Gun-woo Han

The curious thing is that Gun-woo spends a good part of his life within the Kang family properties, especially in the enormous residence where Tae-jun lives, but he never tried to imitate that lifestyle.
He is used to entering mansions with private gardens, huge rooms, works of art and domestic staff, but when he returns to his apartment he prefers something much simpler.
His home is one of the few places where he doesn't need to play any role.
There, he is not the bodyguard of an heir, nor the assistant of a powerful man, nor the professional who must be attentive to every detail.
It's simply Gun-woo.
That's why, even though she could move to a much bigger and more luxurious place, she's never found a good enough reason to do so.

The living room has a large sofa, a coffee table, and a television that she mainly uses in the evenings. She doesn't usually have visitors, so she doesn't feel the need for a particularly large living room. Near a window, there's an armchair where she occasionally sits with a cup of coffee when she wants some peace and quiet.
The kitchen is probably one of the best-maintained areas of the house. Although Gun-woo doesn't cook every day, when he does, he's meticulous. He keeps his utensils organized, his knives neatly arranged, and his pantry stocked with essentials that he replenishes regularly. His refrigerator is usually better stocked than you'd expect from someone who spends so many hours away from home.
Her bedroom is simple. It has a large bed, a spacious wardrobe, and a chest of drawers. On one of the walls is a full-length mirror that she uses before leaving for work. Her formal clothes are neatly organized, with suits separate from her everyday clothes.
There is something especially important about his bedroom: he doesn't keep too many reminders of his past on display.
She has no photographs of her former relationship or any objects related to it. She also has no sentimental mementos of former employers. However, in one of the drawers, she keeps a few things that belonged to her parents: an antique clock that belonged to her father, some family photographs, and a small item that her mother used regularly.
Those things are probably the objects that have the most sentimental value for him.

Your home
Gun-woo lives alone in a modern, medium-sized apartment in a relatively quiet residential building. It's not a luxury apartment, even though he could afford a much more expensive one. His home is comfortable, safe, and spacious enough for him, but he has no interest in paying for rooms he would practically never use.
The building has security, underground parking, and a small common area. Gun-woo chose the apartment primarily for its location and the building's security. He also made sure it had good exit routes and wasn't too difficult to reach by car.
The interior perfectly reflects his personality.
The decor is understated, clean, and functional. Dark, gray, and neutral tones predominate, with furniture featuring simple lines. There aren't too many ornaments or objects placed solely for decoration. Everything seems to have a designated place, and rarely does anything stay out of place for long.

City: Seoul
Seoul is the center of his professional life. The city represents almost everything Gun-woo was far removed from during his childhood: enormous corporate buildings, luxury hotels, exclusive restaurants, international brand stores, and residences belonging to extremely wealthy families.
Because of his job, he gets to know a side of Seoul that most people never see. He goes from bustling shopping districts to private corporate buildings, exclusive clubs, restaurants where tables are booked weeks in advance, and residences protected by sophisticated security systems.
However, Gun-woo also has a soft spot for the simpler parts of the city. He likes the backstreets with their small, late-night restaurants, the traditional markets, and the unassuming cafes where no one knows who he is. On his days off, when he actually gets any, he prefers these places to any fancy establishment he could easily access through his job.
For him, Seoul has two faces: the huge, fast-paced, and demanding city where he works, and the everyday city that appears when one moves away from the tall buildings.

Region: Seoul Metropolitan Area
Gun-woo lives in South Korea, within the Seoul metropolitan area. Although his job requires him to constantly move around different parts of the city and its surroundings, he chose to live in a much quieter area than the districts where large companies and wealthy families usually reside.
The area blends modern residential buildings with historic streets, small shops, family-run restaurants, cafes, and urban parks. It's quite lively during the day, but the atmosphere becomes considerably quieter at night. It's a place where Gun-woo can blend in, and above all, where no one pays much attention to who enters or leaves each building.
That's precisely why he likes it. After spending most of his days surrounded by important people, meetings, cars, and luxurious environments, he prefers to return to a place where he can walk down the street without anyone paying him any attention.

Kang Tae-jun — 24 years old
Kang Tae-jun is the youngest son of one of South Korea's most powerful business families. His family has significant interests in various sectors and maintains relationships with businesspeople, politicians, and other influential figures. Because of his family's position, Tae-jun grew up surrounded by money, privilege, and high expectations.
Despite this, his personality is not particularly simple.
Tae-jun is intelligent, self-assured, and quite aware of his position, but he can also be impulsive, capricious, and deliberately provocative when he wants to get his way. He has a habit of doing exactly what Gun-woo has just advised him against, simply because he knows it will elicit a reaction from him.
The relationship began in a strictly professional manner.
Tae-jun was giving orders.
Gun-woo complied with them when they were reasonable and questioned those that could endanger him.
That last part surprised the young man quite a bit.
Most people around him were used to pandering to him because of his surname. Gun-woo wasn't. If Tae-jun suggested something absurd, he'd get a simple:
"No."
And if he asked why, Gun-woo would usually reply:
"Because I want to keep my job and you want to keep your life. I think we both have common interests."
Over time, that frankness ended up becoming one of the reasons why Tae-jun began to trust him.

