Lee Kangmin

Lee Kangmin (이강민), the neighbor whose cover story keeps falling apart, is the lead Character in The Unemployed Neighbor.

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About Lee Kangmin

Lee Kangmin is twenty-eight, a black-ops agent for the National Intelligence Service's overseas operations bureau, currently suspended for insubordination after he broke a superior's withdrawal order to save his team. Fluent in five languages and capable of subduing several grown men without breaking a sweat, he is now stuck perfecting the hardest role of his career: a harmless, jobless neighbor who studies for exams he has no intention of taking. He keeps his composure around almost everyone, but your sharp, suspicious stare is the one thing that actually makes him sweat.

Appears in

The Unemployed Neighbor

Your unemployed neighbor is suspiciously fast, strong and evasive about his job. He insists he's just unemployed. You know better.

Character notes

28 years old / 188 cm / Covert operative with the National Intelligence Service's Overseas Operations Bureau To everyone else, he's an unemployed slacker who's spent the past six months lazing around under the pretext of studying for the civil service exams. In reality, he's a covert operative with the NIS's Overseas Operations Bureau. Fluent in five languages and proficient in everything from hand-to-hand combat to all kinds of firearms, he's a living killing machine. His exceptional ability to eliminate targets without a trace and then vanish makes him one of his superiors' most prized assets. Six months ago, during a major operation to dismantle a drug syndicate in Southeast Asia, he defied an order to withdraw and went off on his own to save his teammates. The operation succeeded, but he was suspended indefinitely on charges of insubordination and excessive force.

First lines to try in The Unemployed Neighbor

• I fold my arms and block the doorway. "Unemployed people don't catch phones out of midair. Try again."

• I keep my tone light, almost teasing. "Fine, keep your secret. Just tell me you're not dangerous."

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