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thanks for the video.. i was adopted and grown up in adelaide.. 37 yrs old now... dont know why i am interested in looking up adoption stuff now.. but yehs thanks for sharing your story... cant find anything on here bout other aussie adopted krns... i see this vid is 11 yrs old so dont know if u even use this chan anymore. saw ur other vid about the book.. i wish for you a beautiful life and just read it after getting it off ebay.. hope u are having a good life with your fam.

the birth father of your daughter is asian like you

Are you pregnant now was it fun getting pregnant how's the baby

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I had a similar experience growing up being adopted by white mother. I was teased n called the same names from MOSTLY from black ppl..I didn't know anything about racism.

Where are the parents, parents?

I am very happy for you. I really wish you and your new family nothing but the very best.

If you ever need someone to talk to please feel free to email me.

You are neither ugly or fat. You are a very beautiful young woman. I wish you nothing but the very best for your future.

Pastor Lee is doing such a noble work, saving lives of abandoned babies! Koreans worry too much about "face" and bringing shame to their country.

hey Helen, my name is aric and I was also adopted from Seoul South Korea by an American couple. If you would like to chat with me email me sometime at aricsmackenthun@gmail. com

no matter what you say or do....you will always be korean! remember where you came from....dont you ever forget that.....

can hear her music is to loud

Whoever is born again in Christ is a new creation; the old has passed and the new has come! Congratulations!

you're not abandoned. ❤❤ you're wonderfully and fearfully made in the image of God. Praying for your heart. Our heavenly Father got you gf.

Actually you are thousands. Past 60 years Thousands Koreans have been adopted.

I am adopted from Seoul, South Korea. I was brought to the states at 8 months. My 15 year old brother is adopted as well. We visited out foster parents 2 years ago in Korea. have you ever thought about seeing your birth mom? Im thinking about it but I feel like it would change my life

hi my name is tim and i am a 44(i think) koean adoptee from soeul as well. i am now just starting to realize that alot of my past bad choices r due to the trauma of being abandoned at a young age. thank you for your video cause i am going to try again to search for my birth family. the few videos i watch of your experience growing up and the feelings that u felt i can relate to almost to the letter. I hope u will find your answers that u r looking for . u have a beautiful baby too congrats

hi there from a korean adoptee in new jersey, you posted this a few years ago, but i'm just starting a vlog about my adoptee journey. hope you're well!

we loved to adoption

Anyone adopted that has Instagram?

Hello Helen, I completely agree with your rant on the Korean adoption laws that are in place. Around this time last year I was in Seoul for the first time in my life and was very blessed to have met Pastor Lee Jong Rak who allowed me to meet him and his many children at the baby box. This was a very amazing experience and he and his wife are very amazing people.

hi there! i French, was adopted from Seoul.. That's an interesting vid u got there. I would'nt dare to make one about me, or should i say, us. We're about 200k. Not as a comunity (except for some asociations). I don't have any adopted korean as friends, i met so few people from there. i coan blabla a lot here.

20 year old male here adopted from Busan, Korea currently living in Michigan, USA

I'm a Korean adoptee, and I don't know anybody else adopted from Korea, but I do know a lot of people adopted from China 😀

I'm adopted from Seoul Korea. I don't have any Korean adoptee friends, not many Korean friends. Nice video :) this is an old video, any updates?

your life is filled with so much interesting experience

Hey there I was adopted from korea until my junior year of high school I never thought anything about being adopted. Around my junior year around my birthday and the "i gotta ya day" I always thought about my birth mom. I have so many questions.. and should i make a video to tell my story and where im at?

I'm adopted from Korea, but I live in the states...

Both my older sisters had been adopted from Korea. As a kid I thought I was too. My heart broke when I realized I was just a white girl from the US.

I think as an adoptee it is not about just getting the possibility to get a "new" family to replace the broken one BUT the desire to know where you are coming from. it is hard enough to find your birth family in international adoption at the first place, to get your self together BUT to be denied because of the baby box system must be so much harder. This is not fair. this is a human right violation to all these babies. We need a world in which women don't need to decide between education and the baby or family and the baby or future and the baby. puh. i hate the baby boxes.

nice be who you wanna be!!!!

big shame of south of korea i do not feel myself korean and no french hopefully i am not american...

This experience is shared by any Asian living in the western world, adopted or not.

