When Hae Sung is having breakfast with his mother and father, the amount of rice in his bowl changes between shots.
When Nora and Hae Sung first communicate on a video call, Nora's laptop shows that it's 7 PM when the call starts.
Later during the call, and it's not clear how long the call lasted, when Hae Sung asks Nora what time it is, Nora indicates that it's midnight.
But when the video call ends, Nora's laptop time indicates it's 11 PM.
Later during the call, and it's not clear how long the call lasted, when Hae Sung asks Nora what time it is, Nora indicates that it's midnight.
But when the video call ends, Nora's laptop time indicates it's 11 PM.
There is an early scene in which Nora's and Hae Sung's mothers are conversing. At one point, the subtitle for Nora's mother's words read that they are "immigrating" to the USA. From her point of view, she and her family in fact would be emigrating, not immigrating. They are leaving their home country for another country.
After the first time jump of 12 years, which would be the year 2011 or 2012, there is a skyline shot of New York with the finished Freedom Tower. The Freedom Tower did not open until 2014 and it was not finished until 2015, 3 years after the shot takes place.
On the taxi's door, the taxi phone number area code is incorrectly shown as 613. That's the area code for Ottawa, and eastern Ontario, Canada. The correct area code for the film's scenes set in Long Island, New York is 631.
When the protagonist's family arrives at Canadian immigration, a French-language government sign reads "loresque" (instead of, correctly, "lorsque.")
On a video call, Hae Sung asks Nora how far from Manhattan Montauk is, Nora indicates it's four hours away.
But Montauk is only 2.5 hours from Manhattan.
But Montauk is only 2.5 hours from Manhattan.