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Park Jae-yeong, otherwise known as the Debtor, is the overarching antagonist of the 2025 Korean drama series Karma.
He is portrayed by Lee Hee-joon.
What Makes Him Pathetic?[]
- When he was a teenager, he helped orchestrate the gang rape of a high school girl by asking her out on a date, only to lead her directly to a group of his friends that knocked her out and assaulted her.
- He borrows money from everyone in his life without ever planning on paying them back. This list of people includes his father, his friends, and his co-workers.
- After borrowing more money from a loan shark, he renames the loan shark’s contact information to “asshole”, just because the guy keeps calling him to check in on when he’s getting paid back.
- After his father gets into a car accident and the driver of the other car offers to pay a substantial amount of money for the father’s hospital bill, Jae-yeong pockets a large sum of the money to keep for himself.
- After learning his father has a large amount of money set aside in his life insurance, Jae-yeong decides to have his father killed in a staged car accident to collect the life insurance.
- Overall, he is absolutely terrible to his father, who is honestly just a good person.
- Furthermore, he is also a jerk to pretty much everyone else he meets, being impatient, arrogant, and brash in almost every encounter he has.
- While hiring Jang Gil-ryong to kill his father, he offers him fifteen percent of the life insurance but lies about how much the life insurance is worth so that he can pocket more. When Gil-ryong finds out how much the life insurance is actually worth, and demands fifteen percent of the true amount, Jae-yeong agrees to pay it, but reveals he doesn’t actually plan to pay that much after Gil-ryong walks away.
- Even after hiring Gil-ryong, Jae-yeong makes many racist comments towards him, often calling him slurs instead of his name.
- After Gil-ryong kills Jae-yeong’s father, Jae-yeong decides not to pay him anything and instead tries to kill him. This action backfired, as Gil-ryong had anticipated Jae-yeong’s betrayal, and Jae-yeong got beaten up by him.
- In his last moments before being killed by Kim Beom-jun, Jae-yeong continues to deny responsibility for any of his crimes, and begs for mercy, an ironic act of cowardice, especially considering he had his own father killed in cold blood without care.
What Makes Him a Pinhead?[]
- After Gil-ryong finds out that Jae-yeong lied about the true amount of the life insurance and demands the real fifteen percent, Jae-yeong promises to pay the full amount, only to snidely say under his breath that he has no intention of paying that much as he walks away. Since he said this while Gil-ryong was still in earshot, his scumminess was overheard.
- As he practices his crocodile tears in a public bathroom before going to the morgue to confirm his father’s death, he doesn’t check to make sure the bathroom is empty, resulting in his confession in the crime being overheard by a police officer, who was in the stall next to him.
- He practices his plan to kill Gil-ryong minutes before meeting with him, allowing Gil-ryong to observe Jae-yeong’s whole plan, which ruins the element of surprise and allows him to beat Jae-yeong up. Jae-yeong also laughs maniacally after practicing his plan, which very obviously indicates that he is up to no good.
External Links[]
- Park Jae-yeong on the Villains Wiki