Details
Title: 넌 내게 반했어 / Neon Naege Banhaesseo
English title: Heartstrings
Previously known as: 페스티벌 / Festival
Genre: Romance, music
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Jun-29 to 2011-Aug-18
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
Synopsis
Lee Shin is a university student majoring in modern music. He is also the vocalist and guitarist of the band “The Stupid.” Shin is known for his good looks and strong passion for music, but in reality he is cold, lacks interest in anything unrelated to music and has neither dreams nor plans for the future. He initially likes Jung Yoon Soo, a dance professor at university, but this all changes when he meets Lee Kyu Won.
Lee Kyu Won is a bright and outgoing student who was born into a prestigious family and is majoring in traditional Korean instruments, especially the gayageum. Kyu Won’s grandfather, Lee Dong Gun, 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, Kyu Won immerses herself in training and becomes a university student who knows nothing 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.
Cast
Jung Yong Hwa as Lee Shin
Park Shin Hye as Lee Kyu Won
Song Chang Ui as Kim Suk Hyun
So Yi Hyun as Jung Yoon Soo
Woo Ri as Han Hee Joo
Kang Min Hyuk as Yeo Joon Hee
Lee Hyun Jin as Hyun Ki Young
Im Se Mi as Cha Bo Woon
Extended Cast
Lee Jung Hun (이정헌) as Im Tae Joon
Jung Kyung Ho as Goo Jung Eun
Jang Seo Won as Yoon Soo Myung
Shin Goo as Lee Dong Jin
Sun Woo Jae Duk as Lee Sun Ki
Lee Il Hwa as Song Ji Young
Moon Ga Young as Lee Jung Hyun
Kim Sun Kyung
Im Ji Sun (임지선)
Production Credits
Production Company: JS PICTURES
Chief Producer: Choi Hong Mi (최홍미)
Producer: Lee Jin Suk, Kim Yang
Director: Pyo Min Soo
Screenwriter: Lee Myung Sook
The drama starts with Lee Kyu Won (Park Shin Hye) at the airport at Jeju Island with her grandpa. While her grandpa goes to a seminar, he tells her to wait at the hotel, giving her only $10 for her taxi fare. Just as they leave, Lee Shin (Jung YongHwa) appears through the doors behind them. The wheels on Kyu Won’s luggage breaks and she has trouble getting it on the bus, so Lee Shin helps her without saying a word.
The two get on the bus the bus, and both get off at the same stop. Lee Shin walks off while Kyu Won goes to her hotel room. Lee Shin is riding his bike around the area, while Kyu Won is on a bus. They both arrive at a lighthouse, but haven’t seen each other (yet). Lee Shin is at the top of the lighthouse taking pictures of the view, while Kyu Won is walking towards it. She sees Lee Shin’s bike and sees him at the top. Her phone rings and her grandpa is asking where she is because she is late. She runs off in a hurry, then Lee Shin sees her and takes a picture of her running.
When Kyu Won arrives at where the seminar took place, she finds out that Lee Dong Jin (her grandpa) has gone to eat lunch with the other participants. She checks her wallet since she is hungry and find only 2000 won (approx. $2). Meanwhile, her grandpa is having lunch and his students are discussing about changing traditional music. He gets irritated and tells them that if you change traditional music, it’s not traditional anymore. Lee Dong Jin walks out, saying he is going back to Seoul.
Kyu Won arrives back to the room and is greeted by her hot tempered grandpa. Kyu Won insists on eating first, but her grandpa wants to get back to Seoul ASAP. Lee Shin is looking at the view and sees an airplane pass overhead (which Kyu Won and her grandpa are on).
We are now in Seoul, and Kyu Won is struggling to get off the bus as she is carrying a big instrument with her and accidently hits people as she gets off. While she runs to class, Lee Shin rides a bike pass her (they don’t see each other). She arrives late and the teacher invites her to the front with her instrument and we see Lee Shin asleep on his desk. Outside Kyu Won’s friends about “The Stupid is doing a performance” and they want to get good seats. Back in class, Kyu Won has finished her demonstration. They teacher sees Lee Shin asleep at the back of class and asks him to comment on the performance. He replies with “I don’t know, but I slept well through it” causing some laughter.
