The search for origins is also a search for dignity
This article is the 15th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children who were...
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- Sep 9, 2021
- 4 min
The failure of adoption system
This is the 14th article of the series on Korea’s policies on adoption. The history of the politics of adoption permanently affects and...
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- Aug 31, 2021
- 4 min
Political decisions behind Korea’s adoption curve
This is the 12th article in an adoption series. So far, this series has covered the right to origin of adoptees from Korea. The second...
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- Aug 29, 2021
- 5 min
The systematization of ‘child exports’ for economic and political aims
This is the 13th article in an adoption series. Some adoptees have echoed the previous article’s question, “What is the real reason this...
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- Aug 29, 2021
- 4 min
The systematization of ‘child exports’ for economic and political aims
By Lee Kyung-eun If, as the dominant narrative claims, transnational adoption is about rescuing war orphans, then the surge in...
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- Aug 21, 2021
- 5 min
Rewriting the adoption narrative
This article is the 11th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Among the first wave of transracial adoptees from Korea to the United...
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- Aug 1, 2021
- 4 min
I’ve been searching since I was lost
This article is the 10th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Christine Pennell, an American adoptee from South Korea, found her...
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- Jul 25, 2021
- 5 min
‘Proxy adoption,’ the IR-4 visa and US citizenship for adoptees from Korea
This article is the ninth in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children it had sent...
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- Jul 18, 2021
- 5 min
The truth about our ‘abandonment’ and reclaiming our Korean identity
This article is the eighth in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Korea’s nationality law facilitated the procedure of restoring their...
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- Jul 10, 2021
- 4 min
Adoptees’ nationality of state of origin and negligence of duty of protection
This article is the seventh in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children they had...
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- Jul 3, 2021
- 5 min
How falsified adoption papers make it even more difficult to search for my origin
This article is the sixth in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. For adoptees, coming to Korea in search of their origin is a huge...
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- Jun 27, 2021
- 5 min
Korean adoption system must not be allowed to be profit-driven
This article is the fifth in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children who were...
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- Jun 19, 2021
- 5 min
An adoptee’s missing family
This article is the fourth in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Searching for one’s origin is a life-long journey for adoptees. Very...
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- Jun 12, 2021
- 5 min
Legally ‘orphaned’ to be adopted transnationally
This article is the third in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children it had sent...
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- Jun 5, 2021
- 4 min
Why do adoptees learn Korean?
This article is the second in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Learning the Korean language is an extremely difficult proposition...
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- May 30, 2021
- 4 min
Why ‘origin’ is important for people adopted from Korea
This article is the first in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children it had sent...
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