The Package

November 4, 2017

The tour group assembles in Paris. Tour guide Yoon So-so (Lee Yeon-hee) meets the mysterious solo traveller Yoon Jae-won (Jung Yong-hwa) who is on the tour for reasons he won't explain. The Paris sequences — Eiffel Tower, Seine — establish the drama's visual world.

November 4, 2017

The tour group's members — each with their own reason for being in France, their own private story.

November 11, 2017

The drama's French countryside sequences — châteaux, vineyards, the specific beauty of the Loire Valley.

November 11, 2017

The first layer of why Jae-won is on a Korean tour group in France rather than wherever his life actually is.

November 18, 2017

The lavender fields and hilltop villages of Provence — the drama's most visually spectacular sequences.

November 18, 2017

So-so's professional life as a tour guide — the specific expertise and emotional labour of managing a group of strangers through a foreign country.

November 25, 2017

The unexpected connections forming within the tour group — the drama's ensemble dimension.

November 25, 2017

The tidal island fortress of Mont Saint-Michel used for one of the drama's most romantic sequences.

December 2, 2017

Jae-won's full truth — why he is in France and what he is actually processing.

December 2, 2017

The tour's final days in France — the connections formed, the choices approaching.

December 9, 2017

The Palace of Versailles used for the drama's penultimate episode — the most formally grand of France's locations.

December 9, 2017

The finale. A drama that used its French locations as more than backdrop — the specific experience of Koreans touring Europe as a lens for examining what they have left behind at home.