At the spur of the moment, young Han Sang Eun is uprooted from her home in Korea for a new life with her father in Austraila. Years later, having grown up in Australia and completed her law studies in the U.S., she has plans to marry her American boyfriend, fellow attorney Alex. But fate-also known as her father-has other plans in mind for her involving a match he's made for her in Korea. Before she knows it, she has struck a bargain with him and is off to spend a year in the country of her birth. Sang Eun intends to stay just a few weeks to placate her father in order to get his permission to marry Alex. However, the two families, based on a promise made in childhood, have always planned on their children marrying, and Sang Eun soon finds herself in over her head. Kim Yeo Joon, a prickly, stubborn doctor, is equally uninterested in her, but when the two find themselves in the same boat, they reluctantly join forces to outwit their families' plans.