As the child of an immigrant myself, this hit home. A group of Korean, second generation immigrant teens are sent back to Korea on a government program to learn more about their homeland. Unused to the strictness of Korean society, these westernised teens stick out like a sore thumb. They get up to all sorts of shenanigans, breaking each of the clearly set out rules as they go.

This drama touches upon the differences in parenting styles of the immigrants vs the South Korean natives and their various pitfalls. However, whilst it tries to remain balanced and give fair representations of western teens and South Korean born ones, the overly sensationalised presentation of the south korean teen diaspora, creates an undertone that they are somehow broken or wrong because they were not raised in South Korea. It may have been more fair and believeable to focus less on 'the party animal' presentation of the western teens and more on the issues of strained identity, language barriers, the struggle of cultural allegiance, etc - all the things that the children of the diaspora struggle with. I also wish they had them interact with actual korean teens rather than just the teachers. It all felt very child vs adult to me - a clash of age, rather than culture, which would have fit the theme better.

All in all, it's a great film but it's too one sided and overly dramatic in some areas. If you ignore the whole 'reconnecting with my culture' bit you are left with a brilliant angsty teen drama. However, that would miss the point and thus my low overall ratings.