Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for anticipated romance K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines, led by IU and Park Bo-gum. Here’s everything you need to know about the new series.
Billed as a romantic slice-of-life series, When Life Gives You Tangerines is set in 1960s Jeju and follows the adventurous lives of Ae-soon “the remarkable rebel” and Gwan-sik “the unyielding iron” as they weather the trials and tribulations throughout all four seasons on the South Korean island. Its Korean title, 폭싹 속았수다, is Jeju slang for ‘Thank you for your hard work’.
Singer-actor IU, real name Lee Ji-eun, will star in the upcoming series as Ae-soon, who dreams of becoming a poet amid circumstances that prevent her from going to school. Starring opposite her as Gwan-sik is Park Bo-gum, a diligent and unwavering man whose love for and loyalty to Ae-soon never threatens to falter.
Playing child and middle-aged versions of Ae-soon are Kim Tae-yeon and Moon So-ri, the latter acclaimed for her performances on The Handmaiden, The Good Lawyer’s Wife and Oasis. Lee Cheon-mu is credited as the child version of Gwan-sik, while The World of the Married actor Park Hae-joon joins the cast as the character’s middle-aged version.
Other actors credited in the supporting cast include Beyond Evil’s Choi Dae-hoon, veteran actress Na Moon-hee, Love and Leashes’ Lee Jun-young and Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Snowdrop’s Baek Ji-won, among others. Kim Seon-ho of Hometown Cha Cha Cha fame and Hospital Playlist’s Lee Soo-mi will also be making special appearances in undisclosed roles.
When Life Gives You Tangerines is notably written by acclaimed When The Camellia Blooms screenwriter Lim Sang-choon and directed by Kim Won-seok, whose previous work includes Arthdal Chronicles and My Mister.
On January 23, the streaming service dropped the very first look into When Life Gives You Tangerines, led by IU and Park Bo-gum, through a teaser clip paired with its premiere date announcement. The clip begins with a montage of a local street market in Jeju through all four seasons, before the teaser transitions to intimate moments between Ae-soon and Gwan-sik as they walk through a flower field.
Netflix released the long-awaited teaser for the series on February 7, featuring the chaos of Ae-soon and Gwan-sik’s lives on Jeju Island as they grow up together and fall in love. The clip also includes a montage of various moments shared between the couple from across the series, as they each chase their dreams together.
The streamer published the official trailer for the highly anticipated series on February 21. Spanning from Jeju in the 1960s to Seoul in 2025, the trailer captures the changing seasons of life both physically and metaphorically through Ae-soon and Gwan-sik.
On January 23, Netflix announced the series’ premiere date of March 7. In the official teaser shared on February 7, the series is referred to as “volume one”, potentially hinting at further seasons for When Life Gives You Tangerines.
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