Family search
Testimonies
- “Proud Korean… Adoptees who healed their wounds by finding their roots” [Global Korean] / YTN Korean”
- Maryse Josse – “The Miracle of Reuniting with Birth Parents.” / YTN Korean
- “Overseas Adoption: 160,000 People… ‘I Want to Find My Korean Parents’ / KBS 2023.10.14.”
- Interview of RanRan: “My French friend Camille who was my student interviewed me about my life in Europe.The interview takes place entirely in Korean.I put the French translation.Camille lives in Korea to study Korean at the University of Ehwa and she will soon return to France. Soon it will be my turn to interview her to ask her how she studied Korean! Because she recently passed the TOPIK level 4!”
- Interview of Sunwoo Potié [vidéo in French]Sunwoo is KAB’s photographer
- Adoption stories“Au pays des enfants abandonnés”, Un reportage de Camille Le Pomellec, Minju Song, Byoungsoo Kim, Colin Guillemant pour Hikari Presse diffusé dans “Envoyé spécial” le 1er juin 2023. Korean adoptees returning to Koreahttps://youtu.be/FdSbuN5p9FU Korean adoptee reunites with her birth motherhttps://youtu.be/2hfT8PJYG4U Story of Kara Bos. This 36-year-old had to sue in order to be acknowledged by her biological father in South Korea. Her lawsuit could impact thousands.https://youtu.be/J40_YJ9Qk7w South Korea’s cruel Adoption Industry | Korea adoptee’s interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWFAZX2Vv_8 A mother searched her son for 48 years… https://www.facebook.com/100067046185454/posts/pfbid0nneCuGRBEdgSwQ5xkmdakiE6MTxfRBGAeJC5KinA3HaSTs54BjriYtdjfEjrqB74l/
- Interview of Sarah Maréchal [in French]
- YTN 20 years of overseas broadcasting around the world… YTN that connects ‘Koreans’ pride and sense of identity [Global NOW] / YTN korean
- Interview of Laure Badufle [in French]
- Interview of Minjin [in French/Korean]
- Interview of Sunny Boderi
- Interview of Lauwens Ki-Suk – Jeong Jin-Tae
- Interview of Frédérick Van Der Plassche (our KAB president)First interview of Frédérick by AGnès Calvache in Feb 2022. Second interview [in French] of Frédérick by YTN (Korean TV) in April 2023
DNA test
- How to apply for a DNA test?The Korean government helps the Korean adoptees to find their birth families by organizing a DNA testing. This is free and can be performed in the Korean consulates worldwide. Some conditions: the adoptee must be still searching for his/her family and his/her adoption documents do not contain any other way to find the family (it …
Visa for adoptees
- Request Korean citizenship
- Visa for adoptees & Useful links:Embassy of Korea in Brussels: https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/be-en/index.do Procedure to get the Visa F-4 (for Adoptees): https://pafcoree.or.kr/2022/12/05/mon-actualite/ (information for France) F4 Visa is quite interesting for Adoptees, it is valid 5 years and is renewable. With this visa you can work and study, and it is easier to get than than student visa or working visa. Once …
- Adoption useful links