Tiger Year Crew (범년) | Act II: Marked Cards (표시된 카드)

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Beomnyeon (범년) or widely known with "Tiger Year Crew" is a Jopok (조폭) or Organized Crime Group made up by Korean members.  Operates around the district of Little Seoul in East Beach, Los Santos, a small community which is formed after the historical large wave of Korean Immigrants in United States. The crew runs by the Alumni of St. John Bosco Highschool, one of the U.S Department program after the incident of 1992 L.S riot when many Korean families were affected.

 

 

The Pain of Little Seoul  (1900 - 1995)

In the early 1900s, a large wave of Korean immigrants fled to America and the first groups settled around the East Beach, Los Santos, which was then known as Old K-Town because of the growing Korean presence. Due to their social status back at the time, most of them worked as laborers or took on other jobs that were considered as low-paying. By the 1940s, the Korean population started to grow even more and the area eventually became Little Seoul, where they built a proper community for themselves. Little Seoul is a neighborhood on the east side of Los Santos, based on “K-Town” and formed as an ethnic enclave in the early 1970s. Records show that Korean immigration to the United States began as early as 1903 but Korean-American communities did not grow significantly until after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. After that, the Korean immigrant population increased quickly which helped the district grow.

 

Little Seoul started as more than just a neighborhood on the east side of Los Santos. It became a place where Korean families could settle, work, and even try to build something steady in a city that was not always easy on them. Small shops, family businesses, and tight streets gave the area its own feel and over time it slowly turned into a real community. People knew each other, looked out for each other, and also tried to make the best of what they had. That sense of closeness is what gave Little Seoul its identity in the first place. However in the same year, race relations in Los Santos worsened after a trial that cleared four Los Santos Police Department officers for using excessive force during the arrest of Rodney King. The violence soon spread across the city and lasted for several days. Tensions between the Korean and African-American communities also grew after the killing of Latasha Harlins by Korean shop owner Soon Ja Du over a $1.79 bottle of orange juice.

 

As the riots spread across the city, some Korean locals stepped forward to defend their store and building from looting. With three months of mandatory military training, they were familiar with firearms and knew how to protect themselves in a crisis. From the rooftop, they stood guard with rifles, handguns, and shotguns, determined not to let everything they had built be destroyed. That moment later became known as the stand of the “Rooftop Koreans.” By the end of the riots, Korean groups in the Little Seoul had become more united and the tensions in Little Seoul stayed strong for a long time, although community leaders later worked to calm them down. Even after that, the Little Seoul did not disappear from the surface. People stayed and kept going. All families reopened businesses and the streets filled back up again and little by little the neighborhood. It indeed did not heal overnight and the scars were still there, but the community kept pushing forward anyway. 

 

After the bitter-swollen tragedy, Little Seoul was left with more than just damaged buildings and burned storefronts after the riots. It also had to deal with the way the community was split apart and forced to rebuild from the ground up. In the years that followed, the U.S. Department of Education introduced a small recovery program for communities that had been hit hard by the violence. For many Korean families in Little Seoul, it became a real turning point. It gave their children another chance to continue school, with more support and a better path forward in a city that had once made them feel unwanted. Because of that program, several Korean students were able to attend St. John Bosco High School. For these locals, it was more than just a school placement, it was a chance to move forward after everything the neighborhood had gone through. 

 

The Rise of Dark Circle  (1970 - The Present)

Even the warm and friendly looking Little Seoul still hiding a dark truth which most people don't know, as well as the illegal crews that lingering around the place. The first Korean crime group is Kkangpae (깡패) or can say the Korean street thugs, and this group did not just appear out of nowhere. Its roots go back to the late Joseon era in the 19th century, when early street gangs began gaining more influence and the modern version really started to take shape in the early 1970s, when Korean gangs became more organized and more structured. By the 1980s, they had become stronger and more connected, but the pressure from the government also kept growing too. Then in the early 1990s, South Korea’s crackdown on organized crime made it much harder for gangs to stay open and visible, so a lot of them started going quieter and moving in the shadows instead of acting like street crews in the open, and they even started to breakdown into some divided sides called Geondal (건달) or Jopok (조폭) which works under the legal blanket. 

 

That same kind of mindset is what the locals like Tan Chunsoo or known as Tanny and his collegue, Gyeon Kyu and Hae Minseok carried into Little Seoul. They saw the district growing, changing, and even opening up in ways that older parts of the city were not able to before and to them that looked like opportunity. Little Seoul was becoming a place with more people and more movement, which meant more room for a crew to build influence if they moved early enough. So instead of waiting around, they started putting together their own Korean Kkangpae (깡패) under the name of Hanseong-pa (한성파) using trust, neighborhood ties, and the fact that the area still felt like it was finding its own shape. What began as a small local group slowly turned into something with more presence because in a district like Little Seoul, being early often matters more than being loud. 

