Yung "Woo" Hwang
Loyal to a fault, and the fault cost him a million dollars.
Known for
Woo was Cagayan's easygoing Brawn, thrilled to share a tribe with former NBA player Cliff Robinson. After the switch he rode with Tony Vlachos and Trish Hegarty in the Solana Alliance, won the first individual immunity, and famously snatched the idol clue that fell out of Spencer Bledsoe's pants, sprinting it back to camp. He helped Tony blindside LJ McKanas and Jefra Bland, flirted with jumping ship alongside Kass McQuillen, and then won the final immunity by a hair. With a final-two seat to hand out, he chose honor over math: he took Tony instead of the unpopular Kass. The jury read that as passive, and Tony won 8-1. At the reunion, eight of nine jurors said they would have voted for Woo against Kass.
Cambodia put him with the old-school crowd on Ta Keo and at odds with Abi-Maria Gomes. On the eve of the merge, Ciera Eastin and Kass decided he was too tight with Andrew Savage and blindsided him.
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- “Survivor: Cambodia,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Cambodia.
- “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
- “Woo Hwang,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Woo_Hwang.