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Heirs

★ 7.5 17K votes 2013–2013 1 season · 20 episodes Ended SBS
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 10/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 8/10Elites & privilegeThe rich and powerful, glamorous or rotten.This show: 8/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 8/10Young adultTeen protagonists with teen-first appeal.This show: 7/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Lee Min-hoPark Shin-hyeKim Woo-binChoi Jin-hyukKrystal JungKim Ji-won
Starring
Lee Min-hoPark Shin-hyeKim Woo-binChoi Jin-hyukKrystal JungKim Ji-won
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About

"Cinderella fantasy dressed up as high school drama"

Set at an elite high school for Korea's wealthiest families, the story follows a girl from a poor background who gets swept into that world after a chance encounter abroad, then finds herself enrolled alongside the sons and daughters of conglomerate dynasties. It's glossy, melodramatic K-drama comfort food: love triangles, family power struggles, class tension, and slow-burn romance shot through with soapy cliffhangers. The pace is unhurried and the plotting leans on genre tropes, but the chemistry between leads and the wish-fulfillment fantasy of it all carry the momentum.

Watch it for

the star-driven romance and glossy escapism of watching wealth and love triangles collide.

Maybe skip if

you find slow-burn melodrama or repetitive misunderstandings frustrating rather than charming.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12013
7.52K2019h 42m
Kim Tan is the heir to Empire Group who has been sent to study abroad in the U.S. In reality it's a form of exile, as his elder half-brother back home schemes to take over the family business. While in the States, Tan meets Cha Eun-sang, who 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 Yu Rachel arrives to bring him back to Korea, his heart is torn between love and duty.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Romance Between the Heirs Start6.9
15860 min
▶2A Love Encounter6.7
12760 min
▶3A Romantic Relationship and Emotional Entanglements6.7
11963 min
▶4Meeting Under the Same Roof7.0
11363 min
▶5Eun Sang Transfers to Imperial High School6.9
11059 min
▶6A Tense Situation Between Young Do and Kim Tan7.1
10859 min
▶7The Bossy Young Do and the Warm Kim Tan6.9
10559 min
▶8Kim Tan and Eun Sang's Romantic Kiss on the Rooftop7.2
10658 min
▶9Kim Tan and Young Do Fight for Love7.6
11659 min
▶10The Plan to Save Love7.8
10158 min
▶11Twist and Turns Between Kim Tan and Eun Sang8.0
9859 min
▶12True Love in Silence8.1
10159 min
▶13Kim Tan and Eun Sang Are Open with Their Romance8.1
9859 min
▶14The Continuity of Sweet Love8.2
10259 min
▶15The Engagement Between Kim Tan and Rachel Is Dissolved8.0
9858 min
▶16Forced to Be Apart7.9
10658 min
▶17A New Kind of Love8.1
9858 min
▶18Reunions Are Difficult8.1
9958 min
▶19The War Between Heirs8.2
9958 min
▶20A Happy Ending for Kim Tan and Eun Sang7.8
13558 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Lee Min-ho Kim Tan
Park Shin-hye Cha Eun-sang
Kim Woo-bin Choi Yeong-do
Choi Jin-hyuk Kim Won
Krystal Jung Lee Bo-na
Kim Ji-won Rachel Yoo
Kang Min-hyuk Yoon Chan-yeong
Kang Ha-neul Lee Hyo-sin
Park Hyung-sik Jo Myeong-soo
Jeon Soo-jin Kang Ye-sol

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