Deann Borshay Liem’s adoption paperwork contained two childhood pictures from 1964 and 1965, each labeled with the title Cha Jung Hee. However the photographs are of two totally different ladies. Liem is on the proper.
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 photographs are of two totally different ladies. Liem is on the proper.
Deann Borshay Liem
Final week, South Korea’s Fact and Reconciliation Fee discovered that Korean adoption businesses had been liable for widespread fraud, malpractice and even human rights violations.
Greater than 140,000 South Korean youngsters had been adopted by households dwelling overseas within the many years after the Korean conflict. The report documented circumstances wherein businesses fabricated data and others wherein deserted youngsters had been despatched overseas after solely perfunctory efforts to seek out dwelling guardians.
Documentarian Deann Borshay Liem was an grownup when she first realized 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 She was adopted by an American household from California in 1966, when she was eight years outdated. Her adoption data mentioned 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 seems to be like for adoptees.
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This episode was produced by Michelle Aslam and Connor Donevan. It was edited by Sarah Handel. Our government producer is Sami Yenigun.
