Korea's Fake Orphans: How Adoptions To USA & Sweden Tore Families Apart | One "Orphan" Every Hour

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  @SheriG75 · 1 year ago

  “To be an adopted child-you are like the fairy tale for everybody else except for yourself.” As a Korean adoptee, I felt this in the deepest parts of my SOUL.

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  @JoRoseKellogg · 11 months ago

  I was chosen by a family in Michigan, USA early 1973. I prayed to be adopted because I was going to be aged out and put out on the street. It was the happiest day in my life when I was told by a nurse that I was going to America. The nuns at the orphanage reiterated to me that “Only good girls get adopted by American family.” I am now 63 years old, I have set my roots in Canada. I have a loving husband and three very proud children. Now grandma with three grandchildren. My life is a blessing. God is peace, love, and mercy.

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  @lambiejams1176 · 1 year ago

  What a great documentary! My husband was one of the many mixed race babies adopted from Holt in the late 1960&apos;s. We weren&apos;t given much information at all about his circumstances. So we had to rely on DNA. I was able to find his father (he was a U.S. Soldier in Korea). And quite to our surprise, I found his mother. She had moved to the U.S. in the early 1970&apos;s. Not long after he had been adopted out. She married another serviceman and had 2 children. She divorced him and married again and had another child and settled in Arizona. So she had been only states away from him his entire life. Her daughter had taken a DNA test at Ancestry and i reached out to her and said she has an older brother. She confronted her mother about it and she denied having him and then refused to talk to her daughter for the last 2 years. I felt so bad for both my husband and his sister. I don&apos;t know what happened to their mother that she is estranged from all 4 of her children now. So, we looked at this whole situation as a dodged bullet. He had a great life here in America. It&apos;s not the ending he wanted, but he now has 2 amazing sisters. One from each side of his family. Holt&apos;s paperwork lied about his name and his mother&apos;s surname. So who knows what else they lied about. <br><br>I have gone on to devote my career to helping other Amerasians find their birthfathers. Mainly Vietnam War babies. So far, i have found 350 fathers and counting. All thanks to my first case being my husband.

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• KI

  @kittiescorner222 · 7 months ago

  Imagine thinking you are saving a child, only to find out later that your kid didn&apos;t need saving in the first place.

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  @toyoyoyo104 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Imagine all these babies growing up thinking their mothers didn&apos;t want them, and their mothers having their babies stolen. 😢

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  @DeniseCampbell-g7l · 11 months ago

  Being adopted is difficult, even if you are adopted within the same nation. Despite that, adoption is needed, because there are children who are abandoned. I am an American, abandoned when I was 5 and adopted at 6. If any Korean children were adopted, yet not actually abandoned, that is human trafficking. It is illegal and anyone involved should be prosecuted.

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  @springbreezing · 11 months ago

  I remember watching a documentary of a korean adoptee who was actually old enough to remember being kidnapped, along with her younger brother. She said she had been seven when she was forcibly taken away by a stranger when she was playing with her brother on the street. She was placed with a French family that were not fit to be parents. I remember donating to her cause to sue Holt and the government, I wonder how far she made it today.

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  @LeeAnnWalton-t3e · 11 months ago

  I’m a Korean adoptee. Thank you for creating this documentary — it was eye-opening and devastating. It confirmed what I’ve long suspected about my adoption. I will be filing a human rights violation. I unfortunately, was adopted by a family that should have never been allowed to adopt children.

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  @micheleamisonfellezs293 · 10 months ago

  I just want to add. &nbsp;Being female army veteran that was stationed in s.korea....the children my roommate made clothes for in the orphanage closest to us, were orphans, mostly mixed, American boys leaving Korean girls pregnant and if they did not give up the child were disowned by their family. &nbsp;There also was abortion bridge where many a fetus was left. &nbsp;Do not blanket the hardships of these children with the trafficking criminals disgusting practices nor judge the person with no option but to hope their child does better without them. &nbsp;It is all,, tragic.

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• AI

  @aiiaaiia1231 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ClLJdhHkY&amp;t=186">3:06</a> 따르릉 따르릉 비켜나세요 자전거가 나갑니다 따르르르릉 저기 가는 저 사람 조심하세요 우물쭈물 하다가는 큰일 납니다<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ClLJdhHkY&amp;t=213">3:33</a> 둥근해가 떴습니다 자리에서 일어나서 제일 먼저 이를 닦자 윗니아래 이닦자. 세수할때는 깨끗이 이쪽저쪽 목닦고 머리 빗고 옷을 입고 거울을 봅니다. 꼭꼭 씹어 밥을 먹고 가방메고 인사하고 유치원에 갑니다 씩씩하게 갑니다.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ClLJdhHkY&amp;t=250">4:10</a> 아빠하고 나하고 만든 꽃밭에 채송화도 봉숭화도 한창 입니다. 아빠가 매어놓은 새끼줄 따라 나팔꽃도 어울리게 피었습니다. 애들하고 재밌게 뛰어 놀다가 &nbsp;아빠 생각나서 꽃을 봅니다 아빠는 꽃보며 살자 그랬죠 날 보고 꽃같이 살자 그랬죠

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• GI

  @giapuffs · 1 year ago (edited)

  You can see how much Chase loves Mary. Even though he struggles with social interactions, he looks at her with love in his eyes, his cheeks blush a little and he is always touching her to show affection. You can see the effort in him trying to word things in a warm way and trying to comfort her even if he&apos;s not sure of how to. I think no matter how much time they lost or how awkward it can be for them, the love they have for each other can overcome anything. I see a strong bond there

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  @terenceneo4493 · 1 year ago

  Moving story. I like the scene when Korean Aunty hugged Phil and told him never give up looking for his birth mother.

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