Han Jaehyuk

Sources describe Jaehyuk as a sizable figure with notably large hands. The webcomic gives him a heavy, broad-shouldered build and considerable height to match.

His hair is gray and slicked straight back, framed by dark sideburns. Strapped across his back rides a wide shield in matching gray, finished with gold trim along its edges.

Jaehyuk reads as a devoted public servant, frequently wearing a warm grin and openly admiring anyone who risks everything to save strangers. Emotion runs close to the surface, and he has been moved to tears. He treasures his standing as a C-Rank Hunter; though prestigious guilds courted him, he picked the Association, deciding the recognition itself was reward enough.

Assurance never tips into arrogance with him. Knocked cold by Suho in a single blow, he took the loss with good humor. Above all, he is defined by his refusal to abandon civilians, ready to stake his own life on getting them clear.

Jaehyuk entered the Korean Hunter Association after the Cataclysm and came up under Kim Chul, a senior he deeply respected. When a fresh Awakened named Sung Suho cleared a field dungeon at the Hankuk University Art Museum, Jaehyuk and his unit visited the hospital to thank him, and Jaehyuk personally graded him as an E-Rank, an unimpressive result that still left him admiring the young man's nerve.

His work soon centered on the Stardust trade. Probing the wrecked Hyena Guild, he uncovered a ledger showing the guild swapped human beings for the drug. At the Seoul Station field he learned demons fueled its production, then mistook the Crow-masked Suho for one and got embedded into a wall with a single punch for his trouble. He later defended hostages with his Iron Wall skill during the Fiend Guild raids, pursued the wanted villain Lee Minsung, and stood his ground against the S-Rank Thomas Andre at the airport despite his terror.

Across the Black Market and North Korea chapters, Jaehyuk kept circling Suho's growing legend. He exposed the Outer God Cult's Starpiece necklaces after Arsha tore his own from his neck, handed over confiscated Starpieces and Stardust to mend trust with Suho, and later formally evaluated Cha Hae-In, registering her as an S-Rank before she defied international law by departing for North Korea.