Lee Hoe Taek

**Lee Hoe Taek** (이회택), better known under the stage name Hui (후이), is a South Korean singer, songwriter and composer under Cube Entertainment. He is an active member and leader of the K-Pop group PENTAGON as well as a K Group contestant on the survival show Boys Planet.

## Profile

* **Birthday**: August 28, 1993
* **Height**: 171 cm
* **MBTI**: INFJ
* **Language**: Korean, English, Mandarin and a little Japanese
* **Hobby**: Making music and earning and spend money hard
* **Special Talent**: Play Loop Station, never give up...

## History and Career

### 2016-2019: debut with PENTAGON and solo activities

On October 10, 2016, Hui made his official debut as a member of PENTAGON through 2016 Mnet's reality show *Pentagon Maker* and becoming the leader of the group.

On April 4, 2017, Cube Entertainment announced that he would participate in a project group called Triple H alongside Hyuna and former PENTAGON member E'dawn. The group debuted on May 1 with the EP '*199X*' and title track "365 Fresh".

In 2017, Hui co-composed the Produce 101 Season 2 hit song, "Never" and Wanna One's debut single, "Energetic" alongside Flow Blow which won by public votes on which song they'd like to see for the group's debut single. Both songs achieved an all-kill on Instiz, charting at No. 1 on real-time charts of Melon, Mnet, Bugs, Genie, Soribada, and Naver.

On September 19, it was revealed that Hui participated in a new show called Hyena on the Keyboard. It is a pilot music variety show where well-known singer-songwriters would be competing on music charts. On October 20, Hui was cast for One Night Food Trip alongside his label mate Yoo Seon-ho. The filming started in Vietnam on October 22.

On June 9, two Cube Entertainment idol groups, Pentagon and (G)I-dle appeared on Idol Room. During the episode, Hui performed his self-produced track, "Theme song 1" alongside Jeon So-yeon's "Theme song 2", and they gifted the song to the show. At the end of 2018, he collaborated with Jinho and Oh My Girl's Seunghee at the 2018 Korea Popular Music Awards to perform a cover of "I Have a Dream" on December 20.

### 2020: Road to Kingdom, Super Five and musical

In 2020, Hui co-composed three songs from Pentagon's '*Universe: The Black Hall*'. He revealed that he wrote the lead single "Dr. Bebe" in a day while he wrote "Shower of Rain" without any thoughts. He appeared on Mnet's music talk show Studio Music Hall 2, which aired on March 24. He was introduced as "genius music producer" performing his rearranged rock version of Itzy's "Dalla Dalla" and a duet of Kim Kwang-seok's "At About Thirty".

From April 30 to June 18, he took part of the Mnet Program Road to Kingdom alongside his PENTAGON members. The program is a prequel to the program Kingdom, which is a male counterpart of the TV program Queendom. For the final round of the show, he wrote and composed a song alongside member Wooseok called "Basquiat", which was released on June 12 on streaming platforms.

On July 11, 2020, it was revealed that Hui appeared on MBC's Favorite Entertainment, a music variety program that aims to create a **top trot boy group**. In that episode, the judges were video screening from numerous applicants. In the third episode on the show, Hui auditioned with Sim Soo-bong's "I Don't Know Anything But Love" and performed a dance cover of "Gang" by Rain. Hui was selected as one of the five members of the idol trot group alongside Astro's MJ, Ok Jin-wook, A.cian's Chu Hyeok-jin and Park Hyeong-seok. On August 15, the project group released a pre-debut digital single titled "Hello" (잘 될 거야) under the name **Super Five** (다섯장) while using his real name Lee Hoe Taek. They held their debut stage on MBC's Show! Music Core with "All Eyes On Me" and "Hello" on August 22. An accompanying music video for the song was uploaded onto MBC's YouTube channel on August 29. On September 19, they held their final concert *Hello, Goodbye Concert* before their indefinite disbandment. The concert featured many of the group's summer promotion songs, special stages including duet performances with the 'Favorite Entertainment' hosts. Hui also performed his solo project song, "Step by Step" (한 걸음 한 걸음) in the concert.

