Seasons of Blossom

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Seasons of Blossom

청춘 블라썸 (Cheongchun Beullasseom) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterHongduck (webtoon)

DirectorWang Hye-ryeong

Episodes16 eps · ~22 min each

Where to Watch✅ Viki

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Binge Time5h 52m

AiredSep 21 – Nov 2, 2022

GenreYouth · Romance · Melodrama

Content RatingTV-14

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Dual TimelineFirst LoveGriefFake DatingMental Health

Everything worth knowing, distilled into one box.

Two timelines, one school, and a cast quietly carrying more than they’re letting on.

Seo Ji-hoon

Lee Ha-min

Lead

So Joo-yeon

Han So-mang

Lead

Kim Min-kyu

Lee Jae-min

Supporting

Kang Hye-won

Yoon Bo-mi

Supporting

Yoon Hyun-soo

Choi Jin-young

Supporting

Oh Yu-jin

Kang Seon-hee

Supporting

Seo Ji-soo

Ji-seon

Supporting

Han Gyu-min

Kwon Ho-joon

Supporting

Choi Rak-yeong

Shin Young-sub

Supporting

Kang Pil-jun

Ko Joo-young

Supporting

Jo Chan-hyun

Park Yoon-sung

Supporting

Light-touch recaps to keep you oriented, episode by episode.

EP 01

Six Years Later

Sep 21, 2022

Seasons of Blossom opens with the structure it’ll use for all sixteen episodes: Han So-mang walking back into her old high school as a trainee teacher, and the past walking right back in with her. She meets Jae-min on day one — her first love’s younger brother — before the show even tells you there’s a first love to grieve. It’s a quiet, unhurried opener that trusts you to feel the weight before you understand it.

EP 02

A Deal Neither of Them Wanted

Sep 21, 2022

The present-day plot gets its engine: Bo-mi, trying to protect her friendship with Sun-hee, talks her way into a fake relationship with the standoffish Jin-young rather than admit she likes someone else entirely. It’s a smaller, lighter lie than the one haunting So-mang’s timeline — but the show is already drawing that parallel on purpose.

EP 03

The Question Jae-min Finally Asks

Sep 21, 2022

Jae-min stops dancing around it and asks So-mang directly about his brother’s death, and the show lets her actually sit with the question instead of deflecting it. It’s the moment Seasons of Blossom declares what kind of drama it is — not a will-they-won’t-they, but a slow walk toward something that already happened.

EP 04

Sun-hee Doesn’t Believe Her

Sep 21, 2022

Bo-mi doubles down, insisting to Sun-hee that she has no feelings for Jae-min, and Sun-hee — correctly — doesn’t buy a word of it. The fake relationship with Jin-young was supposed to make this lie easier to maintain. Instead it’s just added a second person who now has to keep pretending too.

EP 05

Small Lies, Bigger Cracks

Sep 28, 2022

Every lie Bo-mi tells to keep the peace needs another lie to support it, and this is where that math stops working in her favor. The show is unusually patient about showing the mechanics of a social lie falling apart in real time, rather than skipping straight to the blowup — and Jin-young, stuck holding up his half of it, is starting to resent being nobody’s real choice.

EP 06

What the Art Room Remembers

Sep 28, 2022

So-mang’s memories surface with more detail and less control now — rainy afternoons in the school art room where she used to paint alone at lunch, away from everyone who expected something from her. The show frames that room as the one place both timelines agree matters, long before it explains exactly why it matters this much.

EP 07

A School Festival, Then and Now

Oct 5, 2022

A present-day school event doubles as a flashback trigger, stirring up memories that are part blissful and part painful — and Bo-mi and Jin-young’s fake relationship quietly stops feeling fake somewhere in the same episode. Two very different kinds of performance start cracking at once.

EP 08

Getting to Know the Person You’re Pretending For

Oct 5, 2022

Jin-young and Bo-mi spend more real time together than the lie technically requires, and the show doesn’t rush to make that romantic — it just lets two people who agreed to perform a relationship start accidentally having one. A small, patient build that pays off because nobody onscreen is in on the joke yet.

EP 09

Jae-min Already Knows

Oct 12, 2022

Jae-min overhears Bo-mi and Jin-young admit, out loud, that their relationship is fake — and says nothing yet, which is somehow worse. Meanwhile summer is coming, and for So-mang that means the memories get louder: the season Ha-min, who claimed to hate humidity, quietly signed up for her art class just to be near her.

