List: Korean Adoptee | Curated by Pseudo Pompous

Jul 24, 2023
10 stories
Korean AdopteeAdoption stories, history, essays and reflections on a life as a Korean American Adoptee.
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Food wars: decolonizing my body, and a food journey back to Korea — one adopted Korean’s storyThe first time I returned to Korea at 19, I had truly not eaten any Korean food for 17 years of my life. I remember little of what was…
Jul 24, 2023
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Jul 24, 2023
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PersistEvery year I watch the vines reach, climb, die, and reach again. The flowers cycle through their seasons ending in seeds of generations and…
Jun 11, 2023
Jun 11, 2023
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We Take Care of Our OwnOn the night of the Blood Moon the second night after the Seeds From the East, opening and Artist Talk at the Philip Jaisohn House, I…
May 20, 2022
May 20, 2022
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When We Are Stonesgolden Korean Adoptee silhouette
Jul 23, 2021
Jul 23, 2021
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It would be funnyIt would be funny my older siblings would say.
Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020
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National Adoptee Awareness Day or how Cinderella lost her other slipperToday is World Adoptee day or Adoption day. How you phrase it matters. Is it a day for Adoptees to celebrate? Yeah you lost your family…
Nov 10, 2020
Nov 10, 2020
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Good Afternoon, my name is A.D., and I am a Korean American Adoptee.Local Colors Festival 2021, Roanoke, VA.
May 16, 2021
May 16, 2021
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Grails or Perhaps it’s a good thing I was only given sonsThere are always certain ironies at work. I am a woman who always expected to have daughters. When I found myself infertile, my husband and…
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
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The Beautiful PeoplePicture me, an awkward Adopted Korean girl, dyed, permed, and overly made up. It was the eighties and I wore off color foundation with too…
Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020
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truth mattersI am huddled quietly in the room I share with my sister and my brother, all three of us adoptees from Korea. “She said she won’t spank…
Sep 2, 2019
Sep 2, 2019