Suho Kang

> A character that also exist in the **Super String Universe**.
>
> For the Super String version, refer to, Suho Kang

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Suho Kang is a main character in **Hanlim Gym**. The current champion of Seoul PVP and ex-member of Hanlim Gym. He fights in PVP to avenge his deceased parents. He is one of the key figures in the Blue String Universe.

## Appearance

Suho is a handsome teenager with grey, shaggy hair. He is seen wearing his dark red Hanlim jacket with a red sweater hoodie underneath. His pants are simple blue jeans.

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## Background

Suho had survived a villa arson and moved in to Hanlim Gym. He realized that his was a natural fighter after being bullied. Overtime, he realize that his family was intentonally killed and searches for the culprits through PVP.

## Plot Overview

### Past

#### Childhood

14 years ago, he was living with his parents that were police officer at Seungbuk in a villa. He also discovers a file called "Project P," but was shooed away by his parents. Suddenly, his home was burning and the only thing he could remember was that besides his parents laying hear, dead, he sees multiple shadows ahead of him. He survived and was adopted into the Hanlim Gym by Gwangcheon Lim as Suho's father ws a friend of Gwangcheon. He made friends with Hanlim Lim and was mainly a studious child.

#### Hanlim Gym

However, one day, Suho, who was beaten so badly by bullies, asked Hanlim to teach him how to fight so that he could protect himself. She wholeheartedly supported Suho and, seeing Suho's natural talent, taught him various techniques. He grows quickly and begins to receive teachings from his instructor, Dohyeon Jeon. He also trained rigorously for his origin, leaving holes in a pillar under the bridge. During this time, he seemed to use the power he had developed only to protect himself and others.

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However, Hanlim found out that Suho had begun using his powers to harass PVP people, most likely in order to participate in PVP. One day, due to an unknown incident, he was sent to a juvenile detention center, beaten by Gwangcheon Lim, and excommunicated from Hanlim Gym. What happen between is currently unknown but can be presumed that he discovers more of his parent's murder and may be connected to Gwangcheon Lim.

#### Year Ago

A year before the events of Hanlim Gym, he had won the championship before and used the black card to find out who started the fire that killed his parents. However, through extensive search, PVP cannot find any foul play and is believed to be an accident. As explained by Charles Kim. Suho was vehement with Charles replying that it could be a cover up. He whispers to him if he was sure, he should wish for something next year (the suggestion that Charles made is currently redacted).

### Season 1

#### World of PVP

While walking, he came across Doyun Kim and Gitae Lee, bumping to the former by accident. It results in a fight with Suho victory. He walks by, soon encountering Yeongha Jeon. He fights Suho but is defeated easily and is about to leave when he was accompanied by Charles Kim and Deokbae.

During his match against Chorong Kim, Yeonngha enters to fight him but was defeated by Chorong. The match continues with Suho's win being under 1 minute and 21 seconds, After, he was asked by Charles about Yeongha and believes he has a shot at fighting.

#### A Friendly Rivalry

He suddenly comes to watch the match between Yeongha and Kangyoon Ji and is surprised to see Yeongha in a similar pose to Dohyeon Jeon.

#### The Pride of a Gym

Was revealed he has a year and six months left till his contract ends. He participated in fighing Golem and defeats him in 2 minutes.

#### A Fighter's Resolve

After the fight between Yeongha and Daeho, Suho walks up for his match. However, he and Hanlim cross paths and Hanlim attacks him, though he blocks the attack. In anger, Hanlim attempts to engage with Suho, but Seoyoon tells her they have to attend to Yeongha. Suho, however, is likewise, flustered by the encounter and in his fight with Deathface, he obliterates him completely, unleashing all his anger, leaving Deathface with a cracked skull.

#### A Battle to End All Battles

He receives an invitation to the championship from Charles Kim and decides to participate

### Season 2

#### The Championship Begins: Round 1

When the first round begins, he sits in the corner and prepares to fight by responding to sub-zero kicks as Yeongha fights him.

