Changuk Lee

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**Changuk Lee** is the tetartagonist of "***Distant Sky***." A researcher of Project Sky who holds key information that he gives to Haneul Kang & his friends to stop the disaster of Earth.

## Appearance

An average man with lean physique. He has short hair as it is shaved military style. He is always seen in a winter jacket and pants in which it is bloodied along with his face.

## Personality

He is shown to have a determined and selfless survivor as during the story, he is always looking out for each other survivors regardless of their behaviour or even past, hes also shown to be strong willed as during his survival, he prefered to starve rather than eat human meat.

## Background

Nothing is really known of his past but he met Hyeyeong in high school.

## Plot Overview

### Before the Disaster

Changuk Lee wakes up from a nightmare where Jupiter enters Earth's orbit, the moon is destroyed and Earth is completely taken into Jupiter's gravitational field. His wife tells him that he must be too stressed out and shows him a report she just received from the Naro Space Center, which has a table of the orbital period of the Kuiper Belt that they had asked from NASA, showing everything is ok. She grabs the paper and tells him to spend more time with her, saying she is reading to answer Changuk's marriage proposal with a yes.

### Surviving the Disaster

Seemingly during the disaster, she and Changuk was at a shelter and couple of youngsters stole their rations. Changuk was about to assault them back but Hyeyeong calm him down and says that if we were to die, we should dies as humans.

They at some point meet Jungwoo Min and plans to go the Naro Space Center

### Arriving at Daegu

#### Nuclear Escape

At some point during the disaster, Jungwoo, Changuk Lee and his wife are all on a plane heading to Naro Space Center, carrying a box with the instructions on Plan B and another completed reagent. However, Jungwoo is notified that a missile was fired from Kunmming by the Chinese revolutionary army towards Daegu and realizes that Haneul and Heyool are in danger. They decide to fly back to Daegu to save them

Changuk jumps off the plane to find his wife and shortly after the plane is shot down by an anti-air missile by the Chinese troops stationed in Daegu. He sees it in terror but soon blanks out after landing.

#### The Danger of Extreme

Changuk lands somewhere in Daegu and passes out. A random solider picks him up and drags him to a testing facility where they are doing human experiments using Dr. Kang's Project Sky thesis to recover severed body parts. For that reason, the soldier administers the reagent to Changuk and cuts his right arm. When Changuk wakes up, he realizes his arm is gone and sees the soldier testing on another subject and runs out the facility.

Outside, he sees skulls stabbed into the ground and wanders into the tundra.

#### Reaching to the Research Center

The party finds a building that Changuk recognizes immediately. It is one of the many research centers that were built in every city by the DPC, serving as shelter and research. Changuk is able to open the door using his ID card. They begin exploring the building and once entering it, they see the sky, but Changuk explains that it is fake. Changuk heads towards the disaster control room adn the sailor insists on following him and asks him how he knows so much. He explains he is a government worker and explains how NASA had predicted that a gamma-ray burst would cause the destruction of the ozone layer in 80 years, which is why Project Sky was started. The sailor is shocked at house scientist could have been so wrong in their prediction in terms of the term frame, but Changuk explains that this disaster is not caused by the gamma ray.

Changuk tells the sailor they have to go to the disaster control room which is on lowest floor to find out what happened. As they reach the door, they see a corpse standing beside the door with a spray paint bottle on his hand. It seems that person spray painted an "X" across the entrance door as a warning. Though Changuk hesitates, the sailor insists saying there is nothing to fear. When they enter, they find many dead corpses. Changuk picks up some papers that have a chart measuring the distances of the planets in the solar system.

All the sudden the dead people begin to wake up. Apparently they are test subjects from Project Sky. They begin chasing after Changuk and the sailor. They can run super fast and can even jump super far. As the two run up the escalator, the sailor shoves Changuk down to save himself. Just as Changuk is above to be eaten, Bitnara shows up and kills the revived zombies. She holds up a paper and asks Changuk what Plan B is.

Changuk looks at the paper, it is a top secret document directed to all members of the DPC. It talks about Plan B in case Project Sky fails. The operation tells the commanders of all miliatry, plice and governemtn personel will transfer and report to the disaster committee's chief. All shleters in southern region will be closed and suplies from shelter would be transfer to the main operation site. Furthermore, all DPC reserachers will transfer to the main poeration site.

Lastly, the military and police would find recruits to obtain the track down Dr. Kang, Haneul, Heyool and Bitnara and were permitted to use any means necessary to eliminate all obstruciton to the operation. Bitnara grabs Changuk's neck and tells him to tell her about Plan B or would break her neck. It seems Bitnara had begun to come back to her senses and realize how many people she had killed. At the same time, the sailor finds and armory and gets a gun.

All the sudden there is another earthquake. The rest of Changuk's party begin running out of the building. The entire building collapses into a sinkhole. The little boy reunites with the little girl. Bitnara crawls out of the hole and brings Changuk with her. She decides to leave and walks away as the little boy calls her by her name. Changuk wakes up and tells the party they should go their separate ways. The sailor shoots a warning shot at Changuk and the little boy charges at him with a knife but gets side-kicked into the hole.

#### Selfish Survival

The sailor aims his gun and is about to kill the rest of the party. In the distance, Suki Kang is aiming her sniper at the sailor. All the sudden, there is a aftershock and they begin to run away. Suki Kang then picks up her sniper and walks away. The sailor points a gun at Changuk and demands to know the second plan, Plan B. However, Changuk explains that only a few from the DPC know details about the second project. All he knows is that when it comes into effect, the committee, leaders of each department and the president are suppose to go to Geohung, Jeolla and assemble at the Naro Space Center.