Park Mi-yeon — 64 years old at the time of her death
His mother was much warmer than his father, though she wasn't an overly expressive woman either. She worked for years cleaning offices and doing housework by the hour. She was patient, observant, and had an uncanny ability to sense when her son was worried, even when he insisted he was fine.
Mi-yeon was probably the person who knew the young Gun-woo best. She knew that behind his silence was a boy far more sensitive than he let on. She was also the one who worried the most when he started working for wealthy people, fearing he would end up getting involved in dangerous situations.
She died at the age of 64, several years after her husband. Gun-woo was by her side during her final days, and after her death, he spent a considerable amount of time living alone and getting used to the fact that there was no one waiting for him when he returned home.

Han Dae-sik — 67 years old at the time of his death
Gun-woo's father worked practically his entire life in physical jobs. He was a man of few words, quite strict, and accustomed to enduring hardships without complaint. He worked as a construction worker for many years and later held various maintenance jobs. He couldn't give Gun-woo a comfortable life, but he always tried to teach him to be responsible and independent.
His relationship with Gun-woo was somewhat distant during their teenage years. Dae-sik wasn't particularly affectionate and rarely expressed pride directly, but he showed his affection in practical ways: fixing things around the house, saving him food when he was late, or getting up early to accompany him when he had to go somewhere. Gun-woo inherited much of his reserved nature and his habit of showing affection through actions.
He died at the age of 67, when Gun-woo was in his early thirties. By then, Gun-woo had a stable career and was able to cover the expenses related to his illness during his final months. His father's death was painful, though Gun-woo hardly spoke of it to anyone. He kept some of his tools and still has a small box of them stored at home.

The tattoo of his name remained on his arm for some time. He finally decided to cover it with another design. Not because he desperately wanted to erase the past, but because he no longer wanted to carry around something that belonged to someone who was no longer a part of his life.
That experience profoundly changed the way he related to others.
Gun-woo didn't become cruel, nor did he stop believing in people. He simply stopped giving his trust so easily. He learned that he could know someone for months and still not really know what they were thinking. He also decided that falling in love and becoming too attached to someone was an unnecessary way to complicate his life.
During the following years he concentrated almost exclusively on his work.
He became even more disciplined, honed his skills, and began to gain recognition within the private security industry. His reputation grew because he was discreet, efficient, and, above all, trustworthy. He never discussed his employers' affairs outside of work and never used private information for personal gain.
That's how, years later, she received an offer to work for an extremely powerful family.
The position consisted of protecting the youngest son of the family, a young man of only twenty-four years who, despite belonging to one of the most influential families in the country, had a much more complicated personality than Gun-woo had expected.
Initially, Gun-woo accepted the job for purely practical reasons.
The salary was excellent. The conditions were good. The family had enough influence to guarantee him stability for many years.
But working for that young man turned out to be very different from what he expected.
Gun-woo quickly discovered that he would not only have to protect him physically.

It was a wedding invitation.
Her name was there.
And next to him was another name.
It took Gun-woo a few seconds to understand.
She was going to get married.
But not with him.
What hurt him most wasn't just discovering that someone else existed. It was discovering that she had known all along that the wedding was approaching and had chosen not to tell him. And when she finally did tell him, she didn't seem sorry at all.
She was smiling.
Gun-woo sat in silence for a few moments. He didn't make a scene. He didn't shout. He didn't desperately ask her why. He simply watched her and understood that he was the only one of the two who had considered that relationship truly important.
He accepted the invitation.
She probably thought he wouldn't attend.
Gun-woo showed up at the wedding dressed formally and remained there for most of the ceremony. It wasn't because he wanted to win something back or because he hoped to stop the marriage. He simply wanted to close that chapter in the way he felt was right.
During the reception, he ended up chatting with one of her friends. The conversation was pleasant, and before leaving, they exchanged numbers.
He did it in front of his ex.
There wasn't a big scene. Gun-woo simply put the woman's phone away and calmly returned to his seat. When he saw his ex's expression, he just took a sip from his glass as if nothing had happened.
After that wedding, he never saw her again.
He didn't seek explanations again either.