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He continues to parry attacks. He asked Yeongha the reason for the fight, and when he heard the answer, he belittled it and launched several attacks. And then, seeing Youngha holding on, they hit each other with the same Jeet Kune Do technique, a side kick. In that moment, he was hit by Youngha's side kick and fall down for the first time in the story.

When Youngha asks the reason for his objective fight, he dismisses it, saying it has nothing to do with you. While asking if fighting Yeongha is Hanlim's doing, Yeongha tries to persuade him by explaining that his true meaning is to come back, but he thinks it's just fake nonsense and attacks Yeongha. He then replies that he has a job to do and that for the purpose, it doesn't matter what happens to the rest. At the end of the first round, he was unable to defeat Young-ha and left a comment saying that the reason he was wearing the name of Hanlim Gym was to remember his feelings of betrayal and anger.

Later, while receiving high praise from the Jeju branch chairman in the VIP room, he admits that he did not let down his guard and that Yeongha has become stronger, and that he wanted to nip it in the bud before he gets stronger.

#### The Culling of Players: Round 2

 File:Suho Kang vs King (S2,Ep.11).png  His match against the King. Suho immediately defeat the King. However, when the King uses his survival instinct and raises human physical capabilities to the limit, Suho is dealt a significant blow. He wasto be pushed back by the counter of King's speed. At the moment when his face was covered in blood and he felt the threat of defeat, the King urged him to give up, and upon hearing his purpose to win, he relaxed his stance, not to declare surrender, but to prepare his "Origin."

Every time Suhopunches, it blows the king tens of meters away and at the same time destroys the wall. Even though the King attacks with all his obsession for revenge, he makes King even more injured, and when he is about to deliver the final blow to King, he gets a declaration of surrender from King, leading to Suho's win. Afterwards, seeing the King's frustation of wanting his revenge against his bullies. Suho tells him that revenge will make two graves; his opponent and himself. If not prepared to do that, he should let go. Suho then leaves the arena.

After the second round, he attend a meeting of regional champions hosted by Charles Kim. Among them, the Gwangju champion sarcastically claims that he had a hard time against the king, but he himself remains unresponsive.

#### Hanlim Master's Beginnings

Suho suddenly appears at the front of Hanlim Gym. Concidentally, Seonggyu Choi and his men arrived to burn it down. Seonggyu mocks him by saying, "The dog abandoned by its owner is guarding the house," but Suho responds that he was just passing by and stopped by for a moment and doesn't care whether Hallym Gymnasium burns down or not, and quickly leaves.

#### Closer to Victory: Round 4

He was chosen by Lucky Guy as his opponent, As the match starts, Suho is instantly struck by lightning in his direction of the stadium. The match starts and Lucky Guy runs toward him, slips in a puddle of rainwater, and gets dropkicked, but Suho defends. However, at this time, he crossed over the dead line. If he crosses one more time, he is defeated.

Suho almost touches the line, but he stands on his right foot and lifts his left foot, sending Lucky Guy flying into the air and throwing him into the ground with a downward kick . As a result, Lucky Guy also gets lined out, and when he gets up again a little while later, Lucky Guy pushes him and tries to make him line out. At first, there was no movement, but as he gave his all, he was slowly pushed back, but in the end, Lucky Guy's feet crossed the line first, and he won. Afterwards, when Suho saw Lucky Guy passed out, he states that although the winner or loser was decided, there was no weak guy in this stadium. He acknowledges Lucky Guy's mental strength and leaves.

#### The Quarter Finals: Round 5

Fought against the Ulsan Champion, Dokyung Shin. He insulted Suho's parents of their death. Suho won against him.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Unnamed Father
* Unnamed Mother

**Hanlim Gym**

* Youngha Jeon
* Hanlim Lim
* Dohyeon Yeon - Taught him some stuff.
* Gwangcheon Lim

**PVP**

* Charles Kim
* Black Lion
* Deathface
* Casillas
* Red Brick - one of the challengers. Yeongha had interfered with the fight but was defeated by Red Brick. However, Red Brick was pretty easily defeated by Suho.
* Golem
* Black Lion's Sworn Brother - he wants revenge on Suho for defeating Black Lion.
* Deathface's Sworn Brother - he wants revenge on Suho for defeating Deathface.
* The King - Understand his want of revenge.
* Lucky Guy - Respects his mental strength.
* Dokyung Shin - the Ulsan Champion. Was angered of his mocking as he ridicule his parent's death.

