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Other Adoption Services and Organizations

Adoptee Mentor Program (AMP) – Bay Area
Dillon International
Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS)
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Families Adopting in Response (FAIR)
Families with Children From China (FCC), Northern California Chapter
Holt International
International Adoption Clinic, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA)
International Korean Adoptee Service (InKAS)
Korea Social Service (KSS)
Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN)
Korean Identity Development Society (KIDS)
Lutheran Services in America (LSA)
Overseas Adopted Koreans (OAK)
PACT, An Adoption Alliance
SOS Children's Villages


Other Resources

Online Forums
AKASF Yahoo Group
Dongari Yahoo Group, a Bay Area Korean-English conversation group
Korean @doptees Worldwide (K@W)
Korean Adoptees Archive
Kamm97 -- A place for Koreans to share what's on their minds
Transracial Abductees

Books and Literature
After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees edited by Dr. Sook Wilkinson and Nancy Fox
Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Chol-hwan Kang
Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children by Cheri Register
Comforting an Orphaned Nation by Tobias Hubinette
From Morning Calm to Midnight Sun by Sunny Jo
Here by Kim Dalros and Holly H. Coughlin
I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children edited by Sara Dorow
The Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka
The Letter Never Sent II: Korean adoptees' letters to their birth families
OKAYBOOK - Overseas Korean Artists Yearbook by Mihee N. Lemoine
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin
Seeds From a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees by Tonya Bishoff and Jo Rankin
A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim
This Many Miles from Desire by Lee Herrick
Truepeny Publishing Company
Twins Found in a Box by Jeannine Vance
The Unforgotten War: Dust of the Streets by Thomas Park Clement
Voices From Another Place by Susan Soon-Keum Cox
Sunny Jo's complete list of books on adoption

Media on Korean Adoption
"Adopted: The New American Family" by Nancy Kim Parsons and Barb Lee (documentary)
"First Person Plural" by Deann Borshay Liem (documentary)
"Journey of Hope" by Karen Hae Soon Eckert
"Looking for Wendy" by Kimberly Saree Tomes
"Made in Korea: A One-Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam?" by In-Soo Radstake
"Passing Through" by Nathan Adolphson-documentary
"Resilience" by Tammy Chu (documentary)
"Searching for Go-Hyang" by Tammy (Tolle) Chu (documentary)
"Subrosa" by Helen Lee
"Surplus" by Joy Dietrich
Sunny Jo's complete list of films about adoption

Korean Language
Korean Language Study on the InterNET (KOSNET)
Life in Korea Korean Language Practice
Ministry of Culture & Tourism: Korean Through English
Sogang University online language lessons
An Introduction to Korean
Learn Korean
Learn Korean Language
AltaVista Babel Fish Translation
zKorean.com online dictionary
Korean Fonts

Korean-American Culture
AsianWeek
KoreAm Journal
Korean American Students Conference (KASCON)
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Korean American Museum (Los Angeles)

Korean News
The Chosun Ilbo
The Korea Times
The Korean Herald
Korean Quarterly

Online 'Zines
Asia Source
Asia Society
Audrey
In Third Space - An e-magazine for international adoptees
Jade Magazine

Korean Fooood!
Kimchi, Web site by the Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp., includes history, types and recipes
Korean restaurants on Citysearch for San Francisco
Korean restaurants on Citysearch for Berkeley
Korean restaurants on Citysearch for Oakland

Asian-American TV Networks
AZN Television - Korean news, dramas and movies
ImaginAsian TV - Korean news, dramas and movies
MTV K - Korean music videos and news

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