Seoul Searching

Seoul Searching (2015) is a comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Benson Lee. The setup is mid-1980s Seoul: a summer camp for Korean teenagers born and raised abroad — from the US, Mexico, Germany, Japan — who have never been in a room full of people who look like them.

Three boys meet three girls. What follows is part coming-of-age comedy, part identity struggle, and wholly a film made by someone who lived something close to this. It wears its 80s setting without nostalgia overdose, and treats the gap between heritage and home as real friction, not a tidy lesson. Stream Seoul Searching online on iFILM.