

Filled with excitement he hasn't felt in years, Hwoarang slipped away from the military base and headed for the Tournament. He would defeat Jin, Heihachi Mishima, and anyone else who dared to challenge him to claim the Mishima Zaibatsu.

One day, Hwoarang found out about the announcement of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4. These longings could not be quelled by the military. He often thought of one fight in particular - the fight against Jin Kazama. He longingly recalled the days of hustling money in street fights and the rush he experienced from hand-to-hand combat. Hwoarang was uninterested in military life and felt a strange emptiness within him. Although his successes in various missions were highly regarded along with his prowess at Taekwondo and combat techniques, his penchant for disobeying rules and orders gave his senior officers more than a few headaches. Returning to South Korea, Hwoarang was drafted into the South Korean military and was assigned to a special operations division. Hwoarang enters The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 to defeat Jin Kazama and to seek revenge for his master, Hwoarang got to fight Jin in the later stages of the tournament but he was narrowly defeated after an hours-long fight very similar to the fight between Jin's father Kazuya Mishima and his rival Paul Phoenix in the first King of Iron Fist Tournament. Upon arriving at Baek Doo San's dojo, Hwoarang finds that his master had been apparently slain by Ogre, The God of Fighting. This was the first time Hwoarang did not outright win a match and he immediately rushed to his master to tell him the news. One day, Hwoarang lured in an opponent by the name of Jin Kazama and they fought to a draw.

Once his gang members had been defeated, Hwoarang would enter and defeat his opponents to win the money at stake. During these street fights, Hwoarang would lure his opponents in by sending his gang members to pose as weaker fighters. He also became Jin Kazama's rival after the two fought to a draw in one of Hwoarang's street matches before the events of Tekken 3.Īppearances In video games īorn in South Korea, a proud student of Baek Doo San and extremely proficient in the martial art of Taekwondo, Hwoarang used his skills to gamble in street fights with his other gang members. He is the Taekwondo student of Baek Doo San, and entered the third Tournament to get revenge on Ogre for attacking his master. Hwoarang first appeared in Tekken 3 and he has returned in all subsequent games. Hwoarang ( Japanese: ファラン, Hepburn: Faran, Hangul: 화랑 Hwarang) is a fictional character from the Tekken fighting game series released by Namco Bandai Games. ( Tekken 4 (international version, dialogues))
