Edward Pokropski, 39, of New York, NY is an adopted Korean-American who has a new one-man show out unpacking that experience. He talks about why not all audiences are comfortable laughing at jokes about adoption and how he approaches the topic while staying true to himself.
This is the second-half of a recent conversation with Peter Møller of the Danish Korean Rights Group.
The discussion takes place on Dec. 11, 2022 (KST), just days after the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission
decided to start an investigation on Korean adoption by examining an initial 34 cases of the more than 300 submissions.
We also discuss privacy in regards to the Special Adoption Law and threats made by Holt to Møller and other adoptees if they don't
abandon this complaint.
I sit down and talk again to Peter Møller, one of the co-founders of Danish Korean Rights Group, which has succeeded in convincing a truth commission in Korea to open an investigation into Korean adoption. The group has submitted more than 300 cases representing adopted Koreans in a number of countries, alleging false paperwork and switched identities among other human rights violations.
Zhen E Rammelsberg, 50, was adopted from Korea by a white couple in Iowa in the US. She grew up without mirrors or anyone that looked like her.
It would be more than four decades later that she would finally return to her native country. But instead of being able to neatly complete her puzzle she realized
the missing piece - herself - no longer fit.