Kevin C. Wong

Marry My Husband (2024) [+]

Marry My Husband is a South Korean romance-drama running sixteen 70-minute episodes.

It's 2023 and Kang Ji-won (Park Min-young: Her Private Life, 2019; When the Weather is Fine, 2020; Forecasting Love and Weather, 2022) is dying of terminal cancer. All the worse when she walks in on her husband Park Min-hwan (Lee Yi-kyung) cheating with her best friend Jeong Su-min (Song Ha-yoon) and they end up accidentally killing her.

And then Ji-won wakes up and it's 2013 with all her future memories intact. She's back as an office worker with longtime boyfriend Min-hwan and best friend Su-min also working in her office. Ji-won soon discovers that events will still happen (for example getting an injury in the same place even though she avoided the initial accident it still happens a bit later in a new accident).

One thing that's different is Yoo Ji-hyuk (Na In-woo), one of the directors at her company, who seems to show up in her life and interacts with her much more than she remembers. This is also how she discovers that fate can be transferred because he saves her from an injury that he gets instead. So Ji-won decides that to avoid her gory fate she has to get Su-min to marry Min-hwan.

Unbeknownst to Ji-won though, Ji-hyuk also came back in time and is determined to help her. He also knows that he is destined to die in a car crash which happened soon after her death in 2023 and this is a fact he does not tell her until much later so even though romance is forming between the two he is still sometimes standoffish.

This is a high quality production with lots of nice locations. There's a cool CGI sequence when Ji-won sees her 2023 memory of Seoul's buildings get unbuilt back to 2013. This is also a production where everyone is rather attractive and Ji-won going from indifferently dressed office worker to a knockout after getting styled and dressed by her new friend Yoo Hui-yeon (Choi Gyu-ri).

I do like upper class romances so I think this is my favorite Park Min-young series so far. The gimmick is interesting without giving the main characters super powers. The last episode does a fair job getting to a good ending. Overall a really good series.