Publishing Message - NCRC
There are about 170,000 overseas adoptees who have been born in Korea but have been adopted overseas and raised in other countries including the U.S., France and Sweden. There are many overseas adoptees living in adoptive country with having a great curiosity towards their identity and home country.
Ever since its establishment in 2012, Korea Adoption Services (KAS) has provided post-adoption services for those who have been adopted overseas ranging from finding their family members, motherland tour, learning Korean language and supporting their temporary residence. Although KAS has been merged into the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC) due to revise of child welfare law on July 16, 2019, KAS as a department of NCRC is still providing various services for adoptees and adoptive families just like before.
With the increase in the number of overseas adoptees who wish to stay or reside in Korea, we decided to publish the "Guidebook for Overseas Adoptees" together with YOON&YANG PRO BONO FOUNDATION to provide them with "information related to living" in areas of traffic, communication and finance as well as "legal information" that include visa, shelter and law enforcement.
We sincerely hope that this guidebook enable overseas adoptees to better understand their home country and help them adjust well in Korea. In addition, we ask for your continuous interest and support so that this guidebook can be amended or supplemented to become an essential guide to the overseas adoptees.
