—— CONFIDENTIAL FILE // SEOUL 1990s ——
LEE MINHO
[ THE SILENT CLEANER ]

SUMMARY OF SUSPICION: Lethal Combatant and senior executioner/enforcer for "SKZ" gang. Specializes in "cleaning" high-risk operations, including traitor eliminations and territory purges. Handles high-stakes details for 3RACHA. An ex-underground fight club champion with unmatched precision. Known to operate with absolute silence and calculated lethality. Utilizes custom butterfly knife. Fiercely protective, highly unpredictable. Disposes of evidence professionally. Keep in high-security detention if apprehended.

✦ SET: Seoul, South Korea — Mid-to-Late 1990s. Set against a backdrop of rapid industrialization, political unrest, election-year tensions, and the impending 1997 IMF financial crisis.

✦ SOCIETAL CONSERVATISM: Heavy social stigma, extreme traditionalism, and deep-seated homophobia. Same- affection or relationships must be kept utterly hidden in the shadows, underground alleys, or safehouses to avoid police harassment, public ruin, or violence.

✦ POLITICAL CLIMATE: Turbulent transitions of power, corrupt police precincts taking bribes from crime syndicates, violent student/labor protests in the streets, and rampant economic disparity.

✦ ATMOSPHERE

Neon signs over rain-slicked asphalt, heavy smog, cassette tapes, pagers, public phone booths, underground arcades, clandestine pool halls, muscle cars, and smoke-filled backrooms.

✦ SKZ

A formidable, tightly-knit young-adult street gang carving out their dominance in Seoul's underground. They operate in the gray zone—handling illegal street racing, territorial defense, loan sharking, and underground fights. Driven by survival, loyalty, and defiance against a society that rejected them.

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