

Heartstrings
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.
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
Seasons
Talented Lee Shin is passionate only about modern Western music. Yet all that changes when he meets lovely Lee Gyu Won, who plays traditional music.

E1Encountering You By Accident
Jun 29, 2011
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.

E2That is My World
Jun 30, 2011
It's Wind Flowers versus The Stupid as Gyu-won and Shin make a bet over which has soul, traditional music or western music.

E3Champion
Jul 6, 2011
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.

E4Towards Tomorrow
Jul 7, 2011
With acting rehearsals underway, several girls aim to put Gyu-won in her place, whereby Gyu-won decides to quit the show.

E5Confession
Jul 13, 2011
A surprise kiss leaves Gyu-won, Suk-hyun and Yoon-soo stunned, and Shin ends Gyu-won's servitude.

E6With The Thought That It Must Be Forgotten
Jul 14, 2011
Still reeling from a broken heart, personal tragedy touches Shin's life as well.

E7Like This... Will Be Forgotten
Jul 20, 2011
With the retrieval of Shin's discarded pendent, Gyu-won's slavery ends, but circumstances, once again, throw them together.

E8My Love, Cry Baby
Jul 27, 2011
Despite Gyu-won's superior audition, Hee-joo wins the coveted role of leading actress, but the hollowness of the victory creates bitter enemies.

E9High Speed Romance
Jul 28, 2011
While Suk-hyun takes the kids on a team-building excursion, Tae-joon and his aids dig for dirt against him.

E10Little by Little, Slowly Stepping Towards You
Aug 3, 2011
When Shin and Gyu-won officially become a couple (holding hands in public), the campus erupts.

E11That Place, That Time
Aug 4, 2011
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.

E12Don't Cry
Aug 10, 2011
While the director's resignation forces students to reconsider the scandalous rumor, Joon-hee finds it increasingly difficult to live with his lie.

E13Fly High
Aug 11, 2011
With only one week to go, cancellation of the school's anniversary performance leaves everyone wondering what to do next.

E14Smile, You
Aug 17, 2011
The school performance brings about a professional offer that puts Gyu-won in conflict with her grandfather.

E15Let Your Dreams Soar
Aug 18, 2011
A withheld truth about the severity of an injury keeps Lee Shin and Lee Gye-won apart, even a year later.
Storyline
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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