Two people are discussing a performance and one of them plans get performers from the graduating class. The other person says that the idea (of the performance) is good, but not good enough and he plans to have Kim Seok Hyun (a Korean director) to direct the play. Kim Seok Hyun has arrived at the airport is picked up by a friend (?) (Lee Soo Myung) with an old car. After Seok Hyun sees the car, he decides to take a taxi, but his Soo Myung insists on riding in the car. In the car, Seok Hyun’s hyung calls him, making a request to see him.
While Kyu Won is designing a poster with her friend, she is thinking about how Lee Shin said he slept well through her performance. Her friend invites her to see The Stupid. They arrive at the bar which is has more people than usual. Kyu Won gets a phone call and her grandpa scolders her for not preparing his hanbok. After she gets of the phone, she sees Lee Shin with a girl who is asking him out. He rejects her by saying “I don’t like ugly girls”, surprising Kyu Won. The girl then slaps Lee Shin in the face, which surprises Kyu Won even more. Lee Shin sees Kyu Won who says,
“I was just…”
“Were you going to confess to me as well?”
“Ha? Ahahaha! What? Thats ridiculous”
“If not then, whatever”
At school, Yoon Joon Hee (Kang Min Hyuk) approaches Lee Shin. He tells him that he has spent the money he gave him after the concert. Jeon Hee then asks if they are going to do the performance – which Kyu Won requested- and since Lee Shin didn’t reply, Joon Hee thinks they are and gets happy, saying “I love you hyung!” (this part was quite funny
)
Seok Hyun is having a meeting with his hyung and the person who is in charge of the performance (Sorry, I don’t know their names yet). Seok Hyun sees that Yoon Soo is on the staff list as a choreographer. Then we see Yoon Soo teaching her class. Seok Hyun and his hyung take a walk and bump into Yoon Soo. Seok Hyun rejects his hyungs offer of eating lunch together and Yoon Soo walks off, quite shocked after seeing Seok Hyun in 6 years.
Kyu Won is having lunch with her friends while they talk about the Stupid. She leaves first to the library in order to write her report. When she leaves, her friends talk about how cool the drummer is and then they see Joon Hee eating like he hasn’t eaten in days. He goes over to them and takes their food after they said they are done with it. At the library, Kyu Won sits at a desk and realizes that the person sleeping opposite her is Lee Shin. The girl who confessed to him comes with a basket and places it next to him. When he wakes up, she apolozies for hitting and goes of. Soon after, Lee Shin goes, leaving the basket behind. Kyu Won runs after him, telling him to take the basket and not to judge people by their appearance. Lee Shin walks off and as Kyu Won goes after him again, she trips on her long skirt causing the content of the basket to spill. People around them think she got dumped.
Seok Hyun is looking at newspaper articles about Yoon Soo which he collected. We then see Yoon Soo doing ballet but slips as she spins. Lee Shin comes in and sprays medicine on her ankle. Joon Hee is on the roof top, looking at the moon and drinking yahkult like it’s alcohol (Cute!). He then lies down, saying he is hungry but then is immediately revived with the smell of food. He goes inside the building, following the scent. He then comes across a classroom and sees a girl called Han Hee Joo dancing. He enters and falls in love with her, saying he has found his Natasha. Joon Hee tells her he will be back to see her dancing and continues to look for the source of the smell.
Lee Shin walks with Yoon Soo and asks whether her leg is alright. She says it is, but she tells him to stop worrying about her and instead, look for other girls his age but he doesn’t want to. Kyu Won and her friends are playing a tune with traditional instruments. Then we see the Stupid playing the same tune, but a more rock style version and then we hear both at the same time. Kyu Won is running late again for class and Lee Shin sees her as he rides his bike. He stops next to her and looks at her. Kyu Won says “What?” and he replies with “Just as I though, you’re strong” and rides of, making Kyu Won annoyed.
