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Examines the impact of adoptees on their birth country and birth
families A great mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s:
adult transnational adoptees began to return to their birth country
and meet for the first time with their birth parents-sometimes in
televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the
case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer scale of the activity
that has taken place around the adult adoptees' return, and by
extension the national significance that has been accorded to these
family meetings. Informed by the author's own experience as an
adoptee and two years of ethnographic research in Seoul, as well as
an analysis of the popular television program "I Want to See This
Person Again," which reunites families, Meeting Once More sheds
light on an understudied aspect of transnational adoption: the
impact of adoptees on their birth country, and especially on their
birth families. The volume offers a complex and fascinating
contribution to the study of new kinship models, migration, and the
anthropology of media, as well as to the study of South Korea.
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