1. Family in Korea
Korean adoptees understand their identity from within their family. When adoptees come of age, they decide to find and reunite with their birth family by returning to their birth country. During their trip, they would try to reconnect with their biological family as a way to learn where they came from and fully understand their Korean background. Many hope to form and create a relationship with their birth family. Along the way there could be problems when reconnecting with their birth family such as language and culture differences. The adoptees will be able to understand the family that they never knew of until now. This will help them reconnect to their Korean culture as a way to help them form their identity and belonging to their birth place.
2.Korean Language
Language is a important form of helping them connect to their Korean identity. It can be a barrier if they don't know Korean, because the language is a important part of the culture. Learning and understanding the Korean language is one way to help the adoptees communicate with other Koreans. This will help them feel more connected to South Korea and the people. It will help them feel more ethically Korean.
Language is a important form of helping them connect to their Korean identity. It can be a barrier if they don't know Korean, because the language is a important part of the culture. Learning and understanding the Korean language is one way to help the adoptees communicate with other Koreans. This will help them feel more connected to South Korea and the people. It will help them feel more ethically Korean.
3. Korean Community
Korean community can help them interact with other Koreans around them. But it can also be hard because the adoptees feel that they won't fit in because of them being more westernize than Korean. There is one of Korean community for Korean adoptees, is called AKA SoCal (Association of Korean Adoptees of Southern California). Their missions are provide emotional, social, and cultural support through informal gatherings, activities, and project. Also increase awareness and understanding of interracial adoption, and primarily transracial Korean adoption, through education and out reach. They Encourage and facilitate educational, cultural, and support services for Korean adoptees and serve as a link between Korean adoptees and the Kroean American community, the adoption community. |
4. Korean Culture
Learning and understanding about the Korean culture such as traditions,customs and history will help the adoptees reconnect with their Korean identity. Korean culture can vary from their Hanbok,foods, art, music, Chuseok, history and many more. Just by learning these type of forms of the culture will help them understand where they came from. But some cases it can be hard for many adoptees to get into Korean culture because it is completely different from American culture that they were raised in. They will have to understand the cultural differences between the two as way to know how to adapt to both of them.