...This chapter presents ethnographies of first meetings between transnational adoptees and their birth families in South Korea via Ach'im madang, with particular emphasis on the outcomes of the family meetings. It considers the socioeconomic situation of the birth families as well...

... emphasis on meetings between transnational adoptees and their birth families, the chapter asks why such meetings are considered the “best” meetings and why people separate after meeting. It argues that helping separated relatives to find one another and to meet properly is an important element of social...

...This book has explored a crucial aspect of the transnational adoption process: the moment of recognition and reaffirmation of ties between children and their birth families. It has shown how transnational adoptees who return to South Korea are given the means—by both adoptive and birth countries...

... of the popular television program “I Want to See This Person Again,” which reunites families, this book sheds light on an understudied aspect of transnational adoption: the impact of transnational adoptees on their birth country, and especially on their birth families. The book offers a complex and fascinating...

...In this chapter, the author reflects on her ongoing relationship with her birth family, from 1999 to the present, to illustrate the types of family that favorable conditions may allow, years after the initial meetings between transnational adoptees and their birth families. In particular, she...

...This book examines the representations of transnational adoptees in South Korea in official discourses and media as well as the impact of adoptees on their birth families and on their birth country more generally. Drawing on the author's personal experience as an adult adoptee and her two years...