Snowdrop

December 18, 2021

Seoul, 1987. Im Soo-ho (Jung Hae-in), a North Korean spy, is shot while completing a mission and hides in the female dormitory of Mirae University, where Eun Young-ro (Kim Jisoo) lives. She hides him — not yet knowing who he is.

December 18, 2021

The dormitory and its residents establish the drama's contained world. The Yonsei University campus exterior grounds the political setting — student protests, riot police, a society on the verge of transformation.

December 25, 2021

The NIS (National Intelligence Service) team hunting Soo-ho is introduced. The espionage world outside the dormitory's bubble.

December 25, 2021

Young-ro begins to understand that Soo-ho is not who she initially assumed. Her response — continued protection — complicates the drama's moral framework.

January 1, 2022

1987 Seoul's pro-democracy movement surrounds the dormitory. The Seodaemun area streets carry the political weight of a country about to change.

January 1, 2022

The dormitory becomes a hostage situation as both government and spy forces close in. The drama's action and romance storylines fully fuse.

January 8, 2022

Young-ro's father's role in the NIS — and his proximity to the very operation hunting Soo-ho — is revealed.

January 8, 2022

The drama's central moral question — what we owe to the person we love versus what we owe to our country — is stated in its most direct form.

January 15, 2022

Characters from outside the dormitory's closed world become active participants in the crisis.

January 15, 2022

The full nature of Soo-ho's original mission — and the ways his feelings for Young-ro have complicated it — is revealed.

January 22, 2022

A sequence using the Yonsei University campus exterior at night — the drama's most visually ambitious sequence outside the dormitory.

January 29, 2022

A chase through the Seodaemun area streets during an active protest. The political and personal reach their highest tension simultaneously.

January 29, 2022

A major character sacrifice changes the drama's direction.

February 5, 2022

Both the spy mission and the love story reach their final stage.

February 5, 2022

The finale. One of Disney+'s biggest Korean originals despite its controversy — a visually striking drama that used the 1987 pro-democracy moment as the backdrop for an impossible love.