Kpop Bookshelf Mina

Season 6 Episode 4

We cover the book A WAR BORN FAMILY: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War by Kori A. Graves



Dr. Graves explores the unique issues surrounding the adoption of Korean Black mixed race children during 1950s-60s from Korea to African American adoptive parents in pre-Civil Rights Era United States.



We also take a brief look at the story of Milton Washington. Check out the links below!



LINKS:


Dr Kori A Graves Biography [Rutgers]


A War Born Family - [NYU Press]


World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Confronts Its Painful Past [New York Times]


Jim Crow Laws [History. Com]


Occupational Segregation in America [Center for American Progress]


Black, Korean and searching for the American dream [BBC]


Lives Less Ordinary -Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1 [BBC] 


Lives Less Ordinary - Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2 [BBC]


Adapted Podcast - podcast about Korean adoptees


The Janchi Show: Your New Favorite Korean Adoptee Podcast 



Kori Graves on Black Korean Adoptees - [Time To Say Goodbye Podcast]

Season 6 Episode 3

In this episode, we discuss the book Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom.

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is a Korean-Swedish adoptee who discovers some shocking truths about the circumstances surrounding her adoption.

We explore some of the secrets of the Korean intercountry adoption and learn about why some adoptees and adoptee advocates are accusing the South Korean government and the government of the country they were raised in of not enough oversight over South Korean adoption practices of the late 20th century.



LINKS:


Legally 'orphaned' to be adopted transnationally [The Korea Times]


Paper orphans [CBC]


Dutch gov't broke law by destroying adoption files: Inspectorate [NL Times]


South Korea’s truth commission to probe foreign adoptions [AP]


When her mother came to see her, Holt lied and said she’d already been adopted [Hankyoreh]


‘Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth [Guardian]




All records must be unsealed for Korean adoptees who want it, argue experts [Hankyoreh]

Season 6 Episode 2

We discuss the book From Orphan to Adoptee: US Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption by SooJin Pate



This book gives some background on how Korea came to be one of the countries to adopted out the most children to other countries. Learn about how the US government and Americans played a big part in this practice, which continues to this day. There is so much more to this book than discussed here, but hopefully you can some small additional insight into the early days of Korea inter-country adoption.





LINKS:


The Janchi Show - 004 // SooJin Pate + Choco-Pies! [The Janchi Show]


Paper Orphans [CBC]


Christianity and Korea - How did the religion become so apparently prevalent in South Korea? [The Diplomat]

Season 6 Episode 1



This season will be about Adoption from Korea.

In this first episode, we discuss the book ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW: A MEMOIR by Nicole Chung.

We are joined by special guest and Korean American adoptee, Kim!



LINKS:


Kim’s Instagram




Adapted Podcast

Bonus Episode with Teeny and JoJo where we talk about our experience at KCON LA 2023!

Find out what ticketing was like, what interacting with artists was like, whether anyone actually experienced a black ocean, and how we dealt with natural disasters during a major Kpop convention!

Presenting Idol Book Club: A Little Bit Biased - a spinoff of our Idol Book Club series!

This time, instead of focusing on books read by kpop idols, my friend, Ash, and I explore the act of being a fan through reading a Japanese book about a Jpop fan, IDOL, BURNING by Rin Usami.



LINKS: 


Dictionary . com definition of Parasocial Relationship


In Defense of Parasocial Relationships [TIME]




Friend or Faux: Are Parasocial Relationships Healthy? [Cleveland Clinc]