Where can I stream When Life Gives You Tangerines?

When Life Gives You Tangerines streams on Netflix. It ran for 1 season (2025).

What is the Celluloid Score of When Life Gives You Tangerines?

93% — averaged from critic 100%, audience 98%, Metascore 90/100, IMDb 9.1/10, and fan score 86%.

Who created When Life Gives You Tangerines?

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

Official theatrical poster for When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025)

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When Life Gives You Tangerines

Item: When Life Gives You Tangerines
Rating: 4.5
Author: Sarah Chen

Created by Lim Sang-choon · 2025 · Last reviewed July 23, 2026

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Answer Summary

When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025) earns a 93% Celluloid Score — Celluloid Pick. Recommended overall. Created by Lim Sang-choon; streaming on Netflix.

Quick Verdict

Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, IMDb, fan). See how we calculate scores.

93%

Celluloid Score Celluloid Pick

Averaged from 5 sources

100%Critic Score

98%Audience

90Metascore

9.1IMDb /10

86%Fan Score

Seasons: 1 · 16 episodes
Network: Netflix
Cast: IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-joon, Yeom Hye-ran

Is When Life Gives You Tangerines worth watching?

Yes — When Life Gives You Tangerines earns a 93% Celluloid Score. Celluloid Pick, created by Lim Sang-choon and streaming on Netflix.

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.
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What is When Life Gives You Tangerines about?

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.

Critic Reviews

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When Life Gives You Tangerines Review: A Lifetime on Jeju, Rendered in Full

★★★★½ 4.5/5

When Life Gives You Tangerines follows one couple across the decades on Jeju Island and earns every tear it draws — a generational epic in which IU and Park Bo-gum give two of the finest K-drama performances in recent memory.

Essential viewing, and not only for K-drama fans. Bring tissues, clear your weekend, and let it take its time — the patience is the point.