Baek Shi-yoon

Baek Shi-yoon is one of the protagonists (alongside Im Tae-ho, Choi Chan-gyoo, and Bae Jung-yeon) in the 2016 South Korean espionage crime and thriller drama series .
He was a secret agent whose life immediately fell apart upon the death of his best friend, Jin-woo. Three years after his junior's death, he practically owns the Neighborhood Bar, whose former owner was President Hwang pushing forward into retirement. Since then, he constantly searched for the truth behind the divisive incident that befell all his former agent friends, while having to protect his customers, who later became his new friends following his career.
He was portrayed by .
==Biography==
===Episode 1===
====Macau Operation====
The main plot of the series starts off with him and Jin-woo targeting an American citizen, Curtis Brimmer, who was the CEO of Bay Star in Hong Kong, and a robbing businessman. The company itself plans to acquire a major Korean commercial bank, a tiny office only available in that city. He plans to insert spyware onto Brimmer's LG G2 phone, so that his team can secure confidential information from leaking. Within his plan to insert spyware, he followed him to a jewelry store and video-recorded the conversation with a seller to obtain and confirm his credit card information. He also had Jin-woo capture Brimmer's phone passwords, to replicate their copy and switch his phone with theirs.
Following the next day of the operation, he photo-shot Brimmer's numerous bodyguards, including an unknown individual with locks, shades, and a goatee. The specific individual was one of the reasons why the operation ceased and shut down in the first place, posthumously compromising him and his agents. When Shi-yoon and Jin-woo both pack up and escape after being discovered, Shi-yoon heads out first, caught unknowingly by Brimmer's few bodyguards. He attempts to escape the situation, only for the bodyguards to follow and gain suspicion, later forced to attack them via a shoelace when he pretends to tie his shoes. Having defeated the goons, he arrives at Jin-woo, who was currently spectating Agent Seo-an (disguised as Janice, a Hong Kong University economics major) attempting to swap Brimmer's phone at . When Seo-an couldn't answer Brimmer's question about her memory through one lecture, Shi-yoon tried to help until Seo-an thought of sharing photos of him at that lecture instead.
The operation resumed with Shi-yoon gleefully glancing at Seo-an, who he bedazzles, before passing by and having her meet Brimmer once again. He later entered the car with Jin-woo, and conversed with him about him and his fiancee Seo-an's wedding. Afterwards, Shi-yoon and Jin-woo follow Brimmer in his car, who's apparently dreaming about being with someone who resembles Seo-an while divorced. Suddenly, Agent Soo-hyuk contacts Shi-yoon and tells him to cease the operation for unknown reasons. While he was skeptical about an abrupt closure to the mission, Soo-hyuk doesn't care and tells him they are orders. Shi-yoon mildly infuriates and removes his headpiece, only to learn that Brimmer's car had halted, coming from Jin-woo. Even when he's forced to stop the operation, he tells Jin-woo and Seo-an to continue without hesitation.
The problem now lies with Brimmer, who now exposed Seo-an's identity as Janice Lee through the KCIO. Before he and Jin-woo escaped the scene, and left Seo-an by herself in the process, they were run over by a trailer truck and eventually injured.
====Jin-woo's Death====
At the , the unknown individual, along with several of Brimmer's bodyguards, took Shi-yoon and his team hostage. He, acknowledging that the entire operation was at his fault for his stubbornness, attempted to sacrifice himself by being talkative to tempt the man to strangle him. Unfortunately, the individual targeted Seo-an instead, but Jin-woo successfully gives his life for both Shi-yoon and Seo-an by pretending to expose their secrets had they kept him alive, the response to the ultimatum by yelling nonsense. As such, Shi-yoon (along with Seo-an) sobbed while Jin-woo gets strangled to death by running towards the man.
====Post-Prison====
Three years after his stay at prison for disobeying orders, and indirectly having Jin-woo brutally murdered following the compromise, he quits becoming an agent and visits the Neighborhood Bar, the renowned location for former agents to gather. 
Beforehand, he was met by Soo-hyuk again since last time at Macau, to express his condolences for the operation fiasco and to notify Shi-yoon about Jin-woo's death affecting diplomacy across the agency. He conversed with Soo-hyuk about the aftermath and retirement planning, with the latter stating he shouldn't partake in any martial art relations, due to his body.
After meeting Soo-hyuk for once, he visited a car dealership to purchase a luxury car, and supplied apples to his mother Joo Hee's home, now transformed into a study place for students to arrive and study. He and his mother talked about funds and their current savings, with his mother stating if he bought a car with all his money. He then said to his mother if she would forgive him for anything, but on one condition if he does not act like his father.
He then drives to the Neighborhood Bar, unknowingly passing by Detective Im Tae-ho and Han Joon-hee, who later arrives at the scene of burglary.
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==Personality==
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==Abilities==
*Top-secret knowledge: He was a former secret agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, and withheld classified documents to expose the corrupt villains and his former agent friends due to his experience in the Macau assignment, plus vital information garnered from President Hwang's memoir.
*Gunmanship: Throughout most of the series, he shows off and cocks a firearm before heading out for revenge. It's never implied in the show if he used the weapon at all, or any appearance of him firing the weapon towards others. Many brief scenes of him getting ready to retaliate, still gives him an understanding of utilizing a handheld gun in general.
*Marksmanship (implicit): Referred to Gunmanship, this skill has not been showcased throughout the entire series.
*Combat expertise: Most notably, Shi-yoon utilizes his martial art skills to fend off the goons sent by Yoon Sang-min himself or his subordinates. His encounter with Chan-gyoo's bullies (specifically Gye-gyeol) and handling them away as the Shadow, has Chan-gyoo idolizing him to become the Shadow like him.
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*Leadership: His skill in leadership is prominent to strategize his plans or to persuade an individual group. He shows this significance in the Macau operation, where he devised a plan to record Curtis Brimmer's transactions through spyware. He can also lead an entire neighborhood to his aid as "The Shadow" to stop the New Star Invest renovation, which has been referred to in Allied connections.
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Joo Hee (mother)
===Alllies===
*Im Tae-ho
*Choi Chan-gyoo
*Bae Jung-yeon
*Jang Jin-woo (best friend) †
*Kang Ri-soo
*Kim Seo-an (ex-fiancee, later fiancee)
*President Hwang (mentor) †
===Enemies===
*Yoon Sang-min (archenemy)
*Jung Soo-hyuk †
*Park Sun-hoo †
*Cho Bong-cheol
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
Baek Shi-yoon Poster.webp|Promotional poster
==Trivia==
*This was Park Si-hoo's comeback character since his three-year hiatus from his sexual assault scandal, to which he denied any allegations of and willingly cooperated with police regarding this matter.
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