Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "The New York Times" channel.

  1. Settle down dude. Cardin has been in politics since '67. Blumenauer since '73. Napolitano since '92 (She's 87!), Eshoo since '93. Kilmer is the spring chicken at 50 and he's been in politics since '05.
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  2. Unless you are a political junkie, you shouldn't know all the House members. Generally, you should know "some" of the Senate. I only know Ben Cardin because I grew up in Baltimore. I know of John Sarbanes because of his Dad (was a Senator). Ken Buck has in the media recently. The other names just by "passing". Blumenauer, Cardenas, Carper, Kildee, Napolitano.
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  3. Maintaining 2 places of living is a reasonable argument. Instead of raising their pay, they should get housing / travel stipends.
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  4. Odd timing. They are posting this in the middle of a pandemic.
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  5. Attack? More like consolidating facts in a clear message.
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  6. It's because you grew up in America which is essentially a "white" culture. As I've gotten older, I'm much more comfortable being Korean and my tastes are split 50-50.
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  7. I was the same. Although adopted at 2 3/4, I have zero recollections of Korea. I had more issues of being an Asian in a white / black society than being adopted. Well, the universe works weird since my birth family searched out for me. I have 2 full Korean younger siblings and 3 aunts and uncles that live in the states.
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  8. Gotta admit that I hate nearly all of Ken Buck's political positions, but admire the dude. This weird thing where we call people by titles. Even worse when they keep it for years after position / office. Can't imagine being at work and being like, "CEO Matt, what's your take on this?". Asian countries (at least Korea) do that. It's really weird.
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  9.  @lizdestefano4905  IMO, it's a cool experience just to be surrounded by Koreans. I've always enjoyed walking around Seoul alone with no destination. (Summers are brutally humid. Winters can be bitterly cold. Spring and Summer are ideal.)
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  10.  @PS-gw8sm  Yeah, but they don't remember it. I traveled alone at 2 from Korea to the US. Zero recollection.
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  11. I met my birth family. My birth parents are married and had 2 kids. It’s very easy for me to do that comparison. And, there would have been challenges living in Korea that were much different that growing up adopted.
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  12.  @Lisa-zz5si  Yeah, my life is pretty weird. I left out 1 small detail. That's my cousin's baby in the picture. Her daughter and I have the same birthday. And, I have an American cousin with the same birthday as well. (My younger sister is the girl on the right with the big face, haha) I've got 2 siblings in American and Korea. 1 brother and 1 sister each. My American siblings are separated by 2 years and so are my Korean siblings. Both brothers are older than the sister. (I'm a bit older than my Korean siblings though, closer to my American siblings age.) I've got this weird symmetry split into 2 different worlds.
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  13. These people are stubborn and aren’t getting treatment until the very last moment. Not much they can do then.
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  14. Yeah, MN is very popular. The land of 10,000 Korean adoptees.
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  15. umm, more Koreans abroad should step up and adopt then. I saw an Korean couple living in the states that adopted. Was the ideal scenario. Don’t have to be stigmatized in Korea and feel culturally comfortable in a different country.
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  16.  @Idotheh  The doc was named "Given away". I think the director went into the direction of some of the emotional pain that adoptees go through. The 2nd person (the dude with short hair) gave a pretty plain spoken recounting of his experience. His comments at the end were pretty positive.
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  17. lol, my parents call it arrival day. They would celebrate it every year with a different plane on a cake.
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  18.  @XOut4This  It's not all the time, but my adoption papers were false. They said I was abandoned with just my name and birthday aka paper slip baby. When it actuality, it was my grandma (Dad's mother) that took me to the orphanage. It's been a little murky why my mother's side of the family didn't take me in. Or no one took me back from the orphanage when they found out that I was taken there. I've never really pressed my Korean relatives for the full story. Haha, the kids have it easy these days. They threw me on the plane by myself and my parents went to JFK and picked me up. I'm am not a happy camper. https://imgur.com/a/Exo1MVx
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  19.  @Lisa-zz5si  Mostly positive. Had just graduated college, moved to a different state, had been working at my first job out of college for less than 6 months, was having issues with my Korean girlfriend in a long distance relationship and then they contacted me. It added a bit more chaos in a somewhat chaotic time for me, haha. Life would have it that I had just moved to the city where my one of my Korean uncles lived. Me in Korea for the 1st time: no translators and translate apps weren't available yet. It was a somewhat awkward experience. https://imgur.com/a/6jXicYq
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  20. The vaccine is getting your body to produce anti-bodies. Basically, your body thinks you have the virus and that’s why symptoms happen.
