Season 6 Episode 3
In this episode, we discuss the book Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom.
Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is a Korean-Swedish adoptee who discovers some shocking truths about the circumstances surrounding her adoption.
We explore some of the secrets of the Korean intercountry adoption and learn about why some adoptees and adoptee advocates are accusing the South Korean government and the government of the country they were raised in of not enough oversight over South Korean adoption practices of the late 20th century.
LINKS:
Legally 'orphaned' to be adopted transnationally [The Korea Times]
Paper orphans [CBC]
Dutch gov't broke law by destroying adoption files: Inspectorate [NL Times]
South Korea’s truth commission to probe foreign adoptions [AP]
When her mother came to see her, Holt lied and said she’d already been adopted [Hankyoreh]
‘Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth [Guardian]