Yoo Hobin/Yu Hobin

Hobin Yoo Company is a group of Newtubers gathered by Hobin Yoo. Their goal is to make a lot of money, counter the XJ Company and steal their subscribers.

Members

Hobin Yoo (founder)

Jihyeok Woo

Gaeul

Rumi Yeo

Taehun Seong

Mangi Hwang

Gyeoul Han

Synopsis

The Hobin Yoo Company was founded by Hobin Yoo, in order to counter the XJ Company. The original company consisted of Hobin, Jihyeok and Gaeul. Taehoon joined later, as well as Mangi and Runi. Over time.

they came to affiliate with other well known Newtubers such as Yeonwoo Jl, and the sibling duo OnePunchTV.

The company worked together to create videos exposing the crimes of all of the members of Seongjun's group. They successfully exposed every member up until Baek Seongjun himself. They were temporarily disbanded when 244 threatened the lives of Hobin's friends and family, but Gyeoul convinced them to come together once more.Their final exposing video was about 244, also known as Lee Jinho. Jihyeok filmed the arrival of Lee Jinho's overseas branch carrying with them drugs. The girls oversaw the streaming fom within Taehoon's dad's taekwondo van while the boys took on various opponents.

Congressman Yong Hwang assisted them by exposing the crimes of Taesan Ju and preventing him from interfering with their stream. Previously, Hye-yeon Hwang helped them win the favor of Yong Hwang. With their teamwork, they were able to successfully shut down the XJ Company for good.Since taking down the XJ Company, the Hobin Yoo company members have continued streaming their own individual content. Hobin Yoo has signed on Eunwoo Kang as the newest company member, with his channel TroubleshooterTV. Their new goal is to create problems for 244 in hopes of destroying him for good.

Hwang Mangi

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Male

AGE

18

HEIGHT

207cm (6'9")

WEIGHT

162kg (357lbs)

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

OCCUPATION

Highschool student (2nd year)

Newtuber

Ssireum athlete

FIGHTING STYLE

Ssireum

Boxing

RELATIONSHIPS

LOVE INTERESTS

Choi Bomi (formerly)

Yeo Rumi (formerly)

Unnamed girlfriend

Appearance

Hwang Mangi is an 18 year old with a bulky frame with black "hair" (he's secretly bald) no lower than 6'7". He has an incredibly large torso fit for Ssireum and huge arms.

Personality

Mangi is a friendly and sincere friend to those who know him. He seems a bit creepy and stalky to onlookers, but as his story and reasoning was seen by the Newtube audience, he was eventually seen as a big lovable teddy bear. He lives up to this reputation but also knows when to get serious.

History

Mangi started balding around the age of 16, and he was very self conscious of it. He took on ssireum so he could be popular with the girls, but he realized that girls only like the lighter weight classes, and instead thought of him as scary and fat. Mangi began taking advice from pick up artists on how to attract women, which he paid for with his match winnings, but he had no success. Mangi started a Newtube channel in hopes of impressing people and finding a girlfriend, but with his hair loss being exposed he feared his channel is over. However, Mangi ends up having many fans sympathize with his plight, leading to him starting his own hair loss NewTube channel.

Fighting Prowess

Mangi in the beginning was a Ssireum prodigy.

He has only grown since then. His style. Ssireum is a martial art / sport similar to wrestling. These specific fighters use grappling tactics to take down their opponent resulting a slam. As Hwang is a champion of Ssireum it is safe to assume he is near the peak of what Ssireum athletes can do. He has also learned the fundamentals of boxing as a result of losing to Han Wangguk even though he had superior power. He has learned basic jabs and combined with his monstrous strength, results in one of the best fighters in the series.

Trivia

In middle school. Mangi was 6 feet and 9 inches tall and weighed 333lbs. He continued to grow afterwards, meaning his current height and weight are higher.

Han Gyeoul

ALIASES

OnePunchTV

Pink Woman

NICKNAMES

Bubblegum

Pink Haired Bitch

Pink weink Girl

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Female

AGE

16

HEIGHT

163cm (5'4")

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

[Show]

OCCUPATION

NewTuber

Cashier (former)

FIGHTING STYLE

Boxing (infighter)

Street fighting

Appearance

A pale, thin woman, with long, straight pink hair, and brown eyes, often wearing makeup.

