Haneul Kang

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**Haneul Kang** is the protagonist of ***"Distant Sky****."*** He also appeared in ***"Terror Man"*** and ***"Terror Vs. Revival"*** as a cameo. A normal student living a normal life in Korea until suddenly he wakes up in pitch black dark surrounded by what is left of Korea. Along with Shin Heyool, they attempt to survive the apocalypse and avoid dangers along the way.

## Appearance

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He has a rather average build of a regular boy in highschool. He typically wears his school uniform with white worn shirt with a tie and dark pants. He has a somewhat of a modern Korean bowl cut. Briefly, during outer space his hair grew longer; running down to around his neck but he then cuts it before the final mission.

Hanuel During Space**All Works**

Hanuel's face was not shown as he was in his spacesuit. Besides that, appearance is the same but in a different artstyle.

## Personality

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The most notable trait is his determination and the willpower to go through obstacles and dangers that one normally would quiver in fear. Although he feels the intense pressure such as his final mission, he reinforces his mental health by believing in the hope that his actions will result in a good future for everyone. As well as having a piece of paper, "Look Up to the Distance Sky," to remind him what he fighting for. Another notable trait is his altruism in that he is very cooperative as he nurse and protect Heyool when they first met. Which shows that he is willing to sacrifice himself if it means that both of them or others will make it. Or if there is no choice, he is willing to let other survive if it means endangering himself.

## Background

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**All Works**

As a baby, he was born around the time when the events of Terror Man unfolded.

## Plot Overview

### Beginnings of Disaster

Haneul's mom wakes up Haneul, telling him he is going to be late. As they are having breakfast, Haneul's mom tells both Haneul and Dr. Kang to stop looking at their phones. In the background, the TV reports about the recent issue of "Nature" by the DPC. As Haneul is walking to school with his classmates, they talk about an online game the night before. In class, Haneul mentions how he will probably not get into college with his grades and how his life is so boring. Sometime after Haneul goes to school, his mother goes to vist her parents in Daegu.

Haneul Kang is talking with his friends about how he wished a war would break out so he wouldn't have to study again. In class, Haneul falls asleep until everyone has already left the classroom when his friend wakes him up. As they leave to go to the internet café, Haneul runs into his father who is waiting for him. So instead, Haneul ends up going to a restaurant with his dad, Dr. Euicheol Kang. Dr. Kang tells his son to order anything to which Haneul replies that he ate only 3 hours ago. Because of Dr.Kang's research, there were barely moments where Haneul would spend time alone with him, thus there is a rather awkward silence. Just as Dr. Kang seems to be saying something important to Haneul, he receives an emergency phone call for work. Haneul sarcastically tells him to go ahead and go to his research.

As Haneul leaves the restaurant, he notices trucks pass by that have "Seoul Zoo Special Transport Vehicle" labelled on them and various police cars that follow. As Haneul is distracted by the scene and accidentally bumps into Bitnara's sister, Yeool, pushing her down. Haneul immediately apologizes and stretches his arms to help her up when Bitnara immediately interferes and scolds him to look where he is walking. Haneul apologies again and then goes into the bus.

Haneul is thinking of what he will be doing that night as his father would probably be late at work. Just as that thought is crossing him, all the sudden the bus shakes and comes to a stop. The passengers look outside and see the sinkholes. Shortly after, the bus also falls into a sinkhole.

### Surviving the Disaster

After three days, Haneul wakes up from the crash. He realizes that everyone in the bus is dead except himself. He picks up his phone and sees a message from his father, telling him to go to his research lab in Severance Hospital. Haneul takes hours to arrive at the Severance Hospital due to all the debris, when it was only a 10 min walk. A blind child appears behind him warning him to not go to Severance Hospital as she heard gunshots and screams as the police has been shooting all the survivors. However, Haneul goes anyways. The blind girl's owner shows up and scolds her and beats her mocking her, saying what help could a blind girl provide.

