Couple or Trouble

Couple or Trouble (lit. Fantasy Couple) is a 2006 South Korean television series loosely based on the 1987 Hollywood film Overboard. Starring Han Ye-seul and Oh Ji-ho, it aired on MBC from October 14 to December 3, 2006, on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:40 for 16 episodes. The romantic comedy series was popular in the ratings, and received recognition at the MBC Drama Awards.

Plot
Anna Jo (Han Ye-seul) is a rude, spoiled, arrogant and impossible-to-please American-bred heiress. She returns to Korea only to continue being a controlling wife to her already cowardly husband, Billy Park (Kim Sung-min). When her yacht gets stuck for repairs, she hires local handyman Jang Chul-soo (Oh Ji-ho) to fix her shower, but when they have a heated spat over her dissatisfaction with his work and refusal to pay, she pushes him overboard and dunks his tools into the ocean right along with him. Later, after a quarrel with Billy that threatens to end their marriage, she herself gets drunkenly pitched overboard and falls victim to a bad case of amnesia.

In the hospital, she ends up beside none other than Chul-soo, who's still recovering from his own swim in the ocean for his lost tools. Unknown to her, he's been raising his three orphaned nephews in their unkempt house and desperately needs a nanny. Taking advantage of her memory loss, he manages to convince her that she's his live-in girlfriend and renames her Na Sang-shil. But he didn't expect her spoiled selfishness to slowly turn into compassion. And he didn't expect to fall overboard again — this time, for her.

Main characters

 * Han Ye-seul as Anna Jo / Na Sang-shil
 * Oh Ji-ho as Jang Chul-soo
 * Kim Sung-min as Billy Park
 * Park Han-byul as Oh Yoo-kyung

Supporting characters

 * Kim Kwang-kyu as Department head Gong
 * Kim Jung-wook as Ha Deok-gu
 * Lee Mi-young as Oh Kye-joo
 * Jung Soo-young as Kang-ja
 * Lee Suk-min as Jang Joon-seok
 * Kim Tae-yoon as Jang Yoon-seok
 * Park Joon-mok as Jang Geun-seok
 * Lee Sang-yi as Shim Hyo-jung

Awards and nominations

 * 2006 MBC Drama Awards
 * Drama of the Year
 * Excellence Award, Actress: Han Ye-seul
 * Popularity Award, Actress: Han Ye-seul
 * Popularity Award, Actor: Oh Ji-ho
 * Best Couple: Oh Ji-ho and Han Ye-seul
 * Nomination - Excellence Award, Actor: Oh Ji-ho


 * 2007 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards
 * Popularity Award (TV): Han Ye-seul
 * Nomination - Best Actress (TV): Han Ye-seul
 * Nomination - Best New Director (TV): Kim Sang-ho
 * Nomination - Best Screenplay (TV): Hong Jung-eun, Hong Mi-ran