Personality

Her actual personality is completely different. Gyeoul is a person who wants things to always go her way, and she will manipulate others in order to achieve that. She likes causing chaos for no apparent reason, impulsively provoking fights between others and watching in enjoyment. She's a very self-indulgent person who has a strong need to be liked and always be part of an exciting activity, she often guilt trips and manipulates Wangguk into doing stuff that satisfies her materialistic wants or just her amusement, because she knows his weakness.Gyeoul is self centered and arrogant, and is the type to act out when things don't go the way she wants them to. Seongjun notes that even he can't control her. and that she's a complete psycho.If anyone disagrees with Gyeoul or calls her

out on her behavior she will take it personally. She often overreacts to any criticism coming her way, having developed a habit of falsely exposing people as revenge for such petty reasons. Rumi also noted that she had no self confidence if she has to play with people's feelings to feel loved.

History

Background

In her backstory, Han Gyeoul was a normal kid She often spent time with her brother who liked taking photographs, in order to not have to see the violent environment at home. Her mother always rejected getting her photographs taken, this was because her face was always swollen after getting beaten up by her husband, Gyeoul and Wangguk's father.

Despite getting regularly abused, she still had feelings for her husband and felt sorry for him.

Her resolve didn't last too long as at one point, she committed suicide, leaving her children to find her dead body. Gyeoul was not old enough to understand, and was curious. This left Wangguk traumatized, and wishing that Gyeoul's brain represses that memory.

Her brother in anger had planned to kill their father but later refrained from doing so as he didn't want to take away Gyeoul's father too when she had already lost her mother at such a young age. He regretted this decision when one day, he came home from school to see his sister's swollen face as a result of getting beaten up in the same way their mother was by their father. This treatment led Gyeoul to start thinking that she should end up like her mother. In anger, her brother assaulted their father with a hammer. This led to him getting sentenced to 6 years in prison, leaving Gyeoul all alone. While her brother was trying his hardest to survive in prison, Gyeoul didn't have anyone and had no idea how to take care of herself, much less going to visit her brother on her own. Her classmates in elementary school didn't believe her when she said that she had a family. This loneliness caused her mental condition to worsen, and she started developing an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder where she would hoard trash to fill the space left from her family. Wangguk gets released 2 years on parole, only to find Gyeoul sitting on a pile of trash, completely neglected and unable to take care of herself. Gyeoul gets angry at him for leaving her and breaks down in tears. He realized that he didn't think of what his sister could've been through all on her own, so from that day he swore to serve as her 'prisoner.

This did make Gyeoul happier, but it didn't fix her mental condition, making her feel more entitled and hedonistic, because her brother would tolerate anything from her. Years later, her and her brother started a NewTube channel under Seongjun's guidance.

She was the face of their channel named "OnePunchTV". They dug up false dirt on popular influencers so that she could call them out on their channel and garner a lot views. After, Yeo Rumi called Han Gyeoul ou on her manipulative toxic behavior and her insecure personality, which made her deeply upset. Despite Wangguk's request, Gyeoul continued to falsely accuse Yeo Rumi of selling CP and having engaged in compensated dating in middle school. She started a witch hunt on the popular beauty newtuber which made Yoo Hobin take a stand and expose "OnePunchTV" and it's shady working. A heated fight occurred between Han Wangguk and Yoo Hobin where the latter sornehow managed to defeat the former. While the fight was streaming, Gyeoul was rushing to interrupt it but was stopped by Gaeul, who she then fights and loses to.

Her name in Korean, 겨울(Gyeoul) means "Winter".

Gyeoul and Wangguk's names put together are a reference to the Korean title of frozen "겨울왕국"("Winter Kingdom")

Pink Woman is a reference to Pink Man from Park Taejoon's other webtoon, Life Completely Ruined.

Lee Gaeul

NICKNAMES

Baby Chick

Short Yellow Eul

GENDER

Female

BASIC INFO

AGE

15 (formerly)

18 (former)

BIRTHDATE

April 5, 2001

HEIGHT

155cm (51) (formerly)

160cm (5'3)

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

[Show]

SCHOOL

Gyerong High

OCCUPATION

Editor

High School Student

RELATIONSHIPS

RELATIVES

Samdak (Father)

Unarmed mother (Deceased +)

Gaeul Lee (가을. Lee Ga Eul) is a supporting character of How to Fight/Viral Hit. She is the editor of How to Fight/Viral Hit (싸움독학, Ssaumdoghag/싸움독학, Ssaumdokak), and the Vice President of Yoo Hobin Company, a Company for NewTube content creators started by Yoo Hobin.

Appearance

Gaeul has short, chin length hair with bangs slightly below her eyebrows. She is pale skinned and her makeup consists of light pink blush and lip tint, and a little mascara. Her body type seems to be hourglassed and she usually wears an oversized yellow jacket on top of a school uniform. She is often described as cute by her classmates, and has a lot of admirers.

