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.

Click here for episode seven.

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

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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.

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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.

This is a one to one comparison of each episode, each article will contain spoilers, especially when we get to the later episodes. Let’s begin with an introduction to each series. Click here for episode six.

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

Yang 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

Sizuki 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

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Marry My Husband – Korea Episode Seven

On the rooftop, Ji Hyuk and Ji Won discuss how Su Min needs to take Ji Won’s place in order to prevent her death. Ji Hyuk hadn’t realized how things worked. Ji Won imagines what her funeral must have been like. Ji Hyuk suggest they talk elsewhere.

He takes her to his apartment. His cat immediately loves her. They talk how there must be a substitute, a marriage for a marriage, a death for a death.

In 2023, after watching Ji Won’s urn be sealed in a mausoleum, his car won’t start. Frustrated, he stand in the rain when a cab suddenly appears. In the cab, Ji Hyuk expresses regret over all the missed chances. The cab driver asks what he would do if he had another chance. Hi Hyuk replies that he would take the chance and protect her.

In the present, Ji Won asks how he came back. He lies and says he fell asleep and when he woke up it was 2013.

The next morning, Miss Yang enters the office building when her husband calls. He says he can’t pick up their kid later. She hears their daughter in the background. He was supposed to take her to daycare but instead he’s playing video games. After she hangs up she wonders why her life is like this.

Mr Lee, who works closely with the Chairman, arrives and walks past her. Flashback to him telling her he hates people like her. Ji Hyuk wakes up to a call from his sister and suddenly rushes to work. Mr Lee stars unpacking his stuff. Hi Kyuk arrives and they to a conference room. Ji Hyuk is informed his relationship with Ji Won is under investigation and Miss Yang will be taking over the meal kit project, though Ji Won can join the team.

In a meeting, they’re all informed of the decision.

Outside, Min Hwan gives Su Min strawberry milk and encourages her to use this opportunity to get ahead of Ji Won.

Ji Hyuk goes to the restaurant where Eun Ho works. He asks him if he knows Dynamite and Spring Day, testing if Eun Ho also came back. Hui Yeon arrives to pick up Ji Hyuk who is passed out on the table.

At home, Ji Won tries calling Ji Hyuk but doesn’t get an answer.

During a conversation with his grandfather, Ji Hyuk is advised to get along with Mr. Lee. The grandfather then says he wants to meet Ji Won, but Ji Hyuk says that probably won’t happen because he wants her to be happy.

Ji Hyuk decides he will protect Ji Won this time, though he doesn’t think they can be together because he will die 2023.

At work, people are talking Royental stocks going up. Min Hwan says those are the stocks he sold for Ji Won. Min Hwan calls Ji Won outside. Su Min see the stocks she was looking at on her computer and buys some.

Min Hwan wants to Ji Won out somewhere nice and asks about the money he gave her when he sold the stocks. She says she invested it in insurance. He loses his temper and starts calling her names. She offers to lend him money, though she knows the stocks he still has are going to fail. She suggests they go out that weekend with Su Min.

The three of them go on a picnic in a park. Ji Won has memories of good times she had with Min Hwan. Miss Yang calls Ji Won, who leaves, though it was actually Eun Ho calling. She just wanted an excuse to leave. She meets up with him and gives her flowers.

In the office, Ji Hyuk explains why he couldn’t make her the leader of the project.

Ji Hyuk goes to Eun Ho’s restaurant again, tells him he wants to get to know him better and make sure he’s not a player.

Hui Yeon is asked to organize the upcoming workshop.

There a treasure hunt will decide sleeping accommodation. Min Hwan says the women should hang back, that he will get the number one flag for them.

Ji Won remembers that originally, she got the number 4 flag, Min Hwan got number 5 and Su Min ended up with the number 1 because Mr. Kim helped her. This time, they overhear where the number one flag is. Su Min wants to use Min Hwan to get it.

Ji Hyuk and Ji Won cross paths in the forest. She tells him she want to do things herself and doesn’t want him to do things he normally wouldn’t because of her. He shows her the heart on h is chest and tells her to use him however she wants. She insists that she wants to do things on her own, that she wants him to be happy as well as herself.

Su Min comes across Min Hwan, hurts herself on purpose then asks him to help her get the number one flag.

Ji Won sets out to get the flag. Ji hyuk over hears that the water is dangerous and goes and pull hers her out of the lake. He demands to know why she won’t let him help her. She doesn’t want to be like Su Min. She wants to do what’s right because that’s who she is.

