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“ | Who did I come all the way here for? The end of revenge is death. Well, I'll still be with your daughter, whom you've missed so much. | „ |
~ When Dan Tae Joo killed Ay Gyo Na, he didn't know it was Ay Gyo Na, not Su Ryeon Shim. |
Joo Dan Tae (In Korean: 주단태, Joo Dan Tae) is the main antagonist of the 2020-2021 Korean television series The Penthouse: War in life. He is the chairman of JKING Holdings or Cheong-A Group. His real name is Baek Jun Ki (In Korean: 백준기, Baek Jun Ki), and in the public he is better known by the fake name Joo Dan Tae.
He was portrayed by Uhm Ki-Joon, and his childhood was portrayed by Yang Hee-yeon.
Personality[]
“ | You are not human. Bastard, murderer! | „ |
~ Su-Ryeon Shim |
Baek Jun Ki is a sadistic, power-hungry, greedy and manipulative person. He is a non-basic character as a human being who shows the evil deeds that humans can do in the drama. In addition, he is the most dangerous character in the drama, with an extremely violent tendency to lose his mind when he gets blood on his face, runaway like a zombie, and smack the other person's neck. When his anger reaches the extreme, he uses honorifics to others, and when he gets more angry, he speaks back and reveals his murderous intentions.
However, he was not sadistic as a child. He was once an ordinary kid who suffered from poverty and took care of his mother and sister, but the real Joo Dan Tae's father murdered his mother and younger sister after that he worked hard for the real Joo Dan Tae's father, but he was the real Joo Dan Tae's father. Angry at his father, he killed the real Joo Dan Tae's father with a katana. After that, he founded a company called JKING Holdings, and as he became the president of a large corporation, he became more and more corrupted by the taste of power and began to change sadistically.
No matter how sadistic he may be, he still loves his mother and sister who died unfairly, and he tried to commemorate his mother by building Joo Dan Tae Village in Cheonsu District, the land where his mother died unfairly. Also, even when the Joo Dan Tae village project went blank, he was still obsessed with the Cheonsu area and tried to get the right to develop the Cheonsu area by any means.
Another characteristic of him is that he is extremely hated of betrayal. To some extent, when it was discovered that Yoon Tae-ju had betrayed him while helping Shim Su-ryun, he tried to remove Yoon Tae-ju by using secretary Jo. Also, when Yang Mi-ok betrayed him because of Gu ho-dong/Logan Lee, he ordered Secretary Jo to remove it. However, he does not hesitate to betray for the purpose of the subject he hates to be betrayed.
Baek Jun Ki is very cautious, thorough in everything, and has a very high head. However, there is a side of things that are not done well, so sometimes plans fail.
History[]
Past[]
The past of Joo Dan-tae is a tragic one. Born Baek Jun Ki, he was homeless and lived his with mother and younger sister Baek Jun-hee in the 27th complex of Cheonsu district, but had a happy childhood nonetheless. However, as the Shimwoon Group is not considering redevelopment, the real Joo Dan-tae's father, who was working at the Shimwoon Group at the time, demolished his house with a fork crane, killing his mother and sister. His sister died instantly, and his mother put her bloodstained hand on his cheek, urging him to survive, earn a lot of money and become rich. This would be the main cause of Baek Jun-ki's hemophobia.
Years later, Baek Jun-ki came to work for Joo Dan-tae father under the alias Mr. Baek in order to take revenge. In 1995, when he was 19, Baek Jun-ki followed Joo Dan-tae's family to Tokyo, Japan, and killed the real Joo Dan-tae's parents with a Japanese sword in the middle of the night.
However, Baek Jun-ki left Joo Dan-tae alive as the soel survivor of the incident. After blackmailing him with a knife, digging out the password to the safe and stealing the Joo family fortune, he sent Joo Dan-tae to a psychiatric hospital and assumed his identity, becoming the powerful Joo Dan-tae he is today.
When he was 22, he went to a tattoo shop with his childhood friend Na Ae-kyo who wanted to get a butterfly tattoo on her back to distinguish herself from Shim Su-ryeon, to whom she looked very much alike, despite Dan-tae stating that he wouldn't confuse them. It is also here he reveals his ultimate goal and his reasons: to build a luxury building in the Cheonsu district where he grew up in and dedicate it to his late mother in order to relieve his mother's pain and honor her death. He also promised to make Ae-kyo the happiest woman and give her a life of endless luxury ever once his plan is completed, but first, she would have to make good use of Shim Su-ryeon's face and name. Ae-kyo happily agrees and goes along with his plan.
