Hwoarang found army life dissatisfying, however, and deserted to attend the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 when he heard that it had been announced. He was placed in a Special Operations unit and achieved success on various missions despite his penchant for disobeying authority. There is no canonical material that states whether or not Hwoarang fought Jin in this tournament.Īfter the tournament, Hwoarang returned to South Korea, where he was drafted into the military. Hwoarang entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 to avenge his master and settle his score with Jin in a rematch. A short time after Hwoarang and Jin’s fight, Baek Doo San went missing and was believed to have been killed by Ogre.
This was the first time Hwoarang had ever failed to score a victory against an opponent. Hwoarang talked them into a match, but was unable to defeat Jin their fight ended in a draw. One day, Hwoarang encountered some associates of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Prior to the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, Hwoarang doubled as a Taekwondo student of Baek Doo San and the leader of a street fraud team who picked fights and used dishonest tactics to increase wagers made against them they would feign weakness and ineptitude to encourage people to up their bets, only for Hwoarang to step in when sufficient money was on the line and soundly defeat their opponents.
