Joo Dan Tae

**Joo Dan Tae** (In Korean: 주단태, **Joo Dan Tae**) is the main antagonist of the 2020-2021 Korean television series *The Penthouse: War in life*. He is the chairman of JKING Holdings or Cheong-A Group. His real name is **Baek** **Jun Ki** (In Korean: 백준기, **Baek** **Jun Ki**), and in the public he is better known by the fake name Joo Dan Tae.

He was portrayed by Uhm Ki-Joon, and his childhood was portrayed by Yang Hee-yeon.

## Personality

> You are not human. Bastard, murderer!
>
> Su-Ryeon Shim

Baek Jun Ki is a sadistic, power-hungry, greedy and manipulative person. He is a non-basic character as a human being who shows the evil deeds that humans can do in the drama. In addition, he is the most dangerous character in the drama, with an extremely violent tendency to lose his mind when he gets blood on his face, runaway like a zombie, and smack the other person's neck. When his anger reaches the extreme, he uses honorifics to others, and when he gets more angry, he speaks back and reveals his murderous intentions.

However, he was not sadistic as a child. He was once an ordinary kid who suffered from poverty and took care of his mother and sister, but the real Joo Dan Tae's father murdered his mother and younger sister after that he worked hard for the real Joo Dan Tae's father, but he was the real Joo Dan Tae's father. Angry at his father, he killed the real Joo Dan Tae's father with a katana. After that, he founded a company called JKING Holdings, and as he became the president of a large corporation, he became more and more corrupted by the taste of power and began to change sadistically.

No matter how sadistic he may be, he still loves his mother and sister who died unfairly, and he tried to commemorate his mother by building Joo Dan Tae Village in Cheonsu District, the land where his mother died unfairly. Also, even when the Joo Dan Tae village project went blank, he was still obsessed with the Cheonsu area and tried to get the right to develop the Cheonsu area by any means.

Another characteristic of him is that he is extremely hated of betrayal. To some extent, when it was discovered that Yoon Tae-ju had betrayed him while helping Shim Su-ryun, he tried to remove Yoon Tae-ju by using secretary Jo. Also, when Yang Mi-ok betrayed him because of Gu ho-dong/Logan Lee, he ordered Secretary Jo to remove it. However, he does not hesitate to betray for the purpose of the subject he hates to be betrayed.

Baek Jun Ki is very cautious, thorough in everything, and has a very high head. However, there is a side of things that are not done well, so sometimes plans fail.

## History

### Past

 File:Joo Dan Tae's Past.png  The past of Joo Dan-tae is a tragic one. Born Baek Jun Ki, he was homeless and lived with his mother and younger sister Baek Jun-hee in the 27th complex of Cheonsu district, but had a happy childhood nonetheless. However, as the Shimwoon Group is not considering redevelopment, the real Joo Dan-tae's father, who was working at the Shimwoon Group at the time, demolished his house with a fork crane, killing his mother and sister. His sister died instantly, and his mother put her bloodstained hand on his cheek, urging him to survive, earn a lot of money and become rich. This would be the main cause of Baek Jun-ki's hemophobia.

Years later, Baek Jun-ki came to work for Joo Dan-tae father under the alias Mr. Baek in order to take revenge. In 1995, when he was 19, Baek Jun-ki followed Joo Dan-tae's family to Tokyo, Japan, and killed the real Joo Dan-tae's parents with a Japanese sword in the middle of the night.

However, Baek Jun-ki left Joo Dan-tae alive as the soel survivor of the incident. After blackmailing him with a knife, digging out the password to the safe and stealing the Joo family fortune, he sent Joo Dan-tae to a psychiatric hospital and assumed his identity, becoming the powerful Joo Dan-tae he is today.

When he was 22, he went to a tattoo shop with his childhood friend Na Ae-kyo and got a butterfly tattoo on Na Ae-kyo back to distinguish her from Shim Su-ryeon, to whom she looked very much alike. It is also here he reveals his ultimate goal and his reasons: he aspires to build a luxury building in the Cheonsu district where he grew up in and dedicate it to his late mother, in order to relieve his mother's pain and honor her death.

Some time later, in order to gets his hands on Cheonsu District, he decided to marry Shim Su-ryeon, who at the time living a peaceful life with her pianist husband and was pregnant with twins. In order to marry her (and by extension, take his revenge), he hired terrorists from abroad and raided her house, killing Shim Su Ryeon's husband and cuting off his finger which he keeps in his penthouse. And immediately after Shim Su-ryeon gave birth to her twin daughters, he switched one of her daughters (Joo Seok-kyung) with his ill-healthed one (Joo Hye-in), and sent the other one (Min Seol-ah) away to the United States. He succeeded in marrying Shim Su-ryeon by winning her favor and playing the role of her husband.

### Season 1

He first appears as enjoying an affair with Ha Yoon-cheol's wife, Seojin Cheon. Then, in order to redevelop the location where he had briefed with Lee Gyu-jin and Ha Yoon-cheol', he mobilized his secretary Yoon Tae-joo and service thugs to terrorize the supermarket, which was in a good location.

And he learned from the principal of Cheong-A Arts Middle School that Joo Seok Kyung gave a blank in the exam, he said, saying that if your brother is wrong, your sister will be scolded, and if your sister is wrong, your brother will be scolded. The son of Joo Seok Hoon was dragged into a secret room in the Penthouse and beaten with a whip. And he again enjoyed an affair with Cheon Seojin, and the scene was filmed by Min Seol A. And when he visits Joo Hye-in's hospital room, it turns out that he was the one who stole Min Seol A, Shim Soo-ryun's real child, as he was talking to himself that he had a hard time acting as his daughter.

## Kill Count

* The real Dan Tae Joo's parents.
* Su Ryeon Shim's ex-husband.
* Mi-sook Kim
* Ay Kyo Na (Unintentional, originally intended to kill Su Ryeon Shim.)
* Ho Young Jo

**Total: 6**

## Gallery

Joo dan tae in house.jpg주단태2.jpg단탱.jpg주단태 채찍씬.gifDan Tae Joo Whipping Seo-jin Cheon.단퉤.jpg주단태.jpgDan Tae Joo's Remorse.pngHis remorse주단퉤.jpgChild Jun Gi Baek.pngJun GI Baek/Dan Tae Joo's Childhood.Dan tae joo's death.gifJun Gi Baek's Death.
## Trivia

* For reference, the actor who played Dan Tae Joo, Ki-Joon Uhm, played Min Ho Cha, a villain comparable to Dan Tae Joo.
* Dan Tae Joo is the first Big Bad Male villain among writer Soon-ok Kim's villains. While most of Soon-ok Kim's Big Bads are female villains and male villains are mostly Pawns or secondary antagonists, Dan Tae Joo plays the role of Big Bads.
* He is the most sadistic and heinous villain in the Penthouse series, although he has some redeeming qualities.
* The Penthouse series has many elements based on Greek and Roman mythology, and Joo Dan Tae has the motif of Zeus, the king of the 12 Olympians and the god of thunder.