Soo Hyang-Chol

Soo Hyang-Chol is a former North Korean prisoner turned South Korean soldier and now turned militia commander originally born in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea but who fled to Seoul in South Korea despite seeming to be destined for a life of hard labour as part of North Korea's generational punishment for a crime supposedly perpetrated by her grandparents. Soo served in the South Korean military before eventually forming her own private militia/paramilitary movement called The Black Tigers to be ready to fight a potential North Korean invasion of South Korea. Soo is a ruthless, take-no-prisoners kind of woman known not just for her military combat skill and expert mastery of Taekwondo, Taekkyeon, Hapkido, Ssireum, Kuk Sool Won, Hwa Rang Do, Tang Soo Do, Choi Kwang Do and Gongkwon Yusul, but also her demanding and sometimes borderline brutal training drills. Soo can often be seen near the Demilitarized Zone subjecting her militiamen and women to these extreme drills. She expects EVERYONE in South Korea to fight and has a very high opinion of right and wrong, often not taking into consideration that some people aren't fighters and would rather be left alone to live their lives in peace. Although Soo is ultimately a woman of honorable character, she also possesses an extreme, explosive and sometimes borderline violent temper, which is often singled out as her single biggest, most fatal flaw. The most infamous case of this was when the South Koresn cruiser called "Cheonon" was sunk by a North Korean torpedo which killed 46 South Korean sailors. Soo became so incandescent with fury and blew such a massive gasket that she very nearly ended up giving herself an aneurysm, almost killing herself as a result. In spite of looking far younger than she is, Soo Hyang-Chol is actually 37 years old.