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A 2017 article in The Guardian covered the story of Korean adoptee Veronica Thompson. In 1974, Thompson was discovered all by herself in a bag outside of a South Korean police station. Thompson has twice tried to find out about her origins and both of these attempts were unsuccessful.
This left those adopted by American families prior to 1983 vulnerable to deportations. From the 1950s through 1991, a plurality of international adoptees came from South Korea. Koreans are the largest group of adoptees in the U.S. [1] It has been estimated that as many as 20% of adult Korean adoptees are at risk of deportation. Many of the ...
In 1968, before adoption agencies in the northeast existed for the purpose, Gottlieb flew to South Korea in search of an orphaned child to adopt. In 1969, Gottlieb and her husband become one of the early American families of non-Asian heritage to adopt a Korean child, and the first from one of Korea's major orphanages.
I recently made my first trip back to Seoul since being adopted to the U.S. in 1974. In ways I wasn’t ready for, the experience has changed me forever.
It was the first known case of a Korean birth parent suing for damages against the government and an adoption agency over the wrongful adoption of their child, said Kim Soo-jung, one of the lawyers representing Han. Han searched for her daughter, Laurie Bender, for more than 40 years before they reunited through DNA testing in 2019.
As adults, many adoptees return to South Korea, asking questions about who they are and where they come from. Hitting dead end after dead end, navigating a system riddled with obstacles ...
A court on Tuesday ordered South Korea’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won ($74,700) in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States ...
The decades-long phenomenon of international adoption in South Korea began after the Korean War. In the years since the war, South Korea has become the largest and longest provider of children placed for international adoption, with 165,944 recorded Korean adoptees living in 14 countries, primarily in North America and Western Europe, as of ...