Minhyeok Kim

**Others**

* Suki's Tutor (former)
* KAIST College Student (former)
* High School Student (former)
* Promotion Model (former)
* Housekeeper (former)

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**Minhyeok Kim** is the Season One main antagonist of "***Reawakened Man***" and a minor supporting character of "***Terror Man***" and "***Neolithic Girl***." A Dowon higher up who uses his position to utilizes underhanded and corrupted methods to get what he wants.

## Appearance

**Main Work**

He wears a simple all black suit, pants, shoes, and tie. Under is a white dress shirt. To his left wrist, he wears his signature heartbeat monitor which was given by Jungwoo Min when they were as a child. His hair is brown with its haircut being a Messy Parted Light Bangs Korean Hairstyle; particularly with his left eye being hidden away from his left bangs.

Grey SuitTeenager**All Works**

**Neolithic Girl** - As a young adult, his physique is more manlier with broader shoulders and such. The most notable difference is that his hair style is different with it being a korean bowl cut with it being shorter than when he was a child.

## Personality

**Main Work**

**All Works**

In **Neolithic Girl**, the ambitious side of Minhyeok, as well as the slightly evil aspect of him, begin to show. Although, he still had a moral conscience and was reluctant in helping capture Suki Kang. In sense, his behavior is a mix between Terror Man and Reawakened Man.

## Background

**Main Work**

Minhyeok has been trying to take revenge for the people who caused his mother's illness, thus willing to go through great lengths in order to gain power and influence. This is the main reason for joining the Dowon Group and later manipulating Hwan Seok, all for the sake of using them to take revenge.

**All Works**

## Plot Overview

### Terror Man (Season 1)

When Minhyeok was a child, his father passed away and he was often bullied by other kids and would get into fights with them. At some point, Minhyeok was able to get a heart surgery thanks to Hayun Kim. It wasn't until later that he found out that his mother was in a mountain of debt because of the surgery and the loan sharks would constantly harass them.

Forming the Terrorist Group
Hapjeong & Mangwon Attacks
He and Jungwoo meet and become friends. Jungwoo gifts him a heart monitor and though he at first refused the gift, Jungwoo insisted. Minhyeok wouldn't tell Jungwoo about his debt because he knew Jungwoo would help right away. He did not want others to suffer because of him. He felt his problems were something he had to solve on his own.
Minhyeok go back to the church for a refund but is knocked out from them. His heart stops for a while, but he quickly wakes up and attempts to stop Hayun. As he chases Hayun, Hayun texts the others in Y&Y for help. At one point, Minhyeok is able to pin down Hayun and demands her to return the money, but is kicked by one of her goons. Hayun orders her men to kick Minhyeok till he dies. Jungwoo shows up just in time to save Minhyeok as Jungwoo just happened to see the text Hayun sent out. Jungwoo and Minhyeok gives chase to Hayun Kim, however, Minhyeok ends up captured. In Hayun's car, Minhyeok woke up and hears their conversation; enraged, he managed to mak the car crash. Waking up from the crash, he notices Jungwoo lying right next time him bleeding and with a gas mask nearby. Lilia appears at the scene and takes Jungwoo for treatment explaining to Minhyeok that Jungwoo saved him because he was his friend, not to gain anything from him. After they left, Hayun was barely alive and beg him to save her. However, he left her to die, showing his trademark grin.

School Trip Landslide

### Reawakened Man (Season 0)

Minhyeok was mentioned as he talked to Jungwoo on the phone. They hadn't talk to each other for some time and stated he will attend KAIST and will work hard and study. However, Jungwoo hanged up on him to talk later when he witness Hwan fell unconscious next to him.

### Neolithic Girl

Minhyeok is currently a KAIST college student and is hired by Jaeshin Lee him to be Suki Kang's tutor. He incentivizes her to study by taking her BL books and ripping them if she doesn't want to.

Chimera Arc
He was attacked by a pig chimera but was saved by Chulsoo Kim.

An Immortal's Struggles
He met with Jaeshin Lee, whose memories are still foggy. He explains the missing pieces to him and says that he should stay away from special people as ordinary people like them shouldn't get in their way. Jaeshin disagrees but the subject changes when Minhyeok shows him info on the Great Eight Clans and the White Lotus Foundation.

### Reawakened Man (Prior)

After graduating from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), he joins Dowon Group. He first meets Taejoon for the first time but was abused by him. However, by his side, he felt pure power that he had never felt before which was the start of his evil route. Later, he helped the Taejoon to become the 2nd President from Secretary to Executive Director to Director of the Board and ultimately to Chairman. Minhyeok's goal was to put someone dim-witted in a leadership position so he could later easily take him out.

