Born: 1959

Leadership: 1979 - 2000

Children: Woo-jin (Matthew), Dong-ha (Michael; deceased)

Died: 2000 (aged 41)

 

After the death of his father, Oh-seong (the founder of KARD), Youngjae was appointed leader of the gang. He maintained KARD's power and even allowed their profits to grow.

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He was proud, satisfied that his father's legacy hadn't been failed by him - still, when Bong-hwa approached him to make a deal in 1998, he agreed. The war had gone on for more than three decades, with more lives lost than either of them could count.

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Two years after the initial forging of the deal, however, Bong-hwa organised a meeting with Youngjae to renegotiate its terms and shift around ownership of the territories a little. Youngjae, however, refused and feeling insulted, Bong-hwa ordered Hyun-ki to kill him.

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In 2000, Hyun-ki shot Youngjae to death in his house, and was witnessed doing so by Youngjae's oldest son, Michael (fifteen years old at the time) - and he did not stay quiet. In the following weeks, he organised multiple press conferences, trying to raise awareness of Bong-hwa's true identity (which many suspected, but no one could prove).

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Michael was killed by Hyun-ki in July of that same year, and the murder was written off as a suicide.