青年主妇九云梦

*为什么给了我这样的才能呢？

略显柔弱、傻里傻气，处处漏洞百出的青年云梦，有人问他梦想是什么，他就以首尔大学法学院来回应，可暗地里一直梦想着做戏剧演员。 他如饥似渴地写作，学习导演，策划舞台，点燃着他的青春梦想，但梦想却变为泡影。他被话剧团前辈禹灿晞诈骗，沦落为身无分文的无业游民。在追逐逃跑的禹灿晞的一个雨夜里，，偏偏和四姐才英命运般的碰面， 由此云梦人生的拐点拉开了惟幕。这个舞台就是在他面前出现的绿色大门住宅！

绿色大门住宅的主人又是才英姐的好朋友江西允许云梦和他住一起。云梦开始了崭新的生活。 他以前在自己家里根本都没有留意过育儿和操持家务中忙碌的妈妈和姐姐们，他想都没想过“主妇”这个词和自己有什么关系。可现在云梦竟然发现自己有当“主妇”的才能。

*青年主妇的诞生**

那是一个新的世界。 云梦托宠爱儿子的母亲和心地善良的三个姐姐的福几乎对家务没有什么概念，但如今自己却做“主妇”这差事，万万没有想到这使他万分激动。虽然有点累，但是他的手一过的地方显然焕然一新，干干静静整整齐齐。厨房料理更不用说，由此汹涌澎湃的收获感涌入他心里，使他在单纯快乐的劳动中忘掉了一切烦心事。本以为“主妇”这事没什么可学的，可云梦把这事做到“家政9级”的高水平。不久后，绿色大门住宅里又住进了江西的孩子延宇。之前是延宇的奶奶代替忙碌的儿媳妇照看孙儿，但辛苦的奶奶的关节骨折了。因此绿色大门住宅里诞生了一个集操持家务、贤内助和育儿一体的完完美美的青年“主妇”。

*30岁的成长痛**

当云梦陷入过度劳动的泥潭时，他开始在忧郁中反省，对自己说：“我现在做什么呢？我人生的舞台不是在这里呀！”这样的伤感涌上他心头。还有看到这家主人江西时他像青少年一样脸红。他也对母亲感到抱歉，因为母亲在江陵老家只祈求等着儿子当法官回来看她，但现实却不是这样，云梦因此心里过不去而睡不着觉。但越是这样，他越是致力于当“主妇”的生活，同时也燃起了写作的欲望。后来和一直想着要报仇的禹灿熙重逢，知道了笼罩在面纱中的延宇生父的真相，这样的生活碎片让云梦经历了青春期强烈的成长痛。

Young Man Gu Unmong Became a Housemaker 

* Why was I given this kind of talent?

Unmong was more or less vulnerable, slow, and of many weak spots. When he was asked about his dream, he shielded himself with the title of a law school student at Seoul National University; however, his real dream was becoming an actor. Withstanding hunger, he spent all his youth writing plays, studying dramaturgy, and planning stages in vain only to get the rose of betrayal. Because of his acting senior Woo Chanhee’s fraud, Unmong became impecunious. On the night when he was chasing after the “dine-and-dasher” Woo Chanhee, he came across his fourth big sister Jaeyoung, who he wished had been a stranger, as if by destiny, which became a turning point in his life. He was led to the green gatehouse! The owner of the Green Gate house Do Gangseo, who was also Jaeyoung’s best friend, invited him to become a housemate. In the confusion of the moment, Unmong accepted the invitation on hands and knees, which opened a new day for him. He had grown up watching his mother and sisters suffering in the hell of childcare and housekeeping, which was his only experience of housemaking. Surprisingly enough, Unmong found the talent of housemaking in himself. 

*The Birth of the Young Man Housemaker

It was a brave new world. Unmong experienced a sense of fulfillment that he had never felt before as he grew up being overprotected by his mother who had a predilection for her son and nice three older sisters. At his touch, the household goods looked different, and dainty dishes appeared. Although he felt physically tired, he was inundated by the senses of self-satisfaction and gratification about the changes. Moreover, the simple joy that the monotonous jobs brought helped him forget all the painful things. That way, Unmong reached the point of the “9th degree of homemaker,” which he had thought that there was nothing to do.