Lee Shin visits Yoon Soo in her office, inviting her to come to his performance. When he leaves, he has a flashback on the first time he met her. He was fixing his bike and saw her slip so he went and helped her. Lee Shin and his band mates are rehearsing then Joon Hee comes in all dreamy, saying he has fallen in love. They then asks him if they bought him food because apparently, he falls in love whenever someone buys him food. He then says he has found his Natasha and they’re like “Who’s Natasha?”. Lee Shin says “Maybe it’s Narsha” (HAHAHA!). (Narsha is a member of Brown Eyed Girls)
Just as they are about to perform, Lee Shin’s sister, Jung Hyun, calls saying she is going to die, so he rushes off. We see Yoon Soo in her office, looking at the tickets Lee Shin gave her but she leaves without taking them. While Kyu Won does her performance at the bar with her friends, Lee Shin is at the hospital, waiting for his sister to come out of surgery. Back in the bar, people are getting impatient as Stupid still hasn’t performed. Kyu Won decides to take Lee Shin’s place in the band, and sings. Seok Hyun sees Kyu Won and stares at her. In the hospital, Jung Hyun has come out of surgery and is with her mom and Lee Shin. The event at the bar has ended and people are disappointed that Lee Shin didn’t turn up. Joon Hee apologizes and Kyu Won says that she isn’t disappointed because she knew he is that type of guy, but she is still upset.
While Kyu Won is waiting for the bus Seok Hyun appears. He starts a conversation with her, but she asks him to leave since she is in a bad mood. He compliments her singing and asks whether she has sang before. She says she had to sing because of some jerk. She tells him that the performance is for the Professor’s hospital bill. When Kyu Won got on the bus, Seok Hyun sees that Kyu Won has dropped something. He goes to the hospital, hoping to give it back, but finds that the professor has been transferred. Outside, he sees Kyu Won talking to people, while crying. He follows her and she tells him that the professor has passed away. He comforts her by patting her head.
In school, Joon Hee is asleep on top of his desk, when Lee Shin comes. Joon Hee tells him that kyu Won is pissed and that he should give the money to her. Lee Shin wants Joon Hee to come with him but Joon Hee doesn’t want to, even after Lee Shin offered him meat. Lee Shin finds Kyu Won playing her instrument. He goes him and throws the envelope with money to her. She tells him that she doesn’t need the money and throws it back at him. Lee Shin picks the envelope up and give it to her, saying “Because it’s for the professor’s hospital bill”. When Kyu Won tries to throw it back at him while saying he is cruel...
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CHARACTERS
Park Shin-hye plays LEE KYU-WON, a good-natured if somewhat scattered student at a university of performing arts who’s majoring in Korean classical music, or gukak. She’s practically been bred for this path, having been raised by a stern, staunchly traditionalist grandfather who’s a famed master of pansori, a form of classical Korean singing. She’s got a close relationship with Grandpa, although we see a few cracks in the relationship as the episode progresses.
Kyu-won also practices as part of a four-member gukak group calling themselves Windflower, of which her cheery friend BO-WOON is also a member.
Applied-music student LEE SHIN (Jung Yong-hwa) seems like your typical arrogant bastard hero at first glance, walking around with a chip on his shoulder. As the vocalist of hot band The Stupid, he gets the lion’s share of fan adoration, more for his looks than for the music, which rankles him.
On the other hand, when he’s alone with family or closer friends, we see glimpses of a nicer, softer Shin. Too bad he doesn’t let that show to anybody outside his inner circle — though he gets enough attention by being a jerk that he’d probably be mobbed by admirers if he were actually, yunno, friendly.
KIM SEOK-HYUN (Song Chang-eui) is a hotshot musical director who’s earned accolades for a recent production on Broadway. I love that he’s conceited about it, in a good-natured sort of way, thinking himself a bigger star than he actually is. As though being famous for directing musicals will get him recognized on the street.
