“The way [Ae-sun] has such a fiery spirit, the way she's very competitive, the way she has a lot of dreams, and also her love of poems and literature,” IU tells TIME of her role. “All of those things are what I share as my actual personality in real life.”

Richer and more ambitious than most K-dramas, Netflix tale of two characters struggling to find their place in the world is vividly realised.

Warning: Spoilers for When Life Gives You Tangerines ahead. Fans are having two main reactions to Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines trailer. The first is that IU and Park Bo-gum make for an all-star line-up,

IU and Park Bo-gum admitted that the opportunity to work together was one of the reasons they chose to star in Netflix's 'When Life Gives You Tangerines.'

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade – but when life gives you tangerines, well, you have to roll with it. When Life Gives You Tangerines is a drama that follows the sad but wonderful journey of a young girl who simply rolls through the punches of her life growing up in the harsh economy of the ’60s in Korea.