Don't Tell Papa
A baby in a basket is delivered to a classroom, and a high schooler suddenly becomes a father. Cheol-su, a clumsy high schooler who acts like a tough hoodlum, ends up spending "exactly one night" with Ae-ran, whose specialty is putting out cigarettes with her mouth. He hears nothing from Ae-ran after that night until nearly a year later, when a basket is delivered to his classroom via quick service. Inside the basket is a newborn baby. As it turns out, Ae-ran had conceived Cheol-su's child that night and gave birth in a high school restroom. Cheol-su visits Ae-ran's friend, Sun-mi, to ask about her whereabouts, only to turn away after hearing she left to study in the United States. Kicked out of school due to the "baby basket delivery incident," Cheol-su begins raising his son, Cho-won, while working as a show MC at an adult nightclub. Leaving the baby with his colleagues like a modern-day beggar-father, Cheol-su names the boy "Cho-won" after the name of the motel where he spent that first night with Ae-ran. “Baby delivery!” As Cho-won grows up frequenting the clubs with his father, he bonds with characters like the drag show's Bo-ri-su and Elena Kim, as well as the club hostesses, maturing into a precocious and cheerful child. By absorbing the real-world slang of these fringe characters, he gains a natural vocabulary far beyond his peers and occasionally predicts the future by reading "Hwatu" cards, a skill even some adults lack. Time passes, and Cho-won turns seven. Then, Ae-ran returns from the U.S. as the direct superior of Cheol-su's former classmate and underwear designer, Jeol-gu. Haunted by the guilt of abandoning her baby, Ae-ran longs to see Cho-won and lingers by his side without revealing that she is his mother. Cho-won, believing his mother is dead, follows Ae-ran, thinking of her as a kind lady, while Cheol-su grows anxious that the child might be taken away. Eventually, Cheol-su tries to leave for a club in the countryside with Cho-won, but a minor incident pulls them into a massive ordeal...