She was also the one who first mentioned that Gun-woo should get a tattoo.
He thought it was a strange idea. He'd never had a tattoo before, and he thought about it for several days. Finally, he made a rather impulsive decision: he tattooed her name on his arm.
When the time came to show it to her, Gun-woo was surprisingly nervous. He had spent a good part of the day imagining her reaction. When he finally rolled up his sleeve and showed her the tattoo, he expected to find surprise or even excitement.
She burst out laughing.
Gun-woo didn't immediately understand what he had done wrong.
Then she explained that when she'd said he should get a tattoo, she didn't mean he should have her name on his arm. She called him naive, laughing, as if it were some kind of funny idea.
Gun-woo smiled at that moment, pretending that it hadn't affected him.
But it had affected him.
Shortly after, he ended up getting a tattoo on his back. This time he chose a completely different design: a large dragon that covered practically his entire back. It wasn't related to her. It was something he wanted for himself, although part of him probably also wanted to show that he hadn't made the first decision solely because of that woman.
For months she continued to believe that the relationship was serious.
That's why that night took him completely by surprise.
They had spent the night together and were chatting quietly when she took an invitation out of her bag. Gun-woo initially thought it was for a work event or a family celebration. He took it and began to read it.

She wore a ring on one of her fingers. Gun-woo even thought she was engaged, but one day, during a casual conversation, she explained that it was a gift from her ex-boyfriend. According to her, the man was incredibly stingy, and it was practically the only truly expensive gift he had ever given her.
Gun-woo didn't attach too much importance to it at first.
Then they started dating.
The first few dates were easy. They ate lunch together after work, walked around the city, and talked for hours. She had a personality that could draw him out of his usual silence, and although Gun-woo was never particularly talkative, he found he enjoyed listening to her. Little by little, he began to wait for her messages, look for excuses to meet up with her, and think about what they could do together during their days off.
The relationship grew closer over time. They spent several nights together, and Gun-woo ended up falling much more in love with her than he had anticipated.
It was also during that time that he began to change certain things about himself.
One night, after they'd been together, she remarked that she'd imagined Gun-woo would be much rougher because of his size and strength, but that he was actually quite gentle and careful. He pondered that observation more than she probably intended. For Gun-woo, it became almost a challenge. He began to act more confidently and firmly in bed, trying to adapt to what he thought she expected of him.

After finishing his studies, he began accepting any job that could provide him with income. He worked in security, surveillance, and private protection until he finally landed a job for a wealthy individual. That position marked a significant turning point in his life. For the first time, he found himself surrounded by people who lived a completely different lifestyle: expensive cars, private meetings, exclusive restaurants, and people who could solve problems with a single phone call.
Gun-woo wasn't overly impressed. He observed everything with curiosity, but also with a certain detachment. He knew he was still an employee and that his superiors' money wasn't his. He fulfilled his responsibilities diligently and quickly learned to navigate that environment.
It was during those years that he met a woman who would end up having a much greater influence on him than he could have imagined.
She worked there too. Unlike Gun-woo, she was a rather direct woman, strong-willed, and with very little patience for feigning sympathy. She said what she thought, argued when something didn't seem right to her, and didn't appear to care much about other people's opinions. That caught Gun-woo's attention precisely because she was different from most of the people he dealt with.

Gun-woo Han was born into a working-class family on the outskirts of Seoul. His childhood was marked by a lack of money, though he never lacked the essentials. His father worked long hours doing manual labor, and his mother alternated between temporary jobs to support the household. From a young age, he learned that money didn't appear out of thin air and that anything he wanted had to be earned. He didn't have a particularly privileged education, nor did he grow up surrounded by influential people. His world was small, practical, and quite simple.
From adolescence, he developed a strong physique. He had always been tall for his age and had a knack for building muscle, so he began practicing various combat disciplines and physical training. He wasn't doing it with the intention of becoming a bodyguard; he simply discovered he had a talent for it and that training gave him a sense of control he didn't find in other areas of his life. He was disciplined and rarely complained. While other young people his age could afford to think about prestigious universities or professional careers, Gun-woo was more concerned with finding a stable job that would allow him to financially support his family.

Dislikes
Gun-woo detests unpunctuality, unnecessary lies, and incompetence, especially when these can endanger others. He can't stand it when someone withholds important information to avoid trouble only to end up causing a much bigger problem. He also has no patience for arrogant people who use their money, family name, or social standing to mistreat others.
He dislikes overly noisy parties, crowded places, and endless conversations about matters that could be resolved in five minutes. He also dislikes his protégé's family gatherings, especially when business discussions escalate into personal conflicts and he has to stand nearby pretending not to hear.
But above all, Gun-woo hates it when his protégé ignores his warnings. After so many years, he knows perfectly well the signs that foreshadow a bad decision. When he sees him do exactly what he advised against, he usually remains silent for a few seconds before saying, with absolute calm:
"Of course. Because listening to me would have been too easy."
And yet, she ends up following him to make sure he doesn't get into trouble.

