Return to Seoul
A woman born in South Korea but then raised in France returns to the land of her birth to look up her birth parents. And that’s the basic plot outline of Return to Seoul, a fictional reworking of the true story of Korean-born, France-raised Laure Badufle, who wrote this movie with director Davy Chou. This is a film that knows very well that there’s are a welter of genealogy-adjacent TV shows out there with titles like Long Lost Family. Who Do You Think You Are?, the globally most successful of them has been around for 20 years and exists in all sorts of iterations, under all sorts of titles, acquainting people with their … Read more