Haneul finally shows up at the Severance Hospital. Dr. Kang is both glad he is alive, but also shocked and confused as to how he got in as police would've stopped him. Just as they are about to embrace, the general shoots Haneul. Dr. Kang takes the wounded Haneul to the hospital bed and administers Project Sky. Just as Dr. Kang is about to put the mask on Haneul, he explains how it will affect his memory temporarily, as the reagent will cause strain to the temporal lobe, but that the memories would return.

Hanuel and Dr. Kang hide in some bunker and during that time, Dr. Kang nurses him and helps him work through the side effects of the reagent so that Haneul wouldn't go insane. The government is finally able to track Dr. Kang, so Dr. Kang has to let Haneul escape through a contraption on the floor. Before sending him away, he tells Haneul to go to Severance Hospital to find Heyool.

### Meeting Heyool Shin (Part 1)

    Haneul finds Heyool and saves her before she is about to choke to death. Haneul tells her to not give up. However, after being saved, Heyool just walks away, saying that she never asked anyone to save her. As she walks away, Haneul calls her by name, which confuses Heyool. Haneul promises to tell her how he knows her name if she follows him. Haneul takes Heyool to the emergercy shelter that was installed by the government in case of emergencies (the largest being in Gwanghwamun).
Haneul takes out some ramen and begins to cook it. At first Heyool refuses, but she is so hungry, she ends up eating it anyways. Haneul begins to explains that it was his father who saved her and though he knows what caused the disaster, it was not the right time to tell her. Haneul's father had regretting telling Heyool's group the truth too early on.    As they sleep, Haneul reminiscences when his father let him escape when the government found their hiding spot, telling him to find Heyool. At that moment, Heyool wakes up suddingly from a nightmare and begins having hallucinations as the side effect of the reagent. She loses her mind and starts chocking Haneul. Her arms are too strong to break off, but finally Haneul is able to push her arms away and Heyool finally snaps out of it. Haneul explains how because of the spreading of the reagent, her memories will begin to fade, maybe even lose months worth of memories temporarily. Even after the memories recover, she would still have sudden flashbacks. But Haneul comforts her, saying he will help and hugs her.
Haneul and Heyool stay in the shelter for a while, gathering food, fixing things. However, Heyool begins to forget Haneul. She feels drowsy and wants to get some air. Haneul tries to stop her saying its dangerous, but is stopped by a headache. Haneul recovers and follows Heyool outside. There they both look at a banner that congratulates Heyool in her admission to Seoul University. That's when Haneul realizes that Heyool is a senior at school, as he himself is a junior. However, Heyool can't seem to remember the fact that she was admitted to Seoul University. She begins to panic, as she fears she will forget everything. Haneul tries to calm her down, but bombs begin to drop from the sky. They avoid the explosions and as burning ruble is able to fall on Heyool, Haneul pushes her away, getting burnt himself.

Writing Their Message of Hope
    That's when Heyool realizes that Haneul also has the reagent as he recovers from the burnt. Hanuel didn't want to tell Heyool about it as to not to let her panic. Haneul explains to Heyool that it was his father, Dr. Kang that helped him work through the side effects, or he, himself, would also have gone insane. Heyool responds saying that though she is prety good at taking care of herself, she is ok with them surviving together. They end up going to a shop to grab some spray cans and begin spraying the message: "Look up at the distant sky"..
Heyool and Haneul begin spraying more and more messages, using florencent spray as well so the message can be seen in the dark. Haneul asks what the message (Go to the Distant Sky) means and whether they could've used a simpler message. Heyool explains how no matter how much they simplify it, she would forget. She feels like in times of desparation, she will remember it better, and will remmeber it was her who wrote it. Heyools talks about how she still wants to see the blue sky, despite knowing the surface is full of radiation. Haneul takes it seriously and suggests that they go up, as he felt that his father, Dr. Kang, did all this so they wouldn't have to stay in this hole. They both agree to make the journey and begin to pack up.
As they begin walking, Heyool says she wants to go back to the academy to get a picture of her mother. Even though Heyool hated her mother, she was still her only family. Haneul tells Heyool that he will go grab it for her, as his academy is nearby too. When Haneul arrives and opens the locker, it's full of the leeching insects. As Haneul takes the picture, the buliding collapses and crushes Haneul. Haneul regenerates, but loses his memory. He sees the message left by Heyool, but cannot understand it and writes on a nametage "who is the Distant Sky?". He feels like he is suppose to do something with seomeone, but cannot remember. His wounds alos begin to open up again. He sees a light in the distance and sees Heyool spraying "Everything has distance" on the building. His memory returns and he calls out to Heyool as he runs towards her, but an earthquake happens. And both of them fall.