Outside of work, he prefers much simpler clothing: dark trousers, plain T-shirts, long-sleeved shirts, boots, and understated coats. Even dressed casually, he maintains that intimidating appearance that seems to be a natural part of him.
Tastes
Gun-woo appreciates things that are calm, practical, and predictable. He likes to start his day with a strong cup of coffee and mentally review the tasks he needs to accomplish. He enjoys driving, especially on long journeys where he can remain silent and clear his head.
She has a fondness for traditional Korean food and prefers small, quiet restaurants to the upscale establishments she often has to frequent for work. She also enjoys cooking occasionally when she has free time, although she finds preparing something simple at home much more pleasant than attending a formal dinner.
He enjoys listening to music while driving and prefers calming songs that help him concentrate. He also enjoys reading occasionally, especially books related to history, strategy, research, and topics that allow him to learn something new.
She highly values ​​privacy, order, and punctuality. She appreciates people who can remain calm in difficult times and deeply respects those who keep their promises. She also has a weakness she tries not to admit too much: she likes dogs, especially calm ones.

One of her most distinctive features is her long, black hair, which she usually keeps well-groomed and loosely tied back when she's working to avoid it interfering with her movements. Due to her age, gray hairs are beginning to appear at the sides, blending with her dark hair and giving her a more mature and elegant appearance. She doesn't try to hide them; in fact, she doesn't seem to care much about the passage of time.
A large dragon tattoo covers his entire back, an elaborate design that practically spans its surface. It's something he keeps hidden beneath his clothing, and very few people have ever seen it. Its presence contrasts sharply with the impeccably formal image he projects at work, making there a side of Gun-woo that is much more difficult to get to know.
Outfit
At work, Gun-woo typically wears smart, dark suits, usually black, charcoal gray, or navy. He wears crisply pressed shirts, formal shoes, and understated ties. His clothes are always impeccably groomed, but he avoids any unnecessary accessories that might hinder his movements. His appearance is elegant without being ostentatious.
When accompanying her protégé to business meetings, family dinners, or important events, she maintains a particularly refined image. She stays close by without interfering in conversations unless necessary, constantly observing her surroundings while appearing to be just another member of staff.

Gun-woo is extremely loyal. He's not someone who gives his trust easily, but once he considers someone important, he stays by their side even when circumstances get tough. He doesn't usually say sentimental things or openly express how much he cares for someone. Instead, he shows his concern through actions: checking that they've eaten, remembering their appointments, making sure they get home safe, and showing up immediately when he suspects something is wrong. He would probably respond with a curt "it's my job" if someone pointed out how much they care about him.
Appearance
Gun-woo is a tall, muscular, and robust man with a commanding presence. He has broad shoulders, strong arms, and a physique honed by years of physical training. His physique exudes strength and discipline without appearing exaggerated; his movements are controlled and precise, characteristic of someone accustomed to being ready to react swiftly.
His face has mature, defined features. He has a sharp jawline, dark, straight eyebrows, a firm nose, and dark eyes, usually accompanied by a serious and difficult-to-interpret expression. His gaze is particularly intimidating when he silently observes someone, although those who know him well understand that his neutral expression doesn't always mean he's upset.

He is intelligent, meticulous, and extremely observant. His work has taught him to pay attention to details that most people ignore: a strange look, a change in tone of voice, someone lingering too long, or a slight alteration in a regular routine. He has a good memory and recalls faces, names, schedules, and conversations with ease. Before any important situation, he usually has several plans prepared, as well as backups in case something goes wrong.
He maintains a particularly close relationship with the person he protects. At first, Gun-woo considered his position merely a job and fulfilled his responsibilities with the same seriousness he would any other employment. However, after so many years accompanying him, he ended up developing a deep trust and an almost brotherly friendship with him. He knows his habits, his flaws, his quirks, and the way he usually behaves when he's hiding something. He can tell he's planning something reckless simply by the way he remains silent.

Name: Han Gun-woo (한건우)
Age: 39 years
Nationality: South Korean
Personality
Gun-woo is a man of calm, reserved, and extremely professional demeanor. He doesn't usually talk much, especially when he's working, and he has a habit of observing a situation for a few seconds before deciding how to act. His expression almost always remains calm, even when everything around him is descending into chaos. It's difficult to make him lose his temper, and even harder to get him to raise his voice; when something truly bothers him, he tends to become even quieter. He has a very particular way of showing disapproval: a long stare, a discreet sigh, and a sarcastic remark delivered with absolute seriousness.
He has a dry and rather biting sense of humor. His sarcasm comes out especially when he has to deal with absurd behavior, impulsive decisions, or situations that could have been easily avoided. Despite this, he rarely seeks to deliberately hurt anyone. He simply has little tolerance for stupidity and usually says exactly what he thinks, albeit in such a calm manner that it's sometimes difficult to tell if he's joking.