

Return to Seoul
After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.6M
- Language
- Korean
- identity
- adoption
- family reunion
- journey
- french woman
- international adoption
- korean
- seoul, south korea
- searching for biological parents
- korean culture
- korean adoption
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Produced in
Belgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Romania, South Korea
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTTMubi7 Jul 2023
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival13 Oct 2022
- Theatrical (limited)RNew York City & Los Angeles2 Dec 2022
- TheatricalR17 Feb 2023
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical155 May 2023
- Digital / OTTMUBI7 Jul 2023
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival8 Sept 2022
CambodiaKH
- Theatrical18 Nov 2022
FinlandFI
- Theatrical5 May 2023
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival22 May 2022
- Theatrical25 Jan 2023
- Digital / OTTTPVOD25 May 2023
- PhysicalDVD4 Jul 2023
- Digital / OTTArte•tv1 Oct 2025
- TVArte1 Oct 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1226 Jan 2023
- Digital / OTT1226 May 2023
GreeceGR
- Theatrical11 May 2023
Hong KongHK
- PremiereHong Kong Asian Film Festival5 Nov 2022
- Theatrical16 Feb 2023
IndonesiaID
- Premiere17+Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival28 Nov 2022
IrelandIE
- Theatrical15A5 May 2023
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Return to Seoul was released on 18 November 2022.
Audience reviews
1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
5/15/2023
I think I may have warmed to this film better had I not taken an instant dislike to "Freddie" (Park Ji-min). Now it's certainly a testament to this actor that she is able to successfully - and pretty immediately - engender a sense that her character is a rather selfish, manipulative and unpleasant individual; but I'm afraid I struggled to remain engaged as her troubled story of adoption and of her re-introduction to …
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