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  21. Depends on the location: vax areas vs unvaxed
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  22.  @XOut4This  Well, that's not that bad. I knew another Korean adoptee at work. And her name was Kimberly. She married a Korean and her name became "Kim Kim". I used to make fun of her because of it.
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  23.  @MR-pr8tp  No one likes how the sausage is made.
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  24.  @jgallub  Ugh, I wish my adoptive parents would have learned Korean and taught me. I've been in a lot of uncomfortable situations since my Korean language skills sucked.
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  25.  @jgallub  Yeah, that would be a bit strange having your adoptive mom translate Korean, haha. Actually, I took Korean in college and had private tutors 2 different times. I just failed miserably. Korean and my brain don't mix well. Trying to take a taxi when I lived in Korea was really really hard.
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  26. They never identified themselves as police.
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  27. Geez, John Sarbanes is 61. His Dad and "Babs" Mikulski were stalwarts in Maryland politics.
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  28. General rule: - defending countries = good - invading and occupying another country = bad
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  29. Since Korean adoptions started early and the numbers are relatively high, many first person stories have come out in the past 10+ years. There are a lot of Korean adoptees that have created organizations and been trailblazers on these issues.
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  30. Welcome to the classic Republican party. That's all I knew when I was a kid. The GOP was for rich people, lol.
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  31. It’s very rare that frontline workers are refusing the vaccine. It’s typically other positions in the medical field.
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  32. End the gerrymandering! Congress worked better when there were more competitive races. Way more centrists were elected and everyone had to compromise.
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  33. I think they have FB groups for Korean adoptees.. lol, I was in a yahoo group a long time ago for Korean adoptees.
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  34. These comments are silly. They are almost more frustrating then some of the comments in the video. It’s a different country! They have a different culture, different ideas of beauty and different ways of thinking. I swear we never think from a other people’s / countries perspective.
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  35. Your information is plain wrong. International adoptions are still legal in Korea, but have much lower numbers. And the Korean government is very very strict on who adopts. There are income, age, age spousal differences, weight (and more) thresholds before you can qualify for adoption. Sometimes, using words in Korea vs the West don't translate fully either. Korea doesn't have a foster care system. These institutions in Korea act as a foster care system and are government funded per child. Some of the kids are permanently abandoned, but many others live at the orphanage and still visit with their parents occasionally.
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  36.  @jalacyholiday3689  lol, it's not 20 somethings. I don't agree with their opinions 100%, but they are adult adoptees in their 30s / 40s who are the advocates.
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  37. I lived in Daegu, Korea for a year. You have to buy special trash bags. Makes people think twice about what they are throwing away. Plus, it probably subsidizes the trash collection costs. (1 large bag is about 50 cents)
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  38. I don’t think anyone will do this again. 4 hours of perfect concentration + controlling your fear + no mistakes.
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  39. The virus doesn’t check what political party you belong.
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  40. lol, this has to be the best zoom video ever produced.
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  41.  @badegg2914  Totally understand. I was already drifting in that path. When I was 18, I started to hang out with fobby Korean people and even worked in a Korean restaurant during college part-time (Japanese tourists). lol, I was born a generation or so too late. Korean stuff is so trendy right now.
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  42. Props to our adoptee sunbaes that have paved the way for stories of adoptees to be heard and pushing the Korean government to recognize us. Adoptees can obtain dual citizenship via these efforts.
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  43. 2:35 lol, literally East of Eden.
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  44.  @Parvus_Symmachus  That person has likely switched sides (I hope).
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  45. I think 80% of us fall into that category. 10% of us fall to the extreme, "I'm perfectly happy" and 10% of us fall to the, "It's really impacted my life negatively".
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