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Filipino telenovela versions are all the rage
By Alwin M. Ignacio, Contributor
07/17/2008
Regine Velasquez must be on cloud nine these days. Her latest TV offering, Ako Si Kim Sam Soon, wherein she portrays the role of the middle-aged, horizontally challenged woman baker, premiered with a whopping 33.8 percent ratings. To date, it continues to be in the 30-plus mark.
Kim Sam Soon is, of course, the title character originally portrayed by South Korean actress Kim Seon-Ah, which was a major romantic comedy hit in said country. Koreans loved the story of a single, overweight lady in her mid-thirties whose main passion and skills are baking, does not have much of a social life, is obsessed with changing her rather embarrassing name, owning a bake shop of her own, and who finds a man who would love her for who she is. In her home country, Kim Sam Soon glued Koreans to their television sets; when it bid farewell, 50.5 percent of Korean households tuned in for the finale.
Filipinos also loved it when the series was shown here, which is why fans rejoice at the show’s Filipino incarnation with Velasquez at the title role and Mark Anthony Fernandez as Cyrus, the object of her affection
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