Seungyeon Shin

**Seungyeon Shin** (Korean: 신승연, *Sin Seung-yeon*) is an important background character in Buried Stars. She is called a "star producer" for her history of successes including previous seasons of Buried Stars and once again served as the general producer for the fourth season. At the time of the collapse, she is discovered fatally crushed by debris.

## Appearance

Seungyeon is a slender woman of average height. She has steely blue eyes behind narrow glasses, and she has thin shoulder-length black hair. She wears a teal jacket over a white collared shirt, and rolls up her sleeves. She also wears a brown belt over gray pants and black loafers with sheer brown stockings. There is a red lanyard around her neck with a card emblazoned "W" (representing WBS) over the text "Buried Stars".

## Relationships

### Hyesung Seo

Seungyeon approached Hyesung to secretly start a romantic relationship with him involving favoritism on the show. However, when the school violence scandal broke out, she broke up immediately, adding the excuse that he should get through the finals on his own. According to the FAQ, she was fundamentally "just toying with him". Furthermore, she made a similar proposition to Gyu-hyuk, so her attentions were not exclusive.

### Do-yoon Han

Seungyeon initially noticed Do-yoon due to his striking appearance prior to the makeover. Upon looking more closely into him, she deemed him more talented than the other members of his band Masquerade who were competing on the show and encouraged him to accept that the band was never getting back together. This event led Do-yoon to consider himself a "Betrayer".

### Inha Oh

Seungyeon encouraged Inha to completely transform herself and accept that Buried Stars is separate from real life. According to the FAQ, these words were earnest but made off the cuff and of little significance to Seungyeon.

### Juyoung Min

The FAQ stated that during the show, "Juyoung would have objected to things that she didn’t like and opposed/confronted them".

### Gyu-hyuk Lee

Seungyeon had spearheaded the highly invasive gossip program SCOOP, which was a factor in Gyu-hyuk's biological mother dying by suicide. Though Seungyeon was shocked just reading Gyu-hyuk's application to appear on Buried Stars (according to Seil's comment on the survey), he rose to fame on the show, including when he was revealed to be the son of Byung-hee Lee. Seungyeon actually made a proposition that she offer him favoritism over the course of a romantic relationship. The FAQ clarifies that this was an attempt to control him and see whether he knew the truth. Gyu-hyuk declined, and Seungyeon received a threatening letter which she believed he had sent. When the stage collapsed, Seungyeon's legs were irretrievably crushed under the debris, and she tried to manipulate Gyu-hyuk into saving her by talking about his secrets, which actually just provoked him into killing her.

### Seil Chang

Seungyeon had first employed Seil four years ago as part of the highly invasive gossip program SCOOP, then continued to use him for the past two years on Buried Stars. She entrusted him several unreasonable and even illegal tasks, applying a great deal of pressure. She was highly critical of him to the point of verbal abuse. Though sometimes she would give him praise, according to the FAQ she was speaking impulsively and barely remembered her own words.