Anton "Seoul Tony" Tszyu

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Koryo-saram

Koryo-saram (Russian: Корё сарам; Koryo-mar: 고려사람) is the name that ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves. Approximately 500,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former USSR, primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. Large Korean communities are maintained in Southern Russia (around Volgograd), the Caucasus, Southwest Ukraine and the Far East (Vladivostok). Populations of Koreans in Central Asia were created in 1937, when hundreds of thousands of them were deported to Central Asia from the Far East at the orders of dictator Joseph Stalin. Smaller communities in other regions can trace their roots to Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East during the late 19th century. 
 

Koryo-saram in Russia constitute one of the largest ethnic Korean communities within the Korean diaspora. The majority immigrated to the Far East from Hamgyong Province in what is now North Korea. They did this before the 1948 division of Korea into North and South, and before the 1910 Japanese annexation of Korea. Koryo-saram maintained a commitment to see a Korea independent of Japanese rule between 1910 to 1945, forming guerrilla army forces engaging the Imperial Japanese Army. After the division of Korea into communist North and democratic South in 1948, and after the early 1950s Korean War, most Koryo-saram have decided to remain in Russia as their new home. Maintaining Korean culture and language has proven a challenge for the Koryo-saram, although their own Korean dialect, Koryo-mal, still remains spoken in limited numbers today.
 

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Koryo-saram

 

Anton Tszyu
Anton Tszyu was born in Ussuriysk, Soviet Russia on July 16, 1989 as the only son of Valentin and Milena Tszyu (nee Fen). His father was a former industrial engineer who resorted to working menial jobs after the Soviet Union’s collapse. His mother was a homemaker. Tszyu’s family are from the Korean minority of the Soviet Union, also known as Koryo-saram. 
 

Early Life
Tszyu’s childhood was split between Ussuriysk and Vladivostok. His family owned a single detached house in Ussuriysk and lived somewhat comfortably. Their neighborhood had a low crime rate and they resided in close proximity with other family. In 1993, the Tszyus moved to Vladivostok after a financial decline caused them to lose their home in Ussuriysk. Tszyu’s father became an alcoholic to cope with the loss of his lucrative career under the Soviet system. His involvement with backroom gambling is largely what caused the family to run out of money in Ussuriysk. In Vladivostok, the family resided in concrete housing blocks that were erected by the Communists, decades prior.

Tszyu’s housing blocks were stricken with disproportionately high rates of violent drug crime. While at home, Tszyu was subjected to witnessing various criminal activities from a young age. This included witnessing a courtyard stabbing as a five year old, which traumatized him. The victim in this case was killed on the spot. The winters were especially harsh. Cuts to gas caused the family to go days at a time without heating in the home. Just to live normally, they had to wear winter clothing while indoors at all times. Tszyu ran away from home in the summers and spent weeks at a time away from family. This was done to escape from his father’s drunken beatings, which happened on a continual basis. He was often sheltered by sympathetic neighbors, who clothed and fed him. He sometimes slept overnight on his school grounds to escape the abuses at home. He did poorly at school while failing several consecutive grades. He was regularly in trouble for bullying, fighting other students and verbally disrespecting his teachers.
 

Gang Involvement and Juvenile Incarceration
Tszyu became criminally involved as a child. Several of his childhood friends introduced him to crime as a seven year old. He started out by stealing and robbing from private property, and by the age of ten, was selling these items to other kids for money. 
 

Tszyu’s crimes increased in severity as he progressed into his teen years. He was involved with robberies, thefts, assaults and eventually drug dealing. He worked for a neighborhood gang under Vladimir “Koshka” Nazarov, a future Vladivostok-based mobster. Tszyu sold drugs in the streets that included marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines and heroin. Nazarov had arranged for Tszyu to murder a gang rival to become initiated, but he was apprehended for selling drugs before this plan materialized. From 2004 - 2006, Tszyu was incarcerated at a juvenile prison in Spassk-Dalny on drug distribution convictions. He joined a violent gang of juvenile delinquents for protection, where he served as an enforcer. While locked up, his ties to the gang in Vladivostok faded away and he was forgotten by Nazarov. 

Adulthood
Tszyu was released from the Spassk-Dalny juvenile prison in 2006, aged 17. He returned to his old neighborhood in Vladivostok, where he completed secondary school. Within weeks of finishing school, he left home for good. At the time of him leaving home, his parents were in the midst of a chaotic divorce. His mother had filed for divorce and was about to make her case within the legal system. Tszyu spent years traveling around the Vladivostok metro region. He lived with extended relatives while working menial jobs in stores and warehouses, but was frequently homeless. To fund his travels, he burglarized residential properties and sold stolen belongings to other criminals. In 2008, he was drawn back to Vladivostok after his maternal aunt ostensibly set him up with a dockyard job. However, he was never hired. He instead became a resident of homeless shelters and missions around the city. 
 