The First Ammesia Relapse
Haneul wakes up, turns on the flashlight on his phone and sees dead corpses everywhere. He has lost his memory and can't remember anything since the disaster. He hears noises and walks outside calling for help. On the ground, there is a newspaper that has the heading "Premotion of volcanic erruption". Haneul hears some noises and panics flashing his cellphone around, but not seeing anything. He faints and falls to ground, when he wakes up, he realizes that vampire bugs are sucking on his leg. However, after shaking off these bugs, his wounds continue to bleed. Haneul sees an animal hospital and tries to open the door, prying it open as he can heard sounds inside. All the sudden, someone covers his mouth and pulls him away, telling him to follow her if he doesn't want to die. Haneul pushes her away and it turns out that it's Heyool and she had saved him as the hospital behind them collapses.
It seems Heyool also lost her memory as she cannot recognize Haneul. They hear a noise and as they look up, there is a train that falls from a hole in the sky. They dodge the train, but drop their phones. Heyool tells Haneul to quickly turn on the lights. Haneul panics and finds the phone, shinning the light on Heyool who is being bitten by the vampire bugs. Haneul sees light at the end of the tunnel and picks up Heyool to carry her on his back. They approach the light and realize it is the train's lights. Haneul recognizes the bulidings and realizes they are near Gangnam Station. Haneul finds it odd that he can only see a few buildings but can't see past it, so he decides to explore. However, as he walks forward, he notices someone trying to break the lights.

Surviving the Encounters

The blind madmen breaks the lights and the vampire bugs begin to crawl up Haneul and into his mouth. In panic runs and drops Heyool and falls into a body of water. He finds a phone and is able to get the flashlight to turn on and begins looking for Heyool. After looking body after body, he finds someone wearing a red jumpsuit, believing it is Heyool. However, it seems like she was already eaten by the bugs. Haneul breaks down and is afraid. Suddenly he notices and find supplies. He decides he will live on and look for food. He covers the dead body’s face and says his goodbyes. As he is looking through the mall, he notices a newspaper, Daily Seoul, that talks about 50,000 people gone missing in Gangnam Station.
The article talks about how a UN report was made regarding the 811 Gangnam Incident as the worst disaster ever occurring in Korea. The report goes on to talk about the cause of the disaster, but the rest is under rubble. Haneul tries to pull it out, but ends up ripping it. On the backside, there is an article with a heading “Seoul, the Burning Hell” and some text about a 3rd shelter at City Hall. Haneul sees the info about the shelter at City Hall and decides to go there, perhaps there would be more surviviors. Hanuel finally finds where the food is but hears a strange noise behind him. As he turns, he sees a manic with a chairsaw attacking him. He blocks it immediately with his ax..

As the chainsaw is about to reach Haneul, a piece of debris falls and knocks the maniac out. Haneul begins to run as the building collapses. He picks a cup ramen and begins eating the raw noodles. He decides to go to City Hall, as there should be people there that could explain what is going on. Haneul notices a broadcasting station and sees spotlights, turning on the swtich. He begins to look for food and comes to a conveninece store, but the food is all taken. He then notices the message "Look up at the Distant Sky". He doesn't really understand it and walks outside. He then notices there is a dark wall that the light doesn't reach further. As Haneul approaches, he realizes that it is a real wall of mud. As Haneul explores the wall, he notices light in the distance and begins running towards it believe there are people there, without realizing there is a cliff. Haneul falls off and grabs on to the cliff. Just as he is about to fall, Heyool grabs him to pull him up.

