Rising French chef Pierre Sang Boyer
Bringing his birth roots to his adoptive country – French-Korean fusion.
Author: mike m
Goa’l “First Trip Home” event 2016
2016 trip: https://www.goal.or.kr/content/global-overseas-adoptees-link-first-trip-home-2016 Main Goa’l page: https://www.goal.or.kr
3 month Korea program for adoptees
Sounds like a great deal and an excellent experience. 9 weeks in korea including housing for not much money, via Inje Institute for International Human Resources) International Korean Adoptee Program. http://www.home.inje.ac.kr/~iiihr/xe/
Kad nation and isolation
If Korean adoptees were a country, it would be around the 190th largest, with a population bigger than Samoa or Guam. In a very physical sense, we are each part of a KAD nation. And yet, one of the strongest characteristics of our individual histories is extreme isolation. We were aliens in the truest sense of the word – dropped from space into a foreign world. We do not grow up together. We are not […]
Support adoptees by not supporting adoption
Or said another way, support programs to keep families intact. This article provides a nice summary of what’s wrong with plans that support international adoption. come up with an international child and family welfare initiative, which focuses on keeping children with their parents, their extended families or in their communities, instead of a plan focused on adoption that takes away these children from their parents or their communities. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-ligtvoet/not-again-yet-another-uni_b_10995986.html
Now playing second base for the Yankees
Rob Refsnyder. Has a kad sister. Good write-up in NY Times.
KAD ‘Top Chef’ winner interview
‘Top Chef’ winner Kristen Kish interview on NBC America. In the interview, it sounds like a lot of adoptees reached out to her, though the article doesn’t say it. The video link on the nbc page seems very slow, here is a direct one:
My Alien, Myself
Korean Adoptees are aliens. Not in the “immigrant” sense, but actually in the sense of a being from another planet. — By the time you are a few months old, you know everyone in your family, especially your mama. Within a few years, you have a very clear understanding of your world and what is “normal”. Right in the middle of all that, you are snatched to another universe where nothing makes sense. The words […]
“Beyond Identity: Activism in Korean Adoptee Art”
Detailed accounting of KAD artistic projects up to the first Gathering. https://adopteeculturalarchives.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stoker-activismandart.pdf
Our Adoptee, Our Alien seminar
Unfortunately, poor sound quality, but will add more info about this art exhibit as i find it. Blog of the exhibition: http://histoiredevoir.blogspot.com/2007/08/our-adoptee-our-alien.html