SPOTLIGHT

spotlight
Director : Kim Do Hoon
Writer : Lee Ki Won

Main Cast :
Ji Jin Hee as Oh Tae Suk
Son Ye Jin as Seo Woo Jin
Jo Yoon Hee as Yang Myung Eun
Jin Goo as Lee Sun Chul


Supporting Cast:
Kim Jung Wook as Seo Woo Hyun
Kim Bo Kyung as Lee Joo Hee
Ahn Suk Hwan
Lee Gi Yul
Jung Hye Young (cameo)

Episode : 16
Broadcast : MBC
Aired : 2008-May-14 to 2008-July-3

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Synopsis (credit: www.MBC.co.kr)
Hours and days of effort go into preparing a 1-minute TV news story. Behind the scenes, office politics and frantic activity takes place and this TV drama illustrates the daily lives of network reporters as authentically as possible.
Woo-jin (actress Sohn Ye-jin) passed the highly competitive process of joining the news bureau of a major TV network to achieve her dream of becoming an anchorwoman. While undergoing the grueling first years as a cub reporter in the society newsdesk, she comes across a few bitter experiences. No matter how hard she works, her Cap, Oh Tae-seok(actor Ji Jin-Hee) somehow always finds fault with her abilities and it drives Woo-jin into a rage. But she finds the strength to rebound and channels her anger into fighting back and becoming a hard-hitting investigative journalist. At first, she wanted the prestige of becoming an anchorwoman but through Oh Tae-seok’s hard training, she grows into a true journalist. She begins to develop a respect for Oh Tae-seok as a mentor and gradually falls in love with him….
Woo-jin is an aggressive journalist on the society newsdesk of GBS newsroom, who will do anything it takes to get a scoop. Woo-jin successfully interviews a fugitive but she rubs the police the wrong way because she interfered with their manhunt. The officers confiscate the tape that contains the interview. Through a series of events, she is able to recover the tape but since it has no audio track it cannot be aired on the 9 o’clock news. Everyone blames Woo-jin for not taping the interview correctly and she finds her job in a tenuous position.
Amidst her troubles, reporter Oh Tae-seok returns to the bureau as Woo-jin’s boss. The appearance of Tae-seok creates tensions in the newsroom. On the first day of Tae-seok’s appearance, he harshly reprimands Woo-jin and they get off to a bad start.
Woo-jin grows into a better reporter after handling a variety of assignments and Tae-seok looks on with approval of her progress. He becomes enamored with the person he mentored. Tae-seok transforms Woo-jin into a better journalist and those changes also open up Tae-seok’s heart. As Woo-jin and Tae-seok take on difficult assignments where they are threatened and pressured to back off, they develop a camaraderie that grows into feelings of love. Woo-jin gradually becomes a brilliant journalist who no longer needs any guidance from Tae-seok.
Meanwhile, Woo-jin is in the running to become the new co-anchor of GBS Nightly Spotlight after she wins the prestigious Press Award for Excellence in Reporting.
She appears as the new co-anchor of the 9 o’clock news and Tae-seok looks at his erstwhile mentee with pride but also a touch of sadness.
Why didn’t he have the guts to tell Woo-jin that he wanted to be with her? Tae-seok heads to the airport on his foreign correspondent assignment while cursing his lack of courage.
But at the airport he finds Woo-jin, who had sped to the airport after delivering her the news, waiting for him.
Misty-eyed, they hug each other.
Woo-jin and Tae-seok then take their relationship to the next level.

Ratings

Date

Episode

Nationwide

Seoul

2008/05/14

1

8.8 (13th)

9.2 (12th)

2008/05/15

2

6.7

(<7.6)

2008/05/21

3

11.0 (7th)

11.5 (7th)

2008/05/22

4

12.2 (8th)

12.7 (8th)

2008/05/28

5

12.9 (7th)

13.0 (7th)

2008/05/29

6

10.9 (8th)

11.4 (8th)

2008/06/04

7

11.3 (8th)

11.1 (8th)

2008/06/05

8

10.0 (11th)

10.3 (9th)

2008/06/11

9

9.6 (9th)

10.1 (7th)

2008/06/12

10

10.2 (10th)

10.6 (8th)

2008/06/18

11

8.5 (20th)

8.6 (16th)

2008/06/19

12

8.7 (13th)

8.8 (13th)

2008/06/25

13

9.2 (11th)

9.6 (9th)

2008/06/26

14

8.8 (12th)

9.1 (12th)

2008/07/02

15

8.8 (19th)

8.7 (18th)

2008/07/03

16

8.1 (17th)

8.5 (15th)

Source : TNS Media Korea

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