Hwoarang (Hangul: 화랑; Hanja: 花郎 Hwarang; Japanese: ファラン Faran) first appeared in Tekken 3, and returned in all subsequent games. He is the Taekwondo student of Baek Doo San, and entered the third Tournament to get revenge on Ogre for "killing" his master. He has also become Jin Kazama's rival after the two fought to a draw in one of Hwoarang's street matches.
Like many rivals of the protagonist of a fighting game (such as Street Fighter's Sagat) he is often portrayed as an arrogant and brash person, who initially had a win streak of some sort and had failed to beat the "protagonist". Like many rivals, he has also shown some friendliness to his rival, Jin on many occasions. He has also shown himself to be one of the strongest characters in the series as he had defeated Jin. Despite his brash and cocky nature, he has shown great integrity in terms of fights and a strong determination to defeat his rival without interruption or interference.
He is often called cheap by people due to the fact that he will usually kick and rarely punches (this resulted with people mashing his kick buttons). Most players, however, consider him as one of the hardest characters to learn as he has a high amount of stances and thus needs to be analyzed properly. Due to his flamingo stances and which foot is forward stance he is considered by players as a good poker with fast strings (which is also seen in Tae-kwon-do users like Juri Han and Baek). He also retains variations of many moves he learned from Baek such as his Hunting Hawk and Dynamite Heel. He also edited moves like Baek's Sky Blaster to his Sky Rocket.
He's known for his distinctly orange and auburn hair. Though he can show aggression and belittlement to people, he has shown humility and concern for those who he cares about, most evidently Baek. His outfit will always consist of a biker-themed outfit with goggles or his blue or white Taekwondo dobok (with the exception of Tekken 4). All his outfits except his military uniform and his original dobok seem to feature a hawk emblem which is in reference to Hwoarang's nickname Blood Talon. These can commonly be found in the back of most of his biker outfits along with most of his doboks and pants for his standard Taekwondo uniform