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Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines: IU, Park Bo-gum juggle love and hardship
Richer and more ambitious than most K-dramas, Netflix tale of two characters struggling to find their place in the world is vividly realised
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Lead cast: IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-joon
Despite its explosive global success and surging budgets, the Korean drama industry has struggled to produce prestige dramatic fare in between its bright and colourful romantic dramas and pricey genre tentpoles.
That gap has finally been bridged with the rich and evocative drama When Life Gives You Tangerines, a stirring period romance that builds something more rich and ambitious than what we are used to seeing with the traditional building blocks of K-drama.
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The series is the latest from writer Lim Sang-choon, who previously penned the acclaimed dramas Fight for My Way and When the Camellia Blooms, while experienced director Kim Won-suk (Signal, Arthdal Chronicles) confidently helms.
Lee Ji-eun, better known under her K-pop name IU (Hotel Del Luna) and Park Bo-gum (Record of Youth), both returning to K-dramas following lengthy absences, play youths Ae-sun and Gwan-sik, who are born on Jeju Island in the 1950s, grow up and, over the years, fall in love.
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