Mr. Hyunh

Mr. Hyunh is a character on Hey Arnold!, a resident of the Sunset Arms boarding house. An immigrant from Vietnam, he is one of the few Asian characters on the show. He has a hidden talent as a country singer.

He does not speak much about his past, but his emotive backstory receives some treatment in the show's Christmas episode: He did not have any contact with his daughter Mai since the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 when, unable to be evacuated himself, he gave his infant daughter Hyunh Mai to U.S. troops to be evacuated.

In his recollection of the past, he does not speak much about any involvement he had in the war, but it can be surmised that since he was allowed onto the US Embassy grounds at that time he was connected on some level to South Vietnamese intelligence or law enforcement. This would seem to account for Hyunh losing track of his daughter (and others in his family) and leaving Vietnam some years afterward, possibly after a period of incarceration or 're-education'.

Hyunh Mai, now a grown woman in her mid twenties, is eventually located by Arnold in another part of Hillwood City with the reluctant help of a U.S. Government bureaucrat, and is reunited with her father for Christmas.

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