I started blogging at Conducive in an effort to reach a wider audience.

I’ll still post things here, but I’ll also direct you over to Conducive for some articles.

Cruise on over now to read my new article and see a photo of my birthmother mother.

What does “Gotcha” mean?

November is National Adoption Month. What would such a celebration of adoption, whether in the U.S. or another country, mean to my Korean birthmother?

At the time my mother became a “birthmother,” I was six months old, and my sister was four years old. Because she passed away about nine years ago, I will take the liberty of imagining what she might say about the meaning of adoption in her life, if she could read other people’s blogs in English, and if she could blog back.

What Adoption Means to Me
By Lee Pil-rye

Do you believe that access to medical information is important for all people, including adoptees and the children of adoptees? Are you a Korean adoptee who believes that you should have a say in the laws that Korea makes about the lives of existing adoptees and future adoptees? Would you like fair laws to govern the birthfamily search process? Do believe that unwed Korean mothers should be educated and supported in keeping their own children? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you may be interested in what is happening this fall in Seoul with the revisions of Korea’s adoption laws.

Please click here to read the full article.

Despite a lot of positive publicity, domestic adoption is actually going DOWN, very steadily, in South Korea. The government should use its funds to support single moms in raising their children whom they love, and who have a home already — not promote domestic adoption.  Check out the statistics at

http://justicespeaking.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/domestic-vs-overseas-korean-adoption/

I had a new essay published in Korean in Pressian, and I put the original English on the TRACK blog here:

http://justicespeaking.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/갔다-올께/

South Korea is the land of convenience. Here, you see that you can be so lazy that not only can you eat at McDonald’s — you can also get it DELIVERED to you by motorcycle.

Whoever thought of delivering babies for adoption was really smart. I bet they make more for delivering babies than ice cream cones.  Plus that, babies don’t melt.

서울에서 평양까지 택시요금 5만원…

Goodbye Kim DJ, Roh Moo-hyun …

서울에서 평양까지

서울에서 평양까지 택시요금 5만원
소련도 가고 달나라도 가고 못가는 곳 없는데
광주보다 더 가까운 평양은 왜 못가
우리 민족 우리네 땅 평양만 왜 못가
경적을 울리며 서울에서 평양까지
꿈속에라도 신명나게 달려볼란다

분단세력 몰아내고 통일만 된다면
돈 못받아도 나는 좋아 이산가족 태우고 갈래
돌아올때 빈차걸랑 울다 죽은 내 형제들
묵은 편지 원혼이나 거두어오지
경적을 울리며 서울에서 평양까지
꿈속에라도 신명나게 달려볼란다

[노컷TV]먹거리 안전, 경기도 G푸드가 책임질께요

This Korean video is convincing people of the safety of food following a lot of scares about mad cow disease and contaminated food products. In this video you can see Koreans using white masks similar to the ones TRACK used in front of the central authority celebration. Nice veggie puppets.

Searching for Kim Sook Ja – pt.1 of 5

This is a series of follow-up videos that Suki made following the airing of the SBS video.

Searching for Kim Sook Ja – pt. 2 of 5

Searching for Kim Sook Ja – pt. 3 of 5