Ounie Lecomte (born 1966) is a South Korean-born French film director, writer and actress.

This was not too unusual as South Korea had 160,000 legal international adoptions which was more than any other country in the 1990s.

[3] She gained her first major role when she appeared in the 1991 film about a family, Paris Awakens, which was directed by Olivier Assayas.

Lecomte found that she had forgotten how to speak in Korean fluently and although she tried, she could not easily regain the skill.

It looks at contact with the birth parents and the rights of those involved and issues of race and it was considered more ambitious than her first film.