Reuniting With Heyool
    Heyool had woken up when Haneul threw him off his back. Hanuel thought Heyool had died but it was mostly likely Heyool's classmate. Heyool keeps telling Haneul to turn the light off. All the sudden Haenul charges at Heyool, but it is to save her from the incoming dog. They run away and the dogs chase them. Haneul hits a few of them with his bag. They are able to get into a building and close the door. Hanuel asks Heyool about the disaster and Heyool explains that there was a mushroom cloud over Cheonggyesan, though not nuclear. She tells Haneul that it has been 62 days since the incident. All the sudden mud falls from the sky and as they try to remove the mud that covered the door, they see a mud tidal wave from the distance.
Hanuel and Heyool begin running but are overwhelmed by the tidal wave of mud. However, they are able to survive with Haneul on top of Heyool. Haneul wakes up but there is a steel pipe penetrating through him from the collapse. They also can't seem to move, or the weight that Hanuel is holding on his back would collapse. As they are stuck, Haneul tells Heyool to reach in his pocket, as there is some leftover instant noodles. Heyool finds a door handle behind her and they are able to fall through a door. Heyool still cannot trust Haneul and throws about the noodles. Heyool tells Haneul to stay still as she has some first aid in her warehouse.

Haneul's Odd Regeneration

It has been a few minutes but Haneul's wound healed off-screen and tries to look for her; just as Heyool returns to check on him. Heyool becomes increasingly suspicious of Haneul as he doesn't remember anything about the past few months, his phone still has charge, and Haneul can't even remember his own name. Haneul keeps following Heyool, telling Heyool to please let him go with her. He promises not to be a bother. Heyool agrees but tells him no more questions.
However, Haneul still asks what happened and Heyool accidentally answers explains it's a sinkhole. She stops talking and they get to the station and ponder whether to go down to the subway. They hear noises of the blind maniacs and Haneul accidentally trips and falls down, Heyool follows.
Three blind maniacs also follow them down there. They run down the subway as they are being chased but hit a dead end. However, the door is locked with a code. There happens to be hint drawn next to the keypad. Heyool is able to discifer it and they are able to get in. However, as they go past the door, they are met with a tiger. They try to go back, but notice the chainsaw cutting through the door. They both pass out and by the time they wake up, the tiger seems to have disappeared and the blind maniacs seemed to have left. The two begin walking to the other side of the tunnel where they feel heat and see light.

The Lava of General YI Sun-Shun

They enter a place that is filled with lava. Haneul is confused because there is no volcano in Seoul. Heyool recalls a discussion with his party of 4 where they had predicted this may happen. Heyool jumps down to the platform below to walk along the pathway on the side of the wall. Haneul reluctantly follows. As they walk, they notice Yi Sun Shin's Statue, which is near City Hall as well as building from City Hall. Apparently, they floated across the lava all the way to Gangnam. Because of the smell of surfur, Heyool almost passes out, but as Haneul has rhinitis, he is not as affected. All the sudden his wound in his abdomen begins to open.
All the sudden Haneul looks back and sees the tiger. The tiger approaches to eat his head when suddenly Jungwoo saves him. Haneul sees him and gathers the strength up to pick up Heyool on his back. He begins walking towards where Jungwoo is, but then the platform crumbles and Haneul jumps to grab onto the ladder. Jungwoo approaches them to save them, but tells Haneul that he can only save one of them. Haneul decides to save Heyool and so Jungwoo drags her up as Haneul falls. When Heyool wakes up, she realizes she's on the other side but cannot find Haneul and begins calling out to him.
Haneul apparently did not die and wakes up on a upper ledge above the ladder. His wound is still open. He crawls up to a corridor full of vampire bugs and finally cross but the bugs begin crawling on him and he falls into a pile of water. He struggles to find an opening to breathe. He finds a gap but is struggling to get out of the water. He is able to get his head out of the water to call out for help and Heyool hears him. She runs to him and just as Haneul is drowning, she pulls him out. As they continue walking, Heyool tells Haneul about Yun Dong-Ju's poem "Sky, Wind, and Stars". In this poem, sky represents hope. His message was that even in the hardest, darkness times, the sky will always be there. Heyool tells Haneul how she wants to see the sky, Haneul agrees and then suddenly remembers his name. Just as they meet soldiers