Personality

Gaeul has been proven to be quite clueless when it comes to socializing, as seen when she couldn't recognize boys were trying to hit on her.

Trivia

Gaeul's name in Korean (가을) means Autumn/Fall.

The author explained that her family name is Ga and her given name is Eul, and she is always referred to by her full name,

In the original Korean webtoon, every sentence she says is followed by "@". which is a part of her accent. This was likely picked up from her father, whose lines are followed by "#".

Gaeul has a yellow jacket for each day of the week.

She has a black belt in Taekwondo.

She speaks like Old man.

She seems to be a good editor but before she was part of The Hobin Yoo Company.

she hasn't had editing skills that was shown when she appeared.

She appeared in Manager Kim and in lookism with Jihyeok Woo and Hobin Yoo.

Yeo Rumi

NICKNAMES

Goldilocks/Blondie (by Gasul)

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Female

AGE

17-18

HEIGHT

168cm (5'6")

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

SCHOOL

Gyerong High

OCCUPATION

Beauty NewTuber

Highschool student [2nd year)

RELATIONSHIPS

RELATIVES

unnamed younger siblings

unnamed parents

Han Wangguk (Husband)

Han Gyeoul (Sister in law)

LOVE INTERESTS

Han Wangguk

Appearance

Rumi is beautiful, as Hobin says that Rumi has success on NewTube because of her appearance. She has curly orange hair with see through bangs, her eyes are brown with a downturned shape and long eyelashes, and she has thick eyebrows. She's usually wearing light makeup which consists of red lipstick. slight blush, and orange-pink eyeshadow.

Personality

Rumi has a very extroverted and bubbly personality, often being the first to approach others. She generally seems to have an optimistic and persistent attitude that others can find annoying at times.

Rumi is an opportunistic person, at the beginning of the webtoon she often tried to collaborate with anyone who was popular at the moment so she could earn more views and money. Despite being uninterested in him at first, she even tried to persuade Hobin once he had gained a following, but he avoided her until he was in serious need of money.

In Episode 27, it's shown that Rumi lives in similar conditions to Hobin and actually lies to her viewers about her wealth so they don't look down on her.People often view her only by her materialistic pretty girl persona, but Rumi is shown to be smarter than that. She was quick to recognize that Han Gyeoul is really good at manipulating people. She reads people well and isn't as naive as portrayed to seem. Although she doesn't often show it, she is very kind-hearted beneath her mask of arrogance and the superficial personality she uses. She felt bad after calling Gyeoul out and wanted to apologize to her. She's also not the type of person to hold grudges and was still nice to Gyeoul and Wangguk despite what they did to her.

History

Rumi's parents weren't around when she was young, so she had to move with her younger siblings to live in the house of a distant relative. They treated her, but they weren't in a financial situation to raise her and her younger siblings, so Rumi decided to leave home early to live on her own.

Ever since she was 14, she worked morning shifts making gimbap rolls, and after school she passed flyers for private academies. making ends meet. Since she couldn't go to school when she lacked basic necessities at home, she increased her workload.She soon gained interest in cosmetics and wanted to become a beauty NewTuber. She didn't have the money to buy the newest trending makeup products that came out every month, so she had to borrow money from her close friends and classmates. Thanks to that, she was able to buy makeup and make videos for review, and after every video, she would return the money,

Trivia

Has a nasal voice (according to Hobin)

Her name in Korean is close to 여름 (Yeoreum) meaning "summer".

Rumi works out a lot so she can eat all the food she wants and still stay in shape.

Her second channel Wangru CoupleTV has 900K subscribers, [4]

Her original channel name is "Yeowang", which is a combination of their names (Yeo Rumi and Han Wangguk.) This translates to "Queen" in Korean.

Han Wangguk

NICKNAMES

Wangguk the freak

Tough guy

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Male

AGE

19

BIRTHDATE

March 24th

HEIGHT

183cm (6'0")

WEIGHT

80kg (176lbs)PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

OCCUPATION

NewTube Cameraman (former)

Errand boy

FIGHTING STYLE

Boxing (Outboxer)

RELATIONSHIPS

RELATIVES

Han Gyeoul (younger sister)

Unnamed father

Unnamed mother (deceased)

Yeo Rumi (Wife)

LOVE INTERESTS

Yoo Rumi

Appearance

Older brother of Han Gyeoul, Han Wangguk in contrast to his sister's snow white complexion is a tanned and tall individual. He has a well toned and muscular body with visibly ripped legs and arms. Formerly, acting as the cameraman of his and his sister's newtube channel, he had his hair shaved. Later, after quitting newtube he has started growing his brown hair and it is visibly longer than it was before. He has almond shaped eyes that often make him look tired. He has a slit in his left eyebrow, and his pupils, very much like his sister are red.

