Korean Taekyung/Biography

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## Background

He is a 27 year old hunter from South-Korea, who's been stuck at F-rank throughout his career. When he first started out as a hunter 7 years ago, he was so nervous he weren't able to speak properly. There's not much information on his novice days.

## Sangdong Incident

He joined the Picnic Guild about a year ago, where he ran gates constantly. All until the Sangdong District Gate Incident, of which he was the sole survivor. After the incident, he disappered for about half a year and was interrogated by a lot of different inspectors. He recently returned to the guild, only to get fired during a reorganization. However, he probably got fired because he became a burden due to all the inspectors.

## Murim Login

The same day he got fired, he picked up the ARK-2020 and was trapped in Murim Login. Upon returning from Murim, he began questioning if anything that had happened to him were real and began looking into the origins of ARK-2020 to no avail.[?] Thus he joined his friend Im Hyukjun in raiding an E-rank gate,[?] where they unfortunately encountered two mid-tier rare boss monsters. Fortunately, when he was about to get struck down, the game system finished syncronizing and he regained the powers he had in Murim Login.

## Star Guild collaboration

Faced with the threat of a named monster, Myunghoon's party retreated, leaving Peace Guild to deal with the matter.[?]

As Taekyung and Kim Hwajong are returning to the entrance, Taekyung quickly calls out Star Guild's concealment in the forest area. Taekyung one-sidedly beats Myunghoon, and kills him in self-defense, as the latter is about to stab him in the back after surrendering. Outside, Taekyung reports that he killed Myunghoon to the journalists. A full-scale investigation was launched, uncovering Myunghoon's crimes. Although Peace Guild anonymously sent an USB with a recording of the entire raid, something which is illegal, the police dismissed it since most guilds film their raids nowadays. In fact, the police actually thanked Taekyung for bringing Myunghoon to justice. They also advised Taekyung to keep a low profile for the time being, since the ministry of justice were paying close attention to him.

Although the public opinion was on the positive side, supporting Taekyung, some questioned the ethics of it, explaining that they felt it was still obviously murder and excessive in terms of self-defense, but that the prosecution hushed everything up and are going easy on him because he is famous. Netizens began complaining about how he's a wicked bastard who only cares about getting rich, until the news reported that Taekyung has donated hundreds of billions of won for the victims of gates in the name of Peace Guild and established a donation foundation, managed by Choi Minwoo. After that, people began berating the netizens who complained about him being a public figure or being greedy. People become fascinated by how he rooted out all those corrupt bastards instead, and speculated that Taekyung might be okay with spending that much money because he believes he can easily earn it back again. The first group of people to receive support fundings were the families of the victims that died in the variation gate incident 3 years ago, followed by the warriors that joined the war in the great cataclysm and their families.

Turns out Taekyung was actually reluctant to give up all that money, because he could have spent it on letting Hayeon do everything she wants and give his mom a better life in contrast to the hard life she's lived so far. He discusses the topic with them, and Hayeon explains they wouldn't even know what to do with so much money and not to mention managing to finish it all. Hayeon and his mom reassures him they wouldn't know what to do with so much money anyways, and that what's important is that he's safe and sound. He still encourages them to spend what he earns, and suggest they go buy new furniture tomorrow, planning to use it on the new house he's purchased.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1 (Webtoon)
2. ↑ Chapter 38 (Webtoon)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 43 (Webtoon)
4. ↑ Chapter 41 (Webtoon)
5. ↑ Chapter 40 (Webtoon)
6. ↑ Chapter 42 (Webtoon)
7. ↑ Chapter 148 (Webtoon)
8. ↑ Chapter 147 (Webtoon)