Heirs follows a group of privileged, elite high school students as they are groomed to take over their families' business empires. These wealthy students seem to have everything under control–except their love lives. Kim Tan (Lee Min Ho) is heir to the Empire Group sent to study abroad in the U.S. In reality it's a form of exile, as his elder half-brother back home (Choi Jin Hyuk) schemes to takes over the family business. While in the States, Kim Tan bumps into Cha Eun Sung (Park Shin Hye), who's arrived from Korea in search of her older sister. He feels himself falling for her, never realizing that she's the daughter of his family's housekeeper. When his fiancée Rachel Yoo (Kim Ji Won) arrives to bring him back to Korea, his heart is torn between love and duty. Meanwhile, Rachel's half-brother Choi Young Do (Kim Woo Bin) develops his own crush on Eun Sung. Who said being a rich, beautiful high school student was easy?
Cast:
Lee Min-ho as Kim Tan
The heir of the Empire Group. He is arrogant and self-centered however he is overshadowed by his older half-brother, Kim Won. He falls in love with Cha Eun-sang despite her poor background.
Park Shin-hye as Cha Eun-sang
Daughter of the Empire Group's housekeeper. She grew up with Yoon Chan-young and gets caught in a love triangle with two privileged men, Kim Tan and Choi Young-do.
Kim Woo-bin as Choi Young-do
The heir to a luxury resort. He has an IQ of 150, but uses his wit to put down and harass his friends rather than to excel in his studies.
Kang Min-hyuk as Yoon Chan-young
Son of the Empire Group's secretary. Cha Eun-sang's best friend who falls in love with Kim Tan's ex-girlfriend, Lee Bo-na.
Krystal Jung as Lee Bo-na
She lives a fabulous lifestyle as the daughter of an entertainment executive. Her first love and ex-boyfriend, Kim Tan never loved her. Yoon Chan-young heals her heartbreak.
Kim Ji-won as Rachel Ryu
Kim Tan's fiancée. A haughty and chic heiress of a major hotel group, she is a girl who wants for nothing in the world.
Kang Ha-neul as Lee Hyo-shin
Son of the Chief of Police. He is the student body president, and has a crush on his teacher, Jeon Hyun-joo.
Park Hyung-sik as Jo Myung-soo
Son of the CEO of a car import company. Quick to think on his feet, he's a slacker who doesn't want to inherit the family business.
Choi Jin-hyuk as Kim Won
Kim Tan's "perfect" older half-brother, an accomplished and capable young executive who runs his family's giant conglomerate, Empire Group.
Im Joo-eun as Jeon Hyun-joo
A teacher at Empire High School, she looks cool and collected on the outside, while being slightly awkward in real life. Hyun-joo gets Kim Won's attention for her sharp intelligence, although studying is the only thing she knows how to do.
Jeon Soo-jin as Kang Ye-sol
Choi Won-young as Yoon Jae-ho
Empire Group secretary. Father of Yoon Chan-young, and previously involved with Esther Lee.
Yoon Son-ha as Esther Lee
President of Chrystal Hotel. Mother of Rachel Ryu, and remarried to Choi Dong-wook.
Kim Sung-ryung as Han Ki-ae
Mother of Kim Tan.
Kim Mi-kyung as Park Hee-nam
The deaf housekeeper of the Kim family (who own Empire Group), and mother of Cha Eun-sang.
Choi Jin-ho as Choi Dong-wook
President of a luxury resort. Father of Choi Young-do, and remarried to Esther Lee.
Trailer:
The drama starts airing in October following "Master's Sun"
i'll be watching this mainly because the cast is just so good and i'm pretty sure everyone else plans to watch this just for the amazing cast too and not for the plot .... plot sounds like a typical rich boy poor naive girl story
The story really isn't anything new... there's lots of dramas with rich guys falling for 'poor' woman, but I'm still going to watch it cause of Lee Min Ho.
Secretly I am thrilled to see this one! I love Lee Min Ho en mister Na Heul. But I also keep it in the back of my mind that it depends on the story, the acting etc etc if I continue this drama when I am watchin it. Maybe it is really overrated but you can only know this when you watch it. We all didnt... But I am excited to watch this drama :).
I know it's rated high before even starting and that it will probably be shallow but the fact that Lee Min Ho is the male lead and the writer of Secret Garden is writing this one; I am impatiently waiting for it!
I agree, the synopsis sounds pretty mediocre and first I just wanted to see it for the cast. But after I heard that the Secret Garden writer is writing it, I still have hope it will be better than I imagined it would be :).
Watching this for Kim Woo Bin and his character best be firing some witty comments because even though I loved A Gentlemans Dignity [same writer], I'm not intrigued by idea of watching actors in their midtwenties playing rich -exceptforthemaingirl- highschoolers stuck in a love triangle with a stepmother here and a halfbrother there for 20 episodes. Yet I can see myself glued to the screen oh God ಠ__ಠ
i´m just curious: why don´t you want to watch it? and if you watch it, why would you drop it halfway? don´t you like the plot? or the actors/actrisses? i mean, i think i would try every Drama if its not such a horrible plot, and if i don´t like it i would just drop it :D well, i said: i´m just curious ;D
yes, they have to accept it. if you haven´t watched it and would say it´s bad because of the plot, they could say to just give it a try, but you don´t have to watch it, since it´s just an offer. but if you have watched it and think it´s bad, they can´t tell you to watch it. :D
i have a feeling this will be like you're beautiful or boys over flowers, they're fun to watch once, but dont try to rewatch because then you'll notice all the wtf moments that were lost in the newness of it the 1st time around.