### Meeting Heyool Shin (Part 2)

The two finally arrive at the end of the tunnel where there are a group police and a bunch of lights. Haneul and Heyool they think they are being rescued, but in reality, the police are there to kll off all the survivors. By the time the two notice the pile of bodies near them, it's too late and they fire shots and kill both of them.
Jungwoo rescues Haneul and takes him to a bunker so he can recover. Haneul wakes up and find water and food prepared for him. As he explores the room, he sees some top secret documents from the DPC and also notices a person behind a curtain who turns out to be his father, Dr. Kang. He cries "DAD" and Jungwoo hears it in the distance as he is burning the corpse of the police and from Hanuel's scream, he confirms that Haneul is Dr. Kang's son.  Haneul notices there is something weird about his father's mouth and find the hidden paper inside that has Severance Hospital VIP Room No.4 written on it.
He waited in the bunker for about two weeks but no one showed up, so he decided to head out. Haneul packs up and says goodbye to his dad. Haneul walks in the darkness with only his flashlight as he calls out to Heyool.

To the Severance Hospital

He stumbles across a videocamera that has night mode. Haneul doesn't notice, but there are blind killers following him prepared to kill him. As Haneul is playing with the camera, he notices there's a video and plays it. It is a video of Heyool after surviving the fire. A solider finds and proceeds to strangle her. Hanuel breaks down and just as the killers are about to pounce on him, Haneul instinctively protects himself, killing all these maniacs without even realizing it. When Haneul returns to his senses, he is confused as to why there is blood on his hands.

Hanuel is able to begin to see in the dark. He arrives at Severance Hospital and sees some lights on but is not able to cross over as there is a gap in between. Haneul finds a rope that crosses to the hospital but is trying to find another way. He then notices movement in the hospital and uses the video camera to zoom in and sees Heyool.
Haenul begins climbing the rope slowly bit by bit. The rope snaps. Haneul grabs on and notices a bridge in the distance.  Haneul is able to pull himself over to the bridge, which turns out to be constructed by the government. However, the bridge begins to collapse and Haneul runs over just in time to grab on the ledge. He hears some sounds and runs toward the hospital thinking it may be Heyool. On the way he runs into the gorilla that Heyool and Bitnara set on fire before. It seems it had been dead for months.

Meeting Crazed Bitnara
Upon entering the hospital, Haneul finds dead bodies with their hearts missing.  Haneul also walks pass Mrs. Byun who had her face crushed by Bitnara. He then cross paths with Bitnara, realizing that it was not Heyool that he had seen, but Bitnara as her skin was burnt red. Bitnara demands his heart and begins attacking him.  Bitnara charges at Haneul and they fall out onto a elevator and Haneul manages to shake her off. However, Bitnara begins to climb back up. All the sudden Haneul’s survival instincts kick in and somehow pushes off the elevator where she happens to be pierced by a steel pole. When Haneul comes back to his senses, he can’t remember what just happened and sees a light in the distance.

Haneul finally reaches VIP room No.4. He opens the hatch and feels hot air from above. He also hears a nearby radio sending choppy messages. He only hears bits and pieces before another earthquake occurs. It seems the government was sending a message to all soldiers to eliminate all survivors and also saying that down there, the conditions might be harsh, but up in the surface, it is a burning hell.
Haneul climbs up for a long time until he hears something below. Bitnara was rushing towards him but instead of attacking, she wants to giver him her phone for parents. She was going to fall to the abyss but Haneul says that they can make it together but Bitnara doesn't want her parents to see her like this and falls back to the VIP room.

Reunited
Haneul looks through the phone and see a picture of his dad next to Heyool. The light at the end of the ladder kind of comes and goes. Haneul continues climbing and one point is about to give up but continues. He then notices a light coming up the later, it turns out to be Heyool.    As Haneul looks down, he sees Heyool climb up to meet him. As they rendez-vouz, corpses begin to fall from the hole above them. Haneul falls off, but Heyool grabs on to him. All the sudden, the ladder gets pulled up. Before the ladder snaps, it drags them to a cliff. Looking out, they see a city and what seems like an lake. In the far distance, they see another ladder. At the end of the ladder, they see what appears to be blue sky and trains that are hanging from it.
They begin to head towards the ladder and cross various buildings till they come across the lake. They realize that it is full of corpses with the head floating face up, which Haneul says, according to a myth, when people die full of hate, the body stands erect in water. In the distance, they see a message left by these people on the wall. It seems that this place was a 2nd shelter and these people were most likely killed by the government.
They attempt to get to the ladder but Heyool falls into the water. Then, an earthquake happens were both lava and water from the surface poured into the area. Heyool got out and tells Haneul that she found another route in the water. They head there in the nick of time.

