More Questions Than Answers - The Truth of Intercountry Korean Adoptions - Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

Bonus Episode! My ATINY friend, Ru, and I reminisce about our trip to Coachella to see the first kpop boy group to play there, ATEEZ! We discuss our planning, our adventures in surviving people who don't know how to mosh, ATEEZ's career and their set on Weekend 1. We then go off on a tangent about ATEEZ's Towards the Light: Will to Power tour stop in NYC at Citi Field and our thoughts on Seonghwa's emotional ment. Then we get back on track about Coachella and contemplate whether we would ever go back again. TIMESTAMPS: -00:00:00-00:18:35 Intro, Basic info about Coachella, Background on ATEEZ -00:18:36-00:53:00-Coachella festival and planning -00:53:01-00:58:39 -Day 1 of Coachella -00:58:40-01:16:54- Content warning: Near crowd crush experience -01:17:00-01:19:18 - Coachella weather -01:19:19-01:36:46 - ATEEZ's set on weekend 1 -01:36:47-01:47:13 - Towards the Light in New York Citi Field and reaction to Seonghwa's ment -01:47:14-01:51:18 - After ATEEZ's set -01:51:19-01:54:18- Is ATEEZ behind us right now? -01:54:19-01:59:33 - Coachella Day 2 and Day 3 impressions (FLO, Taking Back Sunday, Tiger JK, Yoon Mirae, Bibi, Jackson Wang, Atarashi Gakko, Yoasobi, Number i, the Rose, and more) -01:59:34-end - Conclusion and would we go to Coachella again LINKS: ATEEZ in COACHELLA #1 | "Say My Name" https://youtu.be/QneendaO8U8?si=Iuo8efLFcCLWgyZB ATEEZ in COACHELLA #2 | "ARRIBA" https://youtu.be/tiFZsr6-pyw?si=Tvq4pgPJoIS3mGVq

Season 6 Episode 6 We look at the latest news surrounding Korean inter-country adoption, including the preliminary findings from Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission is investigating whether certain Korean inter-country adoptions were handled appropriately in response to questions filed by Korean adoptees. LINKS: South Korea's Adoption Reckoning (full documentary) | FRONTLINE + ‪AssociatedPress‬ [YouTube] South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children [CNN] South Korea reveals new evidence of ‘violent and systemic’ forced adoption abroad [Guardian] South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s [AP] Adoptees from Korea left ‘stateless’, and searching for their roots [Hankyoreh] Almost 10% of Korean adoptees may be stateless [The Korea Herald] South Korean adoption fraud rocks Denmark as victims demand answers [Daily Sabah] “We have a right to know our history”: Fraudulent records keep Korean adoptees from the truth [Hankyoreh] All records must be unsealed for Korean adoptees who want it, argue experts [Hankyoreh] Korean truth commission to investigate hundreds of possibly fraudulent overseas adoptions [Hankyoreh] Adoption agency found liable for human rights abuses for first time in S. Korea [Hankyoreh] Adam Crapser’s Bizarre Deportation Odyssey [The New York Times Magazine] Adam Crapser vs. Republic of Korea [The Korea Times] South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases [AP] Seoul Searching [ABC] Representatives Smith and Bacon and Senators Hirono and Collins Lead Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Close Loophole and Grant Citizenship to International Adoptees [AdamSmith.house.gov] Congress Introduces the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2024 [Adoptees United] FAQ: Child Citizenship Act of 2000 [travel.state.gov] Adam Crapser: Adoption to Deportation to living in Mexico [YouTube] International adoption leads to family health mysteries for Minnesotans [Sahan Journal]

Season 6 Episode 5 We cover the book Many Lives Intertwined by Hyun Sook Han Mrs. Han was a strong-willed, very honest social worker in both Korea and the United States as well as an adoptive mother. We will learn more about the Korean adoption process in the 1950s-1960s, including the adoption of mixed race Korean children, from the social worker perspective. LINKS Hyun Sook Han, Korean Social Worker and Adoption Pioneer, Dies at 83 [New York Times]

Season 6 Episode 4 We cover the book A WAR BORN FAMILY: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War by Kori A. Graves Dr. Graves explores the unique issues surrounding the adoption of Korean Black mixed race children during 1950s-60s from Korea to African American adoptive parents in pre-Civil Rights Era United States. We also take a brief look at the story of Milton Washington. Check out the links below! LINKS: Dr Kori A Graves Biography [Rutgers] A War Born Family - [NYU Press] World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Confronts Its Painful Past [New York Times] Jim Crow Laws [History. Com] Occupational Segregation in America [Center for American Progress] Black, Korean and searching for the American dream [BBC] Lives Less Ordinary -Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1 [BBC]  Lives Less Ordinary - Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2 [BBC] Adapted Podcast - podcast about Korean adoptees The Janchi Show: Your New Favorite Korean Adoptee Podcast  Kori Graves on Black Korean Adoptees - [Time To Say Goodbye Podcast]

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] All records must be unsealed for Korean adoptees who want it, argue experts [Hankyoreh]

Season 6 Episode 2 We discuss the book From Orphan to Adoptee: US Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption by SooJin Pate This book gives some background on how Korea came to be one of the countries to adopted out the most children to other countries. Learn about how the US government and Americans played a big part in this practice, which continues to this day. There is so much more to this book than discussed here, but hopefully you can some small additional insight into the early days of Korea inter-country adoption. LINKS: The Janchi Show - 004 // SooJin Pate + Choco-Pies! [The Janchi Show] Paper Orphans [CBC] Christianity and Korea - How did the religion become so apparently prevalent in South Korea? [The Diplomat]

Season 6 Episode 1 This season will be about Adoption from Korea. In this first episode, we discuss the book ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW: A MEMOIR by Nicole Chung. We are joined by special guest and Korean American adoptee, Kim! LINKS: Kim’s Instagram Adapted Podcast

Bonus Episode with Teeny and JoJo where we talk about our experience at KCON LA 2023! Find out what ticketing was like, what interacting with artists was like, whether anyone actually experienced a black ocean, and how we dealt with natural disasters during a major Kpop convention!

Presenting Idol Book Club: A Little Bit Biased - a spinoff of our Idol Book Club series! This time, instead of focusing on books read by kpop idols, my friend, Ash, and I explore the act of being a fan through reading a Japanese book about a Jpop fan, IDOL, BURNING by Rin Usami. LINKS:  Dictionary . com definition of Parasocial Relationship In Defense of Parasocial Relationships [TIME] Friend or Faux: Are Parasocial Relationships Healthy? [Cleveland Clinc]

For this bonus episode, I give you my initial impressions and first reaction to the book Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by BTS and Myeongseok Kang. I have some thoughts about the structure of the book, a few random bones to pick with some of the topics, some newer things I learned, and what I see as parallels between The Beatles and BTS!