This series was meant to be a one to one comparison of each episode of the Korean vs Japanese versions of the drama Marry My Husband. However, due to the different number of episodes, the timelines are vastly different. Therefore, from here on, I will not be making a comparison at the end of each post. Instead, I will post the detailed summaries of each episode and then at the end, compare the two dramas as a whole.
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Synopsis (from MyDramaList): Kang Ji Won’s marriage to Park Min Hwan is strained due to his selfishness, unemployment, and a domineering mother. Ji Won is the family’s sole breadwinner and does all the household chores. When she is diagnosed with terminal cancer, her world shatters further as she discovers her husband’s affair with her close friend, Jung Soo Min. A confrontation leads to her tragic death at Min Hwan’s hands. However, Ji Won wakes up 10 years in the past, before she married Min Hwan. Determined to change her fate, she plots to make Soo Min marry him instead. Meanwhile, Yoo Ji Hyeok, her colleague, secretly harbors feelings for Ji Won and conceals a hidden truth.
Release Year: 2024
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime
Characters:
Kang Ji Won – Main Protaganist
Park Min Hwan – Ji Won’s Husband/Boyfriend
Jung Soo Min – Ji Won’s Best Friend
Yoo Ji Hyuk – Ji Won’s Boss
Yoo Hui Yeon – Ji Won’s coworker and friend
Baek Eun Ho – Ji Won’s highscool classmate/ first crush
Yan Ju Ran – Ji Won’s senior co worker
Kim Gyeong Uk – Ji Won’s supervisor
Number of episodes: 16
Synopsis (from MyDramaList): The protagonist Kanbe Misa, who has always lived a life of a “supporting character” because she is too kind and always puts others first, believes in her best friend and husband and continues to do her best, but she loses her life due to their betrayal. However, she suddenly realizes that she has traveled back in time to 10 years ago. Misa plans revenge to ruin her former best friend and husband, but her encounter with Suzuki Wataru, a department manager with whom she had no connection in her first life, brings about a new change in Misa’s heart as she seeks revenge…
Release Year: 2025
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime
Characters:
Kanbe Misa – Main Protagonist
Hirano Tomoya – Misa’s Husband/Boyfriend
Esaka Reina – Misa’s Best Friend
Suzuki Wataru – Misa’s Boss
Suzuki Miku – Misa’s coworker and friend
Sumiyoshi Yuriko – Misa’s senior coworker
Tanbe Yuto – Misa’s highschool classmate/first crush
Section Chief Tomita: Misa’s direct supervisor
Number of Episodes: 10
Marry My Husband – Korea Episode Eight
Min Hwan and Su Min arrive at the water together only to find the number on flag is already gone.
Flashback – Ji Won had previously had number 4, Su Min had number one. Min Hwan went to Ji Won’s tent. Ji Won hopes things will progress if Su Min ends up in the tent. Su Min gets the number four flag, then see Ji Won. She tries to steal Ji Won’s name badge in order to gain the flag but Ji Won fights back. Su Min is hurt in the struggle. Though she initially walks away, Ji Won goes back to check on her. Su Min hides and takes Ji Won’s name back and flag. Ji Won fought back again and gets the flag back.
After the winner are announced, Su Min approaches Ji Won, wanting to know why she’s behaving the way she is. Ji Won responds that she doesn’t like Su Min anymore, that she’s going to marry Min Hwan and start a new family.
Su Min and Min Hwan talk alone, start kissing. Ji Won sees and starts to cry. Ji Hyuk arrives and leads her away. He comforts her and they have a heart to heart conversation.
The next morning, Min Hwan approaches Ji Won, calling her heartless for sleeping in the camper while he had to sleep in a sleeping bag. She says she went to bring him hand warmers last night but he wasn’t there. They go for breakfast and Min Hwan acts like a good boyfriend. Su Min watches jealously.
At home, Su Min scratches Ji Won’s face out of photos.
At the gym, Min Hwan brags to his friend about sleeping with Su Min.
At the office, Min Hwan is scheduled for a work outing with Su Min. As they’re leaving, Su Min gives Ji Won a letter.
