Heartstrings (The Korean drama)

Heartstrings will always be in my heart as one of the more modern/competitive Korean drama I've ever watched. Even though it's a few years old now, many people still watch it over and over again and it was considered the best single drama made in 2012. I would definitely recommend this drama to the youths around the world because Heartstrings is a youth melodrama about dreams, friendship and young love and this all happens in a performing arts institute. So this drama really made an impression to me that as long as you try and want to achieve your goal, go and pursue it and along the way rewards will follow. Although this is a drama about acting and going to Broadway, it's more about singing and performing with ancient and modern music combined! Follow where your heart leads you, because you'll definitely find your own destiny waiting for you in the near future.

       Western Music vs. Traditional Music

Starring in Heartstrings we have Jung Yong Hwa as Lee Shin, who plays a university student studying Modern Western Music. He's the lead guitarist and lead vocalist and is part of a band called "The Stupid." Lee Shin is well known for his good looks, his arrogant personality, and his extreme passion for music. Most of his peers see him as a distant and cold-hearted person, but little does everyone know that he actually has a soft side inside him hidden away. His main focus is music and anything other than that he could care less and doesn't really have dreams or plans for his future. He secretly has a crush on Jung Yoon Soo (So Yi Hyun), a dance professor at the university. But Lee Shin's feelings for Jung Yoon Soo change when he meets his musical rival Lee Gyo Won (Park Shin Hye). 

Lee Gyu Won is a bright and outgoing student who is also extremely passionate about music as well. Too bad it wasn't the passion for modern western music like Lee Shin. On the contrary her passion was for Traditional Korean Music because her grandfather was one of the top 3 traditional musicians of his age and his biggest wish was for her to become a traditional music prodigy. Lee Gyu Won wishing to live up to grandfather's high expectations works herself intensely and becomes a university student who doesn't know much outside her studies because she focuses herself on practicing so much while in school and out of school. Her group of friends are fans of Lee Shin's group, "The Stupid," she's forced to go to the band's concert with them and there she watches Lee Shin perform live and is immediately enchanted by him.


Not only is Lee Gyu Won the only won captivated by him, but also one of Lee Shin's bumbling and shy lead drummer boy, Yeo Joon Hee (Kang Min Hyuk) charmed by friend, Han Hee Joo (Woori), the university princess and chairman's daughter and he begins calling her his "Natasha" (goddess). However  she thinks of him and his childish acts very naive-ish, but Yeo Joon Hee fights between his growing feelings for her and helping his friends as she threatens their university lives.

 When the university has its 100th anniversary performance, both Lee Gyu Won and Lee Shin tell their groups to join. Everyone sees Lee Gyu Won's potential and talent, especially Kim Suk hyun (Song Chang Eui), a Broadway composer who turned into a music director. Fearing that Lee Gyu Won might outshine her daughter, Hee Joo's mother plans a plot with Im Tae Joon( Kee Jung Heon), one of the schools administrators; they plan to destroy Gyu Won's image forcing her to quit the performance.  So do you think Lee Shin and his band will figure out this plan and ruin the plot or will they just let it go and become the best musicians in the university? Will Lee Gyu Won's reputation really be ruined and will she just become a regular musician letting Lee Shin outshine their music and dangle their glory in front of her friends face becoming the school's best? 

Be sure to tune in and watch Heartstings because the drama has a great plot twist that will want you thirsty for more! (720 words)