Park Beom-Shik

Heavyset and past his youth, Park carries a soft middle-aged frame topped by dark, curly hair. On the day the gate opens during the Double Dungeon Incident, his outfit is unremarkable street wear: a green sweater layered over a black tee, loose track pants, and a pair of sneakers.

Family is the engine behind everything Park does. He picks up hunting again purely to earn enough to keep his household afloat, putting their security ahead of his own safety. That devotion comes with self-doubt, though. Having stepped away from the profession for a stretch, he openly admits to Kim that he is no longer certain his old instincts have survived the layoff.

Park once worked the gates regularly before stepping back to care for his wife and child. A second pregnancy pushes him to take up the trade once more for the extra income, and he reports to a Seoul construction site where a gate has surfaced, reuniting with his former colleague Kim Sangshik. Curious about the warm welcome the other Hunters give Sung Jinwoo, he asks Kim whether the young man is formidable, only to learn Jinwoo is reputed to be the weakest Hunter alive, a presence so accident-prone that his attendance signals an easy raid. When Song Chi-Yul steps forward to lead, Park and the rest sign off and descend.

Inside, Park clears the dungeon's beasts without a scratch. When a hidden second dungeon turns up and the group debates whether to risk it for the rewards, he votes to enter, and Jinwoo's deciding ballot carries them in. Past an ornate door he shares Kim's unease about the chamber of towering statues. After the doors seal and a fleeing Hunter is struck down by one of the figures, Park reels at the sudden killing and the horror that the statues have come alive. As the Statue of God unleashes its heat vision, Jinwoo's warning lets him drop in time, and at Chi-Yul's command he kneels low to stay clear of the beam.

The Cup of Reincarnation rewrites events, and Park returns to life in the new timeline stripped of any memory of being a Hunter. He is later glimpsed alongside Kim, working as an ordinary laborer on a construction crew.