heartstrings korean drama review

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PROFILE 

• Drama: Heartstrings (You've Fallen for Me)
• Director: Pyo Min-Soo, Lee Min-Cheol
• Writer: Lee Myung-Sook
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 15
• Release Date: June 29 - August 18, 2011
• Runtime: Wed. & Thurs. 21:55
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

PLOT 

The story is set at an art University where the youth romance drama "Festival" depicts the students love life and friendship.

Kyu-Won (Park Shin-Hye) is a bright girl and a highly skilled gayageum player and is in the Korean traditional music department. Kyu-Won also comes from a family who has one of the three best pansori singers in the world. Shin (Jung Yong-Hwa) is a highly skilled guitarist and is in the applied music department. They come from different family backgrounds and have arguments but soon starts to like each other.

Lee Gyu-won is bright and outgoing student who was born to a prestigious family and is majoring in Traditional Korean Music. Gyu-won's grandfather, Lee Dong-jin (Shin Goo), is one of the top 3 traditional musicians of his time and his biggest desire  is to see his granddaughter become a traditional music prodigy. Trying to live up to her grandfather's expectations, Gyu-won immerses herself in practice and becomes a university student who knows nothing much outside of her studies. As her friends are fans of "The Stupid," she was forced to go to the band's concert with them. There she saw Lee Shin performing live, and is immediately captivated by him.

Yeo Joon-hee (Kang Min-hyuk) is a bumbling, shy, who doesn't act his age. He has a childlike personality during one of his shaggy phases, he comes across university princess and chairman's daughter, Han Hee-joo (Kim Yoon-hye), who he immediately falls head over heels for, calling her his "Natasha." However, there are dark sides to Hee-joo's personality than his naïvete knows, and in the series, he fights between his ever-growing feelings for Hee-joo and helping his friends as she threatens their university lives.

CAST 

• Park Shin-hye as Lee Gyu-won
 
• Jung Yong-hwa as Lee Shin
 
• Song Chang-eui as Kim Suk-hyun
 
• So Yi-hyun as Jung Yoon-soo
 
• Kang Min-hyuk as Yeo Joon-hee
 
• Kim Yoon-hye as Han Hee-joo
 
• Lee Hyun-jin as Hyun Ki-young
 
• Im Se-mi as Cha Bo-woon
 
• Lee Jung-heon as Im Tae-joon
 
• Jung Kyung-ho as Goo Jung-eun
 
• Jang Seo-won as Lee Soo-myung
 
• Shin Goo as Lee Dong-jin
 
• Sunwoo Jae-duk as Lee Sun-ki
 
• Lee Il-hwa as Song Ji-young
 
• Moon Ga-young as Lee Jung-hyun
 
• Kim Sun-kyung as Professor Hong
 
• Seo Beom-seok as Lee Hyun-soo
 
• Oh Won-bin as guitarist of "The Stupid"
 
• Song Se-hyun as bassist of "The Stupid"