Films.
Korea Social Service (KSS) / Lutheran Social Services (LSS) Adoptee Layne Kim's documentary about his reunion with his Korean mom will be out soon - here is a preview:
youtube.com/watch?v=XKs-FsHRtVM&ab_channel=MOMO
Via Google Translate from the YouTube link:
The movie "Mom and I". / Director: Yeonwangmo / Production: Momorudens / Distribution: Dream Fact Entertainment / Released on 14 April 2022 / all-viewer / Screening time: 90 minutes / A son appeared in front of his mother, who was about to die. However, my son, who appeared after 40 years, is a foreigner who can only speak English.
Posted: March 31st, 2022
Made In Korea: A One Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam? - Essential watching for KSS Adoptees embarking on birth searches, by KSS / Wereldkinderen (Netherlands) Adoptee InSoo Radstake
Forget Me Not - About Child Relinquishment at Single Unwed Mothers’ Homes on Jeju Island in Korea - A Film by Danish Korean Adoptee Sun Hee Engelstoft. Available “On Demand” on Vimeo.
A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics And The American Dream - About Eugenics, Twin Studies, Scientific Racism + Richard Nixon
Three Identical Strangers - About twins and one pair of triplets deliberately separated by the Louise Wise Agency in New York for Twins Reared Apart (TRA) studies.
In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee - About switching. We recommend purchasing the streaming vs. the DVD option.
Geographies of Kinship, First Person Plural, and In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee - Films by Adoptee Deann Borshay Liem. We recommend the streaming option vs. the DVD.
Found in Korea - One Korean Woman’s Birth Family Search.
Twinsters - About Korean twins separated at birth and later reunited. Please note that the twins featured in “Twinsters” are not KSS Adoptees.
Found - About teenage Chinese Adoptees conducting birth family searches. While not about Korean Adoption, this film touches on many universal themes related to transnational adoption.
Videos.
'Doe mij maar zo'n Koreaantje!' ('Give me one of those Koreans!')
A Dutch article containing a video about Dutch Korean Adoption
See the English translation of the Dutch article (via Google Translate) on the Wereldkinderen page here.
In the only known video we have of him, KSS Founder Kun Chil Paik (mistakenly called Mr. Park) appears at the 18:04 mark in this Dutch video about Korean Adoption in the late 1960s and 1970s
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October 2022:
KBS recently released a documentary about the dark side of adoption which seems to have been very well done. It covers Danish adoption cases involving orphanization, switching, and sexual abuse. The switch case covered is of a KSS Adoptee.
Unfortunately no English subtitles, but you can turn on automatic translation on YouTube when watching on a laptop. Highly recommended viewing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKiGOjr9MWQ&ab_channel=KBS%EC%8B%9C%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%81%EA%B2%A9