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Familiar Wife
Why do I have to be the only one who lives such horrible life?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ji Sung
Cha Ju-hyeok
16 eps
Han Ji-min
Seo U-jin
16 eps
Kang Han-na
Lee Hye-won
16 eps
Jang Seung-jo
Yun Jong-hu
16 eps
Cha Hak-yeon
Kim Hwan
16 eps
Son Jong-hak
Cha Bong-hee
16 eps
Park Won-sang
Byun Seong-u
16 eps
Kim So-ra
Ju Hyang-suk
16 eps
Lee You-jin
Jung Hyeon-su
16 eps
Park Hee-von
Cha Ju-eun
16 eps
Lee Jung-eun
U-jin's mother
16 eps
Oh Eui-sik
Oh Sang-sik
16 eps
Kang Hui
Jung Min-su
16 eps
Kim Soo-jin
Jang Man-ok
16 eps
Im Jae-geun
KCU Bank agent
16 eps
Gong Min-jeung
Choi Hye-jeong
16 eps
Choi Hyung-joo
Cha Ji-hun
16 eps
Cho Jung-seok
Kang Sun-woo / Edward
1 eps
Kang Ki-young
Park Yu-sik
1 eps
Jun Seok-ho
Rude Customer
1 eps
Ahn Ryeo-jin
Employee (Eps 2)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Familiar Wife actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Familiar Wife reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After receiving a bizarre chance to go back in time, a man wakes up to find that his whole life — including the person he married — is different.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 16 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201816 episodes
8.6IMDbCha Ju-hyeok works at a bank and has been married to Seo U-jin for five years. When a strange incident happens one day, Ju-hyeok makes a decision that impacts his life and those around him in unexpected ways. Suddenly, the life he had with U-jin and his best friend, Yun Jong-hu, is gone, and he is leading a very different life. How will his first love, Lee Hye-won, factor into his new life? And will it be possible to get his old life back?
Best episode · S01E08 Episode 8
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Yang Hui-seungWriter
Direction
- Lee Sang-yeobDirector
Cinematography
- Cho Young-jikDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
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