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In the past few weeks, our community of adoptees lost two souls … one a 14-year-old Korean girl, the other a deported 40-something Korean ma...

Korea is my comfort. My reset. Touching down in Seoul removes the tension of life in the United States . Back in the days before my first ...

The water gurgles by me. I   s—t—r—e—t—c—h … But I am a young one, A young one who knows not what lies ahead. My buds are just beginning...

I have been reluctant to write about the new series on NBC, This Is Us . Because … it slays a part of me every episode. All I could muster...

In a few weeks, I return to the Republic of Korea. The trip is a gift from my husband. When he announced that he wanted to give me the tim...

Friday, I treated the day as any other. Kids to class and a haircut, a little pottery trimming, lunch with my daughter and grocery shopping ...

Christmas Day is not the holiday I fondly remember. No more does my father’s Spanish-sprinkled “Ho, ho, ho! O’ Christmas Tree, O’ Christmas ...

When I was a white, I talked like a white, I thought like a white, I reasoned like a white. When I became Korean, I set aside my whitis...

A powerful guest post by Melanie Chung-Sherman. This is where I'm at tonight, and frankly, where I have been for the last several day...

Thirty-four years ago, I was called a swamp rat. Thirty-four years ago, I was told to get back on the boat. Thirty-four years ago, my...