During the period of Kim's focus on the adoptee movement so much happened in South Korea that made a difference, from the passage of the 1999 Overseas Korean Act that extended rights to (some) in the global Korean diaspora, to the 1999 opening in Seoul of an Adoption Center to assist returnee adoptees, and again the 2001 Hi Seoul Campaign about which one adoptee quipped, " they should call it 'Seoul welcomes the white world,'" to various landmark dates in South Korea's race to equip its population with English and so on.n I must admit, I was startled by the existence of this literature: by even the implications of setting these comparison groups, let alone that of their findings. [...] the work is restrained because Kim respects the emergent adoptee kinship that necessarily excludes her as a non-adoptee Korean American ethnographer.
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