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▲Drawingwastheonlythingthathecouldhelphimescapefromhisproblems.
APoemforMyBirthFamily
itcametoaccessingtothetruth.
ThereisapoetcalledBowhoiscurrentlylivingintheUnitedStates.
BoSchwabacher
She was adopted when she was a baby. A couple summers ago, she
Everything
returned to South Korea to volunteer at an orphanage, as well as visit
looksokay.
her birth place. She also went to Holt Children’s Services Inc., a local
Thefantasy
adoption agency, to learn more about her birth mother, but the process
hasfaded
away.
ended up being unfruitful. What troubled her the most was the social
workerwhowouldnotreleaseherinformationtoher.Evenifsheasked
Mybirth
mother
forherrecordswhenshereturnedtoAmerica,whatawaitedherwasthe
isgone.
negativeanswerfromtheagency.
Butmy
“IwishIcouldknowmoreaboutmyheritage.Thereisabigemptiness
lifehasn’t
andsadnesswithinmebecauseIdonotknowwhereIcomefrom.Ifeel
ended. She
Iwillalwaysbesearchingforhomeandtobalancemyinnerdiversities.
knows
It is very hard to separate from my birth family and to grow up far
howI
awayfromSouthKorea.IwouldlovetoknowwhereIcomefrom,and
slumber.
I cannot do that alone. I need others to help me to connect to my birth
In
family,”saidBo.
unfamiliar
beds,I’mafraidI’llalwaysbe
rejected.
A
“Mom, if someone asks me where I come from, tell that person
shipmakes
that my home country could be wherever he names it. I am both a
itover
Westerner and an Asian, and a European with an Asian that dwells
the
inmyheart.IamnotWhiteorBlack.Myskincolorishoney.”
waves.
Adoptees are a part of South Korea. In Jung’s interview with
Alittle
Hankyoreh,adailynewspaperinSouthKorea,hesaid,“Theonlyreason
whitedoggy’s
thatIdidnotusedrugs,feeltheurgetocommitsuicide,orgetdepressed
pawstouch
likeotheradoptedchildrenwasbecauseofcomics.Forme,drawingwas
herbabies.
part of the healing process.” While Jung ultimately sought refuge from
Theywon’tbe
his identity crisis in drawing, Bo is someone who transcends suffering
kepttogether,
through writing poems about her adoption. Every adoptee may trace
thisis
theirpastdifferently,butitisundeniablethatknowingwhotheyare,and
theworld
ofpeople.
wheretheycomefrom,isacrucialelementintheirlife.
dalnimo@hufs.ac.kr
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MAY 2018

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