EP 10

Why He Really Took Art Class

Oct 12, 2022

The flashback fills in one of the show’s gentlest reveals — Ha-min enduring a summer he claimed to hate just so he’d have an excuse to sit in the same room as So-mang. It’s a small, deliberately unglamorous gesture, and it lands harder than a grand declaration would have, because by now you know how little space Ha-min allowed himself for wanting things.

EP 11

Treated Like a Doll

Oct 19, 2022

Ha-min’s mother finds his artwork, rips it up, and slaps him for defying the future she’s picked out for him — and the show doesn’t soften a single beat of it. This is the clearest the drama gets about where Ha-min’s hidden darkness actually comes from, and it isn’t subtle on purpose.

EP 12

A Hug, a Rumor, a Lie to Protect Her

Oct 19, 2022

Undone after the fight with his mother, Ha-min pulls So-mang into a desperate hug in the art room — and a classmate sees it, goads him into a fight, and reports them both. Ha-min’s fix is to claim he was with someone else entirely, protecting So-mang’s reputation at the cost of his own. It’s the first time he visibly chooses her safety over his own image, and it won’t be the last.

EP 13

Jae-min Tells Bo-mi Everything

Oct 26, 2022

Jae-min finally tells Bo-mi the full story of his brother, right as his own fake-relationship subplot collapses — Jin-young ends things for real, and Bo-mi realizes her feelings stopped being pretend a while ago. Two storylines about performing emotions you don’t think you’re allowed to have quietly converge in the same hour.

EP 14

The Fight That Ends a Friendship

Oct 26, 2022

Sun-hee overhears the truth about Bo-mi’s fake relationship and the lie Bo-mi told to protect her, and the friendship doesn’t survive the betrayal. It’s a smaller-scale heartbreak than the one the show has been building toward with Ha-min, but Seasons of Blossom treats it with the same seriousness — a lie told with good intentions still costs something real.

EP 15

What Jae-min Overheard

Nov 2, 2022

The finale run finally explains the misunderstanding that killed Ha-min: a younger Jae-min, venting to Sun-hee about feeling overlooked next to his brother, didn’t know Ha-min was standing close enough to hear every word — and never heard the part where Jae-min said he loved him anyway. One overheard sentence, carried for years by the wrong person, turns out to be the whole tragedy.

EP 16

Living in a Way That Makes Him Smile

Nov 2, 2022

A leaked photo of So-mang and Jae-min threatens to become a scandal, and So-mang resigns rather than let his name get dragged through it — the same instinct that defined her relationship with Ha-min. Jae-min won’t let her take the fall alone. The ending offers no miracle, just permission to keep living, which turns out to be the harder thing to earn.

Spoilers ahead — the finale, broken down in full.

The misunderstanding that actually killed Ha-min Seasons of Blossom spends its whole runtime treating Ha-min’s death as inevitable, then uses the finale to reveal it was something almost absurdly preventable: the night before he died, Jae-min told Sun-hee that their parents’ obvious favoritism sometimes made him feel like he wished he didn’t have a brother. Ha-min was standing close enough to hear it — and left before hearing Jae-min immediately take it back and say he loved him regardless.

That’s the whole tragedy, and it doesn’t get dressed up as anything bigger. Ha-min didn’t die because of one cruel sentence — he died because he was already carrying more than anyone around him understood, and that sentence was simply the last thing he heard before he stopped asking for help.

So-mang pays the cost of protecting Jae-min — and resigns In the present, a photo of So-mang and Jae-min together after hours goes viral, and rather than let his name get attached to a scandal that would also expose his brother’s story, So-mang resigns before anyone can force the question. It’s the same reflex that defined her relationship with Ha-min in 2016 — protect the person first, explain later, if ever.

Jae-min won’t let her carry that alone. He tells his teacher the truth — that the student in So-mang’s old story was his own brother, and that she was the only person he could ever talk to about it. It’s the first time anyone in the present timeline says Ha-min’s name out loud to someone who wasn’t already part of the secret.

Why the ending doesn’t give So-mang a clean resolution Seasons of Blossom refuses to end with So-mang “getting over” Ha-min, because it doesn’t pretend that’s a real thing people do. Instead it ends with her choosing to keep living in a way that would make him smile — smaller, harder, and far more honest than a tidy closure would have been. Six years of grief don’t resolve. They just become something she can finally carry forward instead of alone.