### Arriving at the Surface

On a eerily surface, Haneul & Heyool climbs out from a hatch; finally getting to the surface. They walk aimelessly while Heyool explains that she surived thanks to the terrorist. They found a radioactive sign and then a radioactive human asking for help. They flee in terror and stays in an area. They rest for a bit until they hear a car drive by that tied radiation humans by a rope. Haneul ran towards the car, leaving Heyool behind.

At this point of time, it is unclear what become of Haneul and how he get to Daegu. It is implied that after the car chase, is presumed that he came across the miltary 2nd bunker or was captured. He was forced or used the shower before escaping. As sometime later, the military give chase and eventually captured Haneul and report their capture by radio message 2 hours ago. He was then transferred all the way to Daegu. At this time, it is unknown how he escape the military again or where did the military go. With no one around, he wandered everywhere while spray painting Distant Sky.

While spray painting on the floor "Haneul and Heyool are the end of the distance," he noticed Heyool and the two finally meet up again and run towards each other. Just as a nuclear missle is to hit at their location as Chinese White branch witness them.

### Arriving at Daegu (Season 4)

As Haneul and Heyool found each other, a plane arrived with Jungwoo, Changuk, and Hyeyeong to save them. They enter and is to take off but the plane was busted. As Jungwoo and Hyeyeong leaves, the plane finally take off. HOwever Changuk jumps to save Hyeyeong. The plane was shot down but Haneul and Heyool survived and walked from Daegu to South Jeolla. As they walk, they did find Changuk at Jeonju and patched him up as he was wounded. They left to find food and came back but he already left.

They begin traveling again with Heyool spotting Changuk at Gwangju Church but failed to reach him in time.

They finally get to the Naro space center but came to find Suki and Changuk. As Changuk sits by the fire, he begins to explain the disaster, basically saying that the problem occured at the micro level, at the quantum level, where the theory of relativty does not apply. As he is beginning to explain more, he begins to cough and asks for some water. Just as Haneul and Heyool go look for water, they notice Bitnara approaching. Haneul gets nervous as he just knows her as a crazy person, but Heyool recognizes Bitnara and hugs her.

They bring back water and and food for Changuk and Haneul notices that today happens to be Changuk's birthday and they just so happen to have a candle, so they celebrate together. As Haneul and Heyool go grab more water and food, Changuk begins to explain to Bitnara that the basement is a way to get to Plan B, as Plan A was always in preparatin for Plan B. Furthermore, he says that if it is the two of them (referring to Haneul and Heyool), he believes they can revert it all. As they got back, Bitnara reveals he passed away and explains what Changuk told her to Haneul and Heyool and prayed for him.

They head to the destination and went underground to find White locked the door. They broke in and went inside.

### Arriving to Jeju Island (Season 5)

#### In the Shuttle Silo

Underground, they came across dead bodies with Bitnara having a small panic attack in which Haneul calm her down. Then they enter a door to realize it was actually a secret Chinese rocket silo, after realizing their path is blocked they enter the rocket and find supplies along with a first aid kit, while investigating the interior, Hanuel accidentally turns on the rockets ignition sequence, causing the rocket to take off, however it malfunctions and crash lands in the sea.

Fortunately the cabin detached from the main rocket and had a parachute as well as floating devices which causes the cabin to float to the nearby island of Juju, once on land Hanuel comments how he recognizes the island as he has visited it during a school trip, while Heyool's grandmother lived there. They wander of the island which seems completely intact though note the absence of its population.

