Euicheol Kang

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**Euicheol Kang** is a major supporting character in ***Distant Sky*** and a minor supporting character in season 1 of ***Terror Man***. A researcher of the Tardigrade Reagent, he was forced to work on it by the Y&Y Group but betrayed them. However for many years, he seemingly perfected the it, now called the Project Sky reagent which he gives to his son and two others.

## Appearance

**Main Work**

In Distant Sky, he is visibly old; around late middle-aged man. He has short, somewhat messy hair and he wears his white researcher lab coat.

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## Personality

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## Background

**Main Work**

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His background is somewhat unknown however he became a scientist/geneticists and was taught by his mentor Jaehan Shin.

## Plot Overview

### Terror Man (Season 1)

Euicheol Kang is hired by Hayeon Yeon as Jaehan Shin had gone missing. He was recommended as Jaehan’s best pupil and Hayeon requested him to fix the effects of Tardigrade in Hyunseong Lee. However, having done some research and seeing the lack of data, Euicheol tells Hayeon that his skills are just not adequate, to which Hayeon just replies that she will provide the resources, money and even humans for more clinical trials.

Battle at Jinmyung Tower
3 months later, Euicheol Kang can no longer stand the human experiments conducted under Y&Y and secretly contacts the police to expose Hayeon Yeon's plans. He secretly tells the police about Hayeon Yeon’s plans of meeting with the conglomerates at the Jinmyung Tower, which is how Suho Jin finds out. Hayeon Yeon orders her men to unleash the three incomplete Tardigrade experiments, to which Euicheol attempts to stop, saying that being incomplete projects, they would end up hurting innocent people. Of course, the guards don’t listen and open the hatch anyways.
Euicheol then arrives at the Y&Y research institute at Yongsan, does a surprise attack on one of the guards and demands the car key as he aims to end the Tardigrade project once and for all. He arrives at the Jinmyung Tower demanding to see Suho Jin and Deokman Jang claiming that he has the vaccine that can counter the effects of the Tardigrade reagent. Deokman Jang agrees and takes the vaccine. Unfortunately, the shot missed Hyunseong’s vitals and only hit his arm, which he quickly ripped off before it was disintegrated.

Aftermath
After the Jinmyung Tower incident is over, Euicheol meets Seokyoung Min at a park. He tells Seokyoung Min how he regrets all the numerous experiments and how he never thought Jaehan Shin (his mentor) would do such inhuman things. Seokyoung Min then proceeds to ask if he was the one who deleted the files in Y&Y as when he and his team arrived, most of the files were already gone. Euicheol confirms that it was him, but that there was one unfinished reagent that he did not get rid of, as he felt that was the sum of all his and Jaehan Shin’s work. Presummably, that reagent is the prototype of Project Sky. Seokyoung Min does not scold him, as he himself was part of Project Imagine as well. He only tells Euicheol to becareful in his future research and also shows him some data he collected from the Magellan Telescope in Chile, most likely showing data of how Jupiter was approaching (hinting at the events of Distant Sky). During the conversation, Euicheol’s approaches with baby Haneul and they take their leave.

### Distant Sky

#### Before the Disaster

12 years before the disaster, NASA spots a giant GRB (Gamma-Ray Burst) caused by a supernova bursts and emits 1000 thousand times the amount of radiation as the sun. Korea's government decides to join China in reaching out to the world-renowned biotechnologist, Dr. Kang and thus started to create a new humanity through gene manipulation.

10 years ago before the disaster, at the Disaster Preparatory Committee meeting, Dr. Euicheol Kang proposes Project Sky as humanity would be extinguished if it failed. Dr. Kang begins to conduct various experiments at the Severance Hospital. Transport trucks carry animals from the Seoul Zoo to the Hospital to do animal testing.

#### Beginnings of Disaster

Dr. Kang seemed to be quite busy with his studies and appeared to be indifferent to his family, at least according to Haneul’s recollection.

Dr. Kang meets Haneul Kang, his son, after he is off of school. They go to a restaurant together and Dr. Kang tells his son to order anything to which Haneul replies that he ate only 3 hours ago. It is an awkward moment and just as Dr. Kang seems to be saying something important to Haneul, Dr. Kang receives an emergency phone call for work. Haneul sarcastically tells him to go ahead and go to his research.

#### Surviving the Disaster

##### Research at Severance Hospital

Dr. Kang returns to Severance Hospital and that is when the disaster occurs. However, Dr. Kang continues the research and at some point in time, he loses track of his cellphone, which was picked up by the general. Together with two other doctors, Mrs. Byun and her husband, they continue the research non-stop for 3 days. Mrs. Byun mentions how it must be hard for Dr. Kang not knowing if his family was alive or not after the news of the disaster in Seoul. Dr. Kang decides to wash his face and look for his phone to tell Haneul to not come to Severance Hospital, however, he cannot find it as it was already stolen. As he walks out the room, he encounters the general. The general asks him how the research is going, but Dr. Kang does not answer as he is still resentful that the general killed the survivors.

The general explains that it was necessary as if people amassed at the hospital in panic, they would not be able to continue their research, thus a necessary sacrifice. However, Dr. Kang disagrees. The general explains that 10 years back at the Disaster Preparatory Committee meeting, Dr. Kang mentioned that if Project Sky failed, humanity be extinguished, thus the general would whatever it takes to make the project successful. At the moment, Haneul shows up, and 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 and tells Dr. Kang that there is no time left as the disaster erupted earlier than expect and that the only way to save his son would be to finish Project Sky.

##### Injecting the Reagent

In anger, Dr. Kang charges at the general and at that moment, the hospital begins to shake and sinks. 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. At one point, Euicheol also meets Heyool’s friends and tells them to go to Severance Hospital special room #4.