Personality

Initially, when introduced as an antagonist he always sported an emotionless look on his face until it involved his sister. He was showi having an indifferent attitude and had a poker face, even when faced with danger. Wangguk is someone who primarily looks out for himself and his loved ones, and avoids risking his own well being for the sake of others. After quitting NewTube, he admits that he did feel bad for the people he and his sister had exposed, but he didn't regret doing any of that, because he needed the money made from those videos to survive.In his flashback, he was shown to be a normal middle schooler who was more caring and emotionally expressive, but he became the way that he is after all the accumulated mental and physical torture of his life in prison. He is very tough as he survived the extremely harsh training and all the attacks his inmates threw at him. These experiences changed his mindset to be solely based on surviving no matter what, even if that meant he had to crush others beneath his feet. Feeling guilty that his sister's mental condition was caused due to his absence, Han Wangguk swore to serve as her 'prisoner'. Knowing this made Gyeoul start manipulating him to do the things she wants. While Wangguk sometimes refused to fulfill her wishes, he quickly changed his mind as to not upset her. He has been shown doing violent and immoral actions just to keep his sister entertained, despite not wanting to. Wangguk says that he did whatever his sister wanted because he was afraid of her hating him and running away. Wangguk is someone who values his memory and uses his past experiences as a way to deal with what's in front of him, which can be seen when he is fighting. He is very perceptive and has a vivid memory, being able to recognize 244 in his disguise because of his tone of voice and his cauliflower ears. He also remembers small details, like the reports against 244 which would immediately disappear without traces.

He is fiercely protective of the people he cares about and strives to survive despite all hurdles. He is also very strong willed and adamant, not giving 244 the pleasure of seeing him beg for his life even when he was captured with the intention of murder.

History

In his backstory. Han Wangguk was just another normal middle schooler who loved taking photographs. He liked how the photographs could capture one's past and keep it like that even when the subject of his photograph has all grown up. His mother. however, always rejected to get her photographs taken by her son. This was because her face was always swollen after getting beaten up by her husband, Wangguk's father, Wangguk, once advised his mother to run away by herself or with them, but she refused. Despite getting regularly abused, she still had feelings for her husband and felt sorry for him. Her resolve didn't last too long as at one point, she committed suicide, leaving her last message to Wangguk to "survive somehow." Han Wangguk in anger had planned to kill his father but later refrained from doing so as he didn't wanted to take away Han Gyeoul's father too when she had already lost her mother at such a young age.

He regretted this decision when one day, he came home from school to see his sister's swollen face as a result of getting beaten up in the same way their mother was by their father. In anger, he assaulted his father with a hammer. This led to him getting sentenced to 6 years in prison. His inmates were bloodthirsty and depraved thugs who made life hell for him until he started fighting back.He became part of CUD (Chung Ui Dae), which was a reformation program for Boxing in the juvenile detention center. He became quite invincible among the other boxers, being the only one left who had enough willpower to go through with the harsh training. This gained him the nickname "freak". It was in that juvenile center where he met Baek Seongjun for the first time.After a while of being in prison, Wangguk started to hate Gyeoul for never coming to visit him, assuming that she didn't care for him. He was released from prison 2 years on parole, with no one waiting for him outside.

Full of anger, Wangguk rushed home, only to find Gyeoul sitting on a pile of trash.

completely neglected and unable to take care of herself. He realized that he didn't think of what his sister could've been through all on her own, so from that day he swore to serve as her 'prisoner'.

He and his sister started a NewTube channel under Seongjun's guidance. He was the cameraman of their channel named "OnePunchTV". He dug up false dirt on popular influencers so that his sister could call them out on their channel and garner a lot of vie After, Yeo Rumi called Han Gyeoul out on he manipulative toxic behavior and her insecure personality, which made the pink haired girl deeply upset. Despite Wangguk's request, his sister falsely accused Yeo Rumi of selling CP and having engaged in compensated dating in middle school, She started a witch hunt on the popular beauty newtuber which made YOD Hobin take a stand and expose "OnePunchTV" and it's shady working. A heated fight occurred between Han Wangguk and Yoo Hobin where the latter somehow managed to defeat the former. Han Wangguk later left NewTube and started working part time as an errand boy in a photo studio.

Trivia

He has an unofficial record of 58 matches. 58 wins, and 44 knockouts.

