Talk:International adoption of South Korean children

message: I am a Korean adoptee living in the United States.  I find this page very intersting and helpful.  I would like to know what the "other countries" are that are on the list.  I am wondering if Portugal, Greece, and Austria are some of the unnamed countries.  I am pleasantly surprised to see:  India, Paraguay, Turkey, and Tunisia on the list.  In defending this article, I want to say to the person below that is wondering why "Korean adoptees" and not Nigerian or whatever, it is because Korean adoptees are among the more prevalent nationalities that have been adopted around the world.  Nigerian adoptees are relatively new.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.65.109.102 (talk) 18:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Other countries

message: It seems terribly cynical to say that adoption agencies set up their systems to guarantee a steady supply of healthy children. Isn't it more accurate to say that the adoption agencies created a system to care for children whose parents can't care for them?
I say this because the agency that runs its own hospital ESWS (, in Seoul) also runs homes for sick and mentally challenged children. They also care for sick children. Most of the money adoptive parents pay goes toward this care.
If no one objects, I will work to make this article more neutral. Danlovejoy 21:26, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guarantee a steady supply? 

message: History belongs to everyone, so the Wikipedia is a place for a "Neutral point of view (NPOV)." Quoting from the NPOV article: 
According to Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales, NPOV is "absolute and non-negotiable".
You are free to share your point of view on your own site, as you have done. Wikipedia is deliberately NPOV, telling all sides of the story. You can't dictate who can or can't edit a story - that is contrary to the spirit of the Wikipedia project. If you don't wish to have your work edited on Wikipedia, then you should not have released it to Wikipedia.  
I don't know how to rescind permission, but it's probably possible to do so. But I would discourage that, because the article is excellent and 95% NPOV anyway. I just moderated the language a little bit. See what you think.  Danlovejoy 21:59, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I'm not sure I'm the person to write this section, but I this article needs to include the native Korean perspective on the industry. My understanding is that while Koreans are resistant to adoption they are also embarassed that so many of their kids are adopted by foreigners, and South Korea is today the only country with a per-capita income over $10,000 that has more international than domestic adoptions. I'd like to hear some thoughts of others before putting in this section though. ThreeAnswers 20:49, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism from Koreans

message: England is given as one of the countries in the list, but England is rarely ever counted seperately from either Wales alone, or Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland (the rest of the United Kingdom). --Bearbear 19:05, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: England

message: What is Buland? Poland? --84.20.17.84 09:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buland doesn't exist. Poland- how?

message: Say something about the status of abortion in South Korea. --84.20.17.84 09:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abortion 

message: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the "Harry Holt" link in the Historical Context section leads to a football player, whom I don't think is the same Harry Holt associated with Holt International Children's Services. Eellee (talk) 23:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry Holt? 

message: this could of course be purely due to chance, but all of the Korean adoptees that I have met or know of are female.  If this in fact indicates a real gender bias, then shouldn't this be mentioned in the article? 115.128.11.35 (talk) 07:24, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: as of 2013-14, 80% of Korean children that reached availability for international adoption were boys. VT hawkeyetalk to me 16:55, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  sex ratio? 

message: Some of the information in this article is severely outdated. For instance, there is a reference to a 1988 article, and cost's of social spending. A lot has happende in a quarter of century.
132.150.8.6 (talk) 10:52, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I flagged the article as .  Hopefully that will attract some attention.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:44, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated data 

message: This is honestly a pretty questionable article in general (researched and referenced, but not encyclopedic), but if it's going to be here, things to work on:
* style is personal essay in places, some soapboxing (from various POVs)
* prospective adoptive parents have had to travel to Korea since at least 2008, and definitely since 2013 Special Adoption Law court process implementation -- kids landing in the US with an escort and meeting their new parents at the airport is long gone
* says nothing of the 2013 Special Adoption Law that changed children's birth registration and legal process of adoption drastically
* hints at hoju/family register system, but doesn't talk about its revocation in 2008 (social aspects may still exist though)
* gender ratios: as of 2013-14, 80% of children who reached the stage of being permitted for international adoption were boys
I'm not editing because I'm pretty much the opposite of WP:NPOV on this subject, but it needs attention badly. VT hawkeyetalk to me 16:54, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Revisions I'd recommend

message: I'd highly recommend it since the content is pretty much the same and the Korean Adoptee article is more up to date.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 06:50, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Should be merged with Korean Adoptee

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message: I would like to add a brief blurb about Heritage Camps For Adoptive Families https://www.heritagecamps.org as I noticed there are a few adoptee camps listed but not this one; as an adoptee, I used to attend it every year with my family. It is not exactly historic, but part of Korean adoptees' resources. This is also for a class, so I am new to editing on Wikipedia. I never knew this page for adoption was here, even though I have done some research on my own, so it is really interesting to read over. 
Blurb would be something along the lines of:
Heritage Camp For Adoptive Families was founded in 1991. https://www.heritagecamps.org Four years later, HCAF became a nonprofit organization. There are currently nine camps for international adoptees, hosted in Fraser, Estes Park, and Denver, Colorado. Korean Heritage Camp is hosted for four days at Snow Mountain Ranch in Fraser. https://www.heritagecamps.org/korean-camp/#et_pb_dp_oc_custom_0_1 K9fine (talk) 08:13, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heritage Camp For Adoptive Families 

message: Hi, the invisible comments on the page, while well-intentioned and thorough, are a bit unusually formatted and maybe excessively precise. If anything, the information can/should be put inside the references themselves where possible, but this is only needed if the explanation is non-obvious. But having every statement precisely located, especially if a source is in English, a link is still alive and it's a short article, or if a page number is given in a book, is a bit much. toobigtokale (talk) 00:43, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
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