K-Number
K-Number
Mioka visits Korea several times to find her family, but encounters falsified documents and concealed records. Alongside records from actual overseas adoptees, the film traces how the evasion of responsibility by adoption agencies and the government makes finding one’s roots difficult.
OVERALL TRUTH BASIS · Fact-centered
A documentary that directly traces actual overseas adoptees, adoption documents, and agency records to investigate structural problems in Korea's overseas adoption system.
FACT / FICTION
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11 recordsK-Number is a 2025 South Korean documentary directed by Jo Se-young.
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- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
It was released on May 14, 2025, and has a runtime of 112 minutes.
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- Information from Mano Entertainment's official film page.
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- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
Mioka Miller is an actual overseas adoptee who appears in the film herself.
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- The distributor's information and the Seoul Independent Film Festival's cast information confirm this.
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- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
"K-Number" refers to a serial-number system assigned by domestic adoption agencies to classify Korean children sent overseas for adoption.
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- The Seoul Independent Film Festival program notes explain the definition.
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- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
The Seoul Independent Film Festival says that more than 200,000 Korean children were adopted overseas after the Korean War.
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- A description of the historical scale in the official program notes.
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- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
The film addresses how falsified adoption documents and adoption agencies and government bodies evading responsibility make it difficult to find one's roots.
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- The official Seoul Independent Film Festival synopsis presents this as the central issue.
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- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
Mioka is described as visiting Korea several times to find her family, but encountering falsified documents and concealed records.
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- The distributor's official synopsis.
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- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
Director Jo Se-young said that she had the title "K-Number" in mind from around 2019.
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- A Cine21 interview with the director confirms this.
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- [인터뷰] 입양인은 개인이 아닌 사회의 문제다, <케이 넘버> 조세영 감독씨네21 · Creator interview · Grade AOpen source →
It was invited to the Wide Angle Documentary Competition at the 2024 Busan International Film Festival and received the Documentary Audience Award.
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- The distributor's information and the Seoul Independent Film Festival's records confirm this.
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- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
It received the Grand Prize in the Feature Competition at the 2024 Seoul Independent Film Festival.
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- The distributor's film page records the award.
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- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
This is not a fiction film in which actors reenact adoptees, but an investigative documentary that follows actual overseas adoptees and records.
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- Official materials confirm the actual participants and the investigation of adoption documents.
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- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
- [인터뷰] 입양인은 개인이 아닌 사회의 문제다, <케이 넘버> 조세영 감독씨네21 · Creator interview · Grade AOpen source →
CHARACTER ↔ PERSON
Characters and real people
미오카 밀러
Historical personBased on a real personMioka Miller →
Other related people
Jo Se-young
Documentary directorSources used
- 케이 넘버 (K-Number)마노엔터테인먼트 · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
- K-Number서울독립영화제 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
- [인터뷰] 입양인은 개인이 아닌 사회의 문제다, <케이 넘버> 조세영 감독씨네21 · Creator interview · Grade AOpen source →