Yoo Myunghan

Yoo Myunghan (유명한) is the Chairman of Yoojin Construction and Jinho's father.

Appearance

Myunghan is a middle-aged man with light gray hair and light gray eyes. As a business tycoon, he is usually dressed in formal business attire.

Personality

Despite being strict, serious, and uptight, especially with his youngest son Jinho, Myunghan cares deeply for his family. This was displayed when he attempted to build his own guild not for the sake of money, but for the sake of protecting his family. Myunghan is also wise enough to know that money can't buy everything and that hunters are the most valuable assets in his time.

History

Demon Castle Arc

Shortly after the Red Gate Incident, Jinho visited his father and asked to be selected over his brother Yoo Jinsung to lead the Yoojin Guild as its Guild Master. Although Myunghan quickly realized that his son's exceptional raid records were primarily due to Jinwoo's help (having learned about Jinwoo's role in the Red Gate Incident from Go Myung-Hwan), he nevertheless chose to grant his son's request. He also tasked Jinho with recruiting Jinwoo for the Yoojin Guild regardless of the cost.

Return to Demon Castle Arc

At the same time that Jinwoo was announced as Korea's 10th S-Rank Hunter, Jinho met up with his father and told him that he planned to leave the Yoojin Guild behind and join Jinwoo's guild instead as its vice-guild master. Unfortunately, Myunghan was so angered by this revelation that he abruptly cut Jinho off and kicked him out of the house.

Shortly afterwards, Myunghan discovered that he was sick with Eternal Slumber due to his exposure to Jinho, prompting his daughter Jinhee to return home to help take care of him. Despite being told by his doctors that the disease had no cure, Myunghan searched tirelessly for a way out of his predicament and eventually discovered that there was one person who had been successfully cured of Eternal Slumber before: Park Kyung-Hye, Jinwoo's mother.

Japan Crisis Arc

When his symptoms started to get worse and worse, Myunghan reached out to Jinwoo and desperately asked him for the truth as to how his mother was cured. Although Jinwoo was tempted to tell him that he had the cure, he ultimately refused out of distrust, leaving a crestfallen Myunghan with no choice but to accept his fate. Several days after the Tokyo S-Rank Gate underwent its dungeon break, Myunghan finally succumbed to the effects of Eternal Slumber and fell into a coma, prompting his butler to give Jinho his father's scrapbook and reveal to him that Myunghan had been proud of his accomplishments all along, bringing Jinho to tears.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Jinwoo had secretly followed Jinho back to Korea to figure out what was going on. Upon seeing Jinho so distraught over his father's condition and realizing that Myunghan had not been lying to him about his sickness after all, Jinwoo snuck into Myunghan's room at the hospital with Stealth and used the Holy Water of Life on him. As expected, it cured Myunghan and woke him up, shocking both Jinhee and his doctors, as no one to their knowledge had ever woken up from Eternal Slumber before.

Final Battle Arc

After Jinwoo killed the three Monarchs who came after him in Korea, Myunghan visited him at his family's home and the two of them had a chat. Having already deduced that Jinwoo had cured him while he was in the hospital, Myunghan sincerely offered his thanks and asked if there was anything he could do to repay him. Although Jinwoo didn't really want anything, he decided to simply ask Myunghan to take care of his mother and his sister should he ever die on the battlefield, a request that the latter quickly agreed to.

Epilogue

After the Rulers used the Cup of Reincarnation one last time on Jinwoo's request, this created a new timeline where humanity never learned of the existence of magic beasts. As a result, in this timeline, Myunghan never became sick with Eternal Slumber.^[1]