JooYoung Choi Artist/Korean Adoptee’s Gallery gives back to Korean Single Mother Support Organization

Hi all,

A good friend of mine is generating awareness and financial support for the Ae Ran Won Mother’s Center in Seoul and needs your help.  She is an incredibly talented and gifted artist and is donating all the proceeds for vitamins for the mother’s center.  If you are in the Somerville, MA area this weekend she will also be doing a small art show.  Please see her website for more information.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

JooYoung Choi Artist/Korean Adoptee’s Gallery gives back to Korean
Single Mother Support Organization
Organization: Ae Ran Won
February 10, 2010; Boston, Massachusetts

From now till the end of this year, artist and Korean adoptee/birthchild
JooYoung Choi is using her paintings to generate awareness
and support for Korean single mothers and
their children at Ae Ran Won. From now till the end of 2010, 10% of
the profits from her online gallery, will go towards donating baby
clothes, vitamins and toys to the Single Mother Home in Korea.

“When I stayed in Korea this past Summer, I had the honor of meeting
nine young ladies who were being supported by this organization.
They are amazing people, some as young as 16 or 17,
out of the group, nine women offered photos of their
children to me, along with information about their son or daughter.
Also, they included their favorite and least favorite colors and their
wishes for their child’s future. Before I left Korea, I delivered a series of
baby portrait paintings, one for each of the nine women I had met.”

“I am a Korean Adoptee who was able to find her birth family, I know
that both of my birth parents struggled emotionally over the years.
Both have shared with me how difficult it was to be with out their birth child,
I want to help support young mother’s in their choice to be single parents.
In Korea, that is a very brave and courageous choice.”

Now that JooYoung is back in the United States, she is using
www.jooyoungchoi.org to help continue her support of this
organization.

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“I hope you will support our efforts in helping the mothers and
babies at  Ae Ran Won!” – Sincerely, JooYoung Choi

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New KAD Study

Hi everyone,

I try not to bog people down with adoptee research requests, but a friend of mine asked that I help spread the word about her study that she and a friend are working on.  They are looking at the effects of travel to Korea on adoptees and their lives after they return.  As always, I am happy to promote research that has a purpose and this project has just that.  There are some relatively personal questions, but their intentions are good and the outcome will be beneficial for us all.  -GS

We need your help if you are a Korean adoptee who is:
* Currently 20 years or older
* Went to Korea at age 20 or older
* Went to Korea and RETURNED to pre-Korea life
Please respond to our independent research study!
There are only 49 questions, and it should take 20-30 minutes. Email us for the password  at 2curiouskads [at] gmail com, and then proceed to this link: http://www.facebook.com/l/95d11;www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=BIDNH_636365b6. Be sure to enable cookies before you start so you can go back  later on if you need to.
Some of these questions might seem personal, but the more open and honest you can be the more helpful your responses will be for other adoptees. Please know that your responses are generated anonymously.
Feel free to post this message on your own blog or copy, paste and email it to anyone who might be interested in participating. Or simply email us at 2curiouskads [at] gmail com, with a list of emails, and we’ll be happy to send out the information.
Here’s some info on us. We are Korean adoptees, 32 and 35 years old, who’ve been Korea 2-3 times. After we returned from Korea last year we felt isolated. Displaced. Confused. Unable to ease back into our pre-Korea lives. We wondered if other adoptees felt the same way. More importantly, if they didn’t, what had they done to prevent these feelings from manifesting? What sort of foundations, behaviors, life circumstances did they have in place that enabled them to feel rooted and connected when they returned? And how could this information offer support to other adoptees?
This is where you come in. If we get enough responses we will develop the results into a presentation for the IKAA Gathering in Seoul this summer so that your responses will help others just like you.
Much appreciation,
Rae Anne and Saebom
2curiouskads [at] gmail com