The Day He Arrives (Korean: 북촌 방향; Hanja: 北村 方向; RR: Bukchon Banghyang; lit.

Seong-jun heads to Seoul to meet a close friend who lives in Bukchon (North Village; Korean: 북촌), Jongno District.

When the friend does not answer his calls, Seong-jun wanders around Bukchon and runs into an actress he used to know.

The same female professor joins them and the four go to the bar called Soseol (lit.

[7] American writer and critic Nick Newman placed The Day He Arrives on his 2022 Sight and Sound list of the greatest films ever made, calling it "the closest a movie has come to telling us the meaning of life.