ASK’s mission is to address the problems associated with Korean overseas adoption.
Through education and activism, we aim to raise awareness, advocate change, and
support alternatives to intercountry adoption.
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www.adopteesolidarity.org
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10/12/06 (Korea Times)Birthmothers: Unspoken Side of Adoption (English & Korean)

7/26/06 (Korea Times) Singles Represent 20 Percent of Households

7/18/06 (Chosun Ilbo) Government in Bid to Encourage Adoption in Korea

7/18/06 (Korea Times) Singles Can Adopt Children

7/15/06 (Korean Herald) Monthly allowance granted for infants

5/11/06 (JoongAng Daily) Slowly, adoption loses its stigma

5/10/06 (Korea Times) Korea Struggles to Shed Baby-Exporter Image

5/10/06 (Korea Herald) Lawmaker pushes ban on overseas adoption

5/10/06 (Korea Times) Adoptive Families to Receive More Childcare Support

5/9/06 (Yonsei Annals) Love in Action: Domestic Adoption

7/22/2005 (Chosun Ilbo) Hospitals Slighting Women Who Can't Have Babies

4/19/06 (Korea Times)Low Birthrate Will Cause Worker Shortage by 2020

3/17/06 (Korea Times) Foster Parents to Get W 2 Mil. for Adoption

2/17/06 (Minnesota Daily) Korea the backdrop for adoption class
Part of the Asian language and literature department, the class is open to anyone interested in the
adoptee experience.

2/15/06 (Korea Herald) Illicit orphanages to exploit outdated laws

2/14/06 (Korea Herald) Kids in care funneled into institutions

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Papers
Beyond Identity: Activism in Korean Adoptee Art
Kim Stoker

Complexity of Intercountry Adoption
August 2006
by Boon Young Han

Looking After Our Child with Our Hand
In Sun Park, Ph.D.

Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect
of Intercountry Adoption

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Gender Dimensions of Family Policy in Korea
Yeong-Ran Park (Department of Social Welfare, Kangnam University)

Politics of international and domestic adoption in China
Kay Johnson

Comforting an orphaned nation: Representations of international adoption and
adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture
Doctoral Thesis of Tobias Hübinette of Stockholm University

Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and
Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing
Children
David M. Smolin, 52 Wayne Law Review 113 (2006).


International Asian Adoption: In the Best Interests of the Child?
Kathleen Ja Sook Berquist

The “quiet migration” in the new millennium: trends in intercountry adoption 1998-
2003
Peter Selman
Paper presented at the 8th Global Conference Manila, August 10-12  2005
Reader in Social Policy
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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ASK K.P.O. Box 2151 Seoul, Republic of Korea 110-621        Email: [email protected]
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Visitors
ASK Member, Kim Stoker (left) welcomes
Baik, Yeon Oak (center) & Park, In Sun
(right) to the forum on April 12.
Yang, Seung Ju, Director of Family Policy of the
Ministry of Gender Equality and Family meets ASK
members at the March ASK Forum.
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