Pinocchio
Pinocchio is a 2014–2015 South Korean television series
It aired on SBS from November 12, 2014 to January 15,
2015 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (12:55 UTC) for 20 episodes.
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Plot
In the year 2000, Ki Ha-myung
(Lee Jong-suk) is
leading a happy life with his parents and elder brother Jae-myung, 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 sensationalizes the case by scapegoating 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 outcasts in
their neighborhood and objects of national scorn. Ki Ho-sang's wife kills
herself and her younger son (Ha-myung) by jumping off a cliff, and Jae-myung
blames their deaths on the media, particularly Cha-ok.
But Ha-myung 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 Alzheimer's disease 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-myung, who has no one
else in the world, embraces the deception and treats Gong-pil as his father.
Gong-pil officially adopts Ha-myung, 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 "Pinocchio syndrome," which causes her to hiccup 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 a genius, pretends to
be dumb (like the real Dal-po) and gets all zeroes in his test scores 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 family is in, Dal-po
is forced to work as a taxi driver 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 framing 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 publicity stunt.
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 chaebol background
and has a connection to In-ha via a wrong cellphone number, and Yoon Yoo-rae,
once an idol sasaeng fan 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.
Main Role
Lee Jong-suk as Choi Dal-po /Ki Ha-myung
Nam Da-reum as young Dal-po/Ha-myung
After a misleading news report destroyed his family, Ha-myung began to live a new life as Dal-po. He hides his intelligence and past memories behind a facade. His feelings for In-ha have always been conflicted with his hatred for her mother, but he finds that he cannot deny them as they grow older. After years of being a taxi driver, he decides to become a reporter with In-ha to prove his family's innocence, and show reporter Song Cha-ok what being a true reporter means. However, Dal-po soon realizes that a reporter must constantly struggle with the idea of justice and truth in a world where everyone wants to hide the facts for their self-interests.
Park Shin-hye as Choi In-ha
Roh
Jeong-eui as young In-ha
Kim Young-kwang as Seo Beom-jo
Lee Yu-bi as Yoon Yoo-rae
China – Youku Tudou:
Japan – EISEI GEKIJO
Malaysia – ONE TV ASIA & 8TV
Singapore – ONE TV ASIA] & Mediacorp Channel U
Philippines – GMA Network and GMA News TV
Sri Lanka - Sirasa TV - It was broadcast by the name Ikkai
Mai
Thailand – Channel 7 & MEDIA84
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