 

But once the U.S Government decide to follow up with “war against crime” crackdown, it started making open gang work harder to survive, the crew had to change with the times. That is when a lot of groups stopped looking like obvious street criminals and began hiding behind legal-looking businesses so they could keep moving without drawing as much attention. Even for Hanseong-pa (한성파), that meant they needed to use fronts like fish production or other everyday businesses, something that looked normal from the outside but still helped the crew stay alive underneath it all. That shift is what pushed them from being a rough local Kkangpae into something more like Jopok which is way more organized. And when the 1992 L.S. riots broke out, Hanseong-pa (한성파) was also there in the middle of it, beside of being cruel and taking the money from the locals, that time they also decided to protect the neighborhood and standing with the Korean community during one of its hardest moments.It was the kind of event that showed how fast everything could fall apart, and why staying close and protecting their own people mattered so much. That moment left a deep mark on the crew’s history, and it helped shape the way they saw themselves inside Little Seoul for years after.

 

 

The New Page  (The Present)

By the time the story reached the modern days, Hanseong-pa (한성파) was already fading out. The people who once held it together were getting older, and the era that once made their way of life possible was slowly disappearing. What used to be a strong inner circle built on loyalty and street presence was now starting to feel like a leftover from another time. The world around Little Seoul had moved on, and Hanseong-pa (한성파) is no longer fit the way the neighborhood worked now. Even so, the name still carried weight in quiet corners of the district, mostly because people remembered how cruel the crew was and what it used to be rather than what it had become.

 

In his old days, Tanny eventually decided to trust one of his old lieutenant's son, Hae Jaesang, with the old legacy. He had known Hae’s father, Hae Min-seok, back from the old crew days, and because of that he already saw Jaesang as someone connected to the same roots. So instead of letting everything fade away, he chose to tell him to take it forward and build something new from the legacy his father had left behind. But it actually difficult for the first time, because Jaesang did not jump into it right away like an easy slide out. At first, he hesitated because he was not the type to naturally lean into that kind of life. He did not fully want to be part of something built on the old street code, and for a while he tried to stay away from what his father did in the past. But as time passed the whole condition around him pressed him down and under, he started seeing how tight money had become and how much Little Seoul had changed around him. The district was growing but the pressure was getting heavier and the old ways of surviving were starting to make more sense to him. In the end, he decided to accept that if the legacy was going to continue at all, it would have to be rebuilt in a new form, but Jaesang demanded for one guidance from Tanny as well.

 

The crew's name chosen carefully and that's when Beomnyeon (범년) or Tiger Year Crew created, it has "Tiger Year" because the tiger (or in Korean is 호랑이 and pronounced ho-rang-i) represent as a central figure in the Korean culture which is symbolizing as strength, courage, and stubborn spirit even in such a tough time. Jaesang didn't make the crew with randomly chosen people. He brought in Gyeon Kyu, one of Tanny’s old friends to act as the Hyeong-nim (형님) or the big brother figure of the crew, acts as the wise guy of the crew and giving advice for the rest of younger crews. Jaesang also started bringing in people he trusted back when he's still in St. John Bosco, Kwon Yuseong and Hwang Hyuk. As it got bigger need from the current situation, more residents from the district got pulled in too, like Park Chansoo, Seo Daeshim, Baek Jinhyeok, and Pyo Sejin. And Tiger Year Crew turned into a proper crew with its own shape, its own people, and its own place in Little Seoul. 

 

 

 

Learn to make a friend or foe  (The Present)

By the time Hae Jaesang finally gave the crew a real name, Tiger Year Crew was no longer just an idea floating around in Little Seoul. The name meant something now, and so did the people standing beside him. But even then, it was still only the beginning. The crew was young, small, and still trying to find its shape. It indeed had spirit but spirit alone was not enough to keep a crew alive for long. Jaesang could feel that right away. The moment he stepped into that role, he also stepped into all the pressure that came with it.

 

His old wise guy Tanny saw that too. He did not treat the crew like a finished thing, because it was not finished yet. To him, Tiger Year still needed more people, more reach, and more weight if it was ever going to survive outside the comfort of Little Seoul. He told Jaesang that staying too close to home would only make the crew weak for the outsider. If they wanted their name to matter, they had to move beyond their own block and start making noise in the city. That meant finding people they could trust, building connections where they could, and learning when to treat someone like a friend and when to treat them like a problem waiting to happen. For Jaesang, that was where things started to get harder. Leading a crew sounded one way when it was just talk, but the real thing came with headaches he had never expected. Every day brought new problems, and every new person he brought in changed the balance a little more. He had to think about who could be trusted, who could be useful and even who might crack under pressure. The crew needed money, but it also needed direction. So Jaesang kept pushing, not because he had all the answers, but because he knew stopping was not an option anymore. And with every step forward, the name Tiger Year started to carry more weight. It was not just about Little Seoul anymore. It was about proving the crew could be forged into something harder, colder, and stronger than what it started as. 