Afterwards, he met with Jungwoo Min and wants to recruit him so that together they will defeat White. However Jungwoo refuses and tells him to live a normal life. Angered, he hopes to find a better weapon that he can use against the White.

### Reawakened Man

#### Final Grasp

During the final battle against Hwan Seok in his house. He points his gun toward him and Yerin in a delusional rage but stops when his mother intervenes. He let goes of his gun and reconciles with his mother. Then he was shot fatally from his mother in order to stop him. He then dies on his mother's lap. After, his scheme and evil sins were exposed to the public by his mother along with Dowon Group's actions.

### Terror Vs. Revival

When Hwan Seok is recruited by MUNT and is shot by Lilia to test his resurrection, Hwan reasonably assumes that MUNT is related to Minhyeok is some way. However, Minhyeok Kim is definitively dead and M&H Group's (formerly Dowon Group) collapse is confirmed, having causes great commotion and protests.

Terror Team Vs. Revival Team
Minhyeok was mentioned again when Hwan was sparring with Suki. Although he thinks that his death was a good thing, he felt some sort of uncertainty when knowing he was Jungwoo only friend.

## Relationships

**Main Work**

**Family**

* Mother (Unnamed)
* Father (Unnamed)

**Dowon Group**

* Siho Cho
* Dowon Cho
* Jinho Cho
* Seonggyu Choi
* Inwan Jeong
* Huijae Kang
* Taejoon Park - the 2nd Chairman of the Dowon Group. Minhyeok helped him climb to the top so that he could later use and dispose of him easily.
* Jinsoo Bae

**Enemies**

* Hwan Seok
* Yerin Cha
* Siwoo Ha

**Friends**

* Jungwoo Min

**All Works**

* Suki Kang (Neolithic Girl) - Minhyeok serves as Suki's tutor, helping her study.
* Hayun Kim (Terror Man) -
* Lilia Podkopayeva (Terror Man) - Minhyeok Kim knows Lilia as Jungwoo's housekeeper and for some reason keeps calling her Fyodor.
* Munjang Baek (Neolithic Girl) -
* Chulsoo Kim (Neolithic Girl) -
* Seungbin Yu (Neolithic Girl) -
* Minji Lee (Terror Man) -
* Duho Jung (Terror Man) -
* Dohyung Jun (Terror Man) -
* Jihyun Ahn (Terror Man) -
* Gyungsuk Huh (Terror Man) -
* Homeroom Teacher (Terror Man) -
* Jewoo Principal (Terror Man) -

## Abilities and Equipment

**Main Work**

**Abilities**
Minhyeok Kim has no superpowers, but he is incredibly cunning man, perhaps even more than Suho Jin (Terror Man). He is willing to use any and all means to achieve his goal and has no emotional attachments, except perhaps his mother, who at one point, he is even willing to shoot to prevent showing any signs of weakness. He is very meticulous in his thoughts and very patient in his planning.

* Soccer Skills -

**Equipment**

* Handgun -
* Heart Watch -

## Trivia

* He is very similar to Sunwoo Baek, the other antagonist of "***Neolithic Girl***."
	+ They are very cunning; working behind the scenes.
	+ At a higher position in a faction.
	+ Obsessed with people with supernatural powers.
	+ A loyal right hand man who follows no matter what.
* Although his birth date is uncertain, he was seventeen just like Jungwoo Min. If our timeline is correct, his birth year is likely on 1998.
* In Terror Vs Revival, Hwan being killed at the beginning by MUNT is similar to what Minhyeok did except the former had Hwan joined. It is interesting to think that if Minhyeok had not fallen to the darker path, he and Hwan would had been allies.
* His heart disease was never specificaly named. Considering he had it since birth, it could be "congenital heart disease."
* Many unofficial English readers dislike how much "plot armor" that he has as he survive many times.
* According to Yongtaek Chae, the motif of Minhyeok came from is Lee Woo-jin (Yoo Ji-tae), the villain from Old Boy (2003).
* It is likely that Suho Jin shares a similar ideology as they both resent selfish powerful people and wish good people or citizens to pave their roads of society.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ YLAB Encyclopedia, 99pg
2. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 32
3. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 31
4. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 32
5. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 33
6. ↑ Terror Man, Season 1, Ep. 36
7. ↑ Terroman, Season 1, Ep. 37
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Neolithic Girl, Ep. 26
9. ↑ Reawakened Man, Season 1, Ep. 45
10. ↑ Terror vs Revival, Ep.2
11. ↑ Neolithic Girl, Ep. 27
12. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfKA9LnS0K/?utm\_medium=copy\_link