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Marry My Husband – Japan Episode Seven

Misa goes out with her friends, who are worried about her after Reina’s announcement, but she’s never felt so relieved or free.

Reina has dinner with Tomoya’s parents. His mother becomes overbearing, demanding that they get married as soon as possible. She’s already booked a venue for christmas eve. She says she will take care of everything. Tomoya flees when Reina looks to him for help.

Misa stumbles home drunk and crosses off the wedding in her day timer. Wataru calls and asks her out for the next day.

The next day, Wataru asks Misa if Tomoya or Reina have tried to contact her. She thinks Reina is lying about the pregnancy. He then asks her what she wants to do with her life and she tells him she has a list.

At the cafe, Misa looks at the christmas decorations while Tanbe and Wataru talk. Tanbe expresses regret for never telling Misa how he felt about her. When Tanbe asks him about his feelings for Misa, Wataru says he has things he needs to do.

Tomoya sees Wataru and Misa outside the cafe and freaks out, running between people to get there but when he arrives they’ve already left.

Wataru and Misa go to their oil school. When Misa asks how long it’s been since they’ve been there, Wataru initially says 20 years, then corrects himself to 10. They sit by the pond and she tells him about when the pond dried up and found the note on the tree. He doesn’t tell her it was him that saved her turtle. It starts to rain and they run together, laughing.

Reina goes shopping with Tomoya’s mother, has a flashback of chasing her own mother as a child.

The next day, Misa has lunch with Miku and Sumiyoshi. They ask about her “date” with Wataru, but Misa insists it wasn’t a date. They overhead coworkers talking about Reina’s upcoming wedding. Miku shows Misa the invitation and Misa says “it’s the same.”

Reina and Tomoya fight about wedding preparations and he suggests they call it off.

When Misa returns home, Reina is waiting in the lobby of her apartment building, and Misa lets her in. Reina vents about wanting to call off the wedding since no one is going to show up. Misa promises to help get people there. Tomoya calls while Reina is there but Misa doesn’t answer. Outside, Reina smiles and says to herself “look like she’s still worth using.”

Sumiyoshi walks with her daughter. When they get to her husband’s restaurant, she opens the door to see her husband kissing one of his employees. Misa makes phone calls to convince people to go to the wedding. Tomoya texts her, asking to meet. At the restaurant where he proposed to her, he tells her he wants to call off the wedding because he loves her. She tells him off. As she goes to leave her asks about her relationship with Wataru, which she informs him is none of his business. She encourages him to take responsibility for his actions and that they are never getting back together.

Wataru meets with a client about creating a food delivery service within his company, knowing it will be in demand in the future.

At the wedding, Misa thanks everyone for coming. Her highschool classmates show up wearing flashy clothing and they apologize to her for how they treated her in High School. Wataru arrives just before the ceremony. Offering his arm, they walk in together.

As the wedding takes place, the scene transitions between the present and Misa’s wedding to Tomoya. Misa looks emotional and Wataru takes her hand. Misa gives a speech that sounds nice on the surface but has very insulting undertones. She turns the microphone off then says something else we don’t hear. She leaves the venue, walking alone on the street. Wataru arrives and puts a coat on her. They to try to find a place to go but all the restaurants are fully booked (it’s christmas eve) so he invites her to his place.

At his apartment, she sees the turtle and realizes it’s Kamekichi and that Wataru is the one who saved him. She starts crying and he shows her christmas decorations to cheer her up. It starts snowing. She asks him if she’s going to kiss and, after a brief hesitation, he does.

Reina moves into Tomoya’s apartment. Reina tries to call Misa, but discovers she’s been blocked, so Reina goes to Misa’s apartment and finds it empty. Using Instagram, she find Miku and Tanbe food shopping and follows them back to Wataru’s apartment building. Reina watches them from outside.

Flashback to Misa telling Reina Wataru was a womanizer, all the times Misa pushed Reina towards Tomoya and Misa at the end of her speech saying “Thank you for picking up the trash I threw away.” and Reina realizes what Misa did. She throws her wedding ring in anger.

Inside, Miku asks Misa to get tea leaves. When she opens a jar to look she finds and origami candy wrapper like the ones her father used to make for her.

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Episode Comparison

As the two timelines are now completely different, I’m going to stop trying to compare them one to one. Instead, I will post the detailed outlines of the episodes, then do a final comparison to the two series over all.