KOREAN RESOURCES

The following is a list of resources for Korean adoptees compiled over the years.  It includes information about the country, reunions, searches, stories/experiences of other adoptees, and many more bits and pieces.
 

• Also Known As (AKA)
• Koreanadoptees.net
• KoRoot - Guesthouse for Korean Adoptees
• JinHeung Moonhwa - Return Trips to Korea
• Global Overseas Adoptee Link (GOAL)
• Overseas Korean Foundation (OKF)
• K@W
• International Korean Adoptee Service (InKAS)
• Transcultured e-Magazine
• Grinding up Stones - an Asian Adoptee publication
• Korean Adoptees Return Tours
• TRACK: Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea
• Canadian Korean Adoptee Network (CKAN)
• International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA)
• Paper Lantern

Korean Adoptee Stories

• Matt Purcell - Korean Aussie adoptee musician - his music
• Jane Jeong Trenka
• Sunny Jo's World
• Sun Yung Shin
• Emily Saunders Story: p1, p2, p3
• Emily's Reunion
• Julia's Blog
• Korean Adoptee Blog
• Korean Adoptee Returns in Triumph - with Celine Dion
• Susanne's Call to end International Adoptions in Korea
• Hollee's Who are you Also Known As?
• YouTube: Chris Heming's story
• The Book Show: Growing up Asian in Australia (the book includes Blossom's chapter - Korean Adoptee) or try Blip.TV link
• Search for Mother Missing (book by Korean twin adoptee)
• Film: Going Home by Jason Hoffman of his search & return to Korea; Going Home screening at Rhode Island Film Festival
• Film: Resilience & Searching for Go-Hyang by Tammy Chu; Resilience Fan Page
• Film: First Person Plural by Deann Borshay
• Film: Tie a Yellow Ribbon - featuring Korean adoptee
• Film: Our Silent Traces by Sophie Bredier
• Film: A Brand New Life by Ounie Lecompte
• KAD films
• Korean adoptee (Henin Jung) shares his experiences in comic strip (in French) and YouTube (English)

• Leonie Edwards (Korean adoptee living in WA) competes on TV show Homemade

• Korean Intercountry Adoptees Support Birth Mother's Rights in South Korea

• Korean adoptee artist: Kilsook
• Korean Adoptee blog: Korean War Baby
• Nora's Journey: A Korean adoptee's life in a Chinese family
• An orphan struggles to overcome abandonment
• Adopted from Korea and in Search of Identity
   

Multimedia

• Video: Journey of Hope
• KBS Video: Baby Exporting Nation: The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption - Korea
• Film: My Father movie about Korean adoptee who finds his birth father on death row
• Film: Adopted Ourselves, Adopting Ourselves: The Ethnogenesis of the Korean Adoptee

• Adult Adoptees of Southeast Asia (AASEA)
• South Asian International Adoptees Talk (SAIA-T)
• Korean Adoptees Worldwide (K@W)
• Korean Adoptees
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Research

• History of the care of Displaced Children in Korea
• Comforting an Orphaned Nation
• Analysis of Intercountry Adoption Policy & Regulations: The case of Korea

Camps

• Holt Adoptee Camps for Korean Adoptees in the USA

Books

• The Language of Blood: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka
• Outsiders Within: Writings on Transracial Adoptions edited by Jane Jeong Trenka
• Korean Adoptee Literature

Searching for Birth Family

• Eastern Social Welfare Society
• South Korean Govt: New Central Authority website KCAR (Korean Central Adoption Resources)

Other

• Network for Unwed Mothers Established
• YouTube: Adoption foundation founder now supports Korean unwed mothers
• Korean Americans find roots in traditional drumming

• Raising a Child Alone in Seoul - A birth mother's story

• Korea continues to deny overseas adoptees access

• Group resists Korean Stigma for Unwed Mothers