He’s brought in to direct the university’s big 100 year anniversary theatrical production, to the chagrin of his sunbae, who wanted the spot. This return, however, puts Seok-hyun into painful contact with his ex, JUNG YOON-SU (So Yi-hyun), a former ballerina who is now teaching at the school.
EPISODE 1: “An Unexpected Meeting With You”
We open in Jeju Island, not for any great narrative purpose other than to get our two lead characters in each other’s orbits, however unknowingly, before they have their official first meeting. Shin’s presence here is unexplained, while Kyu-won arrives with her crotchety grandfather for his participation in a cultural symposium involving classical Korean music.
Kyu-won’s first encounter with Shin isn’t terrible, though hardly warm ‘n fuzzy, either: She struggles with her suitcase on the bus, and he silently carries it on for her, without sparing her a glance or a friendly word. So he can be helpful, but maintains a cool distance.
The trip also highlights Grandpa’s stubbornness, because he gets up to leave almost as soon as he arrives; he’s incensed over the organizers’ suggestions to liven up this whole genre of gukak. Sure, it’s traditional — but that doesn’t mean it can’t change! Their liberal interpretation of the concept of “classical” gets his temper flaring, and he walks out.
Kyu-won’s next encounter with Shin is a lot more aggravating: Back at the Seoul campus of their university, she puts on a special gayageum performance for her class, where Shin blatantly sleeps in full view of the professor. The professor rouses him from his nap and pointedly asks what he thought of his classmate’s performance, and Kyu-won waits expectantly for a compliment. Until he replies, “It was good for sleeping.” Ouch.
Her impression of Shin takes a further dive when she arrives at a live music club — dragged along by Bo-woon to see the hottie band The Stupid — and overhears Shin coldly rejecting a girl with the callous comment, “I hate ugly girls.” He turns and sees Kyu-won standing there and asks if she’s going to confess her feelings for him, too — making her scoff, As if!
She joins her friends in the club and grumbles about the world-class bastard she just ran into, only to find everyone squealing when her bastard takes the stage and starts singing.
How ironic that the song is all about how he’s fallen for a girl and doesn’t have the courage to do anything about it. Psh. Like this boy’s ever lived a moment of insecurity about his romantic prowess. Then again, he could pretty much be singing about monkey poop and his adoring audience would find a way to see the romance in it.
After the show, Kyu-won’s friends prod her to make a request of the band, and she reluctantly broaches the topic with Shin. He foists her off on the drummer instead, though, and leaves her to talk it over with JUN-HEE (CN Blue’s drummer Kang Min-hyuk).
Despite that stoic exterior, Shin is a doting oppa to his little sister Jung-hyun. When she asks him to wish her classmate a happy birthday, for instance, he obliges her (and sends the crowd of schoolgirls into a squealfest).
Cutely, he smiles to see her collect her payment — about five bucks — from the birthday girl, amused to see his sister grifting her classmates. Ha. Smart girl.
The request Kyu-won had made of The Stupid is to participate in an event the Windflower girls are organizing, in order to raise funds for their professor’s hospital bills. On their own they’d struggle to find much of an audience, but if The Stupid were to share the stage with them, they could attract a large number of attendees.
It’s something Shin would have flatly turned down if he’d stuck around to hear the request, but because he’d left it to softhearted Jun-hee to handle, The Stupid finds themselves engaged to play the show. They can’t back out readily, either, because Kyu-won had paid them in advance, and the constantly hungry Jun-hee had managed to eat up most of the fee in meat. So, despite his preference to stay out of it, Shin reluctantly agrees.
Kyu-won comes home that night to find that Grandpa has raided her secret stash of CDs — sent by her father — and broken them.
A flashback reveals the source of the conflict, because Dad had wanted to pursue his own love of music (classical piano), only to have his unbending father put his foot down. Dad had wanted to take Kyu-won with him, but Grandpa had been emphatic in his intent to raise her in the ways of gukak, and refused to relinquish custody. (Not in a legal sense, but in a patriarchal, I-am-the-head-of-this-household-don’t-you-dare-disobey-me one.)
