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Pinnochio

Guys, omg hahaha ipopost ko na lang dito yung synopsis ng Pinnochio from wikipedia, ha! Para mas mag-gets nyo. Medyo mahaba nga lang.

Pinnochio (synopsis) by Wikipedia:

In the year 2000, Ki Ha-myeong (Lee Jongsuk) is leading a happy life with his parents and older brother Jae-myeong, until his father Ki Ho-sang, the captain of the firefighting squad, dies in a factory explosion during a rescue attempt along with several of his men. When Ho-sang's body is initially missing, the media case by him. In a battle for ratings, cold and calculating MSC reporter Song Cha-Ok alleges that Ho-sang survived the blast, and is currently in hiding because he was responsible for the deaths of his men. This causes the Ki family to become in their neighborhood and objects of national scorn. Ki Ho-sang's wife kills herself and her younger son (Ha-myeong) by jumping off a cliff, and Jae-myeong blames their deaths on the media, particularly Cha-ok.

But Ha-myeong is alive, having been rescued from the water by Choi Gong-pil, a kind elderly man who lives on Hyangri Island. Gong-pil, who may either have or trauma-induced memory loss, believes that Ha-myung is his older son Choi Dal-po, a simpleton who had died thirty years earlier. Ha-myeong, who has no one else in the world, embraces the deception and treats Gong-pil as his father. Gong-pil officially adopts Ha-myeong, now named Dal-po, and places him in the family register as his eldest son. Five months later, when Gong-pil's younger son Choi Dal-pyung moves to the island with his daughter Choi In-ha, they are flabbergasted to be told by Gong-pil to address a mere boy as their "older brother" and "uncle," respectively. Choi In-ha (Park Shin-Hye) has " syndrome," which causes her to whenever she tells a lie.She idolizes her mother, and hates living on the island after her parents' divorce. The fledgling friendship between Dal-po and In-ha is dashed, however, when he learns that In-ha's mother is none other than Song Cha-ok.

Five years later, In-ha and Dal-po are high school seniors and classmates at their small-town high school. Dal-po, who is actually a genius, pretends to be dumb (like the real Dal-po) and gets all zeroes in his test scores in order to keep up the deception in front of Choi Gong-pil. With his last-place class standing and scruffy, country bumpkin hair, Dal-po is friendless at school while In-ha is the most popular girl. Dal-po secretly likes In-ha, and he is forced to join a televised quiz show at first to prevent Ahn Chan Soo, who has a crush on In Ha, from confessing to her on national TV. At the TV studio, he runs into the show producer Hwang Gyo-dong, who had been a YGN reporter and one of Cha-ok's rivals, but changed careers after what happened to the Ki family. After seeing Dal-po on TV, and despite knowing that her Pinocchio syndrome limits her career choices, In-ha decides to become a journalist.

In 2013, the Choi family has moved back to the city. In-ha has spent the last three years after college studying to become a reporter, but continuously fails her job interviews; on the other hand, due to the poverty-stricken condition the Choi's is in, Dal-po is forced to work as a taxi driver in order to make ends meet. Cha-ok, who hasn't seen her daughter in a decade and is now MSC's nightly news anchor and section chief, fails In-ha at her final interview, saying a reporter with Pinocchio syndrome would be useless. Seeing how hurt In-ha is at her mother's rejection, Dal-po becomes determined to help her achieve her dream and announces that he wants to become a reporter as well. A month later, In-ha and Dal-po apply at YGN's "blind" audition for broadcast news reporters, but only Dal-po gets hired. When confronted by Gyo-dong, now-chief of YGN's news desk, Dal-po confesses his real identity as well as his real motive for taking the job: he wants to find his older brother Jae-myung and clear their father's name. But what he doesn't know is that Jae-myung has taken revenge on the factory workers who lied about their father by killing two of them and the third one. Meanwhile, with MSC's credibility rating at an all-time low, Cha-ok hires In-ha, using her Pinocchio syndrome in a . Thus, Dal-po and In-ha become rookies at rival networks, and among their colleagues are Seo Beom-jo, who comes from a rich, sheltered background and has a connection to In-ha via a wrong cellphone number, and Yoon Yoo-rae, once an who now uses those obsessive and determined traits in her new job.

Later in her line of work, In-ha discovers Choi Dal-po's real identity is Ki Ha-myung and is disgusted by what her mother Cha-ok did to his family during the fire accident. In a lecture held by Cha-ok, In-ha stood up against her and in the process revealing to Jae-myung that Ha-myung, his dead brother, is actually alive. Together, they try to bring Cha-ok down through their honest news reporting all the while uncovering a bigger conspiracy in the news industry.

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Sorry, ang haba! Hahaha, hayaan nyo na, kumpleto naman yan. So ayun nga, favorite ko tong Pinnochio kasi matatalino characters dito. Yes po, matatalino Alam nyo yun, walang bobong galaw. Lol. Favorite ko dito si Yoon YU- Rae, e. Sobrang cute nya kasi tapos ang assumera nya. Spirit animal ko sya, tbh. LOL.

Like ko ang flow of story tapos ang ginamit pa nilang line of work ay news reporting. Alam nyo kasi guys pangarap ko din kasing maging reporter kaya HUMSS kukunin ko sa Grade 11. Yezzz sir! Sobrang interesting nung story from each angle, ganoin! Interesting lahat ng story ng bawat characters.  Ang lakas ng chemistry ni Park Shin Hye at Lee Jong Suk, bakit ganooooon! Cute nila para sa isa't-isa! Pero naawa ako kay Bum Jo, huhu bakit lagi nyo lang pinapahirapan mga second lead. Sobrang sakit kaya.

Sobrang like ko din ang character development ng lahat! Hindi kinulang, di sobra. Sakto lang. Pinakagusto ko talaga is yung kay Sung Cha Ok. Alam nyo nung una yes galit ako sa kanya siguro mga hanggang ep 5 lang. Hindi ako ganon kagalit sa kanya na kaya kong murahin yung tv screen namin. Para kasing feel ko na mahal nya talaga anak nya di lang nya maipakita or maiexpress ng ayos. Kahit lagi nyang minamaliit si In Ha di ko magawang magalit sa kanya. Hmmm, siguro kasi maganda sya? LOL

Sobrang funny ng grupo ng MSC at YGN. Nagpaparinigan sila palagi ajajaja. Sobrang tawang tawa ako sa tuwing magpaparesere sila ng table sa restaurant tapos nauunahan ng msc at ygn. girrrl, the was has begun!!! Funny din nung nag talk si Sung Cha OK, nandon YGN tapos sobrang extra ni Yu Rae. You go giiirrrll

Siguro ang di ko lang talaga nagustuhan dito is yung di tinuloy love story ni Yoon Yu Rae at Cap. Ang taas pa naman ng expectations ko!!!

What I've learned from this is: THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL! De, ano. Kahit ano manyari, kahit sino man magkasala, kahit kapatid mo man yan o nanay mo, ang dapat at tama mong gawin ay ilabas ang totoo at wag mo nang takpan ang nagawa nila. 

Dahil dito sa kdrama, nalaman ko ang tunay na trabaho ng isang news reporter at kung ano ba talaga ang tunay na meaning ng katotohanan

SOBRANG NAIINSPIRE AKO MAGING NEWS REPORTER SOMEEDAYYYY!!! HWAITINGGGG!

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