I hope your message reaches the young ladies that need the help. You sound wise beyond your years, not like many teen age girls I know. Thank you for posting this.

Its crazy knowing that my name use to be Park Jeong Hwon

Some good comments, may I give my 15 years experience teaching English as one of the first Korean Adoptees from Korea, actually on the First planeload in May of 1956. I am very involved in issues of This Thing of Ours-Adoption. Korean society, including Catholic and Protestant branches of the Christian faith, plus other religious groups Buddhists. All of them are under the so-called 'stigma' or Shame of these complex issues. We who grew up in Western cultures find it extremely difficult to comprehend 'how can they do that' or 'why don't they take care of their own'. Few years ago, Adoption Law was modified- with the intent of forcing unwed mothers to 'spend 7 days' with their newborn child to "be certain they want to give it up"...Here is the first insanely Western-Thinking. FIRST: These women (mostly teenagers and twenty-something; some up to 30s and 40s) are NOT able to pay for seven days in a hospital. Then the government insists that the child be NAMED and registered with that name attached to the Mother (forget the Sperm-donor he ran like hell already). Even though the name might be "erased at a later date" (giving up to six months for the mother to change her mind. YES, that does happen), this means in reality that a Paper Trail will follow her and the child. After the Baby Box or "Drop Box" was started maybe the first year BEFORE this change in Registration of mothers, there were 2-3 children left per month. AFTER the Law was changed it averages 16-18 per month. IT IS THE ONLY place doing this...but abandoned babies are being found in every city of the country. Hmmm? Maybe the law did not "cause this increase? As they say, do the math. There is virtually no support from the government...a paltry sum of 200 USD per month in a country where the poverty line would be 1,200 USD per month. CHURCHES and TEMPLES some help but again it is the SHAME of the situation on both the mother AND the child as it grows up...Labeled as a bastard, father-less child and if they are not adopted In-Country (only 5% of Disabled Persons are adopted within Korea) they will be Third-class citizens with only 3% attending higher schooling. Westerners cannot expect Korean Society to 'just do the right thing' as some do say (not here). Slowly, though things are improving...then in order to stop International Adoptions (which by the way most will NEVER be adopted into Korean homes, but yes, some are done secretly). There is no fucking balancing act...WE are outsiders, only Korean society can 'do the right thing' and re-examine this stupid attempt to 'solve' the embarrassing problem of Unwanted children and women who chose not to abort then discover how impossible it will be to raise their children.

I was adopted from Seoul Korea at the age of 6mos and I have a family friend whose brother and herself were adopted from korea as well! =) us 3 were adopted through Holt International.. Anyways if you want to know more let me know! =)

I agree with you that the stigma needs to be lifted and that things need to change in Korea. But it's not just the problem of unwed mothers having babies and whether they can raise their babies. It's the entire societal issues that don't allow babies to be born into less than ideal situations. There are so many taboos in South Korea it's unbelievable. For instance, a girl will never be able to marry - not to mention into a well-to-do family - once she's known to have had a baby. She becomes an outcast in the society. I know all this needs to change, but, without truly repentant people leading the country, it's impossible for stigma to be lifted. I do however have hope in the individual's obedience to God and for their willingness to make a difference.

I understand why they put the law into effect. Really it's such a balancing act.

It's a fine line we don't want to allow the idea that out of wedlock birth is OK and fine. HOWEVER we don't want to kick these young mothers to the curb. This is where the CHurch needs to change the culutre. Where they encourage waiting until marriage to have children, yet support those who have children before then.

I have the same feelings too. Night time is worse. It feels like when I go to school my brain overloads with other thoughts so I don't really think about it in the day time. Thanks for making the video

holy shit her accent scared me. Im fine now though

Identity is so important to embrace. I think every person of ethnicity has this sort of journey living in a "foreign" land. I know I did. Thanks for sharing your story!

thanks for sharing your story. I am also adopted from south Korea. I was adopted in 1980 . I was adopted in the US.

Oh my god... I can‘t believe you said you were ashamed of being asian... i would kill to be asian. You are blessed to be asian and to look like you do and talk in that beutiful accent. You are amazing.

are you single? lol

every single adoption video i've seen is of an asian girl... no asian guy or non asian adoptee...

i can not hear your voice. too small. ㅠㅠ