South Korea

List of Organisations

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List of Organisations

Ha, Eun Hye ; Shin, Min Jin - Korean Society of Neurological Occupational Therapy (대한신경계작업치료학회),

The purpose of this study is to confirm whether the effectiveness of the program is sustainable 9 months after project completion for the children and adolescents participating in a childcare and rehabilitation support project.

Jayashree Mohanty, Srinivasan Chokkanathan, Wansoo Park - Children and Youth Services Review,

The first aim of this study was to find subgroups of adult international adoptees based on common risk and protective factors using a latent class analysis. The second aim was to examine whether the identified subgroups differed in outcome variables such as life satisfaction and psychological adjustment.

Youngsoon Chung & Hyekyung Choo - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aimed to identify the interrelationships of risk and protective factors, job satisfaction and burnout to child protection workers' intent to leave, the relative impact between job satisfaction and burnout on intent to leave, and their mediating roles for the risk and protective factors.

Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press,

Adam Crapser, a man born in South Korea who was brought to the US by an adoptive family when he was three years old, is suing the government of South Korea and a private adoption agency called Holt Children’s Services, "over what Crapser calls gross negligence regarding the way he and thousands of other Korean children were sent to the United States and other Western nations without accounting for their future citizenship," according to this article from the Associated Press.

Bong Joo Lee - National Systems of Child Protection,

This chapter describes the child protection system in South Korea.

Jessica Walton - The Conversation,

Jessica Walton, the author of this piece from the Conversation, uses the Winter Olympic games in South Korea as an opportunity to examine social issues in the country, particularly its legacy of intercountry adoption.

Tom Adams - KVAL.com,

Eighteen Korean-born adult adoptees in the United States plan to travel to South Korea during the Winter Olympics to meet with lawmakers about reforming adoption laws in the country, according to this article from KVAL.com. 

You Soo-sun - The Korea Times,

South Korea is considering ratifying the Hague Adoption Convention, according to this article from the Korea Times. 

Katelyn Hemmeke - Korea Exposé,

This article, from Korea Exposé, shines light on the many difficulties and obstacles that South Korean adoptees face in trying to identify and locate their birth families. 

Jeong Park - The Orange County Register,

New research explores the traumatic experiences of children adopted from South Korean orphanages by American families following the end of the Korean War.