Dad had left, and has been sending Kyu-won CDs over the years. Interestingly, they’re of classical composers like Mozart — so it’s not like Dad went off to be a rock star, but that this is an East-vs.-West conflict more than it is an old-vs.-new one.
Kyu-won studies at the library near a sleeping Shin, and witnesses the return of the rejected girl — the one he’d called ugly — who is back to following him around like a lovesick admirer, despite his treatment of her. He dismisses her and leaves without the food basket she’d dropped off, so Kyu-won follows him out to tell him to take it, chiding him for his appearance-based prejudice.
He turns that right around on her: “You all do that too. Or do you like us because our performance is so awesome?” HA, he hates that he’s famous for his looks, which is great, given that his looks are the source of his popularity. Aw, the musician wants to be legit, but the fangirls won’t let him. Is that what we call first-world problems?
She points out that he could reject the girls nicely, but he says he gets sick and tired of being on the receiving end of sooooo many girls’ affections: “Though I’m sure a girl like youhas no idea what that’s like.”
He warns her not to follow him, and leaves. Or tries to. Kyu-won huffs that she won’t, but trips over her shoelace and goes sprawling to the ground…accidentally grabbing his ankle on the way down.
Pffffft. Okay, drama, you got a good laugh out of me with that, because now she’s inadvertently made literal that metaphor about ankle-grabbing. It can mean merely holding someone back, but in the literal sense it’s the ultimate gesture of desperate begging, debasing yourself as low as you can (physically) go, saying, “If you won’t stay, I’ll drag you with me.”
He actually checks to make sure she’s okay, but she’s so mortified that she waves him away, while bystanders muse that she must’ve just gotten dumped.
Seok-hyun is clearly far from being over Yoon-su despite their six years apart, and has kept up a scrapbook following her career as a ballet and jazz dancer. At first she was on top of the dance world, but toward the end the headlines allude to her career facing jeopardy.
Yoon-su practices alone in her studio that night, demonstrating that injury had something to do with her shift from performing to teaching. She falls clutching her ankle — and suddenly, Shin is there at her side, fussing over her injury.
Apparently this isn’t the first time this has happened, because today he comes prepared with a medicinal spray. In stark contrast to the way he’s acted all episode, with Yoon-su he’s caring and attentive, all gentleness and concern.
Yoon-su, on the other hand, tries repeatedly to distance herself and to tell him to return home, but he ignores her obvious attempts to dismiss him and insists on walking her back. Finally, she tells him plainly to stop watching her in the studio, or waiting up for her, or worrying about her foot. And that he should turn his affections to a girl his age, rather than her.
Time for Jun-hee to fall in love crush for himself: He’s smitten at first sight when he comes across a student, Hee-joo (Woori), dancing in a studio. (I love that he finds her while on the search for his other great love, food.)
It’s cute that Jun-hee calls girls unnis (rather than noona) — even the ones who aren’t older than him. He even calls Shin “hyung” despite being the same age, because Shin buys him food. Hee. The unni thing is a slang usage, and makes him seem even more toothless than he already is, like our resident puppy mascot. (An additional character quirk: While in the band, he dolls up as a slick idol boy, but at school he adopts a shaggy, dorky, bumbling appearance.)
Slack-jawed at the sight of Hee-joo, he calls her his “Natasha” and promises to find her later — and then leaves to continue his interrupted quest for a snack.
The next time our lead couple runs across each other on campus, Kyu-won’s eyes him warily, and warns him not to miss the show.
She and the Windflowers practice together, choosing a gukak rendition of the Habanera song from Carmen — which is also the tune that The Stupids base their rock version on. What is with the Carmen fixation these days? It does create an interesting fusion effect, though, when the rock version is laid over the gukak version.
