On the day after Christmas in 2025, the South Korean government announced it would be ending its Korean adoption program by 2029 . They made this announcement following a United Nations investigation into adoption fraud and abuse in the adoption program, especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s, when I was adopted. This investigation, along with the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission , was in response to the advocacy work of adult adoptees.  This news felt like a lon

The day they say I was born is the day my Omma wrote 9/21 on a piece of paper she pinned to me before leaving, or a social worker closed...

South Korea has sent over 200,000 adoptees to other countries around the world, to predominantly white parents, believing the old adage,...