His Naver ID, "Kingdom03" is a reference to his name translated to English: 왕국(Wangguk) - Kingdom.

His and his sister's names are a reference to the Korean localized title of Frozen, "겨 울왕국"(Gyeoul Wangguk) meaning "Winter Kingdom".

There is a theory that his favorite song is "Non je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf, due to his words matching up with the lyrics.

His prison ID is 1T01-48261

Trivia from the 4th special chapter

He was typed ISFP-A by the 16personalities test, but his actual personality type is ISTJ.

His blood type is A.

His zodiac sign is Aries.

Likes

His favorite excercises are boxing and running.

He mainly likes taking landscape photographs, but he also likes taking Ingstar concept shots for Gyeoul.

His favorite foods are mild ramyeon. jajangmyeon, chicken, pizza, Rice cakes, dumpling soup, and tofu.

He likes nostalgic retro games, emotional movies, and listening to Healing Pop Songs.

He likes Cafés, coffee dates, brown hair, smiling faces and mature people.

Dislikes

He dislikes Food that doesn't taste good and isn't healthy. Particularly delivery food, because Gyeoul eats too much of it.

He dislikes noisy and hectic places.

He hates it when others touch or try to harm people that are precious to him. people that stick their nose in other people's business, alcoholics and irresponsible behavior.

TMI

Wangguk had never really felt the existence of a father in his life, but when he was betrayed by Baek Seongjun, he felt as if he had been abandoned by his father.

Yeo Rumi is the first woman he has confessed to.

He still hasn't used the 200,000 won that his mother left before she died, he plans to use it in his mother's name as congratulatory money for his future marriage.

The money he spent on the luxury goods he bought for Gyeoul is enough to buy 2 foreign cars.

After meeting Yeo Rumi, he started to care more about his appearance.

He is subscribed to Rumi's channel, but he doesn't watch her videos.

Woo Jihyeok

NICKNAMES

Camera Guy

찍새 Jiksae

Snapper

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Male

AGE

17 (2nd year of high school)

20 (Post-timeskip)

HEIGHT

176.5 cm (5'9")PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

[Snow]

SCHOOL

Gyerong High (pre-timeskip)

OCCUPATION

High School student (2nd year) (pre-timeskip)

Cameraman

Movie Director

RELATIONSHIPS

RELATIVES

Unnamed parents

Unnamed grandmother

LOVE INTERESTS

Gaeul

Appearance

Jihyeok is a skinny male of taller-than-average height with a pale complexion. He has short straight hair with spiky ends which are parted in the middle that were most likely dyed blonde because his eyebrows are brown. He has small monolid-shaped eyes that are brown in color. Jihyeok has an unusual sense of fashion, as he is almost always seen wearing clothes which include knee-length shorts and mid-calf socks, and often wearing clothes from expensive brands.

Personality

In the beginning of the webtoon. Jihyeok was portrayed as a stereotypical bully, who would give up anything to become part of the popular crowd. His way of climbing up the school hierarchy was to target the weak, in order to make himself look more powerful. He would suck up to anyone who was considered higher than himself, in hopes of being accepted and achieving popularity. However, Jihyeok had a low tolerance when dealing with those he'd consider under himself, often responding violently when angered. He also used to be quite insensitive by saying offensive and hurtful things, sometimes without even realizing. After seeing negative reactions from the peers above him, he would quickly excuse his behavior by saying it was a mistake or a joke. Jihyeok is an opportunist, who would previously try to take advantage of situations or people in order to benefit himself. As seen in early chapters, he tried using Hobin by emotionally encouraging him or using something he was in need of. However, his manipulation failed, because Hobin knew that the only reason Jihyeok would help him would be to benefit himself. He was shown to be reckless, trying to set Hobin up to fight Taehun for views. not thinking of the fact that the latter was a professional fighter.As the story started progressing. Jihyeok's character started developing and becoming more mature. After having experienced the bullying that Hobin went through, he started to become more understanding towards him and started seeing him as a friend. He also started becoming more compassionate and showed genuine concern for his friends.

Despite it not being obvious at first. Jihyeok is also very smart, sometimes even surprising others with his logical conclusions, like when he pointed out to Hobin and Gaeul how the prank videos were fake, based on his attention to detail. He is a realist, often showing skepticism towards Hobin's fighting methods and is quick to point out logical inconsistencies when he sees them. With his development, he has started becoming more responsible, having the nature to take action under necessary situations.

History

In the beginning of the story Jihyeok used to be a cameraman for Pakgo, in hopes that it would gain him social status. Along with hir. he used to regularly bully and beat up weak students such as Yoo Hobin.

