Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "여의도 육퇴클럽" channel.

  1. Yeah, it's a Korean law. Obviously, there is proper paperwork and documentation needed.
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  2. Although the video is about Myanmar, the friendship is what stood out to me.
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  3. She's got one of the most unique cases: 1- She was really old. Has to be <0.1% of cases someone that old gets adopted internationally at that age 2- She was adopted with her brother. Another rarity to get adopted as siblings. Probably like <1% of adoptions 3- She was sexually abused. No data on this, but an educated guess is <20%. Standards all female stats (not just adopted) are 12% for females and 1/3 of the cases are with a family member.
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  4. There are way more restrictions with checks and balances these days for international adoptions. To a degree, adoptions are almost disincentivized since there are government stipends per kid in orphanages.
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  5.  @gwenmloveskpopandmore  That dude is an extreme case. Without evidence, most us live "normal" lives. On the scale of things, I'd hate to label my normal life as traumatic.
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  6. IMO, it's going to be a tough life with (1) the mother raises the kid or (2) the kid goes to an orphanage. I think the program is overstating the choice that needs to be made. It's been 14 years since the baby box started. Would love to see some statistics ie grades etc on the kids that young mothers took back vs kids that went to orphanages. Basic stats from 2019: According to the church, 1,538 babies have arrived through the baby box and received protection since 2009. Among them, 161 went back to their birth parents. (That's a big enough sample size to draw "some" conclusions.)
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  7. I think gold is around $55M per ton. If it's all real gold and no one has stolen any, it's about $550 million worth of gold.
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  8. @@Repeuh Disagree. The trendline in international adoptions had been going lower before the 2012 law.
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  9. @@Repeuh Politely, you have zero clue how to analyze data. No one looks at just a 1 year trend. Obviously, you have no idea that it started failing (again) in the mid-2000s.
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  10.  @xx133  What? That Japan annexed Korea for 40 years?
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  11. It only applies to adoptions pre-1983 since a law was passed in 2000. Slowly, they are working on closing the loophole to include pre-1983 adoptees. The bill has been passed several times, but not approved yet. Congress will get it done at some point.
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  12.  @Crystalbomb321  I went to U of MD College Park with those scores. It's the best public school in MD. Other states have more competitive top tier schools ie the Cal system. UMCP is still a top 50 school in the US. Not sure if it's the same now, but the in-state threshold for scores / grades was lower for state residents. But, you could get a 800 on the SATs and still get into a good state school via the backdoor (and time / effort).
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  13.  @solaris5922  Foster care in the US ends at age 18 (with some exceptions). Pretty standard stuff.
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  14.  @flowrr5552  They are wards of the state. Go check where you live and see if your government houses able bodied adults under special "orphan" rules. This is standard operating procedure across the globe. When you turn an adult, you get a job and earn your keep instead of being a ward of the state. Btw, I'm not making this sh** up. I volunteered in orphanages in Korea and asked questions on how the process works.
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  15. Masks are the key for time dates. It means it was filmed between 2020-2023.
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  16.  @beot-kkot  Early '22.
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  17. This is nonsense without any disclaimers. If you are lazy and don’t study and get bad grades, there is no excuse. If you are putting in your best effort and get lower grades, it’s a different story. Regardless, anyone getting lower grades should evaluate the “why” and figure out a better plan. People don’t know how to problem solve anymore.
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  18.  @Milemione234  umm, no one is driving / taking a train from North Korea to Jeju.
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  19.  @isag.s.174  I drove 3,600 km in the US. It took us 4 days.
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  20. In the states, i got 1 drama a week on some weird channel. No one got KBS back then even if you had a satellite package,
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  21. Whenever I see cable cars, I think of the dude from the Let's Eat Dinner Together episode. Was the first episode with a guest, Sejeong. They randomly ask to eat dinner with people, but they were in a wealthier foreigner neighborhood in Seoul (Itaewon). Ended up at the house of the CEO who does the cable car projects in Korea.
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  22. lol, when not just non-Korean people need subtitles. We all need subtitles to watch and understand (unless you know KSL).
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  23.  @kristinesharp6286  I highly doubt that any organization (charity or private) is not taking the government stipend per kid. Everything you mentioned above is applicable to a smaller home as well. Just way less efficiency of resources. If orphanages in Korea are closing, it's because of less kids, not because of old people. Zero chance you can convert the buildings to a retirement home without a boatload of cash. Korea's orphanages are a combination of foster care (kids with parents) and orphanages (kids without parents).
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  24.  @kristinesharp6286  Wait, so you are talking about this without actually knowing how the orphan system works in Korea?
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  25. lol, immigrants to the US can be super racist. At best, a bit ignorant and at worst, just plain racist. 1.5 or 2nd generation are typically more liberal with their views because they grow up in the environment.
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  26.  @kimckawa  200K+ is the total cumulative number from 1950s onward. International adoptions are legal, but the criteria is pretty stringent. A couple hundred a year now down from 9K per year at its peak (mid-1980s).
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  27.  @피들스틱-y8l  Thanks. Just googled it and on the US website. Seems like some stuff is free, but not all. (Also, I'm guessing US is a bit different.) Seems like in late 2000s / early 2010s, they started the foundation and put a cohesive education plan etc.