#### Calm Before the Storm

They reach to the airport, while rummaging through the abandoned suitcases, they decide to change their clothes to more summer outfits due to the heat on the island. not long later Hanuel remarks how Bitnara's body seems to have recovered from her burns. They relax for a bit at the airport and then outside drinking.

Later as the group travel by car and hits a deer that crossed the road, causing it to crash, as they stumble out, Bitnara sees what looks like a baby deer and pets it, before its revealed the deer has a mutated mouth and attacks the group but they able to kill it.

Hanuel, Heyool and Bitnara arrive at a deer farm. They begin to look for a map. Haneul finds some deer antler liquor, joking about getting drunk on it. Heyool finds the map and is able to pinpoint their location, saying they are close to their grandma's house. At the same time, she sees a picture and seems to recognize the old lady in the picture (who is actually her grandma), but cannot remember. Haneul finds a door with a label saying Baekrok Lab. They find a dead person inside (who turns out to be Heyool's mom), but decide to just leave her there and head back to the house. When they reach the house, they check out the rooms. Heyool finds her old room and picture frames.

Haneul meets Bitnara and they embrace as they each lost their family. Soon after, they had a friendly chat as Heyool shows up. They head to the docks and turn on a recorded video of how to turn on the submarine. Just then, mutated deers hears it and charge after them.

#### Eruption

At the geothermal room, they try to figure stuff out when Heyool finds the right activation but realize that someone has to stay behind. They all contemplate what to do with Heyool volunterring because of her selfish actions towards Bitnara because she read the Project Sky notes. However, Bitnara retorts that she hold the bigger guilt and volutneers. Although with much rejection, Bitnara managed to convince them.

Bitnara sacrifice herself to activate the submarine as her missing foot and presumbably her function to reproduce is too damaged. They hug and embrace each other tearfully before Haneul and Heyool left. Minutes later, Bitnara waits but a flying lava rock hits the roof and shrapnel hits her abdomen. Although in pain she pulls herself up and managed to activate the lever and falls to the ground. She sheds a tear as she thinks of her family before the entire base was destroyed. Killing her.

### Taiwan Space Station

#### To China

Jupiter crushes the moon. Jungwoo, Suki and Haneul reach Taiwan. Continnental nation came togehter to build a governemnt refugee center, mainly the Chinese government. Presidnet of CHina welcomes Haneul and the Chinese people call Haneul their hope. Haneul goes to sleep with the help of a sleeping pill and dreams of Heyool. Suki wakes Haneul up and tells him it is time as after 6 hours, Jupiter would destroy the Earth.

As Jungwoo and Haneul eat, Jungwoo explains how the disaster started in China and how it was White behind all this, but that they were only the ones to start the fire, the DPC was the culprit. As Haneul prepares, they spray the shuttle with the letters HOPE and they also prepare a uniform for Haneul.

#### Plan Zero

After the disaster, on February 14th, the Earth is destroyed.

After one year, Haneul reaches Tiangong, the new space station. The spaceship attaches to the station, where there is some gravity so Haneul can walk and also take off his helmet. Haneul follows the instructions and completes the fueling and distribution, then proceeds to update the orbit. He does his preparations and leaves the station. He begins to look at Bitnara's phone that has the photo of Heyool and his dad. He begins to tear up, feeling lonely and scared.

### "The Distant Future"

At an unknown time later, Heyool wakes up from the pod (which has crash landed on a forest) not far from her is the trail where the space ship has also crashed, as a confused Heyool investigates her surroundings, she is shocked to see the stars and when she climbs up a hill, she is shocked to see the lights of a city, before being startled by a airplane flying overhead, at first she contemplates her survival and is sad to think she was the only survivor, before a person (presumably Hanuel) approaches her and calls her name, she looks at him and tearfully smiles before saying "hi".

