Chapter 1. A Dream That Ended Too Soon (2007)
When a baseball leaves the hand of a young pitcher at 144 km/h, it seems as though the future is already written. In 2007, Wi Dae-han was drafted by SK Wyverns, praised as the next great hope of Korean baseball. He stood at the threshold of a shining career.
But that brilliance was short-lived. His juvenile criminal record resurfaced online, and the public turned against him. Before he ever had the chance to step onto the professional mound, he was expelled from the league through “voluntary retirement.”
A boy’s dream collapsed under the weight of his past.
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Chapter 2. Into the Shadows (2008~)
When baseball disappeared, emptiness filled the void.
Wi Dae-han soon drifted into the world of organized crime, joining the Busan-based “20th Century Gang.”
His father had been a mid-level leader, and the son slipped naturally into the role of an enforcer.
He was feared for his fists but consumed by alcohol and sedatives. What began as survival soon turned into self-destruction.
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Chapter 3. Reinvention as a Streamer (Late 2010s)
Years later, he reemerged, not on a baseball field but in front of a webcam.
On PopcornTV, Wi Dae-han reinvented himself as a live streamer. His blunt humor and raw honesty attracted thousands of viewers. Donations poured in, and his name returned to headlines, though in a very different context.
People marveled: “A gangster turned broadcaster.”
But as always, this stage, too, would prove fleeting.
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Chapter 4. The Reckless Challenge (2020)
In 2020, he surprised the public again by challenging kickboxing champion Myung Hyun-man to a sparring match.
“I’ll survive just one round,” he boasted.
The fight was broadcast on YouTube. The result was predictable—he was pummeled, unable to withstand the champion’s power. Yet people still spoke about him. Not for victory, but for audacity.
He had a strange gift: even in failure, he could not escape attention.
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Chapter 5. Violence Returns (2021)
But the old patterns resurfaced.
In 2021, during a live broadcast, he struck a junior streamer with a beer bottle. The case ended in court, and the sentence was clear: 18 months in prison.
What he had rebuilt as a broadcaster was erased in an instant. Cold prison walls replaced the glow of the screen.
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Chapter 6. A Knife in the Dark (2022)
After his release, he attempted another return. But in 2022, an altercation with a former gang associate left him stabbed with a knife. He survived, but the message was unmistakable: the past never truly lets go.
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Chapter 7. A Brief Comeback (2023–2024)
He once more returned to streaming, trying to reclaim relevance. His broadcasts drew eyes, not because people believed in change, but because they expected chaos.
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Chapter 8. Domestic Violence Case (2025)
In 2025, the inevitable happened. Only a month after release, Wi Dae-han was re-arrested for assaulting his wife and a bar employee.
This time, disappointment outweighed outrage. The public no longer asked whether he could change. They assumed he would not. Violence had become not just an episode of his life, but its rhythm.
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His story asks a question as old as tragedy itself:
Can a person truly change, or are some fates inescapable?
What began as the promise of a boy with a fastball became the saga of a man caught in repetition—violence, regret, and fleeting reinventions.
His name is no longer a symbol of hope but a parable of choices, consequences, and the shadows we fail to escape.
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📌 Closing Thought
Strength is not merely about enduring blows, nor is downfall merely about bad fortune. Wi Dae-han’s story shows how our past can be both a weight and a mirror.
And as readers, we are left not with answers, but with reflection: how thin the line is between rising again and falling forever.
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