Meeting once more : the Korean side of transnational adoption / Elise Prébin.

A great mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their birth parents--sometimes in televised encounters that garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer s...

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Main Author: Prébin, Elise
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
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Physical Description:viii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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