Lutheran Social Services (LSS) - (Minnesota, US).

Please Note: If you are adopted through this KSS’ Partner Western Adoption Agency (in the time frames during which KSS worked with this Partner Western Adoption Agency) then you should initiate a Birth Family Search through KSS in Seoul. For KSS Adoptees ONLY, please see: Step by Step Korea Social Service (KSS) Birth Family Search.

*Please DO NOT PAY LSS / CHLSS FOR A BIRTH FAMILY SEARCH. THEY WILL CHARGE YOU EXORBITANTLY AND PROVIDE YOU WITH LITTLE INFO. Do yourself a favor and initiate a FREE Birth Family Search through KSS via email instead.

1967 - 2011 or 2012: KSS adopts to Lutheran Social Services (LSS) in the US.


Lutheran Social Services (LSS) is still in operation in Minnesota.


https://www.lssmn.org/


Adoptees have reported having experienced great difficulty getting file information from LSS. We highly recommend you file a FOIA request.


We also highly recommend starting a Birth Family Search with KSS in Seoul. (For KSS / LSS Adoptees ONLY - Please do NOT start a Birth Family Search with KSS if you are NOT a KSS Adoptee).


If you are not sure what your Korean Adoption Agency was, we highly recommend filing a simple and FREE FOIA request for your immigr. records first.


From KSS History:


1950s: KSS Founder Kun Chil Paik goes to study at the University of Minnesota in 1954 in the US as part of The Minnesota Project, and becomes the first Korean to receive a Master’s degree in Social Work from a US University. Kun Chil Paik interns at Lutheran Social Services (LSS).

Related Content:

See the article about Choon Hyun Babies Home in Gwangju here to read about the connection between Lutheran Social Service and KSS Founder Kun Chil Paik (alternately: Baek Geun-chil / Paik, Kun Chil / 백근칠).


Source: KSS Adoptees