Jimmy Kim

Jimmy Kim is a character role-played by Zusso.

Description
Jimmy Kim (originally Jimmy Kwan) is an old Asian male with not much hair and a mustache. He moved to Los Santos on June 4th 2021. He speaks with a Hong Kong accent.

Background
Jimmy Kwan was born in Hong Kong in 1960. He grew up in the rough parts of Kowloon and had no education. As his opportunities were slim, he made a living as a street food hawker selling food by the road; and later as a security guard who worked the night shifts at the harbor. It was an honest living but Jimmy involved himself with drug dealers on the side for extra cash and worked as a mule who smuggled contraband in and out of the harbor.

Years passed, Jimmy is now a retired 61 year old and placed his smuggling days behind him long ago ever since he met the love of his life. However, his late wife had gotten cancer and Jimmy made a difficult decision to do one last smuggle job after contacting old friends to cover the cost of her treatment. As he was performing the job, it seemed that it was a set-up. Jimmy barely escaped and hid in one of his former gang's safehouses. The city was on high alert for him and unfortunately word got out that his wife had passed away at the hospital. Jimmy was struck with sadness for his loss. Jimmy's old friend and gang member figured that Jimmy had to leave Hong Kong as the amount of contraband that the police had seized was enough to keep Jimmy in prison for the rest of his life.

They shipped Jimmy to Los Santos with a fake passport under the name of Jimmy Kim, pretending to be a Korean immigrant. In his new surroundings, Jimmy gets to start his new life.

Personality
Upon arrival at Los Santos, Jimmy Kim very quickly involved himself in petty crime, such as joyriding and burglary, due to the lack of opportunities at the start and theft being something familiar to him from his youth.

Generally, Jimmy Kim exhibits a friendly grandfather-like personality with a slight temper which could escalate during road rage. Because he is childless, Jimmy Kim had considered a few that he trusts as his adopted grandchildren and is protective over them.

He enjoys teaching but unfortunately most of his skills and knowledge in which he offers to teach revolves around criminal acts. Jimmy Kim would usually not take any payment for the 'practical' lessons as he does it out of his passion for teaching the youth and to help them become financially independent.

Uncle Kim's Hong Kong Dim Sum
On June 24th 2021, Jimmy Kim opened his first vendor stall, Uncle Kim's Hong Kong Dim Sum, to sell his authentic Cantonese dim sum.