In my article, I will explain how the Korean TV series Heirs focuses on class hierarchies and how this affects the characters in the drama. In the drama Heirs, Kim Tan is the illegitimate son of the chairman of Jeguk Group and his mistress. Because of this, Tan is forced to hide his illegitimate status so that he can one day inherit the company. For this reason, his legitimate older brother hates Tan and forces him to go to America. In America, Tan meets a girl named Cha Eun Sang. Eun Sang is a poor girl whose mother is Tan's mother's mute servant. Eun Sang goes to America to find her sister who she is angry at for abandoning their family while Eun Sang is still stuck in poverty. Eun Sang, who does not know that Tan is Jeguk's heir, returns to Korea hoping to never see him again. After returning to Korea, her house is foreclosed because of all her family's debts and because of this, Eun Sang and her mother are forced to move into the maid's quarters at Tan's house. Due to his growing feelings for Eun Sang, Tan decides to return to Korea to see her again. Although he eventually finds out that Eun Sang is poor and his mother is the family maid. When Tan reveals himself to Eun Sang as the second son of the Jeguk group, she is shocked and embarrassed by his social status. Because Tan's father wants to make sure that Eun Sang and Tan can never be together, he decides to offer Eun Sang admission to Jeguk High so that she knows her place in the social ladder. There, at Jeguk High, she is forced to learn how the social ladder of the rich works. At Jeguk, the students include Choi Young Do who is the heir to a huge hotel conglomerate and is Tan's former best friend, Yoo Rachel who is Tan's fiancé...... middle of paper... ...the couple is constantly plagued by their class differences, they are able to withstand these trials and Eun Sang is able to climb the social ladder and become part of the rich class. Heirs describes how the rich class works and its inner workings. Although the rich obviously receive more power than the poor, the rich often make varying efforts to maintain or increase their power. Tan, who is an illegitimate son, is constantly forced to hide his true parentage and enter into an arranged betrothal so that he can one day inherit the Jeguk group. Rachel's mother gives up love so she can live a life with money. Heirs consistently show that while more wealth equals more power, it doesn't always guarantee happiness. Tan therefore risks everything to experience this happiness that his social class constantly abandons for more power..