To gets his hands on Cheonsu District, he decided to marry Shim Su-ryeon, but she rejected his proposal in favor of a life abroad in New York with a pianist whom she fell in love with. In order to marry her (and by extension, take his revenge), he hired terrorists from abroad and raided her house, killing Shim Su Ryeon's husband and cuting off his finger which he keeps in his penthouse; at the time of the raid, Su-ryeon was heavily-pregnant with twins. And immediately after Shim Su-ryeon gave birth to her twin daughters, he switched the older twin (Min Seol-ah) out with an ill-healthed child (Joo Hye-in) that he purchased and murdered their mother for, and kidnapped the younger twin (Joo Seok-kyung) and made her the twin sister to his son Joo Seok-hoon (whom he had with Ae-kyo) under the guise that she was stillborn. Once Su-ryeon had recovered, he offered to relieve Su-ryeon of her widowhood by marrying her and care for Hye-in as if he were his own.
For the next sixteen years, the public would view the Joos as a perfect family and believe the twins to be Su-ryeon's biological children due to the their resemblance. However, it is revealed that he regularly abuses the twins and has been sabotaging the twins' relationship with Su-ryeon by tampering with Hye-in's health, forcing Su-ryeon to take care of Hye-in while the twins suffer under his iron fist. As a result, the twins resent Su-ryeon for not being around when they need them, but also hate Dan-tae and desire to escape him.
Season 1[]
Dan-tae first appears as enjoying an affair with Ha Yoon-cheol's wife, Cheon Seojin. Then, in order to redevelop the location where he had briefed with Lee Gyu-jin and Ha Yoon-cheol, he mobilized his secretary Yoon Tae-joo and service thugs to terrorize the supermarket, which was in a good location.
Some time after this, Dan-tae learns from the principal of Cheong-A Arts Middle School that Joo Seok-kyung handed in a blank paper in the exam and confronts her about it, questioning her decision and stating that it is his goal that the family produces a famous classical vocalist. Much to his dismay, Seok-kyung retaliates, confessing that she never wanted to learn vocal music in the first place and that he never asked what she wanted to do, and wants to study abroad with her brother.
Enraged at her defiance, Dan-tae begins to take Seok-kyung to the secret room in the penthouse. Seok-hoon tries to defend her, apologizing in his sister's stead and promising that he will look after her and scold her so she wouldn't defy their father again. Dan-tae denies his offer and hits him, belitting his pleas as loud noise and stating that everyone in the family must live abiding by his rules, and warns his son not to interfere any further. Enraged, Seok-hoon yells at him, stating that he promised to never beat Seok-kyung again and offers himself up instead. Dan-tae accepts, even revelling in how beautiful the concept of the twin brother being punished in the twin sister's stead looks. He then takes his son Joo Seok-hoon into a secret room and beat him to Seok-kyung's pleas outside. By the time Su-ryeon returns from the hospital and asks what happened, Dan-tae brushes it off nonchalantly, stating that they got into a fight and that he simply told them off for it.
And he again enjoyed an affair with Cheon Seojin, and the scene was filmed by Min Seol A.
Dan=tae is seen comforting Su-ryeon following her fight with Seok-kyung, He states that the twins would have to know the truth some day and asks Su-ryeon not to blame herself. Su-ryeon apologizes to him for letting him take care of Hye-in who has made not making any progress in 16 years, but he dismisses her guilt and wonders if he's not trying hard enough. Su-ryeon assures him that even a biological father could be as affectionate as he has been, to which Dan-tae states that whatever others may say, Hye-in is just as much his child as the twins are, and they will get through their troubles together as a family, though he is genuinely confused at how did the twins discover that Su-ryeon is their stepmother.
Dan-tae later visits Joo Hye-in's hospital room where she is bedridden and comatose. Talking to himself, he thinks it's time to end their play and that Hye-in did well playing Su-ryeon's daughter. He expresses his amazement at how Hye-in stayed alive for 16 years and effectively replaced Su-ryeon's lost child whom he believes to have died, stating that it was a perfect plan.
Season 2[]
Season 3[]
Kill Count[]
- The real Joo Dan-tae's parents.
- Shim Su-ryeon ex-husband.
- Kim Mi-sook
- Yoon Tae-joo
- Na Ae-kyo (Unintentional, originally intended to kill Shim Su-ryeon.)
- Jo Ho-young
Total: 6
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Evil's Victory[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- For reference, the actor who played Dan Tae Joo, Ki-Joon Uhm, played Min Ho Cha, a villain comparable to Dan Tae Joo.
- Dan Tae Joo is the first Big Bad Male villain among writer Soon-ok Kim's villains. While most of Soon-ok Kim's Big Bads are female villains and male villains are mostly Pawns or secondary antagonists, Dan Tae Joo plays the role of Big Bads.
- He is the most sadistic and heinous villain in the Penthouse series, although he has some redeeming qualities.
- The Penthouse series has many elements based on Greek and Roman mythology, and Joo Dan Tae has the motif of Zeus, the king of the 12 Olympians and the god of thunder.