## Relationships

**Main Work**

**Family**

* Euicheol Kang (Father) - Often absent at home due to work, creating some tension between father and son. In the end Euicheol was forced to use the reagent for Project Sky on Haneul to save his life.
* Unnamed Mother

**Allies**

* Heyool Shin
* Bitnara Yun
* Changuk Lee
* Jungwoo Min
* Suki Kang

**Enemies**

* Heyool's Mother

## Abilities and Equipment

**Ability**

* **Tardigrade Reagent** - An ability that was created from the Imagine Project and then Project Sky. It uses an animal called, "Water Bear" which has the most survivability of any animals known. It gives the user who is injected with it tremendous power however at a cost. First it lasts for around 2-3 months which means the effects will decrease and that sometimes the user will suffer from amnesia and could cause uncontrollable violent actions upon other or the user. The following powers:
	+ *Superhuman strength -* The user will have extreme strength capable of killing dozens of people quickly and easy with just hands. For example, the user can rip an arm away with ease, even if the user did not mean it, meaning that one needs incredible willpower to hold back dangerous strength.
	+ *Regenerative Powers* - The user can regenerate any wounds minor or major such as rebar penetrating through the body. It seems it may take some time but is rather quick. For example, Bitnara was burned incredibly, leaving her with unimaginable burned skin. While later, her skin returns back to normal as the old skin peels and falls away.
	+ *Extreme Endurance* - The user can stay alive in place such as the outer space and the intensity of the sun. The user will feel little to no danger facing these dangers.
	+ *Night Vision* - has the ability to see in the dark but seems it has to be manually activated as Haneul still uses the flash light.

**Equipment**

* Distant Sky Paper
* Spaceship
* Medical Backpack - contains a medical kit.
* Flashlights
* Head Light
* Hatchet
* Torches
* Supermarket Map
* Bitnara's Phone

## Trivia

* For some reason, despite being the protagonist of "Distant Sky," he doesn't appear as a Superstring team member at the Ylab website.
	+ Some theorize that after successfully completing "Plan Zero" and went back in time, he somehow perish, passing the torch to Heyool Shin. This is most certainly not true. Although this would explain why Haneul was not included as a member of Superstring Team in the official website.
* He has bad rhinitis.
* In the Super String Mobile Game:
	+ His Spray Can is an item to acquire.
	+ The tourist outfit from season 5, although slightly different, can be acquired.
	+ His use of torches is referenced in his skills set.
	+ He is voiced by voice actor *"Choi Seung-hoon."* He also voiced Ajitae in the game. He is known to dub, Gaara (Theatrical Version), from *"Naruto Shipudden,"* Brook from *"One Piece,"* and Souji Okita, from *"Gintama."*

## Gallery

### Official Gallery

Superstring Mobile Game (Character Model)Superstring Mobile Game (Alt. Model)Nico's Content (Nitty's Artist)Reawakened Man (Jaehan Kim & Daughter)Three Kingdoms (Invincible Pink Artist)Inwan Youn's Initial Sketches
### Short Gallery

Haneul Kang walking into the sun to complete his mission.pngHaneul Kang & Heyool Shin.pngHaneul using his phone to see what is going on.pngHaneul Kang seeing the writing that he and Heyool left behind but forgot.pngHeyool slides and lands on Haneul.pngHaneul Kang & Heyool Shin finding lava.png
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## References

1. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep.18
2. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 14
3. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 100
4. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 100
5. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 6
6. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 14
7. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 14
8. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 14
9. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 15
10. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 14
11. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 15
12. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 15
13. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 16
14. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 17
15. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 18
16. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 17
17. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 16
18. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 17
19. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 17
20. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 17
21. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 18
22. ↑ In Korea, this phrase is a play-on of words, meaning "look for Haneul" or "find/follow Haneul", as "Haneul" means "Sky"
23. ↑ The better translation would be "At the End of the Abyss/Distance" from the Chinese "在深淵的盡頭"
24. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 19
25. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 1
26. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 2
27. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 3
28. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 4
29. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 5
30. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 6
31. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 9
32. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 10
33. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 11
34. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 12
35. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 14
36. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep. 15
37. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 1
38. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 1
39. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 2
40. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 3
41. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 7
42. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 8
43. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 9
44. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 10
45. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 11
46. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 12
47. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 13
48. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 14
49. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 16
50. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 1
51. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 2
52. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 20
53. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 5, Ep. 32
54. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 5, Ep. 33
55. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 5, Ep. 34
56. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 5, Ep. 34
57. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep.7
58. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 1, Ep.9