Wow it’s great to see how Koreans who are adopted would love to bring their children up in a diverse America. Brought to you by dreams across america.
But wait for it, this is classic Korea…
She’s in enemy territory, she not connected to America. Well, connected to it up until the point that she gets a degree from a country where a degree means something. So glad she’s going back to Korea, good luck on that. They’re big on diversity and no atrocities ever happen there. Wouldn’t want her to have to yield to an American- what a joke.
Oh yeah, she’s not trying to play the victim. Western nations “raping” Korea, you mean like in WWII and the Korea War when all those Western soldiers died. I guess the Americans were tired of raping them during the Carter administration and that’s why they wanted to leave. Wasn’t it the Koreans who asked them to stay? God knows why the Koreans asked the rapist to stay untill 2012. Korea oppressed? Maybe that’s why all the men go to Cambodia and the Philippines, because they’re oppressed. Korea impoverished???
http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Fact_Sheets/2006/asset_upload_file650_8883.pdf
You mean because they don’t give foreign aid like western countries and Japan. Or is that why they keep milking the USFK for a billion a year but don’t hold up to their end of the bargain. Natural resources, what kim chi, bad electronics and even worse cars? No mention either of how Koreans don’t adopt their own- and that Westerners (America being the largest group) are the main group of people who keep Korea from having a financial burden by having to feed and cloth these forgotten children. The government tried a plan in the 80’s to stop Westerners from adopting while encouraging Koreans to adopt. But guess what, it caused such a financial implosion on the state because Koreans didn’t adopt that they had to again open up the process to Westerners. That Pure Blood runs strong!
In all fairness and stark contrast (though not adopted) is the Hines Ward story that everyone knows about, or should know about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84rXduuzaU
There are alot of good Koreans out there who love the western countries they grow up in, and bring something to add to the fabrics of those nations. It’s too bad the majority of Koreans I see in the media are assbites like this who make Koreans look bad.
July 6, 2007 at 1:27 am
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July 6, 2007 at 1:37 am
She feels connected to Korea? Just wait until she gets back here and doesn’t have the all-important network of high school and university friends; doesn’t speak the language like the locals expect of her; starts chafing under the hierarchy (all those men “raping” female opportunity); etc, et al. Smart money says she’s back in LA within two years.
July 6, 2007 at 2:01 am
What a load of BS! She is an ingrate. Would she have preferred to remain in an orphanage in Korea? KOREANS DON’T ADOPT! Get a clue, lady! Oh, and oh my God! Evil Americans actually expect her to stand aside when she’s getting on an elevator and they are getting off? That’s called COURTESY. I am sure the couple who raised and loved her are proud of her. What a smack in the face for them.
July 6, 2007 at 3:02 am
That is how Koreans feel. She is an average Koreans. They hate the USA.
July 6, 2007 at 4:53 am
1. It’s likely Yun-Soo Kim Navarre represents just a small minority of (Korean-American) adoptees. So, I don’t judge all (Korean-American) adoptees by her.
2. It is clear from the URL banners advertising a website that she has an agenda other than speaking everything on her mind. Thus, it’s difficult to take what’s she saying as her true experience. Rather, it’s more likely what she’s saying is a selection of her true experiences rather than a comprehensive view of her experiences to thus further an agenda.
3. It’s not clear she’s ever visited Korea or speaks Korean. Otherwise, if she spent any considerable time here, she’d quickly change her misguided expectations about how loving and embracing her “Koreans of the same blood” would be of her. Based upon my experiences and observations here, Koreans are especially rough on:
i) gyopos
ii) …who aren’t fluent in Korean
iii) …and are female
iv) …with no traceable parents !
v) …and are unfortunately overweight by Korean standards
I know several gyopo women living in Korean of vastly different incomes, language abilities, body shapes, and attitudes, and the culture here is difficult for all of them for most of the reasons above.
She rants about how badly people in the U.S. treat her based upon something superficial like her skin color, yet she doesn’t mention how badly Koreans would treat her based upon superficial things, almost all beyond her control.
4. She uses charged and inaccurate words like “culture raped from me”. *eye roll*
She also clearly tries to equate the U.S. treatment of South Korea as “stealing natural resources”. Right…and those natural resources would be ? If it’s human children as she implies, then what’s the alternative ? Where does she think she would actually be if she was left in a Korean orphanage , without parents, and grew up here ?
5. Yes, she does make some very good points about how Korea could be doing more to “help its own”, especially in terms of:
i) not giving up so many children for adoption
ii) adopting more of their own
6. I have no doubt her life has been difficult. The way many/most minorities get treated in the U.S. by the ignorant or willfully mean is shameful. The “land of opportunity” still has a long way to go towards true racial and gender equality. What does it matter what skin color someone has ? Squat.
