Gyu-hyuk Lee

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**Gyu-hyuk Lee** (Korean: 이규혁, *I Gyu-hyeog* or *Yi Gyu-hyeog*) is one of the main characters in Buried Stars. He is well-regarded for his soothing voice and gained even more attention when it was discovered that his father was the deceased singer-songwriter Byung-hee Lee, and he was nicknamed the "Silver Spoon" for his privileged background. At the time of the collapse, he is in 1st place with 939,804 votes.

## Appearance

Gyu-hyuk is a young man of average height with a broad-shouldered build. He has short brown hair that is parted on the left side and forms a bit of a curtain over his soft brown eyes. He wears a black suit jacket with a white pocket square, and pants with black dress shoes. Underneath is a black shirt with white pinstripes, a black vest, and a blue tie with a cross-shaped tie pin.

Most flashbacks and behind-the-scenes photos show him wearing glasses; an interview confirms that he was instructed to wear contacts for the first time in Buried Stars and is still not fully accustomed to them.

## Relationships

### Hyesung Seo

Gyu-hyuk had a positive relationship with Hyesung during the show, encouraging him to do his best to raise his rank. After the collapse and S\_seungyeon's threats against the contestant in last place, Hyesung asked Gyu-hyuk to forfeit over blackmail about his family, and Gyu-hyuk agreed to this. However, when he discovered that Hyesung recorded their conversation as insurance, he impulsively murdered him. Gyu-hyuk was racked with suicidal urges in any timeline where the slightest hint of this crime came to light.

### Do-yoon Han

Gyu-hyuk listed Do-yoon as "The TOP 5 Contestant I’m Closest To" on the survey and wrote "omg T\_T" when Do-yoon answered with "it's hard to pick just one person". He even remembered when Do-yoon struck up a conversation at a time when Gyu-hyuk was standing by himself, and he credited this event with himself becoming determined to connect with all the other contestants more. During the collapse, Do-yoon saved Gyu-hyuk's life, and Gyu-hyuk was determined to escape and tell everyone what happened so that Do-yoon would not be seen as a betrayer anymore. If Gyu-hyuk survives and is not exposed as the culprit, after they escape, he visits Do-yoon regularly and they form a relationship of "Mutual Reliance" (as the ending is called) that extends to protecting Do-yoon from the shock of discovering Gyu-hyuk's own crimes.

The FAQ addresses how "In the C route, "That” appeared in the form of Gyu-hyuk. The reason being that that was what Do-yoon wished for." It's said "Gyu-hyuk would have seen Do-yoon". Furthermore, it's said that "if C route had been from Gyu-hyuk’s POV", what Do-yoon would have said in the phone call was, "you never should have trusted me”, but at the same time, begging him to please “trust in him until the end, even though he himself told him he shouldn’t have.”

### Inha Oh

Inha had a casual manner with Gyu-hyuk, calling him "Gyu", which he admitted to enjoying. However, according to the FAQ, "it would take her quite some time" to come visit Gyu-hyuk after the true ending when his crimes came to light.

### Juyoung Min

Juyoung and Gyu-hyuk listed each other as "My Rival in the TOP 5". They were once paired together to sing "Come What May". After the true ending, according to the FAQ, "I think that Juyoung would have paid him a visit around the time that she left the hospital and came back to Seoul for her re-entry in the next season".

### Seil Chang

In the survey, Gyu-hyuk expressed his gratitude towards Seil's tutelage during the preliminaries. However, in A Route, Gyu-hyuk needed to pin Hyesung's death on someone, and he also realized Seil's connection to SCOOP, so he killed Seil. Gyu-hyuk was racked with suicidal urges in any timeline where the slightest hint of this crime came to light.

### Seungyeon Shin

Gyu-hyuk auditioned for Buried Stars primarily because he was watching TV to have something on in the background, glimpsed Seungyeon, and remembered her name from the SCOOP business card his mother left behind. Later on the show, she actually asked him to date and offered him favoritism; Gyu-hyuk rejected this proposal. 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. Realizing that she was at fault for his mother's death, Gyu-hyuk lifted a second piece of debris to crush her head, although the FAQ says he wouldn't have outright killed her in any other situation.