Minu Yun

> ***"...It's not the bike, it's the rider that matters"***
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> Minu Yoon 민우 윤
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> Character information
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> ### Height
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> 5'11  ~180cm
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> ### Date of birth
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> 25 May
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> ### Occupation
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> High School Student
>  Amateur Cyclist
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> ### Affiliation
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> Humming Bird Crew
>  Class 2-1
>  Zephyrus Crew (Formerly)
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> Background information
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> ### Relatives
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> Unnamed Father
>  Unnamed Mother †
>  Unnamed Stepmother
>  Yunha Yoon (Twin Sister)
>  Yunmi Yoon (Sister, †)
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> Debut information
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> ### First Appearence
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> Episode 1
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**Minu Yoon** or **Yoon Min-Woo** (*Hangul:* 윤민우) is one of the main characters in the webtoon series Wind Breaker. He attends Sunny High School, He has a love relationship with Mia and is good friends with June, Vinny Hong, Jay Jo, Dom Kang, and Shelly.

## Appearance

Minu is a high school junior with auburn-colored hair shaved at the sides and arched eyebrows. He usually wears dark trousers, a white shirt, a pale-yellow sweater vest, and a red blazer to school. His skin is a little tanned and his eyes have a dark brown colour. The right side of his face is now adorned with a scar from the car assault.

Before knowing Yuna was Minu's twin, Dom noted to himself that Minu looks very similar to his crush.

## Personality

Minu is quite a simple and good guy. He is loyal to his words and his friends and seems to be a rather pure guy. When people provoke him he most likely falls for it since he is very emotional and impulsive. Furthermore he is really tough and can endure some pain just as he did during the race against TJ even though his leg was injured or when he got beat up by the guy who blackmailed Jay and messed up Mia's school life. This guy doesn't really care about money and stays true to his principles.

Minu is quick to anger when someone he cherishes is threatened. He was quick to assume Jay had something to do with the photos posted when Vinny mentioned fining the pictures on a thumb drive that Jay dropped. And when Jay and Vinny cleared up the situation, he jumped head first into a fight with the Ghost crew with zero back up. If it weren't for Dom and Vinny appearing in the nick of time, he would have been injured more severely.

But with emotions such as saddness or stress, he tends to bottle them up and pretend that everything is okay. After his mother's passing, asides the angry outburst when his father and step mother made an appearance at his mom's funeral, Minu bounced back as if nothing changed. When walking after school with Mia, they encountered a happy family, father and son playing catch in the park. The image must have sparked a memory of his own childhood and suddenly, the floodgate of tears burst open. His body forced him to cry due to the anguish he must have been facing.

## History

Minu has a complicated relationship with his family. After the death of Yunmin on his mother's birthday, his mother spiraled into depression and was eventually admitted into a psychiatric ward. From Minu's perspective, his father abandoned his mother and found a new wife, but in reality, Minu's mother asked for them to get a divorce and his father eventually got happiness from someone else. It seems like his father got a new wife and doesn't have contact with his kids' mother but exact information are not given. Minu is shown visiting his mother frequently, always bringing fresh flowers with him and a happy persona. In recent chapters, Minu's mother succumbed to her depression and passed away when she was getting transferred for another evaluation.

As a kid, he was always surrounded by a bodyguard who were ordered to take care of him. Back in the days, Minu seemed to have lived quite a happy life with his family. Unfortunately, things have changed. His father owns a huge and successful company and earns a lot of money what caused the people around Minu to try to get near him for their own benefit. Minu himself noticed it and also started to 'wear a mask' and play a role. In episode 17, Minu surrendered the money his father gave him and left home to live with Jay Jo.

It was hinted at that Minu's leg injury may have been caused by Vinny Hong, despite them being close childhood friends.

## Synopsis

* Introduction Arc

Impressed by his cycling skills, Minu approaches Jahyeon Jo one morning and invites him to join his biking crew, Jahyeon declines and he takes his leave. At the end of the day, Minu returns and informs Jahyeon of one of his crew members who had been trash talking his bike and that he had been challenged to a race. He leaves, telling Jahyeon where the race would take place should he change his mind. Minu is relieved when he arrives on time.

