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| Running Turtle
Jo Pil-seong
is an idle detective who spends his time scratching off lottery tickets in his
office, while his wife and children work in a manwha shop. Pil-seong secretly
takes his wife's emergency money of ₩300,000 and tells
his friend to bet it on a bull name Gomi in a bullfight. Gomi is declared as a winner, and
Pil-seong's friends celebrate their victory later that night as they wait for
him to arrive.
Meanwhile,
an escaped prisoner named Song Gi-tae intervenes in the celebration and steals
Pil-seong's money. When Pil-seong finds out what has happened he confronts the
criminal, but suffers a humiliating defeat.
Pil-seong
reports to his colleagues and his boss that he encountered the infamous Gi-tae,
but none of them believed in him. In an attempt to recapture Gi-tae, Pil-seong
decides to recruit his friends (who were beaten up by Gi-tae earlier) and found
him inside a house with his girlfriend, Kyeong-Joo. Formulating a plan,
Pil-seong tells his friends to stand by the outside window of where Gi-tae was,
while Pil-seong himself sneaks into the house, armed with pepper spray. Gi-tae,
however, was aware of Pil-seong's presence and once escaped before the police
arrived. Before leaving, Gi-tae takes out his knife, stabs Pil-seong's right
hand, and warns him that the next time he'll kill him if he tries to capture
him again.
Suffering
from public humiliation as well as being kicked out of the house by his wife
(because of her money), Pil-seong decides to train himself in fighting Gi-tae.
When taking taekwondo lessons one day, Pil-seong learns that the upper part of
the human rib cage is the vulnerable area of taking his opponents down. He
later buys himself his own handgun as his own personal defense weapon.
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