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Would You Marry Me?

우주메리미 · 2025
✅ Completed · 12 eps
🎬 Disney+ · Hulu
⭐ 7.9 / 10 MDL
📅 All Ages
⚡ Updated · Jun 17, 2026

📋 Drama Overview

Everything you need to know before you hit play.

Would You Marry Me? (2025) official poster
Completed
💕 Feel-Good Pick
Would You Marry Me?
우주메리미 (Uju Merimi) · 2025 · South Korea
WriterLee Ha-na
DirectorSong Hyun-wook · Hwang In-hyeok
Episodes12 eps · ~65-70 min each
⏱️ Binge Time14h 0m
AiredOct 10 – Nov 15, 2025
GenreRomance · Comedy · Drama
Content RatingAll Ages

Disney+
Hulu
Fake Marriage
Contract Relationship
Romance Comedy
Bakery Heir
Fake-to-Real Lovers

Yoo Me-ri’s wedding collapses days before the ceremony when her fiancé Kim Woo-ju is caught cheating, and what follows is worse: a frantic apartment search turns into a textbook rental scam that leaves her broke and homeless. At her lowest point, a department store newlywed giveaway hands her a five-billion-won townhouse — with one brutal catch. To keep it, she has to prove she’s married.

Desperate, she proposes to a total stranger who happens to share her ex’s exact name: Kim Woo-joo, the reluctant heir to an 80-year-old family bakery. What starts as a 90-day scheme to fool housing inspectors slowly tangles into something neither of them planned — pulled along by a watchful grandmother, a suspicious neighbor, and an ex-fiancé who refuses to disappear quietly.

Episode Progress
12 / 12 ✅ Completed

⚡ Quick Verdict

One box. Everything you need to decide.

⭐ Worth it?YES — if you enjoy slow-burn, family-driven rom-coms
⏱️ CommitmentHigh — ~14 hours total
💛 VibeWarm · Comedic · Slow-Burn Romance
📺 Skip if…You’re burnt out on fake-marriage tropes already

⭐ 7.9 / 10
· MDL Score · 20,417 ratings

▶ Official Trailer

🎭 Cast & Characters

Twelve performances behind the fake wedding that became a real one.

Choi Woo-shik as Kim Woo-joo in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Choi Woo-shik
Kim Woo-joo

Lead

Jung So-min as Yoo Me-ri in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Jung So-min
Yoo Me-ri

Lead

Seo Bum-june as Kim Woo-ju in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Seo Bum-june
Kim Woo-ju

Antagonist

Kim Young-min as Jang Han-gu in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Kim Young-min
Jang Han-gu

Antagonist

Shin Seul-ki as Yoon Jin-kyung in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Shin Seul-ki
Yoon Jin-kyung

Supporting

Bae Na-ra as Baek Sang-hyeon in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Bae Na-ra
Baek Sang-hyeon

Supporting

Moon Seung-you as Kim Jin-hwa in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Moon Seung-you
Kim Jin-hwa

Supporting

Jung Ae-ri as Go Pil-nyun in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Jung Ae-ri
Go Pil-nyun

Supporting

Baek Ji-won as Kim Mi-yeon in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Baek Ji-won
Kim Mi-yeon

Supporting

Ko Gun-han as Jang Eung-soo in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Ko Gun-han
Jang Eung-soo

Supporting

Yoon Bok-in as Oh Young-sook in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Yoon Bok-in
Oh Young-sook

Supporting

Jang Ha-eun as Shin Song-hee in Would You Marry Me? (2025)
Jang Ha-eun
Shin Song-hee

