When Life Gives You Tangerines – Official Teaser (2025)
Starring: IU, Park Bo‑gum
Quote: “Back then, we were too young to call it love… so we just called it ‘someday.’”

Teaser Story : On a sun‑washed Jeju Island in the 1960s, loud, stubborn Ae‑soon (IU) dreams of becoming a writer even though she can barely afford school books. Quiet, steadfast Gwan‑shik (Park Bo‑gum) says little, works hard in the tangerine fields, and watches over her from a few careful steps behind. Life is war scars, salt wind, and sweet fruit that doesn’t always sell.

Quick cuts: Ae‑soon racing barefoot between stone walls, tangerines spilling from her skirt; Gwan‑shik silently fixing her broken bicycle at dawn; letters written in clumsy Hangul, never sent; rain hammering on a tin roof as they share one umbrella; the harbor glowing as ships leave for Seoul, one ticket short. Time flashes forward: older hands picking tangerines on the same tree, a reunion at a bus stop that looks unchanged—except for them.

Final beat: sunset over the orchard. Ae‑soon holds a single tangerine, asks, “If I hadn’t run so far… would you still have waited?” Gwan‑shik smiles, eyes wet: “I never learned how to go anywhere you weren’t.” She laughs through tears, takes a bite—CUT TO BLACK as the sound of waves swallows their voices.

Verdict: A tender, nostalgic romance spanning decades of Jeju’s changing seasons—about first love that lingers like citrus on the tongue, ordinary lives made epic by the simple promise: I’ll stay.