Judge's Ruling May Force Veteran's Adopted Korean Daughter Out of U.S.

A retired Kansas Army officer has lost his fight in federal court over his adopted daughter's citizenship status, meaning she may have to return to her native South Korea.

Lt. Col. Patrick Schreiber of Lansing sued after federal immigration authorities rejected visa and citizenship applications for his legally adopted daughter Hyebin, a Korean-immigrant niece legally brought to the U.S. by Schreiber and his spouse in 2012, when the girl was 15.

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Korean orphans languish in system as tradition, new laws make adoption difficult

At around 1:30 p.m., Jae Min’s mother carried him up the worn green steps of Jusarang Community Church on a steep hillside on the outskirts of Seoul. Jae Min was screeching. His mother clutched him tightly to her chest to shield him from the brisk late winter air.

 She opened the metal hatch built into the wall of the church. The lone mother gently laid her newborn in the temperature-controlled box like hundreds of desperate and fearful single mothers before her. Inscribed in Korean, below the handle of the hatch was a scripture from Psalm 27:10: “For my father and mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.”

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Court orders Korean dad to return children to separated Japanese wife

A Seoul lower court Monday ruled that children moved abroad without the consent of a parent holding custodial rights must be returned to the residence country if the couple remains separated. This marks the first case to follow the international convention on the abduction of children.

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Birth mothers living in silence

Birth mothers living in silence

In 1976, a 17-year-old Korean girl gave birth to her first child. A few months before the delivery, she had been forced to marry the man who raped and impregnated her.

As Decades of Korean Adoptions Dwindle, Identity Issues Remain

As Decades of Korean Adoptions Dwindle, Identity Issues Remain

Growing up in suburban Cranbury, NJ, Benjamin Oser, a Korean adoptee, often made fun of himself so he could feel more comfortable around his white classmates.

Koreans busted for stamina pills made from dead babies

Koreans busted for stamina pills made from dead babies

You might want to think twice before swallowing that stamina-boosting miracle pill -- you could be eating dried baby flesh.

Note: How disturbing.

Dead Baby Pills Spark Customs Crackdown in Korea

An Adopted Miami Shores Woman's Search for Her Korean Family Pays Off

An Adopted Miami Shores Woman's Search for Her Korean Family Pays Off

Orphanage director Choon Hee Kim placed a brown folder on the table and declared flatly, "This is your file." Chae Haile sat to the director's left, fidgeting with her scarf and an empty water bottle. Chae's husband, Greg, held a video camera from across the room. The Miami Shores couple wanted to capture every moment at the Korean Social Services office on the outskirts of Seoul, even though they were convinced this trip in November 2010 would be a dead end.

Adoptive Parent Responsibilities

Adoptive Parent Responsibilities

Adoptive parents have the lion's share of power in adoption, and need to start using it to correct its injustices. Our demand for healthy infants fuels corrupt practices. It is therefore unacceptable for us to lay the blame on others; we are responsible for working to end adoption corruption wherever it exists.

Note: Wow. I'm impressed. Usually adoptive parents attempt to hide this kind of fraud.

Foreign adoption quota leaves behind disabled and male children

Foreign adoption quota leaves behind disabled and male children

On a cloudy, misty morning, several women cooed over a six-week-old baby with a black shock of hair.

Containing kids without abusing them

Containing kids without abusing them

Since the introduction of new regulations banning corporal punishment in Korean schools, newspapers have been full of reports of student behavior spinning out of control, verbally and physically harassing their teachers and waves of resignations in response.

Child Care a Concern as South Korea Battles Low Birth Rate

Child Care a Concern as South Korea Battles Low Birth Rate

Child care and pregnancy health is a concern for South Korea, as it is facing a chronic low birth rate, says it will allow women to ask for shorter working hours so they can better raise their children

New law to restrict adoption by foreigners

New law to restrict adoption by foreigners

From July next year, foreigners will be restricted from adopting a Korean child, unless the government fails to find his or her foster family here.

Ending South Korea’s Child Export Shame – Analysis

Ending South Korea’s Child Export Shame – Analysis


South Korea is on the verge of changing its reputation as the world’s leading baby exporter to a world leader in grassroots adoption reform. The first-ever birth mother, unwed mother, and adoptee co-authored bill is moving toward a National Assembly vote with government sponsorship.

UNR graduate finds biological parents after almost 30 years

UNR graduate finds biological parents after almost 30 years

Korean Air flight KA02 took University of Nevada, Reno graduate Nathan Sung Budziak to Seoul, South Korea, on April 23.

More Korean Kids Ending Up in Foster Care

More Korean Kids Ending Up in Foster Care

There is a silent and often unspoken tragedy growing in the Korean-American community involving broken families and the children they leave behind.

Top court rejects appeal to register grandchild as adopted daughter

Top court rejects appeal to register grandchild as adopted daughter

A top court has rejected an appeal from a couple who applied to register their granddaughter as their adopted daughter, saying the child’s welfare comes before the happiness of the couple’s daughter, the girl’s mother, who is looking to remarry.

Woman nabbed for killing two adopted daughters for insurance money

Woman nabbed for killing two adopted daughters for insurance money

A 31-year old woman has been arrested for killing two infant girls after adopting them to receive life insurance payments, the police said Monday.

Child rapists to get chemical castration

Child rapists to get chemical castration

From July next year, sex offenders against children will be treated with drugs to suppress their sexual impulses.

Court to Have Greater Say in Child Custody

Court to Have Greater Say in Child Custody

The Ministry of Justice said Tuesday that a bill designed to enhance the authority of the judiciary over child custody was endorsed by the Cabinet and will be submitted to the National Assembly.

Rethinking Consent to Adoption

Rethinking Consent to Adoption

While international adoptions to the U.S. hit a 13-year low in 2009, South Korea stands out as the only country ― besides Ethiopia ― that increased international adoptions to the U.S. over this past year.