NCRC Issues Response To The “Yonhap News” Article About Dying French Holt Adoptee Matthieu Sung-Tan On It’s Public Korean Facebook Page.

NOTE: Please view the previously shared news articles about Matthieu Sung-Tan here:

NCRC Denies Birth Family Search Exception Clause for Holt French Korean Adoptee Matthieu Sung-Tan, Who Is Dying Of Fatal Insomnia

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BELOW: We have translated NCRC’s reponse to the recent “Yonhap News” article about dying French Holt Adoptee Matthieu Sung-Tan, who is suffering from Fatal Insomnia. It is imperative to find his birth family to determine more about the nature of his disease, as it stands the chance of also affecting his two children. By law, in cases where an Adoptee suffers from a fatal disease, NCRC is supposed to make an exception in its strict birth parent privacy regulations. However, NCRC RARELY if ever makes an exception for DYING Adoptees. So it is sadly not surprising (to Adoptees) that NCRC has denied Matthieu Sung Tan this medical exception, despite the fact that he may only have months to live - and despite his and his wife’s concern that he may have passed this disease on to his two children. Finding Matthieu Sung-Tan’s birth parents could provide critical keys to his medical puzzle which, even if too late to help Matthieu, may be of great benefit to his two children, and to his surviving French wife, who is desperate to find answers for both her husband and for her kids.

Yet despite these dire circumstances, NCRC is only acting by the book. It’s clear from NCRC’s response below that they are adhering strictly to their regular birth family search procedure of sending 3 registered letters to the last known address of a known birth parent. If there is no response to the letters, by law they must wait ONE YEAR to send another round of 3 letters to the same address.

Here we must ask the question - if a house is on fire in Korea, does the owner send a LETTER to the fire department, and then wait patiently for months for a response?? This lack of proportion of the response to the circumstances is astounding. Why doesn’t NCRC CALL or VISIT the last known location of the person who may be able to provide a lead on Matthieu Sung-tan’s birth parents? If a man is on fire, does he walk, or does he run to water??

View NCRC’s original posts here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=658443656564505&set=pcb.658444119897792

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=658443669897837&set=pcb.658444119897792

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=658443643231173&set=pcb.658444119897792

Below is our ChatGPT translation of NCRC’s public Facebook posts above. NCRC did NOT release any statements in English.

Please note that ChatGPT is not a perfect translation tool. However, we think you can get the gist of what NCRC’s response is through the ChatGPT translation below.

Please note that the text of the heading (in white against a black background) is ours. Please see below the graphic for regular text.