They begin to travel there and pass by Suncheon. However, the water seems to have blocked the pathway and because the current is too strong, they cannot swim across. As they are thinking about how to cross, the old woman realizes that she is next in getting killed for food so she panics and begins running. The sailor immediately shoots and kills her. Changuk can't take anymore of this and decides that he should just commit suicide. Just as he is falling off the cliff, the little grabs him and tells him that they must survive together.

Changuk wakes up from his fall and the sailor tells them they can use the nearby rafts, but would have to row together. However, the current is too strong and the raft seems to have crashed into something causing a hole at the bottom. As water begins to seep in through the hole, the sailor grabs the little girl and shoves her head into the hole to stop it from leaking. Changuk tries to stop him, but get kicked away. The sailor gets angry and points his gun at Changuk to kill him, but suddenly they crash into a spaceship and fall over.

Changuk crashes and falls into a space shuttle. At first, he thinks its a shuttle secretly developed by the Naro Space Center, but later sees the dead astronauts and the Chinese flag. He then sees a recorder and plays it to see the events unfolding. The date, according to Changuk is six-months ago, which is right after the disaster, as there is still clear sky. The recording show how the ship falls back to Earth when encountering Jupiter. Water begins to flood the ship and Changuk grabs on to the little girl trying to grab the window, but he has no right arm. Suddenly, his arm grows back and he is able to pull them out of the ship. However, the sailor is waiting for them. He shoots the girl and in anger, Changuk rips off his arm with the gun.

#### Meeting Project Sky

Changuk lands on top of a building and slams his head in frustration of the reagent inside him.

He walks far to the Naro Space Center and finally reaches it. He heads there but to find skulls stabbed again and came across his father in law but just his head. He explains of how they found the thesis of Project Sky and had many failiures but succeeded. They took it but didn't plan for starvation and everyone killed each other. He then tells him that he killed Hyeyeong but before he can explain how, he was shot by the Chinese White commander and his goons.

Changuk runs away but is shot and fell. He refuse to reveal of Project Sky and is shot and interrogated. While the commander inject him a reagent that breaks down his regeneration. Then he is saved by Suki Kang as she killed everyone. He ask her to kill him as he is ready to give up until Haneul and Heyool finally arrived.

As Changuk sits by the fire, he begins to explain the disaster, basically saying that the problem occured at the micro level, at the quantum level, where the theory of relativty does not apply. As he is beginning to explain more, he begins to cough and asks for some water. Just as Haneul and Heyool go look for water, they notice Bitnara approaching. Haneul gets nervous as he just knows her as a crazy person, but Heyool recognizes Bitnara and hugs her.

They bring back water and and food for Changuk and Haneul notices that today happens to be Changuk's birthday and they just so happen to have a candle, so they celebrate together. As Haneul and Heyool go grab more water and food, Changuk begins to explain to Bitnara that the basement is a way to get to Plan B, as Plan A was always in preparatin for Plan B. Furthermore, he says that if it is the two of them (referring to Haneul and Heyool), he believes they can revert it all.

After, Changuk passed away as he dreamed of being with Hyeyeong again.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Hyeyeong Yoon (wife) -
* Father-in-law -
* Unnamed Baby -

**Allies**

* Jungwoo Min -
* Haneul Kang -
* Heyool Shin -
* Bitnara Yun -
* Euicheol Kang
* Middle Aged Lady
* Cannibal Child

**Enemies**

* Fisherman

## Abilities and Equipment

**Abilities**

* **Tardigrade Reagent** - An ability that was created from the Imagine Project and then Project Sky. It uses an animal called, "Water Bear" which has the most survivability of any animals known. It gives the user who is injected with it tremendous power however at a cost. First it lasts for around 2-3 months which means the effects will decrease and that sometimes the user will suffer from amnesia and could cause uncontrollable violent actions upon other or the user. The following powers:
	+ *Superhuman strength -* The user will have extreme strength capable of killing dozens of people quickly and easy with just hands. For example, the user can rip an arm away with ease, even if the user did not mean it, meaning that one needs incredible willpower to hold back dangerous strength.
	+ *Regenerative Powers* - The user can regenerate any wounds minor or major such as rebar penetrating through the body. It seems it may take some time but is rather quick. For example, Bitnara was burned incredibly, leaving her with unimaginable burned skin. While later, her skin returns back to normal as the old skin peels and falls away.
	+ *Extreme Endurance* - The user can stay alive in place such as the outer space and the intensity of the sun. The user will feel little to no danger facing these dangers.

**Equipment**

* Winter Clothing -

## Trivia

* Some Korean readers speculated he would be an antagonist based on the season 4 prologue as he says that he will commit to cannibalism in order to get back to his family. This was revealed to be false.
* There is implication he is a member of DPC but the encyclopedia confirms it.

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## References

1. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 12
2. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 1
3. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep.21
4. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 23
5. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 19
6. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 1
7. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 12
8. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 13
9. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 14
10. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 15
11. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 16
12. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 17
13. ↑ Distant Sky, Season 4, Ep. 25
14. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%9D%B4%EC%B0%BD%EC%9A%B1(%EC%8A%88%ED%8D%BC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A7%81)#s-3