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[Ukon]

find their long lost families that abandoned them to an orphanage?

I'm bored, sick, and curious right now.....is it a joyous moment or a "oh s*** what the hell are YOU doing here!???" senario.

[ardis]

It obviously varies on a case by case basis...really depends on why the child was given up for adoption in the first case.

[seoulsucker]

I've seen a TV show that deals with the reunions, but mostly with Koreans who were adopted by other Korean families in Korea.

There's a big piece of this in the movie "Sympathy for Lady Vengence."

[Socks]

I have met with and dealt with many "Korean adoptees"...

let me see..

a few come back - with the "I'm American / Canadian" things..

then after a couple of months in Korea - they start seeing themselves as korean..

and go about ranting on how "Koreans have the highest IQ", "Koreans are the best" "American will die" shit etc etc

and then hate Americans/Canadians and take up Korean "citizenship"

others have the "I am American/Canadian" thing - although they are Korean and go about picking up 100's of Korean "dirty girls" who all want them for their "USA/Canadian" citizenship...

here are two examples..

(1) M-Su (family name = Shonhan) (adopted out at as a young child to a family in Australia) - comes back to Korea and goes on a ramage - trying to sleep with every willing girl in Seoul = meanwhile making fun on it on Daves ESL Cafe...

(2) Jeffrey Lee Salko - (was adopted out to an American Rich family when he was 9 y.o.) - his father had died - so his mother wanted to remarry..

back then (1970's) - to marry - a female had to be a virgin - so she got rid of her son and married pretending to be a virgin...

Jeff (the Korean adoptee) then has a son in the USA - goes to prison for crimes - comes out - kidnaps his son (now 6 y.o.) and flees to Korea..

the son has since been rescued (at the beginning of this year (2008)) and Jeff (the Korean adoptee is currently in a New York prison awaiting his court date)...

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=41663&cat=14

http://www.mahalo.com/Jeffrey_Salko



many "Korean adoptees" come back and cannot get along with their biological families - because Korean families - want forget them, pretend they don't exist and pretend nothing ever happened (they have tried to move on)

this causes a lot of problems, guilt, crimes when the adopted child comes back - it also causes a lot of "Korean adoptees" to become "badly behaved" or turn to crime (hating both Korea and the "western country" they grew up in)

a very dangerous mix and situation...