The July 2026 session of the Korea Peace Study Group, which occurs virtually, on the second Friday evening of the month, USA time. This month, we heard from our members Munjo and Tasha about Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), focusing on the intercountry adoption cases. Ji and Mel also shared their experiences, reflections, and knowledge as Korean adoptees.
Before the session, this 2025 TRC report on Human Rights Violations in Intercountry Adoptions was shared with our members.
Additional TRC Reports:
Further resources:
📰 From Adoption to Deportation: A Critical Legal Failure – Adam Crapser, AP News
📰 Deported Adoptee Sues Adoption Agency & Korean Government for Criminal Negligence, Imprint News
🎞 South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry: Korean Adoptee’s Interview
📖 Haunting the Korean Diaspora, Grace M. Cho
📖 The First Amerasians, Yuri Doolan
📰 Politics of Belonging: Transnational Korean Adoptees in Denmark
📰 Western Nations Desperate for Korean Babies. Now Many Adoptees Believe They Were Stolen, PBS Frontline
🔗 Kimura Byol Lemoine, Korean-French Canadian adoptee filmmaker
🔗 Deanne Borshay Liem, Korean-American adoptee filmmaker
🎞 Twinsters (2015), Twin Sisters Adopted Out to Different Families Reunite
🎞 Two Sisters Reunited After 50 Years: Can they bridge the divide? (European sister wants to discover Korean culture; American sister does not)
🎞 The Red Chapel (2009) – Danish film by Mads Brugger featuring Korean-Danish adoptees performing in Pyongyang
📖 The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, David Talbot
📖 The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Take Action: United States’ citizens can urge their government to end the Korean War and return sovereignty to the Korean people. One way to do this is by supporting the “Peace on the Korean Peninsula” bill in Congress (H.R. 1841). Contact your member of Congress today about the Peace on the Korean Peninsula bill HERE.
More about the Korea Peace Study Group
Playlist of past Korea Peace Study sessions
KOREA PEACE STUDY GROUP SESSIONS
Rev. Samuel Shinn on Massacres in South Korea before and during the Korean War
In the June 2026 session of the Korea Peace Study Group, we heard from Samuel Shinn, one of the co-founders of Truth Reconciliation and Peace. He shared about massacres committed in South Korea before and during the Korean War.
Korean Christian Zionism with K. Christine Pae
The May 2026 session of the Korean Peace Study Group focused on discussion about Korean Christian Zionism with guest scholar and professor K. Christine Pae.
Remembering Jeju 4.3
In our April 2026 session of the Korea Peace Study Group, we collectively remembered the loss of Korean life to state-sponsored violence on Jeju island from 1948-1954. The United States has never acknowledged its role in the massacres on Jeju Island despite issuing the order that led to the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.
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