##### Meeting Heyool's Group

As Heyool and their party of 4 avoid the burning heat from VIP Room 4, Heyool begins to have seizures and encounters Dr. Kang. Dr. Kang follows him to where the rest of the crew are. He diagnoses Heyool with blood poisoning caused by tetanus infection. He says he can only do so much with antibiotics and needs surgery. He tells them if the blood pressure lowers anymore, she might die. Boram gets angry at him, saying he lied about the end of the Distant Sky. Dr. Kang is shocked they were able to reach VIP room No. 4, and asks them if there weren't any soldiers or police. They respond that they opened the door and were almost burnt to death. Dr. Kang then realizes things are worse than expected and begin to explain to them why it all happened.

Dr. Kang passed on his journal to them, explaining the cause of the disaster, but the party of 3 are unable to understand. All they understood was that the ground above was radioactive and no longer hospitable and that Dr. Kang was trying to develop a medicine for people to survive even in that environment, but that it had failed.

##### Reagent Explanation

Dr. Kang takes Heyool into his care. Some time in between, he also finds Bitnara and takes her into his care as well. He treats both of them with the reagent. Bitnara wakes up and begins to take pictures. Dr. Kang tells her not move around and asks her why she is taking pictures. She says that she feels like her memory might come back if she looks at the pictures. Dr. Kang then proceeds to explain the loss of memory in the hippocampus is due to a cerebral infraction in the temporal lobe, and how it is just temporary. Bitnara mentions how she feels like she has a sister but can't remember anything.

Heyool wakes up and Dr. Kang moves over to attend her. Dr. Kang tells her how he was just an ordinary professor before being summoned by the government and the DPC. He continues explaining how the reagent effects and sideeffects. Bitnara does not understand anything Dr. Kang says, but is just concerned that she can get better and see her family. Dr. Kang apologizes saying that children shouldn't have to go through this and that there must be some hope in all of it.

Later on, Bitnara remembers Yeool and begins losing her mind, breaking things and attacks Dr. Kang demanding his heart to save Yeool. Jungwoo saves Dr. Kang, shooting Bitnara with a tranquilizer. Jungwoo says he will not follow him any longer to persuade him and that this would be the last time, asking Dr. Kang where he hid the completed sample. He threatens Dr. Kang with the tranquilizer, which has an anesthetic for gorillas, fatal for humans.

However, Dr. Kang remains steadfast to his answer that it was a failure. Jungwoo fires the shot, but intentionally misses, saying that he admires his steadfast character, as now Jungwoo knows Dr. Kang will keep the secret till death, of not betraying his morality and hopes he will stay safe if he encounters the DPC.

##### Final Words

The soldiers sent down by the government are finally able to track down 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. Dr. Kang commits suicide before the government officers can find him, but not before hiding a message in his mouth.

After Haneul survives being shot by the police and is retrieved by Jungwoo, he wakes up in a bunker where Dr. Kang committed suicide. He finds his body and the note in his mouth, telling Haneul to go to Severance Hospital.

## Relationships

**Main Work**

**Family**

* Haneul Kang (son) -
* Unnamed Wife

**Project Sky**

* Heyool Shin - Dr. Kang treats Heyool at the request of her friends. He later instructs Haneul to find Heyool and take care of her.
* Bitnara Yun - Dr. Kang finds Bitnara at the hospital and treats her wounds with the reagent as she was burnt severely in VIP Room No.4. When she wakes up, Dr. Kang helps explain the effects of reagent on her memory. However, as she recovers her memories, Bitnara freaks and begins attacking Dr. Kang.

**Others**

* Heyool's friends (unnamed) - Dr. Kang comes across Heyool’s friends and tell them to go to Severance Hospital special room #4. However, after they reached VIP Room 4, they encountered burning heat.. Dr. Kang later also explains to them the cause of the disaster.
* General (unnamed) - the army general presumably responsible for the protection of Dr. Kang and Severance Hospital. Dr. Kang is upset at him for killing innocents people, but the general claims it is for the greater good. In order to accelerate the completion of Project Sky, he lures Haneul, Dr. Kang's son, to the hospital and shoots him to force Dr. Kang to figure out Project Sky faster.
* Jungwoo Min - he saves Dr. Kang when Bitnara loses her mind and attacks him. It seems the Terrorist had been following Dr. Kang to obtain Project Sky. However, in reality, he was just testing him.

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* Hayeon Yeon -
* Seokyoung Min -

## Abilities

**Main Work**

Although his skill is not fully explored, he has great geneticist skills where he was able to fully perfected the Project Sky reagent when it had failed numerous time years ago.

**All Works**

Comparable to his older age, he still lacks in perfecting the reagent in combination with the tardigrade DNA.

## Trivia

* In the Super String Mobile Game, he has his own character model and only appears in the story campaign. Although he doesn't have a voice actor.
* Although his age is not confirmed in Terror Man, he is likely to be 28 years old as he was confirm to be 45 during Distant Sky and that his son (17) was born during Terror Man events.

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Euicheol holding the reagent while sitting next to Seokyoung (Ep.100).pngSeokyoung sitting with Euicheol Kang (Ep.100).pngEuicheol Kang (Character Model).pngEuicheol & Heyool Shin on Bitnara's phone.pngJungwoo interrogating Euicheol about the tardigrade reagent.pngHaneul and his father awkwardly eating.png
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## References

1. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 14
2. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 14
3. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 66
4. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 68
5. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 72
6. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 78
7. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 12
8. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 15
9. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 4
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 2, Ep 14
17. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 13
18. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 14
19. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 16
20. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 16
21. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 16
22. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 17
23. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 2
24. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 1
25. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 16
26. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep 14
27. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 13
28. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 16
29. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 3, Ep. 15
30. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 2, Ep. 16