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Heartstrings

20117.11 Season15 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.

Created by Lee Myung-sook
Written by Lee Myung-sook
Produced by Park Sung Eun, Kim Yang
NetworksMBC

Top Cast

Park Shin-hye

Park Shin-hye

Lee Gyu-won

Jung Yong-hwa

Jung Yong-hwa

Lee Shin

Song Chang-eui

Song Chang-eui

Kim Suk-hyun

So I-hyeon

So I-hyeon

Jung Yoon-soo

Kang Min-hyuk

Kang Min-hyuk

Yeo Joon-hee

Kim Yoon-hye

Kim Yoon-hye

Han Hee-joo

Lee Hyun-jin

Lee Hyun-jin

Hyun Ki-young

Lim Se-mi

Lim Se-mi

Cha Bo-woon

Shin Gu

Shin Gu

Lee Dong-jin

Mun Ka-young

Mun Ka-young

Lee Jung-hyun

Themes & Keywords

competitionlove-hate relationshipromanceneighborsingerschooluniversityfamilytraditional musiccollege lifeyoung romance

About Heartstrings

Heartstrings is a comedy, drama series that first aired in 2011 exploring themes of competition, love-hate relationship, romance, neighbor, singer, school. Created by Lee Myung-sook, it stars Park Shin-hye, Jung Yong-hwa, Song Chang-eui. Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.

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