Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Being A Korean American Adoptee | THE VOICELESS #2" video.

Say your blessings every night. Being adopted at 7 is a miracle.
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Korean has a orphanage system where each orphanage gets a stipend per child. They have to leave when they finish high school. Mostly likely, they'll have pretty tough lives (relatively). No adults to lean on and will have to make it on their own. Very few will get into good schools as they didn't go to the hagwons when younger (but they would be the same as lower class families as well). I doubt any orphanage would allow filming or interviews since they are minors.
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umm, I was shocked that no one was there. I'm still a little shocked that everyone didn't go to the airport to see her off.
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Dude - it's 100% natural to comment on adoption stuff. I've been doing it for ages. Unscientifically, there is a dichotomy between male / female and finding their biological parents. Seems like it leans heavily towards the female side. Years ago, I had the same feelings about my biological family. Didn't care. Didn't want to meet them. And it was fun telling people that I was left on the street as a baby with my name and birthday in my pocket. While those were my feelings, my biological family searched out for me. Went to Korean Social Services then to the adoption agency and then to my adoptive parents. We never moved. Never changed our phone number, so it was very easy to contact my adoptive parents. It probably messed my life up a bit (the chaos of having another family), but it's pretty hard to avoid if it's placed in front of you. Korea is fun if you speak Korean. Much harder if you don't.
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WTF? What about her adopted sister? And her biological siblings??? I feel so unsatisfied with the ending. Haha, I cried more about this video than when I’ve been with my biological family.
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@Cuupi I am jealous of your classmate. It's my biggest regret I have of my parents raising me was not learning Korean at a young age. As an adult, I've tried 3 different times: college class and 2 different private tutors. Total failure as I suck at language. If I knew Korean, it would have made things a lot easier for me as I went to college.
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@iwan-wr7gn Well, you are half-Korean. Perhaps, introduce him slowly with food, kpop? and other Koreanish things. If he's open to that, maybe sharing a few of these videos would be the next step.
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Yuck. Double yuck. No one goes up to a white person and the first thing that comes out is "What are you?" Are you Chinese? No. Are you Japanese? No. Then what are you?
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@ellenakerblad7157 I think you are seeing a lot of TV stories / docs now about Chinese adoptees because of the sheer numbers, but more from a 3rd person perspective. The Korean adoptee voice has gotten established as older adoptees have taken the reins and laid down grass root organizations. That's why I said 5-10 years. Most likely as the Chinese adoptees hit their late 20s-30s. But yes, it's very hard for an adoptee as a teenager to genuinely figure out their feelings about adoption. Being a teenager is tough by itself. My Korean birth family waited until I was mid-20s to look for me. Not sure if that was a bad or good thing to wait.
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I'd take your situation any day of the week. My Korean was worse than yours. I wish I only had problems with an accent and could understand weird questions.
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Actually, the real ending is different. Hint: she lives in Korea now.
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Ahh, this is old school. When they put the kids on the plane and parents didn’t travel to the country.
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Always notice how growing up in America makes us look less Korean (with adoptees, 1.5 and 2nd generation). Still waiting for the fobby looking Korean adoptee.
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It will happen in 5-10 years. Many of the Chinese adoptees are too young to interview.
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And she lives in Korea now. Seemed like that was the path it was going.
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Whoa on so many levels.
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Your post seems rather angry. Having empathy for a society and people that live in that society softens critical judgement. I never had any anger about being adopted (I was fortunate about being adopted by good parents).
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