Supporting

🍿 Where to Watch

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📺 Episode Guide

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 1 — The Wedding Win
EP 01
The Wedding Win
October 10, 2025
Yoo Me-ri’s world collapses days before her wedding when she catches fiancé Kim Woo-ju cheating, and ends things on the spot despite an active housing loan tied to both their names. A follow-up rental search turns into a textbook scam that leaves her homeless and broke. Jung So-min plays the freefall with just enough deadpan exhaustion to keep it from tipping into melodrama — and then, in pure rom-com logic, she wins a luxury townhouse in a department store raffle, with one brutal catch: she has to prove she’s married.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 2 — The Husband Audition
EP 02
The Husband Audition
October 11, 2025
Enter the other Kim Woo-joo — Choi Woo-shik playing a bakery heir freshly saddled with a company he never wanted, after a childhood accident he survived and his parents didn’t. A mistaken-identity run-in is enough to put two strangers in the same room, and a lawsuit threat talks him into one afternoon as her “husband.” The award-ceremony scramble, complete with a fake encephalitis phone call, is the funniest stretch yet and sets the tone: these two improvise well together.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 3 — The 90-Day Deal
EP 03
The 90-Day Deal
October 17, 2025
The real terms of the prize land hard: 90 days of cohabitation, with inspectors watching. Woo-joo balks at first, until his bakery’s own packaging lawsuit ties his fate to Me-ri’s design firm anyway. Moving into the townhouse under the suspicious gaze of neighbor Jang Eung-soo gives the show its first real “fake newlyweds” comedy engine — equal parts performance anxiety and accidental domesticity.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 4 — Cracks of the Heart
EP 04
Cracks of the Heart
October 18, 2025
Quiet breakfast scenes do a lot of work here — small, ordinary moments that start cracking both leads’ guarded exteriors. Me-ri opens up about the rental scam that broke her, and Woo-joo’s reaction is the first sign this isn’t just an act for him either. A rooftop conversation where she proposes they “actually get to know each other” instead of rushing is the episode’s quiet centerpiece, while Uncle Han-gu’s pointed comment about a car accident plants a darker thread for later.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 5 — The Ex Returns
EP 05
The Ex Returns
October 24, 2025
Me-ri’s ex resurfaces uninvited, and the same-name coincidence that started this whole scheme nearly blows up in a hallway run-in with her coworker Sang-hyun. Bae Na-ra’s Sang-hyun is a fun complication — sharp enough to sense something’s off, easily redirected once Me-ri commits to the bit. The episode closes on Woo-joo’s birthday, which doubles as the anniversary of his parents’ death, a tonal pivot the show handles better than expected.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 6 — The Teddy Bear Promise
EP 06
The Teddy Bear Promise
October 25, 2025
Woo-joo’s realization that Me-ri is the only person who’s genuinely cried for him lands as the show’s first unguarded emotional beat, and Choi Woo-shik plays it without overselling it. Gift exchanges and near-misses with Sang-hyun keep the comedy ticking along, but the episode’s real business is the confession — a flat, nervous “I like you” that stuns Me-ri into silence. A small moment, played exactly right.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 7 — Grandma's Watchful Eyes
EP 07
Grandma’s Watchful Eyes
October 31, 2025
Meeting Woo-joo’s grandmother shifts something in Me-ri — watching how fiercely the old woman loves her grandson makes the fake marriage feel like something worth protecting for real. Jung Ae-ri brings warmth without softness; this grandmother notices everything. Meanwhile, Jang Eung-soo’s invitation to “verify” their marriage at his company tightens the screws just as the feelings underneath the deception stop being fake.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 8 — Honest Confessions
EP 08
Honest Confessions
November 1, 2025
Outside pressure keeps mounting, but the best material here is private — Me-ri admitting her fear of being betrayed again, and Woo-joo refusing to flinch from it. The ex-fiancé’s schemes start visibly falling apart in the background, which the show wisely treats as a footnote rather than a cliffhanger. What lands instead is two people choosing honesty over performance, the whole point of a contract-marriage plot once it’s actually working.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 9 — The Scandal Spreads
EP 09
The Scandal Spreads
November 7, 2025
The fake marriage rumor finally escapes containment, and the fallout from Me-ri’s original rental scam resurfaces alongside it, tying two threads together in a way that finally gives Sang-hyun’s arc somewhere to go. The pacing slows on purpose here, letting Me-ri and Woo-joo’s relationship breathe before the finale stretch. A bridge episode, and a competent one.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 10 — The Grandmother's Ring
EP 10
The Grandmother’s Ring
November 8, 2025
Grandmother finds out exactly how Me-ri won the house, and the sting of being lied to, even with good intentions, lands harder than the show’s lighter episodes prepared us for. Woo-joo’s response is the episode’s best swing: he already knew, he’d been in on it for a while, and he proposes anyway with his grandmother’s own ring. Jung Ae-ri’s eventual, warm acceptance of Me-ri closes the loop on the show’s most emotionally honest relationship.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 11 — The Press Conference Trap
EP 11
The Press Conference Trap
November 14, 2025
After a brief separation, Me-ri and Woo-joo come back fighting for each other rather than against the truth, a welcome change from the genre’s usual last-minute miscommunication arc. The ex-fiancé’s ultimatum, threatening to expose the fake marriage at a press conference, is a blunt instrument of a plot device, but Seo Bum-june plays the petty desperation well. The episode ends on the setup for a finale that’s been signaled since episode one.

Would You Marry Me? Episode 12 — Real Vows, Real Love
EP 12
Real Vows, Real Love
November 15, 2025
The press conference threat deflates almost as soon as it arrives, which won’t surprise anyone — this was always building toward a wedding, not a scandal. Me-ri’s last conversation with her ex is the show’s cleanest piece of writing, letting her close that chapter on her own terms. What follows is the payoff the whole season earned: a real proposal, a real “yes,” and a real wedding for two people who started this as strangers wearing each other’s worst memories.

🏁 Ending Explained

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

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Spoiler Warning — This section covers the full finale of Would You Marry Me? Stop here if you haven’t finished the series.

