Meeting Once More : : The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption / / Elise M. Prébin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Prébin, Elise M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I: Meeting the Birth Country --; 1. Shift in South Korean Policies toward Korean Adoptees (1954–Today) --; 2. Everyday Encounters --; 3. Holt International Summer School or Three-Week Re-Koreanization (1999–2004) --; 4. Stratification and Homogeneity at the Korean Broadcasting System (2003) --; 5. National Reunification and Family Meetings --; Part II: Meeting the Birth Family --; 6. Stories behind History --; 7. Meetings’ Aftermaths --; 8. Evolving Relationship with My Birth Family --; 9. Management of Feelings --; 10. Meeting the Lost and the Dead --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814764961; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elise M. Prébin.

A greatmobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adopteesbegan to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with theirbirth parents-sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheerscale of the activity that has taken place around the adult adoptees' return,and by extension the national significance that has been accorded to thesefamily meetings.Informed by theauthor’s own experience as an adoptee and two years of ethnographic research inSeoul, as well as an analysis of the popular television program "I Want toSee This Person Again," which reunites families, Meeting Once Moresheds light on an understudied aspect of transnational adoption: the impact ofadoptees on their birth country, and especially on their birth families. Thevolume offers a complex and fascinating contribution to the study of newkinship models, migration, and the anthropology of media, as well as to thestudy of South Korea.