Scripted series · SBS
Stairway to Heaven
A heartbreaking love story between four men and women that can only be called fate.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kwon Sang-woo
Cha Song Ju
20 eps
Choi Ji-woo
Han Jeong Seo / Kim Ji Su
20 eps
Shin Hyun-jun
Han Tae Hwa / Han Cheol Su
20 eps
Kim Tae-hee
Han Yu Ri
20 eps
Lee Hwi-hyang
Tae Mi Ra
20 eps
Park Shin-hye
Han Jeong Seo (Young)
20 eps
Baek Sung-hyun
Cha Song Ju (Young)
20 eps
Ha Jae-yeong
Professor Han Su Ha
20 eps
Kim Ji-sook
Chairperson Min Seo Hyeon
20 eps
Jung Han-yong
Han Pil Su
20 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Stairway to Heaven actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Stairway to Heaven reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Song Ju and Jeong Seo who have lost a father and a mother respectively spend their childhood together like real siblings. Song Ju is there for Jeong Seo whenever she feels lonely and has a hard time, and Jeong Seo also relies a lot on Song Ju. However, after Jeong Seo's father gets married to Tae Mi Ra, Mi Ra and her daughter Yu Ri keep harassing Jeong Seo out of jealousy. Tae Hwa, Yu Ri's rough and wild older brother, has a crush on Jeong Seo who is pure and kind unlike him.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 20 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200320 episodes
8.4IMDbThe relationship of childhood sweethearts Cha Song Ju and Han Jeong Seo becomes complicated when Jeong Seo's father remarries. Along with a new stepmother, Jeong Seo also has a new introverted stepbrother, Han Tae Hwa and a scheming stepsister, Han Yu Ri. Gradually, Tae Hwa falls in love with kind-hearted Jeong Seo and Yu Ri decides to pursue Song Ju. Nothing can shake the bond between Jeong Seo and Song Ju, however, not even Song Ju's departure to study abroad in America. On the night of his return, however, Jeong Seo is mysteriously hit by a car and believed dead. Having lost her memory in the crash, she is taken in by Tae Hwa, who relocates and gives her another name. Five years later, on the eve of his engagement to Yu Ri, Song Ju sees someone who looks exactly like his lost love Jeong Seo.
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