bemmetje hangt in het park :-(

[bembem]

Apparently they dedicated a special spot for the poor adoptees that were once send away abroad to live among mainly Westerners.

*ROLLS EYES*

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific...korea-1.549459

Park dedicated to adoptees opens on former US military base in South Korea


Garrett Nissen points to a baby picture of his father, Christian Nissen, who was adopted from South Korea, Sept. 12, 2018. The photos were part of a ceremony for a memorial park in Paju, South Korea.
KIM GAMEL/STARS AND STRIPES

PAJU, South Korea — Sook Hee Scheibner always knew she had been adopted from South Korea at age 3 by a Quaker couple who raised her in Michigan.

What she didn’t know was that her birth father had been an American soldier. Scheibner, 65, discovered her biracial heritage only last year.

“I always thought I was 100 percent Korean until I had my DNA done about a year ago through both [Ancestry.com] and 23andMe,” she told Stars and Stripes.

Scheibner, 65, was among dozens of Korean adoptees who recently traveled back to their homeland for the opening of a memorial park at Camp Howze, a former U.S. military base near the front lines with North Korea.

Omma Poom, or Mother’s Arms, park, which includes several sculptures, is the first such memorial dedicated to South Korean adoptees as the nation tries to come to terms with a tragic legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.

“It serves as a permanent reminder for all future generations to never forget what has happened here,” said Estelle Cooke-Sampson, who was adopted at age 6. “Our parents and family members had to make very difficult decisions through one of Korea’s darkest and most tumultuous periods.”

At least 200,000 South Korean children were adopted overseas after the war, prompting the nation to be dubbed by the media as one the world’s biggest exporters of babies.

Most went to the United States, especially biracial children who faced stigmas because they were born to unwed South Korean women who had slept with American soldiers.

Prostitution was rampant in so-called camptowns near the bases that dotted the peninsula, and the streets were filled with war orphans who had lost their families.

War orphans

Theodore Bush Hudson Jr., a retired Marine who participated in the landing at Incheon and other key battles, was so touched by their plight that he and his wife later adopted four of the children.

Wearing his dress blues, the octogenarian was accompanied by two of them as he was honored during the park’s opening ceremony on Sept. 12.

“We decided that we would adopt from Korea because I had been here during the war and I saw the conditions that the kids were living in,” he said. “My heart just went out to them.”


Sook Hee Scheibner, right, who was adopted from South Korea as a toddler, is photographed by a friend while pointing to a photo of herself as a baby on a memorial wall in Paju, South Korea, Sept. 12, 2018.
KIM GAMEL/STARS AND STRIPES

The issue has been largely taboo in a conservative country with Confucian roots that places great importance on ancestors and bloodlines. The government provides benefits to adoptees who return home, but many find silence or a cold reception when they try to find their biological parents.

“I hope you will get a chance to feel some sense of home in your birth country,” Paju Mayor Choi Jong-whan said to the crowd at the ceremony.

The project cost nearly $1 million, including the land, sculptures, trees and landscaping, the mayor said. He noted the symbolism of having the park on a former military base.

“Many Korean overseas adoptees were mixed-race children who have their roots in the camptowns,” he said. “U.S. troops were based on Camp Howze for over 50 years.”

Camp Howze

The circular memorial is set on a nearly 24,000 square foot clearing surrounded by trees in a relatively remote setting deep inside the former Camp Howze, which was returned to the South Korean government in 2005.

The camp, which was named after Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Robert Howze, was one of six so-called “western corridor” bases near the front lines.

Omma Poom, which will eventually be part of a larger neighborhood park, won’t be open to the public until the entire project is complete, but it will be available by appointment.

Adoptees at the ceremony, including many who traveled to South Korea as part of the “Mosaic Hapa Tour” for those with mixed heritage, welcomed the recognition.

“We are almost thought of as an invisible scar from the Korean War,” said Cooke-Sampson, who was adopted at age 6. “Everything was geared towards getting us out of this country.”

Cooke-Sampson, a retired general and state surgeon for the District of Columbia National Guard, said she knows little about her birth parents except that her father had likely been an African-American soldier.

“I could not be upset with him because you have to remember at that time many of these fathers were no more than teenagers themselves. It was a totally different time,” she said.
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I recognized the pictures which were taken from a website where adoptees search for their roots.

It is very disturbing witnessing/seeing this as not only are we exposed like animals at the zoo, but our traumas of being discarded like trash are also exacerbated by this. It's like emphasizing Korea didn't want us which we are fully aware off by the way (*re-rolls eyes*);

Another disturbing fact: one gets to read many of these children were the result of boomboom with hookers as 'prostitution was rampant in so-called camptowns near the bases that dotted the peninsula'... Uh oh now how sick is that considering an adoptee could read that......... sick Korea I hate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bembem]

Now are these hooker children getting any compensation for this??? Of course NOT (duh!)

Instead we are made fun off in the park.......

Yes, first Korea sold us; and then decades later they backstab us by making stupid dedication spots.

KOREA THE WHORE OF ASIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IJsboer]

Van heel Azië is Japan het enige beschaafde land

[bembem]

o_0

[Lof der Zotheid]

Ik dacht nu echt dat BemBem en Pedo2 samen aan Eduard Khil's koord in het park hingen te bengelen. Dus niet.