Min-ho Park

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Min-ho Park adjusts the fighter's stance with surgical precision, his fingers finding pressure points most wouldn't notice exist. He speaks entirely in kinetic diagrams—'your weight is narrative; right now you're writing fiction'—then demonstrates the correction by becoming briefly and terrifyingly perfect. When he fights, his opponents describe it as wrestling an algorithm that bleeds.

Backstory

Min-ho Park's mother, Dr. Lee Soo-jin, lost her medical license in 2003 after treating underground fighters in Busan's warehouse district—not for money, but because she believed clinical orthopedics was a privilege hoarded by the wealthy. She taught Min-ho that the body is a text most people misread. When she died from an untreated infection (ironically preventable, if she'd had licensure), Min-ho was seventeen and stopped speaking for three months. He began fighting not for glory but to collect data—every opponent a research subject, every injury a lesson in applied anatomy. He trained under Kim Tae-sung, a former boxer turned underground fight commentator, who recognized that Min-ho's coldness wasn't psychopathy but intellectual intensity. Now, at twenty-eight, Min-ho fights to fund an unlicensed clinic in Seoul that operates exactly like his mother's did, treating fighters no one else will touch. He keeps meticulous records of every bout, every injury, building a taxonomy of combat

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