The Story of Park's Marriage Contract | Spotlight

A heart-attacked CEO meets a transmigrated girl who keeps calling him her husband. 

Notable Actors/Actresses

Baek In-hyuk: Kang Tae-ha

Lee Se-young: Park Yeon-woo

Korean Title

열녀박씨 계약결혼뎐

Genres: Contemporary, Romcom, Fantasy, Contemporary Romcom

Network: MBC

Year: 2023
Episodes: 12

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Cast

Baek In-hyuk: Kang Tae-ha	Lee Se-young: Park Yeon-woo

Romcom/Romance Checklist

How much of the plot is angst/romance?

0 / 1 / 2.5 / 3.25 / 4 / 5

The ML: 

Cold–Lukewarm–Warm / Timid / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General /

The FL: 

Bold / Cute / Cool & Dependent / Falls in Love First / Better than ML / Noble Idiot / 

Describe the Relationship (the tropes):

Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Hidden Identity / School to Adulthood / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / Star-Crossed Lovers Theme / 

Relationship Progress (officially together; first (official) kiss; breakup*):

Ep 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8* / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

# of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 2 / 3

Ending:

Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / Bad

Remarks

by cynlynn

[Cyn-opsis] The FL, Park Yeon-woo (Lee Se-young), dies in a well and transmigrates to present-day. She meets Kang Tae-ha (Baek In-hyuk). He looks just like her dead husband who is also heart-attacked. 

The Korean title, 열녀박씨 계약결혼뎐 (Yeolnyeoparkssi Gyeyakgyeolhondyeon), is translated as "The Story of Widow Park's Marriage Contract". However, Yeolnyeo doesn't translate to "widow". It means a woman who follows her husband in death.

[Cast&Crew]

• Baek In-hyuk and Yoo Seon-ho were also brothers in Under the Queen's Umbrella. Brotherhood still going strong. Also, Baek In-hyuk's period characters seem to be cursed with a foreshortened fate. 
• Director Park Sang-hoon worked on Terius Behind Me, which was a lot of fun.

[Ending] Happy... 

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Hidden Agenda: This spotlight post is to complain spotlight all the other time-travels in 2023. (I cheated with Marry My Husband, that's early 2024.) Have we exhausted simple romances that one timeline/life is clearly not enough to be an interesting love story anymore? 

Ffwd to the Future Reincarnation	Blast to the Past (Save My ___ )
Durian's Affair	A Time Called You
Destined With You	My Perfect Stranger
Moon in the Day	Perfect Marriage Revenge
My Demon	Twinkling Watermelon
See You in My 19th Life	Marry My Husband