The graphic novel Couleur de peau: Miel tells the story of author Jung, who was born in Korea and adopted in Belgium. At the end of the Korean War, thousands of Korean children were adopted to the West, and Jung was one of them. He was a troubled child who could not find the right contact with his surroundings, so he ran into a fantasy world and drawn a lot. Luckily, despite adolescent problems, he managed to keep his life on the right rails. He returned to Seoul a few years later with a wish to find his biological mom or simply to check how much he feels at home in Korea. Adult Jung is so skilful in expressing his own story of the eternal search for identity, full of humour and personal insight. In order to address the sensitive issues of racial diversity, cultural identity, difficult period of growing up and narration in the ambiguous genre of auto-biography, the graphic novel presents an invaluable value for the age group of young adults.
There is also a film that is a mixture between a documentary film and animation. Jung decides to return, for the first time, in South Korea, in order to breath the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself, shot as a documentary, leads our character to recall in animation.
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