■ People and People - Where Are We Going Next? Grandma Hwang Gyeong-hwa, who devoted her life to teaching, started walking at the age of 65. What was the path like for the grandmother who has walked nearly two and a half times around the world for over 10 years? ■ A seasoned veteran who has forgotten her age, a 77-year-old hiker “Where are we going next?” When the grandmother opens a map, the grandfather cannot stop her. Grandma Hwang Gyeong-hwa, a hiker who has walked over 80,000 km so far, including along the entire coast of Korea, the Jirisan Mountain trail, and the Camino de Santiago in Spain. The grandmother who worked as a teacher lived only as someone’s wife, mother, and teacher for nearly 40 years. The grandmother, who had never lived for herself until retirement, started her first long-term walking trip in 2004 at the age of 65. The grandmother walked from Haenam, the southernmost point of the country, to Imjingak, on her own two feet, completing the 40-day trek across the country. The grandmother, who said, “A new road begins at the end of the road,” has been walking her second life as a walking traveler since then. “My husband tells me, ‘Let’s walk!’ You are a woman who will walk out of the grave.” ■ Your name is ‘Youth’ with a passionate heart. To the walkers, the grandmother is a star. When the grandmother appears on the road, seventy-seven romantic customers and walkers who want to be her companions gather from all over. People say that the word ‘youth’ naturally comes to mind when they see the grandmother walking steadily without showing any signs of fatigue. The grandmother also says that she is happy because she can make various friends regardless of age on the road. People often ask the grandmother. How was she able to walk so many roads at that age, for so many years? The grandmother’s answer is, “Just open the front door.” From the moment she steps out the door without hesitation, what takes hold in her heart is freedom! That is the grandmother’s secret to living as a walking traveler in her twilight years. ■ Finding Freedom on the Road When she suddenly looks back while walking, the road she has walked seems so far away and daunting. The back alley of her life was the same. Her father insisted that she could not pay for her tuition if she did not go to teacher’s school, so she gave up her dream of becoming a writer and became an elementary school teacher at the age of nineteen. She helped her father, a low-paid railroad civil servant, to support her five younger siblings. On top of that, she had to pay off her husband’s business debt for over 20 years, which was truly difficult for her. Having thrown away the resentment, sighs, pain, and wounds of the past years, she is now walking the path of freedom. ■ Eighty-two-year-old grandfather’s solitary workshop When his wife, who was in her twilight years, started to run away from home, Shin Jeong-jin ended up living alone for at least four months every year. Despite that, the grandfather always supported his wife’s path without a single complaint. He wants his wife, who supported him through all kinds of hardships until she finally succeeded in building a small and medium-sized business, to enjoy the rest of her life as much as she wants. However, the grandfather worries whenever the grandmother sets out on a journey alone. What if the grandmother, who is born with no way of knowing, takes the wrong path and gets into an accident? The grandfather often opens a map and acts as a navigator over the phone to the grandmother. The grandfather accompanies the grandmother on the road that he cannot walk with her because of her poor health. ■ Until her legs allow it, all the roads in the world were worth walking for the grandmother. It is thanks to the beautiful relationships she has met along the road. In the winter of 2016, as she was sending off the old year and welcoming the new year, the grandmother planned a walking trip along the southern coast to look back on the relationships she had met along the way. She was curious about the well-being of the people she had met along the road during her two coastal walks. “In the spring, I hear more deaths of elderly people,” says the grandmother. This is why the grandmother cannot postpone or stop her walking trip until her legs allow it. ※ This video is [People and People] that aired on January 11, 2017. #Twilight #Life #Emotion ✔KBS is a documentary KBS Official YouTube Channel [KBS Documentary] 🔔Subscribe👍Like➡️ / @kbsdocumentary 📝Contact: [email protected] Copyright ⓒ KBS. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, and use (including AI training) are prohibited. ∙Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, and use (including AI training) are prohibited. ∙The current situation and content may differ somewhat depending on the time of broadcast. ∙Defamatory and malicious comments may be deleted by the operator to protect the performers.