Filmed on a budget of $1 million,[REF] Yellow Hair 2 was released in South Korea on 21 July 2001, and received 26,440 admissions in Seoul [REF].
Derek Elley of Variety noted the film's "focus on rootless young people" as a thematic link to the original film, and regarded it as "a semi-verite study of lonesome youth that has its moments between longueurs" [REF].