“Mr. Wayne in Seoul” follows a man drifting through the city with the quiet detachment of Camus’ stranger. In Seoul’s subways and sleepless streets, he wanders lucid yet displaced, carrying the faint ache of someone who once left a dust-blown homeland. Echoing Steinbeck’s exiles, the film turns his poetic monologue into a brief drama on estrangement, memory, and the search for a place to return to.

Heewoon Lee studied Public Policy at the University of Tokyo and Business Administration at Seoul National University. Before entering the creative field, he lived and worked across several countries, spending years in military and multinational environments — a life of constant movement and quiet observation. Having experienced both belonging and estrangement on different continents, he began translating these emotional undercurrents into art and sound. His creative career in music and film started in 2024, exploring the intersection of human emotion, technology, and poetic storytelling under the project name K-garoo (헬짱 강걸우).