There’s a band that’s quite popular lately – maybe you’ve heard of them? They go by the name BTS. From SNL to the late show rounds to Billboard Music Awards to Ellen to The Voice (shall I keep going?), they are nearly impossible to ignore. They’re everywhere! Mattel (yes, Barbie Mattel) has recently announced their line… Read More #RepresentationMatters
2018 was definitely a year of change. If you’d told me at the beginning of the year so many changes would be happening, I would have thought you were crazy. Through it all, thankfully, we still were able to prioritize our trip to Korea in October/November. We’d been looking forward to the trip to Korea… Read More A Day with My Hyung Leads to My Adoption File
If you haven’t yet seen it going around social media, a new project recently launched, called Side by Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and Into the World. Having seen almost every adoptee documentary piece that has come out, we were honestly quite slow to this one, assuming it was like every other we’d seen. Once we started watching, we were blown away. The minimalism brings to the forefront the centerpiece of the film: adoptee stories. And those are more than enough to capture your attention, without fancy filmmaking tricks.… Read More Side by Side
This is Part Five (final) of a series on our 2017 birth family visit. Click to read Parts One, Two, Three, and Four. I hope this is no one’s first visit to our blog, because they would most certainly be scared away by now. We are not negative people by any means, but we also… Read More Funkytown
This is Part Four of a series on our 2017 birth family visit. Click to read Parts One, Two, and Three. A day into our visit with Omma, Lee pulled me aside and we realized we had individually come to the same conclusion: Omma was not well. Though Lee cannot understand a word of her… Read More Ticket to Korea
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