"When Life Gives You Tangerines" Timeline

Birth of Kim Chun-ok (Ae-sun's grandma).

Birth of Bu Sang-gil.

Birth of Park Yeong-ran.

Birth of Yang Gwan-sik.

Birth of Oh Ae-sun.

Grandma helped Ae-sun pull a baby tooth.

Gwang-rye read Ae-sun's abalone poem and brought Ae-sun home.

Gwang-rye saved Ae-sun from being grabbed by human traffickers on the day of Han-gyu (Ae-sun's dad)'s memorial service.

Ae-sun told the teacher that their class (grade 3 8th class) president election is unfair because she won 37 votes against Lee Man-ki's 28 votes. She went home and cried to Gwang-rye.

Gwang-rye went to school to ask the teacher to look after Ae-sun. She told Ae-sun not to settle and should live her life to the fullest.

Ae-sun wrote a poem about Lee Man-ki who became class president through bribery.

Gwang-rye passed away from divers' disease (common among haenyo).

Ae-sun ran from Gwan-sik's grandma in the market.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik's first kiss in the canola flower field. Ae-sun found out about Min-ok.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik participated in the poem contest.

Ae-sun's uncle wanted her to work at a factory. Gwan-sik tried to memorize Nostalgia while she cried.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik eloped to Busan.

Gwan-sik asked the pawn shop lady to make a gold ring for Ae-sun.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik warned a woman of the motel's potential theft. Gwan-sik's mom got back their belongings.

The woman bought Ae-sun and Gwan-sik tofu.

Ae-sun was expelled from school.

Gwan-sik's mom persuaded Ae-sun not to marry Gwan-sik.

Ae-sun didn't want to marry Sang-gil. Gwan-sik jumped off the ship and swam back to Ae-sun.

Birth of Yang Geum-myeong.

Gwan-sik, Ae-sun, Geum-myeong family photo.

Gwan-sik and Ae-sun talked about their hopes for Geum-myeong.

Ae-sun saved Geum-myeong from the falling shelf when Geum-myeong tried to reach for the dolls..

Geum-myeong's first time eating spicy food (kimchi).

Ae-sun certified of high school degree.

Min-ok helped pay 3 months of Ae-sun's rent.

Ae-sun got money from grandma.

Bought a fishing boat.

Birth of Yang Eun-myeong.

Gwan-sik bought Gwang-rye's old house.

Birth of Yang Dong-myeong.

Geum-myeong going to 1st grade.

Geum-myeong running competition.

Ae-sun became deputy chief of fishermen association.

Yeong-ran in dance class. Ae-sun helped her get away. Yeong-ran told Hyeon-suk to marry someone like Gwan-sik.

Dong-myeong passed away.

Gwan-sik and Ae-sun mourned for 3 days (8/19-8/21) and went back to work as they found out both kids were blaming themselves and Geum-myeong is late for school fees.

Eun-myeong cried wanting Ae-sun to celebrate his birthday, but Ae-sun was still mourning Dong-myeong. Gwan-sik started to take him to eat jjajangmyeon on his birthdays.

Ae-sun visited Dong-myeong's grave while Gwan-sik cried behind a tree.

Geum-myeong taking CSAT.

Geum-myeong got admitted to Seoul National University.

Geum-myeong started attending college and met Yeong-beom.

Gwan-sik saved a celebrity named Jeong Mi-in.

Eun-myeong stole SYEM letters from teachers' cars and gave S (symbolizing SNU) to his sister and YEM (his initials) to Hyeon-suk.

Ae-sun became the chief of fishermen association.

Jeong Mi-in asked how she can repay Gwan-sik.

Geum-myeong declined proxy test-taking and wrongly accused of theft. The woman Ae-sun and Gwan-sik helped in Busan was the aunt that helped get Geum-myeong out

Ae-sun was selling mud snail at the poem contest.

Ae-sun and her haenyo aunties bought the café and turned it into a restaurant.

