
Heartstrings
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.
Episodes

Serendipitously, the diverse lives of two Korean university music students converge, one a traditional gayageum player and the other the handsome but socially cold lead singer of a popular rock band called The Stupid.

S01E02 That is My World
It's Wind Flowers versus The Stupid as Gyu-won and Shin make a bet over which has soul, traditional music or western music.

S01E03 Champion
As director of the 100th anniversary show, Suk-hyun disturbs the professors by changing laid plans in order to present what seems a very personal story.

S01E04 Towards Tomorrow
With acting rehearsals underway, several girls aim to put Gyu-won in her place, whereby Gyu-won decides to quit the show.

S01E05 Confession
A surprise kiss leaves Gyu-won, Suk-hyun and Yoon-soo stunned, and Shin ends Gyu-won's servitude.

S01E06 With The Thought That It Must Be Forgotten
Still reeling from a broken heart, personal tragedy touches Shin's life as well.

S01E07 Like This... Will Be Forgotten
With the retrieval of Shin's discarded pendent, Gyu-won's slavery ends, but circumstances, once again, throw them together.

S01E08 My Love, Cry Baby
Despite Gyu-won's superior audition, Hee-joo wins the coveted role of leading actress, but the hollowness of the victory creates bitter enemies.

S01E09 High Speed Romance
While Suk-hyun takes the kids on a team-building excursion, Tae-joon and his aids dig for dirt against him.

S01E10 Little by Little, Slowly Stepping Towards You
When Shin and Gyu-won officially become a couple (holding hands in public), the campus erupts.

S01E11 That Place, That Time
Tae-joon spreads a baseless rumor about Suk-hyun before conspiring with Hee-joo's mother to set up Suk-hyun and Gyu-won for scandal.

S01E12 Don't Cry
While the director's resignation forces students to reconsider the scandalous rumor, Joon-hee finds it increasingly difficult to live with his lie.

S01E13 Fly High
With only one week to go, cancellation of the school's anniversary performance leaves everyone wondering what to do next.

S01E14 Smile, You
The school performance brings about a professional offer that puts Gyu-won in conflict with her grandfather.

S01E15 Let Your Dreams Soar
A withheld truth about the severity of an injury keeps Lee Shin and Lee Gye-won apart, even a year later.
Cast

Park Shin-hye
Lee Gyu-won

Jung Yong-hwa
Lee Shin

Song Chang-eui
Kim Suk-hyun

So I-hyeon
Jung Yoon-soo

Kang Min-hyuk
Yeo Joon-hee

Kim Yoon-hye
Han Hee-joo

Lee Hyun-jin
Hyun Ki-young

Lim Se-mi
Cha Bo-woon

Shin Gu
Lee Dong-jin

Mun Ka-young
Lee Jung-hyun

Lee Il-hwa
Song Ji-young

Sunwoo Jae-duk
Lee Sun-ki