 

 

 

(The Present)   Hot Stuff Around The Little Seoul

Jay had started to realize that the life he was building was no longer small enough to keep quiet. With Chang and Jinh at his side, and the rest of the crews slowly falling into line, their operation began to stretch across Los Santos in ways that could not be ignored anymore. What started as a few careful moves turned into a wider drug business, with different people handling different parts of the trade so it would all look less obvious from the outside. At the same time, Jay also pushed to bring back the illegal gambling scene in Little Seoul, trying to rebuild the kind of control the Haseong-Pa once had in the area. It was not just about money anymore. It was about taking back a name, a territory, and a kind of power that had been left behind.
As their influence grew, so did the attention around them. Beomnyeon’s arrival brought both respect and resistance. Some cliques welcomed them warmly, seeing them as useful, organized, and worth doing business with. Others treated them like they were intruding on ground that did not belong to them. 

 

Then the police started showing up around Little Seoul more often. It was not enough to make a scene, not enough to cause panic, but enough to make Jay uneasy. Patrol cars moved too slowly through the streets, and officers lingered too long near the gambling spots. Questions from the law even started sounding a little too precise. It was the kind of pressure that did not come all at once, but crept in quietly until it was impossible to ignore. Jay knew the cops were beginning to suspect something bigger was going on, and that meant the crew could not keep operating in the open much longer. That was when the legal front became necessary. What had once seemed like a smart disguise turned into a survival move, and they needed something clean enough to keep the police from looking too closely, and something believable enough to hide the real flow of money, people, even the business underneath it all. But the more they tried to make things look normal, the more complicated everything became. For now, the Tiger Crew was not just managing criminals and the contents, they also were balancing two worlds at once, one real and one fake.

 

Lobster Head Co. — (Near the Little Seoul's Street Market)

This fish store were looked like nothing more than an ordinary fish shop on a busy street in Little Seoul. From the outside, it may seemed quiet, practical, and harmless the kind of place people passed by without giving it a second thought. Fresh seafood was stacked neatly in coolers, workers moved in and out like any other small business, and the smell of salt and ice gave it the feel of a place that belonged in the neighborhood. But beneath that clean and shine surface, the shop served a far different purpose that it seems. It became the perfect front for Jay and his crew, a place where money could be moved, meetings could be held, and suspicious activity could disappear behind the image of an honest local business. To anyone watching casually, it was just a fish shop. To those who knew way more better, it was the quiet center of something much darker.

 

The Location is around the Little Seoul's Street Market, much closer with the local residence.

 

Tiger Paw's Den — (Little Seoul's Residence)

This place were hidden behind the legal front and tucked away from public attention, only some of the locals know the gambling den was where the real risk began. It was not flashy or loud from the outside, but inside it carried a different kind of energy. Tense, secretive, and always alive with the sound of bets, cards, and money changing hands. It was the kind of place built on trust, fear, and discipline, where every player knew the room was controlled long before they sat down at the table. The den brought back the old spirit of the Haseong-Pa’s influence in Little Seoul, but now it was being rebuilt under Jay’s crew, with a more careful hand and a sharper eye on the streets. For some, it was a place to make quick money. For others, it was a symbol that the old power was creeping back into the city. And for the police, it was exactly the kind of place that would not stay hidden forever.

 

The place were in one of the Little Seoul's Residence, hidden from the public, and only known by some of the locals.

 

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Credits:

Thanks to @iris2154 and @SHNN as the big contributor on the story making,

and also all the current members of Tiger Year which supporting the process of this crew.

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Beomnyeon (범년) or Tiger Year Crew is an organized crime group which operated in the Little Seoul, around the East Beach, Los Santos. The community forged after the pain tragedy of 1992 L.S riots which ignited by the racism acts by the law enforcement and Korean shopkeeper towards African - American cliques. This crew based of Jopok (조폭) or Korean organized crime group, divided from the first created of Kkangpae (깡패) or street level of Korean unorganized group (thugs). To be fit with this crew, you can portray yourself as the St. John Bosco Highschooler which in need some lunch money with dishonest work, but keep in mind you can't play a big role or involved in big crime with this development. Or you can portray as the local residents of Little Seoul or even the shopkeeper which in need some deep protection and willing to contribute with the crew, Different with the highschooler, you guys can engage in some heavier work which will pay some plenty in your pocket, and your name as well. 

 

If you guys need to ask anything or even willing to join us, feel free to contacts @kira2506 or join our server!

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