So, I believe I can understand where her anger and frustration come from.
My guess is that she’s been taken in by some left-wing nuts (hey, I’m a lefty myself, but some lefties are just nutjobs) with an agenda and her anger is being used a tool to further their agenda.
If she truly wanted to help Korean orphans, she’d be in Korea, working/helping at an orphanage, and doing a rant on Naver, in Korean. She’s actually hurting her cause by making a fool of herself ranting in the wrong direction, citing emotional, yet easily disproved reasons.
July 6, 2007 at 8:42 am
I, as a non-white non-American, transnational and transracial adoptee am really sick and tired of the whole fuss which is made about the issue. I’ve had my fair share of problems (e.g. I did not get along well with my adoptive mother, so that I hastily left my parental home after my adoptive father’s passing when I was 20, never to return, not even sporadically. But I am full well aware that some of my friends who were raised by their birth parents had quite similar experiences. To put the problems down to my background as an adoptee would never have occured to me. And, while I lived in a whole number of very different countries for extended periods of time, my country of birth was not among them. And I see absolutely no reason why it should have been…
July 7, 2007 at 2:11 am
It’s just ramblings of a emotionally hurt woman who doesn’t know too much about Korea. Why is this being used and turned into another Korea bash?
July 7, 2007 at 3:16 pm
She’s a first world inhabitant and if she chooses to voice her opinions in the media then she can get blasted for it too. The whole “victim” issue got me fused too and so I took it here. If this was a Korea bash I would have not approved your comment and would have throw in only one sided posts in favor of my arguement. I honestly don’t understand why only the western world is open to harsh scrutiny and criticisms but when it comes to Korea it’s a “bash.”
July 7, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Because other then the fact that she’s a Korean adoptee, she has nothing to do with Korea. She didn’t grow up in a Korean culture, as she was adopted, nor was she educated in the Korean environment. Obviously this person is really mixed up inside and is just lashing out in a way only she knows how. “Korea” didn’t make her say all those things. It’s only her opinion and her’s only. So why you would pick out this girl out of thousands of other happy adoptees who don’t have the same problems as she does, and your rant against Korea, is beyond me. Unless you think is genetics where Koreans are genetically predisposed to be ungrateful louts. Is that your point?
July 8, 2007 at 2:49 am
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July 8, 2007 at 11:48 am
I’m speechless. She is absolutely clueless….
MigukNamja broke it down perfectly for me so I don’t have much to add except that it’s too obvious what will happen to her expectations when she gets back home…
July 8, 2007 at 1:57 pm
She’s in for a big surpise when she goes to Korea to be with her “people” and isn’t accepted as a Korean since she grew up in the US, doesn’t speak Korean, and doesn’t have the same values as them.
July 9, 2007 at 10:02 am
Hello…..
LOL….
Yes, I love Korea spent over 2 years there working, teaching, volunteering etc..
BYW, have u heard of transnational or bicoastal?
YES, you can work to improve society (here in the states that is) and well as work, travel, study, visit, volunteer in Korea.
Wow, now I know my thesis, poetry and other writings will be a success….
Peace…..
July 9, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Wow, was that really her writing above? If she doesn’t want to be an American, she needs to stop her bitching and go to Korea and become a Korean citizen. Of course some Koreans will embrace her in Korea because of her racist rants against the US, but not all.
It’s too bad people feel this way towards America, seems like a terrorist would say the same things to Americans as she has said to us in the above clips from youtube. Is she a terrorist?
July 9, 2007 at 3:30 pm
No lumberj I don’t think she’s a terrorist, and no J I wasn’t trying to say all Koreans are ungrateful louts. I think she’s just hurt like you said- but still very very confused, and ignorant in terms of her Korean history. j I’ll just say this I know one of those happy adoptees and leave it at that. As for the person claiming to be her who knows? People vampire, puppet, troll, whatever you want to call it, all the time even under the real persons name. If it isn’t her I would hope that person would stop writing on her behalf because even though I disagreed with her that doesn’t give someone the right to hijack her name regardless if her view point agreed or disagreed with my own.
There are ways she could prove who she is, will she? That’s up to her. Does she have to, not at all. Yet, if she wants to have a discussion, which I would love to do (even if it’s just by email- no I won’t give her email out, so don’t even ask!)- she will have to verify it because like I said no one should speak on her behalf but her. Do I think she will- from the aforementioned post’s tone probably not, only she knows for sure.
Whatever the case she seems to be going in circles.