The Adoptee Community

I was born in Korea. My German parents adopted me when I was three months old and I spent my whole life in Germany until I graduated from university. I then moved to Asia where I now work for an art gallery.

I’ve been in Hong Kong for over two years now. My adoption journey truly started in 2019 when I met Yann, Phyllis, Gretchen and Eunice. From those meetings, I started opening up about my adoption and became more curious, and eventually Yann and I started the adult adoptees group. That was the first time in my life where I acknowledged that I wanted to be part of the adoptee community, whereas before, I hadn’t been at all interested in that part of my life, or in anything related to my adoption.

During one of our meetings in Hong Kong, I met an adoptee who shared her thoughts on meeting her biological parents and how the relationship with them became a whole new relationship on its own after meeting them. Her sharing was something valuable, it made me realise there was so much I didn’t know and I’d never thought about it before, so it was a bit of an “uh, huh” moment for me. Now I’m experiencing it for myself.