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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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Jan 18, 2019

John Park*, 34, is a kinship Korean adoptee. Park is an alias because he does not have legal status in the U.S., despite being brought to the U.S. from Korea as a young child and later adopted by Americans. Adoptee rights advocates estimate there are at least 35,000 foreign-born adopted people in the U.S. who, like Park, never received U.S. citizenship. Efforts to fix an immigration loophole in adoption in 2001 did not address individuals adopted outside the law's restrictions on age and approved arrival visas. Advocates are hoping to change that with a new bill this year, though passage has so far proved politically challenging. Ultimately, Park's adoption story is about survival and circumstance, pain and redemption. And hope. 

Note: This episode contains themes of child sex abuse and violence. 

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