Posts Tagged ‘Michelle (Seungmi)’
The GOA’L Model: How to Support Birth Family Search Overseas
As more adoptees pursue birth family search overseas, there’s an increasing need for guidance and support when they reach their destination. GOA’L, a nonprofit that counsels and connects adoptees with their motherland in Korea, shares possible search outcomes, cultural challenges, and reunion scenarios.
Read MoreTranslating for Intercountry Adoptees in South Korea — My Summer Journey
As a translator for adoptees returning to Korea to find their birth mothers, BPAR team member Michelle (Seungmi) Lee shares the emotional moments she witnessed, their effect on her own identity, and subsequent thoughts for transracial and intercountry adoptees.
Read MoreSouth Korean Birth Mothers — Their Invisible Heartache
Our intern, Michelle (Seungmi) Lee, highlights the unique challenges that confront South Korean birth mothers, a rare glimpse into a subject that is taboo in the South Korean culture.
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