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11/23/05 National Assembly Public Wednesday, November 23, 2005,
Members of the adoptee community residing in Korea attended a public hearing at the National Assembly. Read more.
10/04/05 (Mediagate) 73.6% of Children Born to Unwed Mothers are Adopted
The number of minor-aged unwed mothers is increasing: National Assemblywoman Ahn Myoung Ok demands a system improvement. Korean and English.
10/04/05 (Korea Herald) Most disabled Korean kids adopted overseas. Read more.
10/03/05 (Daily Pharm) International Adoptees Need Health Care and Scholarship Aid
Assemblywoman Jang Hyang Sook finds racial discrimination, drug addiction are serious. The country’s help is urgent. Korean and English.
10/03/05 (Korea Times) Six Become Mothers Out of Wedlock a Day
A total of 1,120 women, or an average six women a day, have given birth out of wedlock over the past six months. Read more.
9/23/05 (Dong-a Ilbo) [2005 National Assembly Audit] Ministry of Health and Welfare “Overseas adoption to be banned in 4 to 5 years” Korean or English
9/16/05 (Korea Herald) A thought for Chuseok: "Keep families together!"
Ask Nathalie Lemoine, 37, a French-speaking Belgian adoptee, artist and former activist who returned to Korea in 1993, about her plans for this coming Chuseok and she starts a debate about the
reasons behind international adoption. Read more.
9/11/05 (San Francisco Chronicle) Korean-born in U.S. return to a home they never knew
Many locate lost families, others work to change international adoption policy. Read more.
8/23/05 (Korea Herald)
Adoptee fights to end heartaches of Korean children brought up by foreign parents
"As a result, the adoption industry thrived as it was able to seek our business, and it sent 70,000 children abroad in a decade, an easy way out of avoiding social welfare expenditure for the
Korean government combined with Korea's patriarchal , heterosexist norm, system." Read more.
8/22/05 (Hankyoreh Newspaper)
“Promote Childbirth” term inappropriate
For the first time, in spite of having a low birthrate, we’re hearing voices calling to apply the
breaks on the double standard of “Promote childbirth” while there is a societal taboo of single mothers and their children. Read article in English or Korean.
8/21/05 (Korea Times)
Adoptee Life Portrayed as Tragic by Pop Culture
“Korean pop culture clearly reflects an obsession with blood ties and biological roots.”
Read more.
8/21/05 (New York Times)
South Korea, in Turnabout, Now Calls for More Babies
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8/20/05 (Dong-a Ilbo)
Overseas Adoptees and Un-Adopted Orphans Share the Same Pain
Read more.
8/19/05 (Korea Times)
Korean Adoptees Speak Up in Forum
South Korea is among the few industrialized countries that continues to send its children away for overseas adoption. Read more.
8/19/05 (Korea Times)
Adoptee Finds Identity Through Youth Camp. Read more.
7/22/05 (Chosun Ilbo)
Hospitals Slighting Women Who Can't Have Babies. Read more.
7/8/05 (Korea Update)
Korea becomes 10thlargest economy
South Korea has become theworld's 10th largest economy in terms of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004, overtaking Mexico. Read more.
5/30/05
(Hyphen Magazine - Asian American Unabridged)
HOMELAND DIVIDE
Korean adoptees are flocking to their birth country in mass numbers changing the landscape
of international adoptions in the process.Read more.
5/25/05 (The Korea Times)
More funds available for overseas adoptees. Read more.
5/25/05 (Chosun Ilbo)
Quarter of Korean Students Sexually Active. Read more.
5/24/05 (WebMD Medical News)
Study Shows Fewer Behavioral Problems for Children Adopted Internationally Read more.
5/18/05 (The Korea Times)
Low Status of Women: A Long way before genuine gender Equality
The World Economic Forum has recently ranked Korea 54th among 58 major countries for the empowerment of women. Read more.
5/10/05 (CBC News)
Singling out single families
Single mothers work, shop, help with homework, and are often challenged by the numerous demands of family life. In the eyes of their children they are often heroes, but in South Korea, single
parents are treated with disdain. Read more.
4/13/05
National Human Rights Commission of Korea makes recommends changes in adoption policies
On April 12, 2005, the National Human Rights Commission stated it will recommend to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ... Read more.
3/22/05 (Korea Times)
May 11 Designated as Adoption Day
Adoption Day will be observed on May 11 each year as part of efforts to help abandoned children find new families without being adopted overseas.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said Tuesday that it will commemorate the day from next year and designate the week following the day as ``Adoption Week.'' Read more.
3/1/05 (Korea Times)
Single Mothers Face Discrimination
Having a child is a blessing, but in Korea a baby born to an unmarried woman often invites discrimination for both mother and child as many people consider having children outside marriage to be
unacceptable. Read more.
2/15/05 (Korea Times)
Adoptees Bare Their Hearts Through ‘Letter Never Sent’
Hong Soon-i, an ethnic Korean living in the United States, cannot remember how she and her younger sister were taken to the Star of Sea Orphanage in Inchon in 1976. Read more.