Shin invites Yoon-su to the show, and thinks back to the first time he’d seen her in practice, when he’d seen her falling while dancing in the studio.
He’d rushed to her side and told her to lean on him — meaning literally and figuratively — while she’d self-consciously covered the scar on her ankle, and broken down in tears in front of him.
As it happens, musical director Seok-hyun is buddies with the owner of the live music club (named Catharsis), and is invited to stay for the evening show. His friend assures him that it’ll be a lively crowd, with the idol boys The Stupid playing.
First up are the gukak ladies of Windflower, although really, everyone’s just here to see the pretty boys. They finish their set and the boys begin setting up their instruments, worried that they can’t get a hold of their lead singer.
They don’t know that Shin has been called by his sister, whose appendix has burst and who undergoes emergency surgery. His mother arrives while Jung-hyun is being operated on, and Shin checks the time, knowing that he’s in danger of missing the show. But when Mom asks if he’s got somewhere to be, he assures her that it’s not important, and stays.
Feeling the pressure to act, Kyu-won takes the microphone and tells the band to begin playing.
Her voice is pretty and the song melodic, and thankfully the performance quiets the crowd. For the moment. But when the show ends, the attendees file out while making disgruntled comments about false advertising.
Kyu-won’s so angry that all she says is, “I knew he was that kind of person anyway. There’s nothing to get disappointed about.”
On the other hand, the performance makes Seok-hyun sit up in interest. An idea springs into his head for his own show as he watches Kyu-won perform her classical music, and then take the mike for a pop song.
Afterward, he approaches her at the bus stop, hilariously coming off like an inadvertent pervy ajusshi with his attempts to engage her in conversation. She even checks with him (“You’re not some kind of pervert, right?”), and he starts to explain that he enjoyed her singing. But before he can get to his point, her bus arrives and she dashes off to deliver the concert proceeds to her professor in the hospital.
But no matter, since Seok-hyun knows enough details to call a friend and find out which hospital that is. He arrives and asks a nurse for the professor’s room — and hears with shock that she has died.
Outside, he sees the deceased’s family in mourning clothes, and Kyu-won paying her respects. She recognizes him in surprise, wondering what he’s doing here. She breaks down into tears as she admits that she was too late, and awkwardly, Seok-hyun comforts her as she cries.
Shin finds Jun-hee at school and gives him an envelope of money to repay the gukak girls for the missed performance. Jun-hee tells him to do it himself, and it’s adorable how Shin asks his friend to come with him, like he’s afraid to face them alone. But Jun-hee’s even more scared, having seen their anger firsthand — “especially Kyu-won unni.”
Shin knows it’s bad when Jun-hee even refuses his bribe of buying meat, and sends him off alone.
Shin finds Kyu-won in her department, practicing the gayageum, and tosses the envelope over to her. To his surprise, she doesn’t take it and says harshly that she doesn’t need “this measly money.”
With contempt, she asks, “You think you’re so great, huh? So you’ve got a decent face and some popularity, and that makes you feel like a big shot, doesn’t it? Well, I’ve heard your music.” She thumps her chest: “It didn’t resonate here even the tiniest bit, so screw off.”
She throws the money back at his feet, and he picks it back up and tries again. But he chooses the worst possible thing he could say, though unwittingly: “I understand how you feel, but take it. You said it’s for your professor’s hospital bill.”
He tosses the money back at her, but she glares at him, all indignation, and says she can’t fathom why he gets chased around by so many fans. “You’re despicable, unlucky, and nauseating — what’s so great about you?! Their eyes must be warped. Get lost, and don’t show up in front of me again!”
She takes up the money to throw at him again, only this time he grabs her wrist to stop her. I love this conflict, because as far as he’s concerned he was in the wrong, but surely doesn’t deserve this level of scorn. While Kyu-won — well, I’m entirely behind her outburst, even knowing that Shin had extenuating circumstances.
They sit there glaring at each other, and Shin challenges, “Do you want me to show you? Why everyone follows around such a despicable, unlucky, nauseating guy?”
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