**Others**

* Seongkyu Choi

## Abilities

Suho Kang is an incredible martial artist where he is ranked number 1 in all of Seongbuk, Seoul. Having won 204 matches with no losses. He mainly fights with his fists but can use weapons if his opponents brings one and if it is a specifica fighting style.

**Copy** - His main special ability seemingly natural to him. He can copy enemies' fighting style during combat or a single showcase and almost perfects it in under seconds. Supposedly, he can't copy moves that doesn't have ready positions like instinctual attacks (ex. King).

* **Martial Styles** - The following styles that he has copied and learned with MMA (All-Rounder) being his base (?):

A Phillipino martial arts with weapons. Learned during his fight against Black Lion.

An Afro-Brazilian cultural fighting style and dance.

Korean martial art involving punching and kicking techniques.

unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport. He perform a flip in season 2

Learn from Hanlim Gym. He perform a side Kick in season 2

### Origin

It is an ability where it is an original and "perfect" martial art or style that is specific to a user. It is a technique used against opponents who cannot be copied, and it is a unique martial art in which Suho has optimized.

* Suho trained by practicing using a concrete pillar of a bridge scheduled to be closed as a punching bag. When a fist was thrown, it developed such force that it left a brick mark on the pillar and cracked the surrounding area. It is a technique close to murderous as his final hit that almost impacted King's face could had been deadly.

## Trivia

* He is one of the few characters to be in both Superstring and Bluestring.
	+ Although he is unimportant in Super String , he is the main character in the Blue String Team.
* It is heavily theorized that he is the mentor of Jino Ma, the protag of "**The Age of the Barbarous**."
* Suho appears in the **Super String Mobile Game** as a character to acquire:
	+ His Capoeira is one of his skills.
	+ PVP is shown as the background to one of his skills.
	+ His Hanlim Jacket is an item to acquire.
	+ He has an alt. Christmas outfit to be acquired which some Korean players think looks like Joon-gi Han from Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
* According to Charles Kim, Suho has participated around 200 matches before his fight against Black Lion and won all. Then he won four other matches later.
* Considering that he had won without losing any of his matches, it should mean that Suho has a lot of money.
* It is possible that Suho has a different design prior. When looking at the season 1 cover; looking at Suho close up, he appears rather different. With green sickly skin and his face is more ugly and demented.
* Supposedly from Korean statistics, Suho Kang has more popularity then Yeongha Jeon in North America's audience.
* It seems that Suho has similarities to Dajun Im, the protag of "**To Not Die,**" The only difference is Suho knows revenge is meaningless but stil pursue while Dajun doesn't:
	+ Both have negatives ties of their parents (Suho's parents died; Dajun was disowned)
	+ both have copy like talents
	+ both have a strong desire for revenge.

## Gallery

### Official Gallery

Superstring Mobile Game (Character Model)Superstring Mobile Game (Alt. Model)
## References

1. ↑ http://ylab.kr/bbs/board.php?bo\_table=02\_02#0
2. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep.12
3. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep.12
4. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep.12
5. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep.12
6. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep.12
7. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 2, Ep.2
8. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 2, Ep.2
9. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 2, Ep.2
10. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B0%95%EC%88%98%ED%98%B8(%ED%95%9C%EB%A6%BC%EC%B2%B4%EC%9C%A1%EA%B4%80)#s-6
11. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep. 12
12. ↑ Hanlim Gym, Season 1, Ep. 44
13. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B0%95%EC%88%98%ED%98%B8(%ED%95%9C%EB%A6%BC%EC%B2%B4%EC%9C%A1%EA%B4%80)#s-6