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Hwoarang is a fictional Korean character in the Tekken game series and the student of Baek Doo San. Hwoarang takes his name after the ITF taekwondo pattern Hwa-rang (화랑/花郎) which he demonstrates in the real time arcade opening sequence of Tekken 3. Hwa-Rang is named after the Hwarang youth group which originated in the Silla Dynasty in the early 7th century. The group eventually became the actual driving force for the unification of the three Kingdoms of Korea. Hwoarang is one of the few characters whose final boss in Tekken 4 is not Heihachi Mishima and whose sub-boss in Tekken 5 is not Devil Jin. Instead, Jin Kazama fills both respective roles in these games. |