Heartstrings (TV series)

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Heartstrings
Heartstrings Promotional Poster.jpg
Promotional poster for Heartstrings
Also known as 'You've Fallen for Me'
Genre
Written by Lee Myung-sook
Directed by Pyo Min-soo
Starring
Ending theme "You've Fallen for Me" by Jung Yong-hwa
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 15 (+1 special)
Production
Executive producer(s) Choi Hong-mi
Producer(s)
  • Lee Jin-seok
  • Kim Yang
Running time 70 minutes
Production company(s) JS Pictures
Release
Original network Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Original release June 29 (2011-06-29) –
August 19, 2011 (2011-08-19)
External links
Website

Heartstrings (Hangul넌 내게 반했어; RRNeon Naege Banhaesseo; lit. You've Fallen for Me) is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Park Shin-hye and Jung Yong-hwa.[1] It aired on MBC from June 29 to August 19, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 15 episodes. Heartstrings is a youth melodrama about love, friendship and dreams, set against the backdrop of a performing arts college.[2][3][4][5]

Plot

Lee Shin (Jung Yong-hwa) is a university student majoring in Western Music. He is also the vocalist and guitarist of a band "The Stupid." Shin is known for his good looks, cocky personality, and strong passion for music. Everyone sees him as a cold-hearted and distant person, but he has a soft side inside him hidden away. He lacks interest in anything unrelated to music and has neither dreams nor plans for the future. He initially likes Jung Yoon-soo (So Yi-hyun), a dance professor at the university, but this all changes when he meets Lee Gyu-won (Park Shin-hye).

Lee Gyu-won is a jolly, bright, and outgoing student who was born into a prestigious family and is majoring in Traditional Korean Music. She plays the gayageum. Gyu-won's grandfather, Lee Dong-jin (Shin Goo), is one of the top 3 traditional musicians of his age and his biggest wish 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, and ever hungry boy who doesn't act his age. He has a childlike personality, is a shaggy idiot by day, and Stupid's lead drummer by night. 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.

When Gyu-won decides to join the performances for the upcoming 100th anniversary performance for the university, everyone sees her potential and talent, particularly Kim Suk-hyun (Song Chang-eui), a Broadway composer-turned-music director. Fearing that Gyu-won might outshine her daughter, Hee-joo's mother schemes with Im Tae-joon (Lee Jung-heon), one of the school's administrators; they plot to destroy Gyu-won's image to force her to quit the performance.

Cast

Title

The series initially had the working title Festival (Hangul페스티벌), until broadcaster MBC announced an online contest held from March 30 to April 10, 2011 to give it a new title. Among over 4,000 suggestions submitted to the MBC website, You've Fallen for Me (Hangul넌 내게 반했어) was chosen as the Korean title.[6] A second online contest for the international English title was held on the digital American distribution platform DramaFever, and Heartstrings won the fan poll.[7]

Soundtrack

The Heartstrings soundtrack was released in four installments every week starting from June 29, 2011, and concluding on July 20, 2011.

Ratings

Date Episode Title TNmS Nationwide[13] ABG Nationwide[14]
2011-06-29 01 An Unexpected Meeting With You 6.7% 7.6%
2011-06-30 02 That Is My World 4.9% 6.8%
2011-07-06 03 Champion 5.3% 6.6%
2011-07-07 04 Towards Tomorrow 5.4% 6.6%
2011-07-13 05 Confession 5.4% 6.2%
2011-07-14 06 With The Thought That It Must Be Forgotten 4.5% 5.6%
2011-07-20 07 Like This... Will Be Forgotten 5.7% 5.7%
2011-07-21 Special Accidentally Meeting You 4.1% 5.1%
2011-07-27 08 My Love, Cry Baby 5.9% 6.5%
2011-07-28 09 High Speed Romance 5.4% 5.0%
2011-08-03 10 Little By Little, Slowly Stepping Towards You 7.1% 7.3%
2011-08-04 11 That Place, That Time 6.7% 6.4%
2011-08-10 12 Don't Cry 5.4% 5.9%
2011-08-11 13 Emergency 6.2% 6.1%
2011-08-17 14 So Smile 5.3% 6.7%
2011-08-18 15 Let Your Dreams Soar 5.6 6.0%
Average 5.7% 6.3%

Awards

International broadcast

Because of Park Shin-hye and Jung Yong-hwa's strong overseas fanbase from their previous drama You're Beautiful (SBS, 2009), broadcasting rights to Heartstrings were pre-sold to eight countries including the Philippines, Japan, China, Hong Kong and North America, ahead of its premiere in South Korea.[17]

It aired in the Philippines via ABS-CBN's afternoon block from January 2, 2012 to April 13, 2012 with more than 45 episodes in all.

It aired in Japan on Fuji TV beginning July 9, 2012.[18][19] To promote the drama, a fan meeting attended by both leads, Park Shin-hye and Jung Yong-hwa, was held on July 16 at the Tokyo International Forum.[20][21][22]

It aired in the Middle East on MBC 4 beginning March 23, 2014.

References

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External links