She, like Silver, has plans for her brand of martial arts to become a worldwide phenomenon and is prepared to stop at nothing to achieve this goal. Kim Da-Eun is cold, ruthless, intolerant of failure, calculating and arguably a greater threat than Terry Silver. Personality ' What was that sound? Was that pain? Pain does not exist.

Following Terry's arrest for his numerous crimes, Kim Da-Eun was nowhere to be seen, having likely escaped in the denouement. After Cobra Kai finds out that Silver paid the referee to ensure Cobra Kai's victory in the All Valley, Terry arrives too late and after trying to proclaim that he isn't bad, and decides to challenge Daniel LaRusso to a fight, which is witnessed by Kim and the rest of the ex-Cobra Kai students. She betrays Cobra Kai and she and Tory fight her, though the outcome is never shown. However, Devon notices Sam being overpowered and tells her to defend Anthony. Learning of the fight at the dojo, she confronts Tory and fights her with the aid of Samantha LaRusso. In perhaps her most heinous act, she, alongside Silver and all the other senseis, punished Tory severely by forcing her to smash through solid stone with her hand, almost breaking it. Despite the referee making a bad call when Devon landed a point when Sam blocks her, she is easily defeated, which results in Miyagi-Do being allowed to compete in the tournament. Kim urges Devon to defeat Sam despite her objections.

Kenny Payne uses Terry's technique called the 'Silver Bullet' to cut off Hawk's airway and win the match.Īfter learning that Terry paid off the referee, Tory refused to compete and left, which results Kim choosing Devon Lee to fight Samantha LaRusso instead. During the match, Terry paid off the referee to allow Cobra Kai to cheat against their opponent, Miyagi-Do, and still be given the victory. Terry attempted to get Cobra Kai into the Sekai Taikai, the largest karate tournament in the world, and promised Kim that this would be how her family's legacy and teachings would be preserved. She forced the students to fight one another brutally, and even chastised Tory for protecting her partner Devon during a match instead of letting her get beaten severely for the sake of winning. While training the potential champions, she torments Tory Nichols, whom she does not trust, as well as the other students through physical and emotional means, proving to be just as ruthless and dangerous as Terry himself, and even more sadistic. He lures her in with promises that she will have her grandfather's teachings finally given the credit they deserve. Silver, unsatisfied with local sensei's he had recruited, contacts his old friend Kim Da-Eun and has her collect the best sensei's she could find to head his dojos to further his expansion in the valley, and, ultimately, worldwide. Kim wore two, proving that she would not ask her students to do what she could not do herself. They would train for hours at the peak, long after the sun had set and the nights had become cold, wearing heavy packs filled with water. She, along with everyone else, would climb Chiri-san, the tallest mountain on the mainland. He knocks over the vase and takes the blame for the incident, sharing a wink with Kim who smiles back.Īt Topanga Karate, Kim recounted a story to her students of how she trained back in Korea. She nearly knocks over a vase and the rattling catches Kreese's attention.

Kim Da-Eun appears briefly in a flashback to when she was a little girl watching Terry Silver and John Kreese train under her grandfather, Kim Sun-Yung.

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