My Husband Got a Family (Korean: 넝쿨째 굴러온 당신) is a 2012 South Korean television series starring Kim Nam-joo, Yoo Jun-sang, and Youn Yuh-jung. It aired on KBS2 from February 25 to September 9, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 19:55 for 58 episodes.
The weekend family drama centres on a working woman named Cha Yoon-hee (played by Kim Nam-joo) as her husband, who was put up for international adoption to the United States and is a surgeon, reunites with his biological parents. Yoon-hee faces the unexpected burden of having to build a relationship with her new-found in-laws.
During its more than five-month run, it topped the weekly ratings chart for 25 consecutive weeks and reached a ratings peak of 45.8 percent (TNmS) and 52.3 percent (AGB Nielsen). The series ranked number one overall on the 2012 yearly TV ratings chart.
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Plot
Cha Yoon-hee (Kim Nam-joo) is a successful TV drama producer/director who marries an orphaned surgeon (Yoo Jun-sang) and thereby acquires the supposed, ultimate career woman's dream―accomplished husband minus the in-laws. Her marital bliss is shattered when her husband finds his birth parents and they happen to be her next-door neighbours with whom she bickers on a daily basis, and feature not one, but three sisters-in-law, and the usual array of aunts and grandmothers-in-law. Yoon-hee realises she has married more than she has bargained for. Once again, the stage is set for a butting of the heads between daughter and mother-in-law (Youn Yuh-jung).
Cast
Kim Nam-joo as Cha Yoon-hee
Terry Kang wife; Se-joong's younger sister and Se-kwang older sister. She is a TV Show Programme Director at KBS.
Yoo Jun-sang as Terry Kang / Bang Gwi-nam
Yoon-hee's husband; Il-sook's younger brother and older brother of Yi-sook and Mal-sook. He is a Surgeon of Hospital that affirmed by Medical school of Seoul National University
Ratings
In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
International broadcast
It aired in Japan on cable channel KNTV from February 13 to June 26, 2013 under the title 棚ぼたのあなた (Your Windfall).
It aired in the Philippines via GMA Network on April 8, 2013 under the title Unexpected You.
It aired in Singapore on Channel U
It aired in Thailand on Workpoint TV on July 1, 2015 under the title s̄ap̣hı̂ cxm s̄æb สะใภ้จอมแสบ (Troublemaker Daughter-in-Law).
A Mexican channel recreated the drama with the title Mi marido tiene familia.