Bossam: Steal the Fate

May 1, 2021

Ba-woo (Jung Il-woo), a low-ranking man who makes money performing bossam — kidnapping widows for secret remarriage — accidentally takes Princess Soo-kyung (Kwon Yuri) instead of his intended target. Hiding a royal widow is considerably more dangerous than the ordinary kind.

May 2, 2021

Ba-woo discovers who Soo-kyung is. The comedy of his predicament and her indignation is the drama's first gear.

May 8, 2021

The KBS Yongin production facility's Joseon village streets used for Ba-woo's world — the market, the lower-class neighbourhood, the world the princess has never entered.

May 9, 2021

The royal family searches for the missing princess. Ba-woo must hide her in plain sight.

May 15, 2021

Soo-kyung begins to see Ba-woo's world — its warmth, its community, its lack of ceremony — as something she has never been allowed to experience.

May 16, 2021

A journey that passes through the Suwon Hwaseong Fortress area — the drama using the historic walls as both backdrop and narrative geography.

May 22, 2021

Ba-woo's backstory — the injustice that reduced him to this work — is revealed.

May 23, 2021

Soo-kyung and Ba-woo's relationship has developed beyond captor and captive. Neither knows what to call it.

May 29, 2021

The political forces pursuing Soo-kyung — it is not only propriety that makes her disappearance dangerous — are shown.

May 30, 2021

Soo-kyung and Ba-woo acknowledging that they are on the same side.

June 5, 2021

The royal court's reach extends toward Ba-woo's community. The comedy darkens.

June 6, 2021

Their hiding is discovered. The drama's final arc begins.

June 12, 2021

The Joseon village set under the threat of official intervention — its ordinary commerce and community suddenly precarious.

June 13, 2021

Ba-woo's fighting ability — established early, deployed late — at its most dramatic.

June 19, 2021

The princess makes a choice about her own life that Joseon's rules do not allow her to make.

June 20, 2021

The finale. A historical romantic comedy that found genuine warmth and genuine stakes in its bossam premise — and gave both its leads fully developed characters to inhabit.