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SEOUL, August 1 Asia Pulse - About 700 internationally adopted Koreans gathered Tuesday for an academic conference aimed at discussing legal, social and cultural matters and other various personal issues facing many adoptees.
The First International Korean Adoptions Studies Research Symposium, which runs for six days, is the first academic symposium on Koreans adopted abroad, according to the organizer, the International Korean Adoptee Association (IKAA).
A dozen international experts on the issue also took part in the conference held at Seoul's Dongguk University.
"This underlines the nascent but growing research on our communities from a variety of different academic fields, as well as the ever-present interest among Korean adoptees in intellectual work about us," Kim Park Nelson, a scholar from the United States, said in a keynote ...
Source: HighBeam Research, SEOUL HOSTS 1ST ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON INTL'Y ADOPTED KOREANS.