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Adapted™ Podcast

A podcast about Korean adoptees that include topics of race, identity, belonging and life after returning to Korea, reuniting with biological family and more. Each story is different but there are common threads that many adoptees can relate to.
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Now displaying: May, 2023
May 23, 2023

Sara Jones isn't sure whether she's 48 or 49. That's because the circumstances surrounding her relinquishment are still a bit unclear. What she does know for certain, is that her father never wanted her to be separated from her family or be adopted overseas. But his worst fears happened anyway, and against most all odds she was able to find her way back. Now, she's using her voice to help other Korean adoptees whom the system disenfranchised and left vulnerable. 

May 8, 2023

Eric Poole, 55, continues his conversation in this second-part of a two-part interview. In this episode, we follow his adoption to the U.S. and adjustment in New Hope, Minnesota, where as a Black Korean boy, he felt like he traded one outsider life for another. 

 

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