That’s my boy! Angelina Jolie beams alongside her son Maddox, 21, at White House after he returns to US after studying in South Korea
Angelina Jolie and her son Maddox were among the high-profile names to attend the White House state dinner in the nation’s capitol on Wednesday.
This year, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-ROK alliance.
Angelina, 47, and her eldest child, 21, were dressed to the nines for the lavish affair and had the pleasure of witnessing President Yoon belt out Don McLean’s 1971 hit American Pie.
Maddox – who was adopted by the actress from Cambodia in 2002 – is very familiar with South Korea after studying biochemistry at Yonsei University in Seoul.
Angelina flew to South Korea to send her son off to college in August 2019.
Angelina Jolie and her son Maddox were among the high-profile names to attend the White House state dinner in the nation’s capitol on Wednesday
This year, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-ROK alliance
Maddox – who was adopted by the actress from Cambodia in 2002 – is very familiar with South Korea after studying biochemistry at Yonsei University in Seoul
They first visited the school, as well as other college campuses in South Korea, in late 2018.
Although he ‘got accepted to other universities,’ Maddox ultimately decided that Yonsei was the right fit for him, as reported by PEOPLE at the time.
Along with biochemistry courses, the outlet claimed that Maddox was also ‘studying Korean language.’
But Maddox’s study abroad was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic which forced him to trade in-person classes for online school.
As a result, he returned to his family home in Los Angeles in March 2020, according to Angelina, who opened up about her son’s education in an interview with Extra that year.
Because his classes remained on Korea time, the Changeling star revealed that Maddox had no choice but to become a night owl.
‘He had to stay back from Korea. He’s going online, and so I think he starts at 6pm at night,’ she told the outlet.
The Sun reported in 2021 that face-to-face learning – specifically ‘labs, studio and field study courses’ – returned in April 2021.
Angelina previously gushed over her son’s ambitious academic pursuits to PEOPLE in 2019, telling the outlet that she is ‘nothing but proud’ of him.
She added: ‘I look forward to all he will do.’
