"I want to meet my mother at least once and let her know how I've lived, and I want to get to know my mother as well."



Moon Seung-hye (American name Kathleen Kenan), a Korean adopted in the United States, visited Korea last month to find her biological parents, but she could not fulfill her wishes and only longed for more, she leaves tomorrow (the 14th).



"Even just one meeting will mean a lot more to my life than her biological mother thinks," Moon said in her recent story to the Children's Rights Agency Adoptee Support Center.



He was born on May 28, 1986 at 3:03 pm at St. Mary's Hospital in Seongdong-gu, Seoul.



At the time, it is said that her mother was a single mother who had just graduated from college at the age of 22 in her hometown of Jeollanam-do.



Her mother, who lived in Seoul, met her father (29-year-old unmarried) on a train returning home from a business trip abroad, and later developed into a lover and became pregnant.



However, it is said that her parents, who were not ready for her marriage and upbringing, decided to adopt overseas for the future of her daughter.



On September 2 of the same year he was born, Moon was adopted into the United States through the Korean Social Welfare Society, an adoption agency.



"After adoption, I was raised by adoptive parents who loved me. But when I was a child, there were so few Asians around me, and as I grew up, my curiosity about the identity of being a 'Korean' grew."



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He visited his home country for the first time in 2012 through an adoption agency's home country visit program.



I searched adoption records to find his biological parents, but it was difficult to find due to lack of information.



It was difficult to find people who were presumed to be biological parents, but no one was able to meet them.



It is said that he was disappointed and decided not to look for any more.



Then in 2018, when I got married, my curiosity about my biological parents grew again.



After visiting his home country with his husband again this summer, he actively ran around, filing a claim for disclosure of adoption information with the sole intention of meeting his biological parents.



He looked for his biological father, but the reunion did not happen.



I also sought and contacted a person believed to be his mother, but I was told that I was not the person involved.



Moon said, "I'm really curious about my past, which is full of all kinds of questions," and said, "Please help me find my real mother."



"If she finds her mother, then I want to tell her that she understands why she gave up on me then, and that she was brave enough to make that decision," he said.



(Photo = Provided by the Adoptee Support Center of the Children's Rights Agency, Yonhap News)