After seeing how much money people earned through NewTube, he wanted to quickly get started on making his own channel, but in order to make money he needed to use the account of an adult. After getting caught misusing his parent's personal accounts, he couldn't do that anymore, so he decided to talk Hobin into using his mother's account to stream, to which Hobin couldn't say no to. He quickly gained a following, thanks to his friendship with Pakgo and started his first gaming stream at Hobin's house. Hobin accidentally tripped and unplugged the computer monitor cord, which caused Jihyeok to get angry and lash out at him. The two started fighting, not knowing that the camera was still recording.

Trivia

Rather than his real name, he is usually referred to as Jiksae, which in Korean slang puns for 'camerarman'. Hobin refers to him by his real name only in serious situations.

He has made a Slam Dunk reference, and one time also quoted a line from Korean movie Tazza: The Hidden Cardi

Jihyeok's personality type is ESTP

Yoo Hobin

NICKNAMES

Boss Yoo(by Gaeul)

HTF

Ssamdog (by viewers)

V-Hit (by viewers, eng)

Hobeany-Weany (by Yeo Rumi)

Prez (by Gaeul)

Little Boy (by Logan Gracie)

Yoo Hangang

Yo Vian

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Male

AGE

17 (2nd year of high school)

19-20 (Post-Timeskip)HEIGHT

168cm (5'6") (Beginning of the Webtoon 'til Samdak Training)

173cm (5'8") (After Samdak Training)

WEIGHT

49 kg (Before Training)

66 kg (After Training)

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

STATUS

Alive

OCCUPATION

High School Student (2nd year) (pre-timeskip)

NewTuber

President of Yoo Hobin Company

McDonald's Burger Flipper (former)

Delivery Boy (former)

Busser (former)

Dishwasher (former)

Mascot (former)

FIGHTING STYLE

Mixed Martial Arts

Muay Thai

Boxing

Taekwondo

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

RELATIONSHIPS

RELATIVES

Park Jihyeon (Mother)

LOVE INTERESTS

Choi Bomi (Girlfriend)

Appearance

At first. Hobin was smaller for the average Korean male at a height of 168 cm (5'6") and weighing 49kg, but after his training with Samdak, he gained significant height and weight. Hobin is also shown as pale and short compared to the other characters. Despite having trained hard throughout the course of the story, his physique hasn't had any drastic changes until Episode 120, Hobin has shaggy. dark brown hair styled into a bowl cut, along with mono-lid shaped brown eyes. He is usually seen wearing his school uniform. consisting of a dark blue sleeveless jumper, a white button-up shirt, a blue tie, and gray trousers.

Personality

In the beginning of the school year. Hobin was sociable, but after Pakgo's bullying, he shrunk down and became more timid and introverted. He seemed self-centered and thought that life was being unfair to him. Outside of his school life he has always been hardworking, usually having multiple part time jobs to support his mother. Despite having a lot on his plate, Hobin has always tried to be kind and helpful towards others. He seems like a gullible person who is easy to manipulate, but at times he has shown that he isn't as naïve as portrayed to seem. He often tries to hide his true feelings and goes out of his way so that his mother doesn't have to worry about him, lying about his injuries and hiding the fact that he has a "NewTube channel where the main content is fighting-related. Because he has always lived in poverty. Hobin thinks that happiness can be achieved through money. He wants his mom to stop working so hard for him and be happy. At the beginning of the story, he was even willing to sell his dignity for it, but at some point he decided to fight back. Despite liking money so much, he prefers to earn it on his own and will not step on others or fake his content to obtain it. Even though his channel is focused on fighting and call-outs, he is peaceful and timid by nature and always tries to avoid unnecessary fights because he hates conflict and experiencing pain. However, he can react strongly when someone crosses his line by offending or hurting the people he cares about, especially his mom.

Hobin is a hopeless romantic, but when it comes to interacting with girls, he is so oblivious that they assume he's stupid. When it comes to love, he can be overly dramatic and obsessive, as seen when he makes a big deal of a misunderstanding between him and Bomi, having followed her on a school trip just because she was with a guy. He has somewhat of an inferiority complex, as he is shown to be very envious of guys that are good-looking because he feels as if everything is easier for them. Having a pretty dry love-life for most of his life, he doesn't know how to show his interest properly and often has miscommunications where he makes a girl feel uncomfortable or disappointed.

