Detective Ma

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Detective Ma is a minor character in **"Electronic Horror Store."** He is a detective

## Appearance

A detective with a sturdy build and a scary face with facial scars.

## Background

He has been involved in the 2004 Missing Attorney case since he was in charge of this district. Grand Slam man disappearance case. PD Kim disappearance case, etc. Feeling strange that several unsolved cases occurred one after another, he noticed that the victims of each case disappeared shortly after purchasing items from a radio company.

## Plot Overview

### Psychopath

He was investigating the cases that were related to Yak's shop.

Immediately after, a member of the investigation department received a hidden camera video of the dismemberment murder posted by Hyeonggeun Cho on the deep web. Soon after, Hyeonggeun, who started killing again for the first time in about 10 years, arrived at the scene where the victim's body was cut into several parts and hung on the trees in a nearby forest. Using his natural intuition, he hypothesized that the real culprit was the same person based on the similarity between the method of this incident and the Daelim-dong serial incident that occurred 10 years ago.

He walks away from the scene, reflecting on several questions and speculations, but freezes when he hears the words "two " whispered to him by an unidentified man wearing a raincoat . He immediately shouted who it was and asked his fellow team members if they had seen the man in the raincoat, but the team members said they had no idea and said they had not seen him. Detective Ma realizes the seriousness of the incident and tells them to immediately gather the culprits.

While he was in the midst of leading the investigation into the Daerim-dong serial murder case, guessing the current situation and even drawing a montage of the culprit. When he hears that a fellow detective has discovered the residence of the criminal, Hyeong-geun, he rushes straight there. However, there was only his body lying there, horribly mutilated. According to KCSI 's on-site reading, we hear questionable information that he died due to self-inflicted wounds several times. Afterwards, while looking around Hyeonggeun's house, he discovers several monitor screens that are receiving images in real time through small cameras installed throughout the village. Finding that Hyeongeun was alive by a street, he orders his subordinate to go to the alley where he is walking and block his escape route. However, Hyeonggeun is clearly shown on the monitor but his subordinates don't see anyone.

Afterwards, he comes to find the source of the small camera that Hyeonggeun purchased. After saying that he discovered that all the victims of a series of recent unsolved cases had a history of purchasing items from this radio company, he demanded a list of items sold over the past six months and the exact time period. As Yak shows a skeptical attitude, he also requests information from the business partner in order to investigate the identity and origin of the items that were purchased by the victims of the cold case when abnormal phenomena occur.

Meanwhile, Ikho arrived with a box of packed products to procure supplies for the radio company. Ma asked for his cooperation; they try to check the transaction details and contents. Then, Yak said that if strange rumors spread of his shop, business would be difficult, and gave Detective Ma a black box for his car for free, telling him to check for strange items himself. Detective Ma leaves with the black box, saying it is still too early to investigate this place. It was revealed that the box was cursed and is possessed by a poisonous demon. It is unclear what become of Detective Ma if he died or surived.

## Relationships

* Hyeongeun Cho - A killer that he was after.
* Yak - Finds and believes that he was responsible for many of innocent deaths.

## Abilities

He was smart and intuitive enough to piece together that all previous murder cases was related to Yak and that Hyeongeun Cho was killed by himself.

## Trivia

* According to the author, Detective Ma's name was inspired from Ma Dong-seok from the movie "Train to Busan".
* Korean readers find Detective Ma to be more of a protagonist then Yak due to his good natured personality and strive as a detective.

## References

1. ↑ Electronic Horror Store, Ep.58
2. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%A7%88%20%ED%98%95%EC%82%AC#s-3