New K-dramas to watch in May 2021: Doom at Your Service, Youth of May, Move to Heaven, and more
- Bossam: Steal the Fate is a period drama set in the Joseon Era, romance Youth of May reunites Lee Do-hyun and Go Min-si, and Mine focuses on a rich family
- There’s more romance in store in Doom at Your Service and My Roommate Is a Gumiho, while Move to Heaven is the latest series from Netflix
May brings an eclectic range of new K-dramas to watch as viewers look for their next fix after a run of big shows, including Vincenzo, that are now winding down.
On offer will be a new period drama, a modern twist on a Korean folk tale, a romance set during the Gwangju Uprising, among others.
Bossam: Steal the Fate
The next period drama to grace TV screens will be this drama set in the Joseon Era in ancient Korea. Bossam is a popular Korean steamed pork belly dish, but the word also connotes an old custom whereby an ageing bachelor would secretly wrap a widow in a blanket to make her his wife.
The show stars Jung Il-woo as Bau, a degenerate who performs this questionable “bossam” custom for money and, during one such engagement, mistakenly kidnaps Princess Soo-Kyung, played by Kwon Yu-ri.
Soo-Kyung is the daughter of Prince Gwanghae and, in a secret political agreement, she wed the older brother of a man she loved, only to become a widow on her wedding day. (launches May 1, MBN)
Youth of May
Lee Do-hyun and Go Min-si, who played brother and sister in last year’s hit Netflix series Sweet Home, will reunite as the protagonists in a budding romance. Lee plays Hee-tae, a top medical student, while Go Min-si plays Myung-hee, a nurse at the same hospital.