Russian Naval Service
Tszyu was conscripted into the Russian Navy in 2008. This came after the Vladivostok police arrested him while in possession of marijuana. As part of a deal, he agreed to submit to national service as opposed to serving prison time.
 

From 2008 - 2009, Tszyu was a conscripted sailor in the Russian Navy. He completed training in Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky before being stationed at the Vilyuchinsk Naval Base. He served on-shore and aboard submarines in the North Pacific Ocean. During his 12 month service obligation, he was forced into Dedovschina rituals while being exposed to incompetent leadership and corruption. He was continually disciplined for service offenses such as failure to report and insubordination. His disciplinary actions included being confined to the Brig, getting physically beaten along with being placed on repeated night watches. 
 

Civilian Life
Tszyu was released from the Russian Navy in 2009 with the rank of Leading Seaman. He then settled in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and obtained employment through veteran’s assistance groups. He was enrolled in the federal public works industry as a construction worker. He worked road construction and infrastructure maintenance in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
 

In 2012, Tszyu moved to Moscow Oblast for better economic opportunities. He lived in the cities of Kolomna and Podolsk while working in Southern Moscow. After two more years, he was promoted to a road construction foreman. His higher working status took him to other cities such as Kaluga, Tula, Tver and Ryazan. While outsourcing his work in these other cities, he inhabited subsidized temporary housing for federal workers. To deal with the intense physical laboring, he abused narcotics such as cocaine and painkillers on worksites for many years. He often drank hard liquor while working, and as a foreman, distributed booze among his subordinates. Over the years, he stole construction materials from the federal service and sold them on the black market. He accounted for the thefts as miscellaneous losses, and resultantly, was never arrested or criminally charged. 
 

Tszyu visited extended family in the Ukraine and South Korea with his legitimate income over the years. He traveled to Kiev, Seoul and Busan. 
 

Emigration to the United States
Some time around 2011 - 2013, Tszyu applied for legal immigration to the United States. He enrolled in the Green Card program’s family sponsorship scheme. He was sponsored by his paternal uncle and cousin, who both lived in San Andreas together. 
 

Tszyu directly emigrated to the United States from Moscow, Russia in 2016. He has lived in Los Santos, San Andreas ever since. He has worked a series of jobs since arriving in the city. These jobs include working as a cellphone repairman, liquor store clerk, a food truck vendor and courier. He was employed by IMEX Logistics in 2020 but was fired after failing to appear at work for an entire month. Tszyu is still experiencing stages of culture shock. He has found adjusting to American society and culture to be extremely difficult. It didn’t take long before he started a downward spiral, caused by no fulfilling employment and infighting with his Americanized relatives. He spent an increasing amount of time in the urban and suburban streets of Los Santos, resulting in him once again abusing recreational drugs. Eventually, he acquired other hard tastes such as crystal methamphetamine. 
 

When he’s not working actual jobs, Tszyu provides for himself through petty crime in the streets. He abuses numerous drugs to include cocaine and methamphetamine while continuing his hard drinking. Additionally he frequents sex workers, usually finding them in the streets or from inside massage parlors.
 

Involvement with Los Santos Organized Crime
In 2021, Tszyu’s uncle and cousin paid to send him to a reputable rehab facility in Las Vegas, NV. He attended and successfully completed a two month in-residence program in the city. He experienced withdrawl from alcohol, cocaine and methamphetamine, and was nearly hospitalized due to the sheer severity. He returned to Los Santos after completion of the program. Upon coming back to Los Santos, Tszyu sought criminal work to resolve his financial difficulties. He started work as a bouncer alongside David Utkin and Iosif “Blondie” Blumkin, two Los Santos-based bouncers who moonlit as drug dealers.

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OOC INFORMATION
I am Anton Tszyu, both In Game and on the forums. I have been absent due to IRL activities for a couple months but I am now back. In the process, I decided to change things up a bit. I am back with a new forum name and a new thread. The thread for Anton Tszyu is now in Character Stories. It makes sense, considering there's a biography as the first post. Secondly, the thread was cluttered with old SAMP screenshots (posted there by others) and upload.ee's images got nuked. Due to coinciding hardware issues with another computer, I was unfortunately unable to recover the old screenshots. Therefore, I am starting a new thread here.

This thread tracks the life of Anton Tszyu. The information presented here is considered OOC and should not be used to underhandedly influence In Character events.

Link to old thread (that this is a continuation of): 

 

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Edited June 7, 2021 by 13 Ways

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Amazing my friend

[pendeja]

Hes backkkkk

[wechselbalg]

The Tonies is back in the towns of the Los Santos, ah?

[suleymeow]

I think I know this guy

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Final screenshot's credit goes to Boem.

Edited August 24, 2021 by 13 Ways