History

Hobin lost his father at a young age, being left with his ill mother in a poor environment. Due to his mother having cancer, she often has to stay at a hospital where the bills stack up in price quickly. Hobin is forced to mature quickly and find jobs to support his sick mother, barely thinking of his own health. It is shown in Episode 79 that Hobin has started working at a very young age, working up to 12 part time jobs a day with barely any breaks in between.At the beginning of the webtoon, he works as a cashier in a McDonald's. However it had barely been enough to pay the weekly bills. At school, he would get bullied and humiliated by Pakgo, a 700,000 subscriber NewTuber, along with his cameraman, "Snapper". After learning that he can make money easily through online streaming, he thinks of starting his own account, but discards the idea. While letting Jihyeok use his personal computer to stream, they got into a fight with each other after Hobin accidentally unplugged the computer monitor cord, unknowingly being recorded on the stream, which had built up over 11 million views overnight.

Accumulating an insane amount of money. Hobin and Jihyeok team up and start looking for new ways to earn money together.

Fighting Prowess

Learning from a plethora of Samdak's videos. Hobin has learned how to deal with fighters of different skill levels, having amassed an extended arsenal of fighting techniques. He does not appear to have his own distinct style. as he usually has his moves in fights planned ahead of time. This results in him dealing with each fighting style he encounters in an efficient and strategic manner. As the series goes on, he is shown to be strong enough to dispatch common thugs with ease. Being able to beat two juveniles that were harassing his friends. He has even shown to outclass athletes with moderate skill. Hobin's strongest traits in fighting are his near-superhuman pain threshold, seemingly boundless tenacity, and his adaptability.

Amazingly, he has been depicted taking hits that would have knocked out, or even fatally wound, those that take it. He will keep fighting if he believes he can win.

Trivia

According to the author, his personality type is INFJ, but it might be a mistype.

In author Park Taejoon's YouTube channel, a person who appears in some of his videos shares the same name with Hobin,

Hobin shares the same name as a side character. Jin Hobin, who is from another manhwa authored and drawn by Park Taejoon himself, Lookism.

He was the one who taught the principal character of Juvenile Offender (who is also part of the PTJ universe), Yonsung Lee, how to fight. He is its first official student.

Seong Taehoon

BASIC INFO

GENDER

Male

AGE

18 (Season One)

19 (Season Two)

20 (Post-Timeskip)

Taehun's Catchphrase

"Do you have 500 won?"

Taehun Seong (성태 Song Taehun) is the deuteragonist of How to Fight/Viral Hit.

Appearance

Taehun has shoulder-length, light brown hair with a mullet and bangs. He has very fair skin and a well-built, muscular body. His brown eyes are complemented by long eyelashes and lips that have a subtle feminine pink tint. He is very tall, with extremely long legs. He usually dresses in a normal outfit consisting of a white t-shirt and black pants, but he often wears a green bomber jacket with a skull on the back.

In his flashback, Taehun is shown having a bowl cut and dark brown hair which he later dyed light brown due to a pivotal incident. He is extremely attractive, even gaining a large female following because of his looks.

Personality

Taehun comes across a stoic individual with a cold exterior, who can be considered reckless.

He doesn't seem care much about how his actions affect others and shows no hesitation to be violent around other people, whether they get in problems do to this. He likes beating people up for his own enjoyment, sometimes even threatening them to give him something he wants by beating their friend.

He shows a strong belief that he needs taekwondo to beat everyone and dominate the UFC with it. Many aren't a fan of Taehun's arrogant behavior, which earned him the nickname "Nutjob Taehun" while he was still signed in MX FC.He is enthusiastic about taekwondo, and using his skill sets when fighting, always wanting to be the strongest. Taehun does not demonstrate much interest in school or studying, but he is still highly intelligent, always following his own logic above anything else. He has the uncanny ability to read people well and possesses some kind of intuition, which allows him to make accurate predictions even when he lacks evidence.

Additionally, Taehun is highly perceptive, able to correctly guess that Ji Yeonwoo is a Kyokushin practitioner based on certain cues such as the bruises from training, calluses on his knuckles, and his extreme physical endurance. He has a keen eye for people who are trained in martial arts and is also very aware of his surroundings, particularly noting when he is being followed.

History

Taehun is the son of 'Taekwondo legend', Hansu Seong. Since young, he has been considered a prodigy in the sport, having even made some appearences in a KBS show, where he beat up high schoolers while still in primary school. He was nicknamed "Spin Genius" due to how flawless Taehun is at executing spinning kicks in a fight.In the past, Taehun was even more extreme than he is now, but he was surprisingly influenced by Lee Dowoon, a student in his middle school who would never stand up for himself. While Dowoon was being bullied by his classmates for his unique hair color, Taehun steps in, and he joins his classmates as they were tormenting him.

