memories of more people are collected,
- [voices] - a bigger world will form.
In that new world,
your memory data will never disappear.
You don't remember this place, do you?
What are you saying?
It's where we first met.
All humans will face the last moment of their life.
Did you miss me a lot?
Don't you ever part from me again.
I won't.
Is such a technology really possible?
But if you can meet the person
you dearly missed and reexperience the cherished moments,
that itself would be the beginning of another life.
It's no longer fearful to face death.
This is because now people can dream of life after death.
How can someone dead dream?
By uploading the memories of that person to continue their life.
Even if someone's memories are kept, that person is still dead.
The body may be dead, but memories will live on forever.
If you're dead, you're dead! How can anything come back to life?
Now, now. Please calm down.
It's not over just because you're physically dead.
If they can keep all the memories from their life and continue for eternity,
how can there be an end?
Exactly. Where do you mean
- that memory will continue? - [female audience] Stop the nonsense.
Where did the souls of dead humans go until now?
Didn't we believe they'd go to heaven?
Yes!
- That's right! - Instead of heaven,
science can take care of it now.
[crowd continues to cheer]
So where are those memories being downloaded?
Where?
To your heaven.
I'll end it here today.
Good night, good dying.
[crowd cheers joyfully]
Does he mean all the people uploaded with VRorphin are in heaven?
They're invoking my curiosity.
Jae-hyun, let's hurry up and decode this.
I'm dying to know.
Do you have more of these?
Yes, at my office.
Should I come with you to grab them?
You go ahead.
- I'll join you soon. - You can come late. Don't rush.
You should come with us.
We heard a lot about you.
Please join us for some tea.
- Welcome. - Hello.
- Please go inside. - Are you well?
Yes.
Nice to see you. Please go in.
[footsteps]
I'm the owner of the place, Choi Han-ki.
I'm enjoying Science M.
I see.
We all met thanks to Peach.
We get together to share our BY N BY experiences.
Now, let's talk inside.
Please go ahead.
She used to be a singer.
These days, she meets with her mother through BY N BY.
Hello, I'm Kim Eun-hee.
This is Ga-young's mom.
I go there to see my daughter.
Ga-young was only five. I never thought I'd see her again.
Do you know how beautiful she looks when she runs to me?
I see.
I lost my whole family to fire.
But...
my youngest child survived a few days more even with burns all over his body.
Thanks to his memories that were uploaded with VRorphin,
I can meet all of my family members at BY N BY.
You can meet people who didn't use VRorphin?
Yes. My son's memories of my wife and my eldest son
are all there.
That's right.
You can meet with people you miss at BY N BY.
I was surprised too.
But is that important?
What's important is that my family is really there.
Jae-hyun, what was your first impression of that place?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Sure, I understand.
My dad passed away while working abroad.
When?
When I was 14.
The only thing I received was his urn.
I couldn't feel anything during his funeral.
What about your mom?
She disappeared with the compensation
his work gave us.
[soft music]
I didn't have a lot of memories with him.
I wanted to watch movies, go out to eat,
and go to the playground with him.
I wanted such a dad.
So?
I gathered all the call data I had, pictures,
and everything left on my phone to recreate him.
Then a VRorphin wasn't used on him.
No.
Seiren helped me to make what I wanted to see as my memory.
It was made...
It makes me happy. To share memories.
Dad,
do you remember going to Disney World?
Then he brings up Photoshopped pictures and data from the memory storage.
"Of course."
"You gave me a hard time when you cried while taking a picture with Mickey Mouse."
Well... I make memories similar to other people this way.
So? Are you happy?
Yes.
Weren't you happy?
But it's all fake.
You hurt her because you talk like this.
When I spoke to her,
I could feel it.
We could understand each other.
How do you know that?
I just do.
[bell chimes]
HACKER PARK
When are you coming?
I'll get out here.
I'm coming now.
Hurry up.
I found protocol traces on this VRorphin from when it communicated with BY N BY.
I tracked the IP
and went through the dark web
[keyboard typing]
to find this.
Dr. K is brain scientist Jang Jin-ho.
SEPARATING FROM THE FUTURE
But, Dr. Jang passed away five years ago.
[sharp inhale]
That means someone is deepfaking.
This book was written before his death, and it explains about VRorphins.
Dr. Jang tried to upload the brain of his daughter
who was suffering from Niemann-Pick disease.
"Niemann-Pick disease"?
It's like children's Alzheimer's.
He wanted to preserve the disappearing memories of his daughter.
That's how VRorphin started.
I found this video on the deep web from five years ago.
Until now, mankind relied on god to deal with death.
Since the law for euthanasia passed,
death is now under the discretion of humans.
No god can take part in death.
What if you don't have to rely on god
to communicate with the dead with the help of science?
What if they can still feel alive after death?
That will open a new world for death.
Yi-hoo also went to this world
Dr. Jang is talking about with the VRorphin.
[bell dings]
YI-HOO/ATTACHMENT: ONE VIDEO
Yi-hoo contacted me again.
Hurry up and open it.
[bell dings] Honey, did you get home okay?
When you were here,
I think I made a mistake.
Are you still... mad at me?
Honey.
I'm still here.
I'll wait for you.
You have to go.
Dr. K is Dr. Jang.
This is all made up by Dr. Jang.
[music intensifies]
Your wife is adjusting well.
How can a dead person adjust to anything?
She's adjusting well to the memories she wanted to cherish.
Where's Dr. Jang Jin-ho right now?
You know he died five years ago, right?
Didn't Dr. Jang make this place?
You can say that.
Can I meet Dr. Jang here too?
If it's what you want, you'll meet him one day.
If you meet Dr. Jang there and feel that he's still alive,
you'll feel that your wife's real too.
That's the new world.
[screen sound]
Thank you for coming.
I know you'd wait until I come.
Did you know?
When a firefly flies high,
it means there isn't any wind.
A firefly?
Where?
- [whooshing] - [music stops]
[calming music]
When a firefly emits light,
they say it's proposing to one another.
Do you remember this?
Yes.
I had lost it.
Isn't it amazing?
[whooshing]
One, two, three.
Honey!
No! Don't!
Hey!
Hurry!
Wait, wait.
Wait. Hold it.
I drank so much water.
You made me drink water.
What? Wait.
- What? - Oops.
- Your necklace. - What?
What do we do?
[coughing]
Did you find it?
No, I couldn't.
[loud breathing]
It's okay.
If you can't forget about
what you lost,
then you never lost it.
If you forget about something,
that means you wanted to get rid of it in the first place.
If you can't forget about something no matter what you do,
that means it was something you didn't want to lose no matter what.
Is there such a thing to you?
[soft inhale]
Can I ask you something too?
Sure.
The moments I spent with you
are what I can't forget.
Like you said, I don't think I wanted to lose them.
But,
I lost you, yet you're here.
You should be in my memories,
but you're here right now.
Then right now,
are you in my memories?
Or am I in your memories?
I don't know.
I...
don't know either.
I mean,
I can't even believe myself.
Do you...
believe in yourself?
I...
believe in my memories.
They say
everyone has a door they can't close on their own.
One day,
someone will come along to close it.
[whooshing]
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