# When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025) — Celluloid TV fact sheet

Source: https://celluloidscore.com/shows/when-life-gives-you-tangerines/
Last reviewed: 2026-07-23

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Celluloid Score | 93% |
| Critic Score | 100% |
| Audience Score | 98% |
| Metascore | 90/100 |
| IMDb | 9.1/10 |
| Fan Score | 86% |
| Creator | Lim Sang-choon |
| Platform | Netflix |
| Genres | Drama, Romance, History |
| Seasons | 1 (16 episodes) |
| Language | Korean |
| Country | South Korea |

## Quick answer

When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025) is a Drama, Romance, History series created by Lim Sang-choon, streaming on Netflix. It holds a 93% Celluloid Score — Celluloid Pick — averaged from critic reviews (100%), audience ratings (98%), Metascore (90/100), IMDb (9.1/10), and fan ratings (86%) across 1 season.

## Critics consensus

A generational tearjerker of rare craft — Baeksang's Best Drama and the highest-rated Korean series in IMDb history, it earns every tear through patient writing and two of K-drama's finest lead performances.

## Synopsis

Beginning in 1960s Jeju, a defiant haenyeo's daughter with a poet's heart and the steadfast boy who loves her build a life together across four decades of hardship, loss and stubborn tenderness. Written by Lim Sang-choon and directed by Kim Won-seok, the sixteen-part saga hands its leads to IU and Park Bo-gum in youth and Moon So-ri and Park Hae-joon in age, folding one family's small victories into the sweep of modern Korean history — a chronicle of ordinary devotion told season by season, like fruit ripening against the wind.

## Cast

IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-joon, Yeom Hye-ran, Choi Dae-hoon

## Critic reviews on Celluloid: 1

## Common questions

**Is When Life Gives You Tangerines worth watching?**
When Life Gives You Tangerines holds a 93% Celluloid Score. It comes recommended overall. A generational tearjerker of rare craft — Baeksang's Best Drama and the highest-rated Korean series in IMDb history, it earns every tear through patient writing and two of K-drama's finest lead performances.

**Where can I stream When Life Gives You Tangerines?**
When Life Gives You Tangerines streams on Netflix. It ran for 1 season (2025).

**Who created When Life Gives You Tangerines?**
When Life Gives You Tangerines was created by Lim Sang-choon.

**What is the Celluloid Score of When Life Gives You Tangerines?**
93% — the average of five public sources: critics 100%, audience 98%, Metascore 90/100, IMDb 9.1/10, and fan score 86%.

---
Reviewed and scored by Celluloid · Editor: Kaiser Khan (https://celluloidscore.com/author/kaiser-khan/)

Markdown mirror: https://celluloidscore.com/shows/when-life-gives-you-tangerines.md