The Press Conference Unravels. The finale’s chaos drains away as fast as it built up — authorities cut off the ex-fiancé’s press conference before he’s said a single word, and he’s revealed to have been alone in a hallway, just rehearsing the speech he was too afraid to actually deliver. It’s a deflated villain moment by design: the threat was never going to land, because the man making it had already lost.

Would You Marry Me? (2025) — press conference finale still

Letting Go, On Her Own Terms. Me-ri gets the conversation she never had the first time around — telling her ex directly to move on, without anger, without needing his permission to do it. It’s the cleanest piece of writing in the finale, handing her the closure the rest of the series spent withholding from her.

A Proposal Without a Contract. Woo-joo’s second proposal carries none of the panic of the first one. There’s no townhouse on the line this time, no inspectors to fool — just two people who built something real out of a scheme that should have stayed fake. Me-ri’s “yes” lands as the show’s most earned moment, precisely because the show made her wait for it.

Would You Marry Me? (2025) — proposal scene still

The Bakery and the CEO Title. Woo-joo steps fully into the role he spent the whole series avoiding, taking over as CEO of his grandmother’s company — not because the family forced his hand, but because he’s finally ready to claim the legacy on his own terms, with Me-ri beside him instead of a secret he’s keeping from her.

Sang-hyun’s Reckoning. The colleague who spent the season half-suspecting, half-enabling the lie doesn’t get off clean. Sang-hyun’s involvement in the broader scandal catches up with him, and his arc closes on a prison sentence — a small but pointed reminder that the show was never just about cute deception, it had real consequences for the people who weaponized it.

Would You Marry Me? (2025) — finale still

What the House Was Really For. The townhouse that started this whole scheme stops mattering by the finale, and that’s the point. It was never the goal; it was the accident that forced two strangers into proximity long enough to actually fall for each other. The show quietly retires its own premise once it’s done its job.

One Year Later. The epilogue is generous to nearly everyone. Me-ri’s mother’s small shop, struggling for most of the series, finally finds success. Old friendships are restored. The officer who risked her own position to help Me-ri gets a warm, deserved welcome back into their lives. It’s a tidy ending, but it earns the tidiness.

Would You Marry Me? (2025) — wedding epilogue still

The Real Wedding. The garden wedding that closes the series is staged as the mirror image of the fake one that opened it — same instinct to perform happiness, except this time nothing about it is for show. The marriage was fake. What they built inside it wasn’t.

✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take

Our honest read on why this drama is worth your time — and who it’s for.

💕 Fake-to-Real Romance🥐 Bakery Heir Charm😄 Light Comedy👵 Family Warmth💍 Slow-Burn Feels

Choi Woo-shik has spent most of his career in festival darlings and ensemble prestige work, so watching him lead a glossy network rom-com is its own small pleasure. He plays Woo-joo’s reluctant-heir exhaustion with the same dry restraint he’s known for, and it works because the show never asks him to oversell the romance. Jung So-min, meanwhile, is doing exactly what she’s good at: turning a woman in freefall into someone funny without making her pathetic. Together they make the central gimmick — a stranger who happens to share her ex’s exact name — feel less like a contrivance and more like a dare the show is happy to commit to.

Would You Marry Me? (2025) — cinematic still

The fake-marriage device itself isn’t new — anyone who’s watched Love in Contract or Business Proposal has seen this exact shape before — and the show knows it, which is why it leans so hard on the grandmother subplot and the slow breakfast-table intimacy instead of plot mechanics. Where it stumbles is the villain math: Uncle Han-gu’s hinted role in the car accident that killed Woo-joo’s parents gets raised, simmered, and resolved without much weight, as if the show ran out of episodes to actually dig into it. The ex-fiancé’s late-series scheme fares a little better, mostly because Seo Bum-june plays petty desperation with real conviction.

What Would You Marry Me? gets right is the stuff that’s hardest to fake: chemistry, pacing, and a finale that earns its real wedding instead of rushing to one. It’s comfort-watch television in the best sense — predictable in shape, generous in execution. Not groundbreaking. Genuinely sweet.

👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍
🎬 Fans of fake-marriage rom-coms like Love in Contract and Business Proposal
🥐 Anyone who wants a slow-burn romance backed by real family stakes
💍 Viewers who want their “fake marriage” to actually pay off with a real wedding

⚖️ Final Verdict
What works
Choi Woo-shik and Jung So-min’s easy, lived-in chemistry
The same-name coincidence used as a genuine plot engine, not just a gimmick
Grandmother subplot gives the fake marriage real emotional stakes
Full-circle ending where the fake wedding becomes a real one, earned not rushed

What to know first
Uncle Han-gu’s villain arc is underbaked and resolves quickly
Mid-series episodes lean on familiar contract-marriage beats
Ex-fiancé’s press conference threat drags a bit before resolving
Pure comfort-watch pacing — not built for viewers wanting tension or stakes

7.9 / 10A cozy, well-cast fake-marriage rom-com that knows exactly what it is — and delivers a wedding worth waiting for.

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