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The Hankyoreh
English Edition
A Day Without Adoption
Members of Adoptee Solidarity Korea, an adoptee-led organization based in Seoul, place coins around an airplane displayed at the Han River Park in western Seoul on Children’s Day, May 5.
ASK, which aims to raise awareness to issues related to intercountry adoption and advocate for change in South Korea’s social welfare system, celebrated Children’s Day by calling for A Day Without Adoption, a day on which no children are sent abroad for adoption. Instead, the group advocates for providing single mothers and underprivileged families with the opportunity to stay together.
The campaign featured the construction of an approximately 4-by-4-meter airplane, around the edges of which were placed 2,000 100-won coins symbolizing the exchange of young Korean children for various currencies both tangible and intangible.
Each 100-won coin was representative of 100 children adopted abroad since the mid-1950s to the present day, a total of over 200,000 by some accounts.
Photo by Kim Bong-gyu/The Hankyoreh.
Posted on : May.6,2008 14:02 KST Modified on : May.7,2008 09:00 KST
© 2006 The Hankyoreh Media Company. All rights reserved.
 http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_entertainment/285991.html
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