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A podcast that explores the experiences of Korean-American adoptees who return to live or repatriate to Korea as adults. Adoptees talk candidly about their reasons for returning and reflect on the challenges they face and on what they discover about Korean society and themselves.

Episodes

  • Season 5, Episode 15: A Late Discovery -- Kristen Choi

    18/04/2022 Duration: 01h24min

    What if you only discovered you were adopted in your 30s? Kristen Choi, 33, or 최우경, learned the truth about being adopted from Korea only a year ago, and is still unpacking what this new information means. Choi has learned she once had a different name, Choi Bo-mi, and is figuring out how to embrace a new identity as an adopted person, as well as exploring the adoptee community for the first time. 

  • Season 5, Episode 14: Home is Where You Are -- Jakob Sandersen

    10/04/2022 Duration: 55min

    Jakob Sandersen, 54, is at a crossroads. A Danish pharmacist with a family living outside Copenhagen, he might otherwise be content. But the pull of Korea, his native country, has long been present. With his education and knowledge, he has opportunities to relocate and work in Korea. But something holds him back. 

  • Season 5, Episode 13: Courage, Freedom & Loyalty -- Kimberley Lee

    31/03/2022 Duration: 01h04min

    Kimberley Lee, 38, says she's always felt very Aussie growing up in suburban Sydney, Australia. Her Korean roots seemed as faraway as the country itself. But in recent years, she's realized the importance of connecting that past to her present. 

  • Season 5, Episode 12: Korean Dragon -- Han Yong Wunrow

    22/03/2022 Duration: 01h07min

    For so many Korean adoptees, little if any information is ever known about one's biological family, either because of empty case files or redaction of information because of Korean privacy laws that protect the relinquishing family. But what if one had a quasi-open adoption, where your adoptive father had met your biological mother and together they had arranged the adoption? That is the life story of Han Yong Wunrow, 27, who shares more about the unusual adoption story, and even more unusual that his white adoptive parents made Korean culture and interest in the Korean diaspora so central to their own lives. 

  • Season 5, Episode 11 - Gratitude and Loss -- Ray Trom

    08/03/2022 Duration: 01h20min

    Ray Trom, 46, survived trauma that no child should have to experience, first after his parents died leaving him with abusive relatives, to being relinquished to an orphanage with a brother he barely knew, learning to fend for himself from hunger and abuse from other children. At age 12, he was adopted to MInnesota and thrown into an American school knowing little English. Through it all, Trom found his path in life and has felt gratitude and loss, and credits both for who he is today. 

  • Season 5, Episode 10: Grief and Forgiveness -- JoYi Rhyss

    22/02/2022 Duration: 01h18min

    Mixed-race Korean adoptee JoYi Rhyss, 51, shares her story of grief and forgiveness. Her pain starts in Korea, where she lived with her Korean other until age nine, but always aware she might be sent away because her dark skin meant she didn't belong. Her journey took her to one of the whitest areas of the U.S., in a rural Minnesota town with Norwegian heritage where she grew up feeling othered and also not belonging. Rhyss's journey of self-hatred and not belonging took her down a path of discovering how to embrace her Blackness and learning how to accept herself.               

  • Season 5, Episode 9: Dream & Manifest - Justin Snyder

    10/02/2022 Duration: 01h06min

    Justin Snyder, 35, is a dreamer and a seeker.  He was adopted from Korea by parents in West Virginia and grew up in a small town only to now have traveled the world in search of meaning, spirituality and innovative thinking. Snyder embarked on his own adoptee journey in 2016 when he traveled back to Korea to attend The Gathering and learn more about his origins. 

  • Season 5, Episode 8: Never Forgotten - Tara Tenhoff

    21/01/2022 Duration: 01h15min

    Tara Tenhoff, 47, is a Korean adoptee living in Minneapolis, Minn. She came to the US by way of a private adoption and had always been told a story that didn't seem quite real until she went back to Korea a few years ago and met her birth family. Tara describes her feelings finding them initially and walks us through all the emotions of reunion and after. 

  • Season 5, Episode 7: Sweden's Race Warrior - Tobias Hübinette

    07/01/2022 Duration: 01h08min

    Tobias Hübinette, 50, is an adopted Korean and academic scholar of critical adoption, race and Korean studies, respectively. His work has focused on looking at international adoption from Korea to the West from all angles, not just from the perspective of receiving countries or adoptive families. He has also been an activist and critic of Korea's commodification of its children -- an acknowledgment that is only now starting to permeate mainstream adoptee, political, historical and adoption industry circles. 

