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Date Posted: 16:04:24 01/08/04 Thu
Author: Maud Heinesen
Subject: Re: search for biological parents
In reply to: Meayun Kim 's message, "Re: search for biological parents" on 11:48:19 04/11/03 Fri

I am a mother of a Korean adoptee, Marianna Ji Yun Soon Heinesen, who is now 32 years old, a qualified nurse and herself a mother of a lovely boy nearly three years old, not yet married, but lives with his father in a newly built house in our neyghbourhood. She was found outside a police station in Suwon early one morning and was brought to HOLT in Seoul (I suppose HOLT Children´s Services is wellknown among Korean adoptees). After 8 months in foster care she was declared healthy enough to be sent to us, who had waited for her at least three years. At that time she was (about)16 months old. Not until lately has she (who has a 14 year older sister - our biological daughter) been interested in finding out more about her background, in spite of the fact that my husband and I took her, when whe was 14, on a trip to South Korea together with other adoptees and their parents. A beautiful country and nice people was her conclusion! - To find her biological parents is most certainly out of the question. And that applies no doubt even to her foster parents, who were in their forties, when they took so good care of her in order that we could get a healthy and lovely baby. Although she was the first Korean that was adopted to our islands, she has met few problems, and with her many friends from school and sport she is totally integrated in our community. Nevertheless, she is now involved in establishing some sort of association for adopting parents and their adoptees, not only from Korea (there are quite a lot of them now), but also from other countries (Colombia, India, China, Rumenia etc.). Roots are apparently important to many, but they should never overshadow good relations to loving parents and families who have welcomed an adoptee as one ther own.



>>I´m a korean adoptee, looking for my biological
>>parents.
>>I was born in Seoul Korea in 1976 I have always
>wanted to know about my biological parents My adopted
>parents had named me an american name but my real name
>(Meayun Kim) means beautiful flower, beautiful flame
>or moving beauty.
>>I don't know who or where is my mother and father,is
>why they gave me up, and what happened to them.

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