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  28. DNA registration should never be government forced. It's an invasion of privacy.
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  29. The secret to quitting cold turkey (no nicotine) is...the same approach you need to take with a hangover. After my old boss stated, "a good hangover is almost as good as being drunk", I changed my attitude about hangovers. Just enjoy it. You feel weird. Not great. Brain is not working and in a fog. That's the same approach with quitting smoking. You have to just enjoy that your body feels weird and be ok with it. Basically, lean into the withdraw symptoms instead of trying to avoid them.
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  30. Why? The Korean government has amiable and working with Korean adoptees for the past 10+ years.
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  31. The kids look pretty Korean. They shouldn't have many issues as they blend in a bit better.
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  32. She speaks Korean like a foreigner.
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  33. Math is a VERY broad subject. I took Calculus in high school. Likely, would take me months to prep back up to that level. I barely remember my advanced geometry / trigonometry classes. Algebra is the one thing that stuck because it has a lot "simple" uses and is just about numerical relationships. I'm going to assume you don't mean that kind of math.
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  34. @@Repeuh My hangul sucks. Was 160K in 2010. Always going to be some, clown. And, do you own research. JFC.
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  35. It’s likely it was 10-15 years ago. Stuff has changed over time (to a degree). Teachers / schools have to be more responsible now. Gotta remember that Korea was still a military quasi dictatorship 35 years ago.
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  36. Only remember 1 person. She had small roles only. She was in Rooftop Prince.
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  37.  @leighGHTPPXX  We are being invaded with trillions more in GDP. Immigration to Boost US GDP by $7 Trillion Over Decade, CBO Says.
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  38. The funny thing is...Korea is the size of Indiana (or Portugal). It's not that big to travel around endlessly. SF to LA is nearly 2x longer driving distance than Seoul to Busan.
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  39.  @Hfuigbkkh  1.5x or 2x. Whatever dude. At least don't be an asshole AND CALL IT FRISCO. JFC.
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  40. This is dumb. I got in physical fights as a kid in the US for being Asian.
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  41. Settle down people. BTS traveled to the US and they pranked them by kidnapping them.
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  42. Extremely unique case. I'd say <1% of Korean adoptions happen over the age of 10.
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  43.  @rmslefttoe9024  +19 years. Basically, late 30s.
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  44.  @layloo5244  Yeah, I'm not going to survey 200K people. I feel confident it's a low percentage. The bulk of Korean adoptees are adults now. When I volunteered to speak to adoptees (really adoptees parents), it was all Chinese kids (this was years ago). There would be way more stories of people speaking out. You realize there have been Korean adoptee online groups for 10-20 years now right? It's a swag. And, a decent one.
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  45.  @yaobikuni1349  I'm 99% confident that I've done more research and been in more contact with Korean adoptees than you. Not everything is some conspiracy theory out to suppress information. People and your ilk are going to punch holes in any argument. No idea why, but it seems like there is some weird agenda to push. There is no way to execute an accurate survey. Everything is going to be anecdotal. There are media pieces done about Korean adoptees. There are current grassroots KAD organizations that exist. The biggest issues you can extrapolate is loss of identity due to transnational / transracial adoptions. There will never be irrefutable abuse statistics of Koreans vs other types of adoptions. There isn't this magic database out there (even records in Korea are scattered). Feel free to Google. There is way more information out there now vs when I started my journey in 2000ish. Last note: There are some extremely vocal and "active" Korean adoptees. They managed to push the Korean government to grant all adoptees dual Korean citizenship if they so choose. The law was passed over 10 years ago. We are one of the very few groups that actually can be dual citizens in Korea. Again, it's never been about child abuse of adoptees in these groups. But, blah: anecdotal evidence.
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  46.  @therese6030  Yeah, Korea will not help you out with the search of your friend. Pretty strict about privacy stuff. I could see 2 long shot ways: - go to Korea in person and bribe someone at the agency to give you his American name or his American parent's names - if you know his Korean name, you can check on the internet every so often. Maybe he'll have a random post somewhere I think most of my issues was growing up in an area with only white people. If I was adopted to California (San Francisco or Los Angeles) or Hawaii, things would have been way easier from a mental standpoint. P.S. A long time ago I chatted with a Korean adoptee from one of the Nordic countries. Somehow, I lost contact and never chatted again. It was pre-Facebook and the KAW yahoo group, lol.
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  47.  @Dani-zq8vv  Actually, I meant forced. The parents made a conscientious decision to send their kids to Korean public school instead of an international one. And, I speak English with a straight American accent with a bit of an East Coast pronunciation if I get careless.
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  48.  @seomei  If they are doing it illegally, than it's a crime. International adoption rules from Korea have gotten strict over time. It's why US started adopting from China in the late 1990s / 2000s.
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  49.  @seomei  Korea bureaucracy isn't corrupt. Like any bureaucracy, they can be a bit lazy / ignorant. Supporting a trafficking scheme would be highly antithetical to where the government has been in the last decade. What is your source for this illegal scheme? I've been to 3 different orphanages in Korea. None of the kids were getting adopted. Plus, the government is giving a monthly stipend per kid.
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  50. Koreans will do the same as Americans. They yell louder expecting you to understand when it's not the volume, but the actual words.
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