  • Season 5, Episode 6: Transnational Gaze - Mai Young Øvilsen

    29/12/2021 Duration: 01h12min

    Mai Young Øvilsen, 39, is a Danish Korean composer and lead singer of the band Meejah, whose alt-shoegaze sounds are punctuated by her lyrics about adoption, transnational identity and homeland. This is the last episode of 2021. 

  • Season 5, Episode 5: Breathe & Be You - Laure Badufle

    16/12/2021 Duration: 01h12min

    French Korean adoptee Laure Badufle, 37, shares her story of growing up in the French countryside to meeting her birth parents in Korea in her 20s. Trying to make sense of the reunion and how her parents reacted to her re-emergence and the resulting chaos she felt inside, set Laure on a quest for answers and to find peace within herself. This work is something she's now focused on helping other adoptees be able to find their peace too. 

  • Season 5, Episode 4: Becoming Me - Peter Savasta

    01/12/2021 Duration: 01h11min

    Peter Savasta [he/him], 46, has been around adoptee spaces for more than two decades. Raised in Queens in an Italian-American family, he found mirrors when he went to a diverse high school in Bronx, NY, and again when he found other gay Asian-Americans. In adoptee spaces he was an early mentor and source of support. Today, he continues to contribute by sharing his story with the podcast. 

  • Season 5, Episode 3: In Search of Identity

    16/11/2021 Duration: 01h01min

    Kimura Byol, also known as Natalie Lemoine, [ze pronoun] talks about how ze adoption and upbringing in Belgium helped shaped ze politics and activism related to international transracial adoption. Particularly Kimura is passionate about improving access for adoptees to their birth records and identities. Part of that activism began when Kimura faced her own falsified and inaccurate adoption records.  

  • Season 2, Episode 2: Why Adoptee Representation Matters

    12/10/2021 Duration: 02h22min

    Korean adoptee Adam Crapser, 46, sits down with the podcast to share his thoughts post-deportation,  the controversy surrounding Blue Bayou and filmmaker Justin Chon, adoptee citizenship and media exploitation of deported adoptees. You'll hear directly from Adam about the events that have unfolded over the past five years and what ethical filmmaking around adoptees should look like. 

  • Season 5, Episode 1: Meet My Half-Sister

    30/09/2021 Duration: 01h05min

    This year has been a whirlwind. I was contacted by someone who would later be confirmed to be my paternal half-sister. Lisa Beck, adopted to Denmark as an infant nine years before my own adoption to the US, and I met in Denmark this past summer for the first time. For me, it was the first time to meet an immediate biological family member and we sat down a few weeks after that meeting to discuss how we felt through the process. 

  • *Bonus* Richard Kim Talks About F4 vs. Dual Citizenship

    13/06/2021 Duration: 44min

    Former Goa'l Secretary General Richard Kim talks to Kaomi Lee of Adapted Podcast about the pros and cons of the F4 visa vs. dual citizenship for Korean adoptees. Information heard here is subject to change. Consult an immigration attorney or the Korean immigration office for final word. 

  • Season 4, Episode 25: Susan Gaeta

    03/05/2021 Duration: 47min

    Susan Gaeta, originally named Lee Hyung ho at birth in her native Korea, 48, was adopted to the US as an infant. Today, she lives in Massachusetts and is a wife, mom and Lutheran minister. She's also bisexual and has a rare health condition. Hear how she's been able to find connection with others in various communities, and why as an adoptee, it's so important to her. 

  • Season 4, Episode 24: Maree Kinder

    26/04/2021 Duration: 55min

    In 2016, Maree Kinder, now 33, originally named Chang Ma Ree, quit her job in London and moved with her husband, Steve, to Seoul, to live for six months to search for her Korean mother. But disappointment and grief with her search had her turning to Korean beauty products as a way to numb the pain and connect to Korean culture. Now, her business, Beauty  and Seoul, a Korean skincare retailer based in the UK, is celebrating its fourth year of success. Kinder shares her insights on Korea, her identity and what else she's learned along the way. 

  • Season 4, Episode 23: Jessye Hale

    19/04/2021 Duration: 52min

    Jessye Hale, 23, was adopted from Korea as a child and grew up in Wisconsin. Today, she finds herself back in her native country working as a cancer researcher.  She also found her biological parents and has been learning how to navigate these new relationships. 

  • Season 4, Episode 22: Allie De Lacy

    13/04/2021 Duration: 01h18min

    Allie De Lacy, 25, was adopted from China to the UK at the age of two. Now married to a woman and living in Edinburgh, DeLacy talks about her experiences growing up in near racial isolation and the racism she has experienced and still does today, even more so in the past year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Listen as De Lacy shares how by researching her past, she discovered she knew even less than she had thought.

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