Category: identity
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American Community Media: More than 17k Korean Adoptees in US Lack Citizenship. Many Live in Minnesota.
By Nicole Chang February 26, 2026 Link to story
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Al Jazeera: A woman’s search for a lost childhood in South Korea
By Susan Kim Link to story
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After 5 decades in Sweden, 9 Korean adoptees to visit Gwangju seeking their birth families
By Kang Hyun-seok Link to story
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Christianity Today: Every Adoptee’s Worst Nightmare
By Isabel Ong and Jennifer Park Link to story
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Women abandoned as a baby in Hong Kong searched ‘for years’ before finding lost family
By Rachael Davis and Laura McKenna Link to story. This story includes numerous links and was originally written for the MyHeritage DNA website. I excerpted the article to focus on Rachel’s story.
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Notre Dame Magazine: Making sense of identity
A sister I never knew upended my understanding of myself, my birth family and my Korean heritage. By Darragh Hannan Link to story
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The Korea Times: Adoptees, birth families, officials demand justice as Korea confronts abuses
By Alice Hong and Antonia Giordano Link to story
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WGTC: She just wanted a little sister: TikTok reunites two Colombian adoptees raised on different continents
By Fred Onyango Link to story Someone call Disney and Lindsay Lohan — the plot for The Parent Trap remake has practically written itself. Image via Instagram/rachellannaa A wholesome story about half-sisters reuniting from almost 4,000 miles apart played out in front of the entire internet — and it was all thanks to TikTok. In 1998,…
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The Juggernaut: The Missing Stories of South Asian Adoption
For decades, thousands from the subcontinent were adopted abroad, mostly by white famlies. Why have they been forgotten? by Siobhan Neela-Stock This story is paywalled. LINK TO STORY.
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Marketplace: For Chinese adoptees, the cost of finding answers is high.
Birth family search is becoming increasingly common with new technologies. By Katie Reuther Link to story
Transnational /Transcultural Adoption Project 