Deann Borshay Liem’s adoption paperwork contained two childhood pictures from 1964 and 1965, each labeled with the title Cha Jung Hee. However the pictures are of two completely different ladies. Liem is on the correct.
Deann Borshay Liem
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Deann Borshay Liem
Deann Borshay Liem’s adoption paperwork contained two childhood pictures from 1964 and 1965, each labeled with the title Cha Jung Hee. However the pictures are of two completely different ladies. Liem is on the correct.
Deann Borshay Liem
Final week, South Korea’s Fact and Reconciliation Fee discovered that Korean adoption businesses have been chargeable for widespread fraud, malpractice and even human rights violations.
Greater than 140,000 South Korean youngsters have been adopted by households dwelling overseas within the many years after the Korean warfare. The report documented circumstances through which businesses fabricated information and others through which deserted youngsters have been despatched overseas after solely perfunctory efforts to search out dwelling guardians.
Documentarian Deann Borshay Liem was an grownup when she first discovered the story she’d been instructed about her id was a lie. She was adopted by an American household from California in 1966, when she was eight years previous. Her adoption information stated she was an orphan, however she finally found her beginning mom was alive, and she or he had a big prolonged household in South Korea.
She shares her adoption story, her response to the fee’s report, and her ideas on what justice appears like for adoptees.
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This episode was produced by Michelle Aslam and Connor Donevan. It was edited by Sarah Handel. Our govt producer is Sami Yenigun.
