From the staff blog of the KOF XIII site, it mentioned the last loke test held at Shinjuku. It also mentioned the two additional character announced Takuma and Vice, and a hidden Muay Thai character. They featured a silhouette of him and it looks so much like Hwa Jai from Fatal Fury.
Hwa Jai is a Muay Thai fighter from Thailand, having mastered his own "Dragon Kick". He was supposedly under a severe alcohol addiction which led him to lose to Joe Higashi. He was hired by Geese Howard to face off against Joe once more in what is called King of Fighters '92.* After losing once again, he returned to the jungles of Thailand. He later became friends with Joe as sparring partner.
If Hwa Jai would be the one to complete Kim Kaphwan and Raiden's team, then they would be the second Fatal Fury team in XIII. I just hope they put in characters from Garou instead. Hoooowellll....
Update:
If you click on Team Kim on the Team Selections at the Characters section, you'll see Hwa Jai's profile is already up. I dunno why Kim always gets teamed up with evil characters. Look at Chang and Choi. But they have reformed since then. Now Hwa and Raiden.
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*Fatal Fury 1 was subtitled King of Fighters back in 1992
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