Marry My Husband (๋ด ๋จํธ๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํผํด์ค) began as a web novel by Sung So-jak. It won a prize in Naverโs 2019 webtoon and web novel contest and was serialized exclusively on Naver Series. LICO, handling both story adaptation and art, turned it into a webtoon that posted its first episode on Naver Webtoon on November 2, 2021. The main story ended with episode 58 on December 13, 2022, a ten-episode side story followed through February 21, 2023, and with the afterword the series closed at 69 episodes. The premise: Kang Ji-won, terminally ill, is killed by her husband Park Min-hwan, who is having an affair with her best friend Jeong Su-min, and wakes up ten years in the past. Stories where a character returns to the past with their memories intact are usually called regression stories in Korean webtoons; this one turns that setup into a revenge plot in which Ji-won hands her old fate to the friend who betrayed her. The title is the plan itself.
What carried the webtoon far beyond Korea was the sixteen-episode tvN drama that aired from January 1 to February 20, 2024. Shin Yoo-dam wrote it, Park Won-guk and Han Jin-seon directed, and Park Min-young played Ji-won, Na In-woo played Yu Ji-hyuk, Lee Yi-kyung played Min-hwan, and Song Ha-yoon played Su-min. The finale drew a nationwide rating of 11.951%, with the series averaging 9.126%. It was also the first Korean drama to top Prime Videoโs global daily TV rankings since the platform launched internationally in 2016.
That success led directly to a Japanese version. Released on Amazon Prime Video on June 27, 2025 as Watashi no Otto to Kekkon Shite, it runs ten episodes, two per Friday, with Takeru Satoh and Fuka Koshiba in the lead roles and Ahn Gil-ho, director of The Glory, behind the camera. It was not a simple remake but a Korea-Japan co-production between Studio Dragon, CJ ENM, and Japanโs Shochiku, and as of July 2025 reports it had reached number one on Prime Video in Japan. The Japanese version pulled the Korean original back into Prime Videoโs top ten, where it climbed to third, and from July 6 the Japanese series also aired on tvN in Korea.
The reason to pick it up now is that all the versions can be read and watched side by side: the web novel, the webtoon, the Korean drama, and the Japanese drama tell the same skeleton at different tempos. As of August 2026, however, there has been no announcement of a Korean season two or sequel. The webtoon is available from episode one on Naver Webtoon and Naver Series, and the English edition is on WEBTOON. If you watched the drama first, the ten-episode side story that follows the main 58 episodes is worth reading, since that part never made it to the screen. (As of August 21, 2026)