Ae-sun sold their house for Geum-myeong to attend exchange program in Japan.

Ae-sun mailed their photo infront of the restaurant to Geum-myeong in Japan. Geum-myeong studied at University of Tokyo, Komaba campus.

Geum-myeong came back to Korea and rented a room.

Geum-myeong worked at cinema and Yeong-beom came to see her.

Geum-myeong helped Chung-seob's mom watch a movie.

Chung-seob and Geum-myeong had noodles together.

Eun-myeong and Hyeon-suk got caught trying to elope.

Geum-myeong nearly died from gas leak. (Gayo Top 10 in the last week of December).

Ae-sun wrote down rheumatoid arthritis as family medical history.

Ae-sun watched the Jeju canola flower festival on TV featuring Chloe finding her missing gold ring. Geyong-ok mentioned Geum-myeong is from her parents' Busan elopement.

Geum-myeong and Chung-seob walked home together.

Eun-myeong enlisted.

Chung-seob said Geum-myeong is like a Christmas tree.

Chung-seob enlisted. (1993 KBS Music Awards).

Jeong Mi-in asked how she can repay Gwan-sik.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik visited Geum-myeong's semi-basement room. Geum-myeong gifted Ae-sun a pair of floral print shoes.

Geum-myeong and Yeong-beom spent Valentines' Day together.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik met Yeong-beom's parents.

Geum-myeong called off the wedding to Yeong-beom.

Geum-myeong went back to Jeju to heal from the breakup.

Ae-sun's grandma passed away.

Eun-myeong discharged and Hyeon-suk got pregnant.

Geum-myeong is working at Daewoo. Chung-seob got discharged and ran after Geum-myeong's bus.

Birth of Yang Je-il (Eun-myeong's son). Shown here at his first birthday.

Eun-myeong wanted to start a pawn shop.

Geum-myeong got laid off.

Start of IMF Crisis. Geum-myeong and Chung-seob met at the cinema.

Geum-myeong brought Chung-seob to Jeju.

Geum-myeong got married.

Sang-gil bribed a police officer to catch Park Cheol-yong.

Gwan-sik sold boat to bail out Eun-myeong.

Ae-sun started selling squid at fish market and Eun-myeong started selling rice cake and buckwheat jelly.

Gwan-sik and Sang-gil paid their neighbors to buy from Eun-myeong and Eun-myeong found out.

Eun-myeong started working in ice factory.

Aesun-found out Geum-myeong quit her job to focus on business. Eun-myeong got frostbite. Geum-myeong argued with Ae-sun about having kids.

Gwan-sik sold the cabbage plot and opened a restaurant with their house as collateral.

Geum-myeong borrowed money for her family while she's pregnant (similar to Ae-sun back then) with estimated due date of birth of 2001/9/18.

Birth of Park Sae-bom (Geum-myeong's daughter). End of IMF Crisis.

Restaurant's delivery business took off. Geum-myeong founded Ever Study.

Jeju started tax free policy

Eun-myeong's name was cleared as they caught Park Cheol-yong. Jeong Mi-in came to the restaurant to repay Gwan-sik.

Bu Jeong-suk (Sang-gil's second daughter) got married. Hyeon-suk told Yeong-ran about Sang-gil trying to help Eun-myeong

Ae-sun went to Seoul to help Geum-myeong take care of Sae-bom.

Gwan-sik and Aeson got health check.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik went to visit Dong-myeong's grave the day before his birthday.

Ae-sun and Gwan-sik took their grandkids to visit uncle Dong-myeong.

Gwan-sik had follow up checkup. Gwan-sik diagnosed with cancer.

Gwan-sik's 24th chemotherapy. He asked Geum-myeong to stay in the hospital and told her stories about Ae-sun.

Ae-sun's poem is published in a magazine.

Gwan-sik passed away.

Chloe published Ae-sun's poems. Ae-sun is currently a teacher at elderly's home and Geum-myeong bought back their old Jeju house.