At the work outing Su Min keeps acting provocatively around Min Hwan. When she leaves to get the allergies sign, he follow her. They go to a private area and start making out, but Min Hwan gets a call. At the tasting a man is having an allergic reaction. The man is taken to the hospital where Min Hwan apologizes profusely. The man decides to let it go.
Min Hwan’s stocks tank and he’s unable to sell them, but the used credit and a loan to buy them so now he’s huge in debt.
Min Hwan tries to break things off with Su Min, who subtlety hints at tell Ji Won.
Min Hwan and Ji Won for for a drink. He asks her to marry him sooner than planned.
Ji Won tells Ji Hyuk about the kitten she used to feed in college. She feels bad for not taking him in after he disappeared. Ji Hyuk tells he was discharged early from hi military service because he hurt himself saving a kitten from being hit by a car. Ji Won realizes it was the same cat and is overjoyed that the cat was saved.
They go to his apartment to see the cat. Ji Won laments that she’ll have to endure Min Hwan’s lame proposal again. Flashback to show how terrible it was.
A much nicer proposal happens involving drones.
Marry My Husband – Japan Episode Eight
Episode eight begins with a flashback to Reina’s childhood. She chases after her mother, is left with her father and unwanted by her step mother. She gives her mother a mother’s day gift, but just gets yelled at. One day she comes home to find her mother on the railing of the balcony, saying she’s going to kill herself. She throws a glass at her daughter and then falls over the railing. After the funeral her father tells her he’s moving and can’t take her with him. She’s to be left with relatives. The step mother gives her some friendship bracelets.
Later, she comes across young Misa crying in the park, gives her one of the bracelets, and tells her that she’ll be Misa’s friend.
In the present, Reina returns home. Tomoya calls her, angry and tells her to get to his parents house. She hangs up. She finds old pictures of her and Misa. Flashback to them promising to be best friends forever. She sets the pictures on fire.
Back to Misa and her friends. She leaves the dinner to go to a neighbouring apartment she is now renting to look for wasabi. Miku asks her brother why Misa doesn’t just move in with him and he says they aren’t in that kind of relationship.
They celebrate the new year’s countdown and then watch the first sunrise together. Wataru gives Misa a white envelope.
At a hospital, Misa gets an MRI. Wataru’s gift to her was a health check up. Flashback to times he said things that imply he might know the future. She asks him if there’s something he hasn’t told her. She asks if he ever met her father but he doesn’t get to answer.
The restaurant they frequented closes.
Reina goes to the real estate office, pretending to be Misa.
At work, Tomoya looks miserable, people are talking behind his back. He gets a call from a debt collector.
During lunch, Sumiyoshi tells Misa and Miku that her husband is cheating. They offer to go with her to catch him in the act. They go to the girl’s apartment. Things play out like the beginning of episode one, when Misa caught Tomoya and Reina together. Misa prevents Sumiyoshi from falling over the balcony but then she suddenly clutches her stomach in pain, collapses and falls down the stairs.
At the hospital, Sumiyoshi has survived but the interaction with the doctor is like Misa’s before. It looks like Misa’s fate was transferred to Sumiyoshi.
Tomoya finally comes clean to Reina about his debt and she tells him that she lied about being pregnant and blames Misa for tricking her into stealing him. Reina vows to ruin Misa’s happiness. Tomoya’s mother overheard everything and collapses in the doorway.
At work, Sumiyoshi tells Misa she has cancer and asks her to take over the project they’ve been working on while Sumiyoshi gets treatment. Misa is devastated. Her own health exam came back as excellent.
At the end of the work day, Misa calls Wataru to ask if he has some time. Near the end of the call, Tomoya shows up. He starts blaming her for his life being ruined and attacks her. Wataru finds her bag on the ground. He saves Misa from being strangled and Tomoya tries to choke him too, but Misa pushes him away. Tomoya tells her it’s her turn to take responsibility for her actions and that she deserves to die for what she’s done.
Wataru takes her to a safe place and she treats a wound on his hand. She tells him everything, but instead of revealing he too came back after dying, he basically calls her crazy and says they won’t meet in private again.
Wataru goes to meet Tanbe at his cafe, then to the airport.