The next day, he crosses paths with Jahyeon in the school hallway and quickly congratulates him on his win, having seen the footage from the race. On his way home, he spots Jahyeon looking beat up and approaches him and fellow Sunny High School student Hannam Kang. Hannam explains that Jahyeon was beaten up by Mountain High School students and Minu realizes Taejin Kim had done so because he was still sore about losing the race. He sincerely apologizes for involving him in his crew's business but Jahyeon brushes him off. He tries to get the other to seek medical attention but is continuously refused. Fed up with their back and forth, Hannam knocks Jahyeon out and the two take him to the pharmacy.
He and Hannam eventually run into Jahyeon's brother who brings them home where they treat Jahyeon. The two snoop around his room only to be told to leave when Jahyeon regains consciousness. They leave amicably and as he parts from Hannam, he calls a crew meeting.

The crew meets at the park and when he arrives, he heads straight for Taejin and punches him in the face. The other is quick to recover and demands to know what his problem is. Minu simply tells him and his friends to stop giving the crew a bad name and to leave. He brings up what had happened with Jahyeon which Taejin insists he did not start before glaring at him and telling him he should be the one to leave the crew.
With Taejin's statement, the other members start speaking out against his recent actions and for overall being uninvolved in the crew itself or the members save for a select few. Junsu Lee tries to defend him, but seeing the shift in the member's opinions, he proposes a race to decide who stays and who leaves. The three agree and Junsu decides to race with him, making it a 2 versus 3.
The next day, Junsu wonders about his plan, to which he says he will simply win. The senior gets serious when he says the two of them are at a disadvantage, with the state of Minu's leg, and suggests they ask Jahyeon for help. Minu refuses, saying he does not want to involve him any further and Junsu walks away troubled.

## Relationships

### Mia

He helped her a lot when she was having a hard time with her photo modeling work, and she is grateful to him. They gradually become close and have feelings for each other after she and his good friend helps minu get rid of his obsession with his mother and family. Minu has made clear his feelings for Mia. After the death of Minu's mother, Mia invited him to a beach trip, there they declared their feelings for each other and are currently in a relationship. Once Minu was paralyzed , he wanted to break up, but she always tried to avoid it. It's amazing that they are always together and help him overcome his depression. And when they heard that Minu was able to walk again, they were very happy and she said she would always be by his side and help a lot.

### Yuna Yoon

Minu and Yuna are twins and they have a typical brother-sister relationship with occasional bickering. they shows loves to each other’s, Yuna cares a lot about Minu since she’s a bit older. Their relationship was slightly strained because they both carried guilt over the death of their little sister. Now years later, the rip in their relationship left behind by their little sister's death is finally mending.

### June

June and Minu are best and really close friend, Minu seems to care a lot for June and June as well. When Minu quit the Zephyrus crew he quit with him even tho he didn't have to get involved.

### Jay

Jay was annoyed by Minu's persistent company in the beginning. But Minu's constant presence in his life eventually melted Jay's tsundere exterior. They both consider each other great friends. Minu also starts to learns to read the minute changes in Jay's expression and is easily able to tell when he is in a happy mood. Their relationship was a little rocky when Minu abandoned them and when Jay ghosted his friend for a month to find solitude in the mountains but it has since made a solid recovery. Jay is now seen to visit Minu often in and was even there to give moral support during his rehabilitation. Jay confided Minu about his feelings for Shelly and even asked for some love advice.

### Hansol

A little girl who looked like his deceased little sister that is a permanent resident of the hospital he's in due to a weak heart. He first meets her outside when she offers him wasabi flavoured lollipop to feel better. Throughout his hospital stay, she comes by his room to avoid injections. Afterawhile, she keeps him company while they watch the Humming Bird races together. She helped he come out of his depression and they both make a promise to get better soon so they can ride their bikes outside. Jay comments that he acts like Hansols dad when he consoles her about her absent working father. When Hansol collapses, he is right there with her parents waiting for good news. It is when Hansol finally wakes up that he strengthens his resolve and finally makes progress to get better.

## The bike

Minu rides a light blue Cinelli Laser with a couple of aftermarket parts. Just 21 frame set were made, each cost about 7500€ The original rear wheel has been swapped out for carbon wheel with the branding "Came Creek", which is a misspelling of "Cane Creek". The front wheel seems to be stock, while the crank is a Shimano chainring and Sugino 75 crankset mix. Minu has also opted for clipless pedals, which are more effective than straps but also prone to unclipping at high speeds, leading to fatal crashes unless the rider has enough control over the bike. From the start to where Wind Breaker is now, Minu has ridden the same bike, but the end of Season 2 may change that drastically.

## References

1. ↑ Manhwa: Season 1, Episode 1
2. ↑ Manhwa: Season 1, Episode 8

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