Not before long, Yeonwoo, who had been taken care of by her grandmother instead of her busy mother, arrived at the green gate. Her grandmother could not take care of her anymore because she had a broken joint thanks to single parenting in her old age. Now he was born again as a complete young man homemaker whose work was composed of the three perfect combinations of housekeeping, supporting, and childcare.

*The Growing Pains of a Thirty-Year-Old

When Unmong fell into the mire of excessive labor and felt depressed, he was hit with reality: “What am I doing here? This is not my life stage!” As Gangseo began looking like a woman, he would become a boy at puberty whose cheeks turned red. When he recalled his mother who was praying that he would become a judge or attorney-at-law in Gangneung, he felt sorry for her and could not sleep. The more he felt sorry, the harder he focused on housekeeping and at the same time sharpened his writing talent. 

Meanwhile, he came across Woo Chanhee whom he had been waiting for punishment, and came to know the truth about Yeonoo’s father. Through those pieces of life, Unmong underwent the growing pains that he had passed by in his puberty. 

*저에게 왜 이런 재능을 주셨나요!**

다소 유약하고 어리바리하며 구석구석 빈틈 많은 청년 운몽. 꿈이 뭐냐고 질문하는 세상에 서울대 로스쿨이라는 간판으로 화답하며 물밑으로는 연극의 꿈을 키워왔다. 주린 배를 붙잡고 글을 쓰고 연출을 배우고 무대를 기획하며 청춘을 불살랐으나 돌아온 건 배반의 장미. 연극 선배 우찬희의 사기 행각으로 무일푼 백수로 전락했다. 먹튀 우찬희를 쫓던 비 오는 밤, 차라리 남이면 좋았을 넷째 누나 재영과 운명적인 조우를 하고야 말았으니 운몽 인생의 터닝 포인트는 그렇게 찍혀버렸다. 바로, 초록 대문집!

초록 대문집의 주인이자 재영의 절친인 강서는 운몽에게 동거인의 자격을 부여하고. 얼결에 넙죽 받은 운몽에게 새날이 열렸다. 육아와 살림 지옥에서 허덕이는 모친과 누나들을 곁눈질로 본 게 다일 뿐, ‘주부’와는 어떠한 접점도 없는 삶이었는데. 뜻밖에도 ‘주부의 재능’을 발견한 운몽.

*청년 주부의 탄생**

그것은 신세계였다. 운몽은 아들 지상주의 모친과 착한 세 누님들 덕분에 곱게 자라느라 접해보지 못했던 감격을 맛보았다. 몸은 비록 고될지언정 손길 한 번 스친 후에는 확연히 달라지는 집안 살림들과 맛난 요리들에 뿌듯함과 보람이란 것이 물밀듯이 몰려왔고, 단조로운 노동이 주는 담백한 재미는 고달픈 만사를 잊게 해줬다. 운몽은 그렇게, 절대 할 일 없을 거라 생각했던 ‘주부 9단’이라는 지점에 도달해버렸다.

그리고 얼마 후, 바쁜 엄마 대신 조모의 돌봄을 받다가 조모께서 황혼의 독박 육아로 관절이 으스러진 관계로 초록대문집에 등장한 연우. 이로써 살림과 내조와 육아의 삼합을 이룬 완전체 청년 주부가 탄생한다. 

*서른의 성장통**

과도한 노동의 늪에 빠져 우울감에 젖어들 때면 ‘나 지금 뭐 하고 있는 거지?, 내 인생의 무대는 여기가 아닌데! 현타가 오고. 여자로 보이기 시작한 강서 때문에 볼 빨간 사춘기가 되기도 하고. 강릉 본가에서 아들이 판검사 되기만을 염원하고 계실 모친에 대한 송구함으로 잠 못 이루기도 했지만, 그럴수록 주부 생활에 매진하며 동시에 글쓰기 재능도 불태웠다. 

그러다 응징하리라 벼려왔던 우찬희와의 재회, 그리고 베일에 싸여 있던 연우의 생부에 대한 진실을 알게 되고, 그런 삶의 조각들은 운몽에게 사춘기 때도 스킵했던 찐한 성장통을 겪게 하는데…….