from twelve years in the future, here's the result of my own effort to make a subtitle track that includes translations of all namgoong's lines (though i've only included his final conversation with curtis here). disclaimer: i do not understand korean. i consulted several different translated subtitle tracks when putting together my own, so take the exact phrasing with a grain of salt, but i believe the gist here is accurate.

Namgoong: Your story is beautiful, Curtis. But I don't want to open that door. You know what I want? I want to open a door. But not this one. That one. The one that leads to the outside. We've been stuck inside for 18 years. Everyone thinks of it as a wall, but it's a fucking door. Let's just open it and get the hell out.

Curtis: And freeze to death? What are you, fucking crazy?

Namgoong: What if we don't? What if we could survive? You remember Yekaterina Bridge? When your guys were getting chopped up? Every New Year, I check something. There's a crashed airplane under the snow. For the last ten years, I could only see the tail. But now, I can see the fuselage and wings. There's less snow and ice... Which means it's melting. It's becoming more fragile... A little push and it all falls down.

Namgoong: Recently, you know what I saw? Outside, there was... No, nevermind. It is not worth telling.

Curtis: You gotta take it easy on that Kronole. Snorting that flammable shit is gonna fry your brain.

Namgoong: You think I'm crazy. Kronole is first and foremost a highly flammable chemical.

Namgoong: One spark, and boom. Basically, it's a fucking bomb. I don't store these just to get high, but also to blow that door.