On July 22, it was announced that Hui would make his musical debut in a psychological thriller musical *Sonata of a Flame* (광염 소나타) as J, a composer who suffers from anxiety due to he was unable to produce any single piece. However, only by eye-witnessing someone's death, he was able to write a beautiful melody. The musical ran from August 15 to 30 at Uniplex Hall 1, Seoul.

Hui has been included in a line-up of 45 top singers in music genres ranging from pop, classic, musical etc., who will be featuring on MBN's new concept variety music game show, Lotto Singer. The show was first aired on September 19. He and Flow Blow produced the title song for WEi's debut album Identity : First Sight entitled "Twilight". On December 16, it was confirmed that he would be producing a song for the Top 7 competition on Mnet's audition show CAP-TEEN. The ballad song, "White Butterfly", was sung by contestant Kim Han-byul, who placed second overall.

### End of 2020-2022: Military Service

On October 19, 2020, Cube announced that Hui is enlisting in the mandatory military service as a social worker on December 3. On December 2, Cube shared that Hui's enlistment was delayed as he was self-isolating due to being in an area where someone had contracted COVID-19. During the wait of a new enlistment date, he took part in activities with Pentagon. Almost two months later, Cube announced that Hui would be enlisting as a social worker on February 18, 2021. Hui was discharged from military service as a social worker on November 17, 2022.

### 2022-2023: Boys Planet

On December 19, 2022, he was announced as a contestant on Boys Planet, which started airing on February 2, 2023. He finally ranked 13 overall.

## Boys Planet

### Grades

* **Star Level Test**: **All Stars**
* **Signal Song Evaluation**: **3 Stars**

### Rankings

* **Episode 1**: 6th
* **Episode 2**: 6th (=)
* **Episode 3**: N/A
* **Episode 5**: 7th (▼)
* **Episode 8**: 11th (▼)
* **Episode 9**: N/A
* **Episode 11**: 10th (▲)
* **Episode 12 (Finale)**: 13th (▼)

### Performances

* **Star Level Test**: BLACKPINK - Shut Down
* **K vs G Battle**: EXO - Love Me Right
* **Dual Position Battle**: (G)I-dle - TOMBOY
* **Artist Battle**: En Butter - En Garde
* **Final TOP9 Battle**: Jelly Pop

## Discography

* Albums
* Lyricist&composer
* Filmography

Japanese releases are in *Italics*.

### As Hui from Pentagon

#### Studio Albums

* Universe: The Black Hall (2020)
* *Universe : The History (2020)*

#### Mini Albums

* Pentagon (2016)
* Five senses (2016)
* *Gorilla (2017)*
* Ceremony (2017)
* Demo\_01 (2017)
* Demo\_02 (2017)
* *Violet (2018)*
* Positive (2018)
* *Shine (2018)*
* Thumbs Up! (2018)
* Geni:us (2019)
* Sum(me:r) (2019)
* We:th (2020)
* Love or Take (2021)
* *Do or Not (2021)*
* In:vite U (2022)
* *Feelin' Like (2022)*

### As Hui from Triple H

#### Mini Albums

* 199X (2017)
* Retro Futurism (2018)

### As Lee Hoe Taek of SuperFive

#### Digital Singles

* Hello (잘 될 거야) (2020)
* All eyes on you (시선고정) (2020)
* Step by step (한 걸음 한 걸음) (2020)

*Every credit can be found on KOMCA website. Registration name and number: HU I (10012816).*

## Videos

### References

1. ↑ https://sports.donga.com/3/02/20160521/78218835/1
2. ↑ https://star.mbn.co.kr/view.php?no=707636&year=2016&refer=portal#rs
3. ↑ https://sports.donga.com/3/all/20170403/83672474/3
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171226072948/http://www.mwave.me/en/news/news/view/114939/%E2%80%B2Produce-101-Season-2%E2%80%B2-to-Release-Concept-Mission-Soundtrack
5. ↑ http://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news\_id=N1004330366&plink=SEARCH&cooper=SBSNEWSSEARCH