Andrew Koji, Perry Yung, & Jason Tobin on the set of Warrior Season 3 with some of the cast members

The closest thing he had to a mother figure was his first nanny Fen-Fang. They were so close and she’d dance with him when he was a toddler. When YJ was four Fen-Fang suddenly returned to China without even saying goodbye. He felt abandoned and never allow himself to bond with another nanny again in fear they’d leave him like she did.

When Young Jun was a little boy he attended Chinatown’s oriental public school. He was a troublemaker and got into school yard fights. He was disruptive in class and would insult the teacher.

Like a little Draco Malfoy, he’d often threaten the kids that if they didn’t give up their lunch money then his father would have their families killed.

FJ pulled his son out of the oriental school. Stating that he didn’t like what those White Devils were teaching him. So instead he set YJ up with a private tutor.

Because of his pride and hate for white people, Father Jun didn’t have YJ learn English. This is why Young Jun only has a basic understanding of English.

Young Jun has always been a brilliant kid. He especially excels at Chinese literature and mathematics.

Father Jun indoctrinated his son and filled him with hatered for the rivals of the Hop Wei rivals at a young age. He never truly understood why he should hate them but he did because his father did.

He got skinned in when he was 13. However he wasn’t used in combat or hits. He usually did drug dealing and helped with counting inventory and profits.

This is also when YJ started training with knives. He’s a master with anything sharp enough to kill.

Young Jun became interested in going to college when he turned 16. He saw how all of the Men of the Chinese Benevolent Association sent their sons to duck colleges.

Young Jun wanted to study literature and become a director at Chinatown’s theater.

However he soon realized he was locked in to the Hop Wei for life after his father forced him to prove his loyalty by killing a wife of a man who didn’t pay his debts.

This is when he started feeling like he had no other choices in life than the Hop Wei. He gave up on his dreams and dedicated his life to the Tong.

He absolutely idolized Bolo as a teenager. He wanted to be just like him and followed him around like a lost puppy, which annoyed Bolo a bit. He basically became YJ big brother and would watch over him more than FJ.

The Yellow trade was the human trafficking of Asian women especially little girls and it was a huge problem in the 1800s. Both in Chinatown and Asia.

Most of the Tongs in Chinatown deal in it.

It’s so bad that some Chinese men who can actually afford to bring their wives and family over to America, don’t because they fear the Tongs will take them.

The Hop Wei don’t. They rely instead on the Opium trade for their main source of income.

Once Father Jun took power in the late 1850s, he ended the Hop Wei dealing in it.

This is because Father Jun actually has a huge soft spot for children and seeing as over half of the Yellow Trade is selling children, he wants nothing to do with it.

He sees children (especially little girls) as the future of Chinatown.

He knows that the normal trafficked girl only lives for five years max. There’s already few Chinese women in America and so every Chinese girl who dies is bad for Chinatown.

If Tongs keeps selling all of the Chinese girls and women, then Chinese men won’t be able to create sustaining families and the Chinese population in America will dwindle.

Even the actor of Father Jun, Perry Yung said that Father Jun isn’t all about the money. He also cares a lot about Chinatown and the community.

However that doesn’t mean he tries to actively stop the Yellow Trade. He’s no hero. He believes it’s too big of a problem to fight against and it would create too much trouble with other tongs to end it. He instead tries to keep it out of his sight.

The only thing the Hop Wei really do against brothels is force them to pay protection money. Father Jun puts the highest tax on crib brothels.

The reason the Hop Wei don’t tax Ah Toy’s brothel is because her’s is a couple feet outside of Hop Wei territory, on technically neutral ground.

Also it’s the Hop Wei’s favorite hangout spot.

Before Mai Ling took power the Long Zii dealt in it.

He's a trouble maker, he's non-traditional and more than willing to shake things up.

Just look at his delight when he meets Ah Sahm, pretty much anyone else would've been put off by Ah Sahm's disrespectful demeanor(Bolo and Father Jun certainly were).

He is very good at thinking outside the box, but the writers kind of switch his brightness off the second he spends more time with Ah Sahm(as if only one chatacter at a time could be the one subverting tradition)

He's very aware of the power structure within Chinatown and takes it seriously, he doesn't care much about China though, another reason he'd never be able to see eye to eye with his father.

Much of his temper comes from a conflict of identity, at least in my opinion, he's the son od Father Jun, the future leader of the Hop Wei, and yet he doesn't have a connection to the Hop Wei's origin(somthing his father criticises more than once, even though he never made sure Young Jun would form that connection in the first place)