Return to Seoul (2022) on Netflix
Freddie, 25, grew up in France after being adopted from South Korea. A canceled flight to Tokyo brings her to Seoul, where Tena, a hotel clerk, mentions the Hammond Adoption Center.
- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb6.9/1010,870 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Plot summary
When her flight to Tokyo is canceled, Freddie, 25, spends two weeks in Seoul, the country where she was born and from which a French family adopted her. She grows close to Tena, who works the desk at her hotel, and spends a night with a man she meets while eating out. Tena and a friend tell her about the Hammond Adoption Center. Freddie says she is not looking for her biological parents, then visits the agency anyway. By law the staff cannot reveal anything about her parents, but they can send them up to three telegrams a year on her behalf. She goes to Gunsan for a short, uncomfortable meeting with her father, and Tena comes along to translate.
Cast
- Emeline Briffaudas Lucie
- Lim Cheol-hyunas Kay-Kay
- Myung-hee Chung Leeas Hammond Employee in Seoul
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Return to Seoul (2022)
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- Davy Chou got the idea for the film from his friend Laure Badufle, a Korean French adoptee, who travelled with him to South Korea during the filming of his 2011 documentary Golden Slumbers to meet her biological father and grandmother for the first time.
- Davy Chou met Park Ji-min through a personal introduction and cast her as Freddie, her first film role, because he saw her as someone who shared "the essence of Freddie's free-spiritedness".
