IT'S a little known film here, but My Wife Got Married topped the Korean box office in its opening week last September.

Based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Park Hyun Wook, the movie takes a refreshing spin on the polygamy ideology - a concept usually associated with men.

In Ah (Son Ye Jin) marries former colleague Deok Hoon (Kim Joo Hyuk) after a night of unbridled passion.

Alas, In Ah falls in love with another man and tells pure-hearted Deok Hoon that she will marry the other bloke too.

This marriage system is unrealistic in Asian patriarchal societies. But that is precisely why Korean women have fallen in love with the movie.

Female netizens who have seen the movie say they are not claiming to identify with the idea of a polygamous wife, nor fantasise about being one.

Instead, past experiences of having been two-timed by their cheating husbands have had them wishing that their spouses would walk a mile in their shoes.

Some even claim to have caught the film 10 times - most of the time with their husbands in tow.

My Wife Got Married will be screened here exclusively at the Korean Film Festival next month.

Find out more about this movie, plus details on our two other picks from the festival that you should watch - all in tomorrow's FiRST pullout, exclusively in The New Paper.

Also, there'll be details on how you can win posters of this movie, and GI Joe toys and tickets.

This article was first published in The New Paper.