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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prébin, Elise
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Intercountry adoption > Korea (South)
Interracial adoption > Korea (South)
Adoptees > Korea (South) > Identification.
Genre:
Identification.
Physical Description:viii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Shift in South Korean policies toward Korean adoptees (1954-today)
  • Everyday encounters
  • Holt International Summer School or three week re-Koreanization (1999-2004)
  • Stratification and homogeneity at Korean Broadcasting System
  • National reunification and family meetings
  • Stories behind history
  • Meetings? Aftermaths
  • Evolving relationship with my birth family
  • Management of feelings
  • Meeting the lost and the dead.