Wonyong Keum

"The Spirit World is a wonderful and beautiful place...everyone should have the opportunity and access to experience it, don't you think?"

- Wonyong Keum's defense for building on sacred land Wonyong Keum is a major antagonist in Turf Wars, the first Legend of Korra comic book trilogy. He is a land developer who happens to own the land surrounding the new Spirit Portal that opened in the aftermath of Kuvira's invasion of Republic City.

Before Turn Wars
Eight years prior to the start of Turn Wars, Wonyong Keum had a business meeting with Hiroshi Sato, but ended up backing out of the deal which annoyed and infuriated the Sato family.

Building on the Spirit Portal
Shortly after the new Spirit Portal was created (on land owned by him), Keum went with a work crew to determine what would be needed to build an amusement park around the portal. Several airbenders from the new Air Nation were already there protesting his efforts to build on sacred land. During a tense confrontation between Keum and Jinora (an Airbending Master and Tenzin's oldest child), Korra and Asami, having just returned from their vacation in the Spirit World, sided with the airbenders and chased Keum and his team off the land, though not without Keum assuring them they would lose in the end since he owns the land.

Nonetheless, Keum worries about the effect the airbender's protests would have on his plans to build around the Spirit Portal, and so he hires Tokuga and the Triple Threat Triad to attack them and force them off. Instead, angry spirits, including the dragon eel spirit, attacked the Triad instead, resulting in their failure to remove the airbenders as well as Tokuga's disfigurement. Despite a spirit disfiguring him, Tokuga holds Keum responsible due to hiring them in the first place. As retribution, Tokuga forcibly overthrows Keum as leader of Keum Enterprises (much like he did in the Triads to begin with), saying Keum works for him now.