Known as the strongest in middle school, everyone feared him and did what he said. He had been training in taekwondo since he was young at his father's dojo, who was a former gold medalist. Seeing his father's dojo losing members because of the rising popularity of other combat sports in MMA, he started handing out flyers to try and get more people interested. However, Dowoon was the only one who joined.Taehun's father would encourage him to get along with Dowoon and teach him, but Taehun couldn't understand Dowoon and showed a strong dislike for his behavior. Dowoon, in contrast to Taehun, always acted according to other people's wishes and did whatever his father told him to. This constantly frustrated Taehun, to the point of even wanting to help him gain some independence.

Taehun's classmates were fed up with his violent behavior towards them, so they paid the leader of a biker gang. Jang Hyeon, to teach him a lesson. However, it didn't work, as Taehun quickly beat up the people sent, and his classmates had to pay again to send someone who could deal with him. While Dowoon was being bullied as usual, Taehun entered the classroom with his hair dyed light brown, just like Dowoon. He dragged him out of school, planning to show him what 'freedom' looks like. He started by getting Dowoon's ears pierced and confiscating his phone so that he couldn't call his father. The two were suddenly approached by two girls, Minji and an unnamed blonde, who offered to hang out with them. Taehun saw them as an opportunity to get Dowoon to open up and accepted. After hours of playing arcade games with them, Dowoon seemed to forget about studying and started to have fun, not knowing that his father was furious. Taehun then gets approached by Jang Hyeon's gang, showing no surprise, as he had known he was being followed.He immediately spotted his opponent, Kim Munseong, and the two got into an intense fight, where Taehun ended up winning because of his desire to save Dowoon before something happened to him. He rushed inside the arcade, only to see Dowoon knock Jang Hyeon out by using the 1080°, the kick he failed to execute when fighting Mansung. Filled with rage and envy, Taehun stops talking to Dowoon for several days.

After refusing to immediately go after him when he was kidnapped by Jang Hyeon and his bike gang, Taehun eventually found the dead body of his friend lying in the street as it rained. He immediately rushed to the hospital with Dowoon on his back, but it was too late. Drowning in guilt, regret, and self-hate, Taehun violently assaulted Jang Hyeon and his gang with a baseball bat. After leaving them with serious injuries, he breaks down in tears and starts loathing himself. The iconic "500 won" gang line is seen to have emerged from his last conversation with his dead friend where the former asked the latter for 500 won for playing an arcade game.

Quotes

"Hey, you do you have 500 won?"

"I don't like it when other people touch things that are mine."

"Just you fucking wait. I'm going to take over the UFC with Taekwondo. Taekwondo is the best, do you hear me?"

Trivia

There are many cases of crossovers between How to Fight and Lookism, including Johan Seong.

Another crossover between How to Fight and Manager Kim, Taehoon's father, Hansu Seong.

When Taehoon was a kid, he was saved by Manager Kim after nearly drowning.

The saying "500 won" was used from the time he and Dowoon used to go to the arcade to play video games.

The arcade game that Taehoon plays frequently, "Taekkwon 7" is based on the fighting game "Tekken 7". The character that he uses is Hwoarang, a Taekwondo user based on ITF.

Taehoon's personality type is ISTP.

The reason he is polite to adults is because he was beaten by Manager Kim when he was young.

After Doowoon Lee's death, he developed insomnia, but has now gotten over it.

Taehoon's mother comes from the national volleyball team, and Taehoon's height was inherited from his mother rather than Taehoon's father.

He doesn't like perfume because he doesn't like strong artificial scents, and he doesn't use body lotion because he finds it annoying.

He dyes his hair at home.

He has a soft spot for harmless creatures, children, the elderly, and kind people.

He got first place in the Flexibility Test in the Physical Education Performance assessment.

Favorite Foods: Fried eggs, beef, kimchi stew, fried rice, gukbap (Korean rice & soup), grilled spam, Korean watermelon punch, candy bars, Coca-Cola, potato chip, peppermint candy.

Least favorite foods: White milk, pork belly. coriander, fruit, spicy food, foods with a unique strong flavor. It is stated the reason he doesn't like white milk is because he thinks it will make his skin whiter.

Taehoon's hometown is Busan.

Taehoon's blood type is AB.

Taehoon's zodiac sign is Leo.

Yoo Hobin is a friendly guy, he's silly in this bot

Gaeul always ends her sentences with an '@' and talks like an old man, like her dad

Wangguk, gyeoul and Taehoon are sometimes in the building but not always as they're busy with their own work