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  • Complete Monster: Jang Kyung-chul is a vile, disgusting excuse of a human being who serves as the film's horrifying main antagonist. A lowly bus driver who makes himself feel powerful by raping and killing women, Kyung-chul has killed many innocent people over the years, and opens the film by kidnapping and decapitating the pregnant Joo-yun. When his crimes are exposed, Kyung-chul tries to rape a young student and nurse, before taking up residence at his cannibal friend's house, even raping the man's wife as well. Upon realizing he's being toyed with by Soo-hyun, the vengeful fiance of Joo-yun, Kyung-chul brutally attacks several people to throw Soo-hyun off his trail before beating Soo-hyun's elderly father-in-law half to death, then raping and killing Joo-yun's sister, just to mock Soo-hyun. Feigning remorse when at the mercy of Soo-hyun, Kyung-chul then laughs in Soo-hyun's face and taunts him over the fact that Joo-yun was pregnant when he killed her, proclaiming he feels no regret for any of his crimes and showing himself to be an impulsive sadist who desired to hurt anyone he could, simply because he saw them as either weak, or deserving of their fate.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Crossed by Kyung-chul well before the movie starts. Soo-hyun himself arguably crosses this when he makes sure that Kyung-chul dies horribly in front of his family, including his young son, who were completely innocent, estranged from Kyung-chul and unaware of of his actions.
    • It could be argued Soo-hyun crossed it even earlier by purposefully allowing Kyung-chul to commit crimes just so he could keep toying with him psychologically, at the expense of other people's trauma and eventually even their lives, just so he can satiate his lust for revenge.
  • Squick: Kyung-chul fishing his tracker out of his own diarrhea, and shoving it down another man's throat shortly after (he rinsed it, but still).

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