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November is National Adoption Awareness Month. In recognition of National Adoption Awareness Month, Seoul Sisters Boutique will host a screening of Frontline's documentary along with the Associated Press: South Korea's Adoption Reckoning. This documentary was released in September 2024 and focused on examining fraud and abuse allegations in South Korea's historic foreign adoption boom. The film draws on years of reporting, thousands of pages of documents — some of which had never been made public before — and interviews with those who worked in adoption agencies, officials from South Korea and abroad, and more than 80 adoptees who gave powerful firsthand accounts.
Seoul Sisters will host the screening of the documentary at The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. After the documentary Kourtni, who is a Korean adoptee and the owner of Seoul Sisters Boutique will facilitate an adoption panel of 3 transracial adoptees.
The doors will open at 1 PM.
Food will be served starting at 1 PM.
The documentary will begin at 1:30 PM (approx. 1.5 hours)
The adoption panel will follow the documentary.
Depart the library by 5 PM.
This is a FREE event. However, we ask for an RSVP due to limited seating. We also need to know how much yummy Korean food to prepare! Please RSVP to Kourtni at [email protected]
Thank you.
Meet your adoption panel:
Hope Huynh is a Korean adoptee. She was adopted to a family in Oregon. Hope moved to Korea and attended a University in Korea. She advocated for adoptee rights starting in the 90's in Korea and in the states upon her return.
Nandeeta Ramsey is an Indian adoptee. She was adopted to a family in Oregon. Nandeeta is an artist and empowers adoptees through art therapy classes and speaking about her personal adoption experience on mental health and recovery from alcoholism.
Michaela Dietz is a Korean adoptee. She is one of the adoptees featured in the documentary.
Kourtni Rader is a Korean adoptee. She was adopted to a family in Michigan and is one of eleven adoption children. Kourtni worked for Holt International in Oregon. She left Holt in 2012 and opened a boutique adoption travel company, Seoul Sisters Tour & Travel, working with adoption families and adult adoptees.
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“South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” is a FRONTLINE production with Maxine Productions and Sony Pictures Television – Nonfiction (SPTNF) in association with The Associated Press. The writer, producer and director is Maxine Productions’ Lora Moftah. The reporters are Kim Tong-hyung and Claire Galofaro. The senior producer is Nina Chaudry. The executive producer of Maxine Productions is Mary Robertson. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave, Corvallis, OR 97330-4722, United States,Corvallis, Oregon
