A Final Post-Script for TRC 2.
Above — Message posted to the *KRG website on March 11th, 2026:
“Termination of cooperation with KRGs
The establishment of the *KRG was linked to a strong desire for cooperation with the DKRG and sister organizations in the various recipient Western countries. This cooperation fell under the established OKRG organization. However, we were informed this week that this cooperation has been terminated by the other KRGs. Accusations have been leveled against the *KRG and members within our organization, which we do not acknowledge and which constitute an attack on our reputation. We regret this course of events, which does not align with our values and our conviction that cooperation as equal partners within the adoptee community is the key to achieving our common goals. The *KRG has always strived to play an active role within the OKRG based on the pursuit of truth, and as early as spring 2025, we have been outspoken proponents of ending the mandate of TRC 2 and establishing a TRC 3.”
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What goes around, comes around...
The two so-called “Korean Rights” groups, whose (remaining) founders (in the case of DKRG) and member (of the aforementioned *KRG) conspired to take false credit for my KSS K-Number research on January 1st, 2023, and who excluded me from TRC 2 for three years, have now, according to the *KRG itself, broken up.
Bummer, mang.
I wish I could say I was sad about it, but the way that the people behind these organizations have behaved for years made this break up inevitable. And while this announcement was only made on the *KRG’s website on March 11th, 2026, I’ve got enough EARS on the ground in Korea to know that DKRG and the *KRG member they formerly collaborated with during TRC 2 hadn’t talked for months prior to this announcement.
I don’t intend to give the *KRG group who recently posted this message on their website any attention. I have therefore blocked out their name and part of their logo. One of this group’s key members accepted false credit from DKRG for my original KSS K-Number research on January 1st, 2023. Despite knowing the truth, this *KRG member allowed that misattribution to stand for over a year.
This individual — who is not even an Adoptee himself, but is the son of two of the *KRG group’s founders, who are both KSS Adoptees — was happy to help keep me excluded from the TRC 2 movement in order to preserve that false credit assigned to him by DKRG. It wasn’t until I publicly confronted him after over a year of his private denials that he finally publicly admitted he had no role in my research, which I had conducted as part of my investigation into my deceased twin sister’s case beginning in 2020.
2020 was the same year I first realized I might have had a twin who died at KSS in the mid 1970s. This discovery is the entire reason that Paperslip exists in the first place. I was attempting to dig up the entire history of KSS in order to find out what the hell had happened back when I was at KSS. That was traumatic enough. I really did NOT need the added trauma of having my work, based on my investigation into my deceased twin’s case, attempted to be stolen from me.
What’s more concerning is that this non-Adoptee’s parents, who are both KSS Adoptees, along with another founding member of the *KRG group, all acknowledged they knew I was responsible for the work and had even witnessed it firsthand. Yet they still intensely pressured me behind the scenes to allow him to retain the false credit egregiously given to him for my work by DKRG, despite that longstanding knowledge. I've never received any meaningful apology from these now ousted *KRG individuals, nor any acknowledgement or apology from DKRG.
Being unable to defend credit for my own work after being blocked from the TRC 2 movement felt as though my deceased twin sister — whose existence I had only discovered by accident in 2020 — had been stolen from me all over again. I cannot adequately describe the depth of grief this caused me during an already grief-stricken period following that discovery.
Both this *KRG group and DKRG were all too happy to cooperate in keeping me shut out of the TRC 2 movement for THREE YEARS. They have had absolutely ZERO regard for what that has meant for me personally.
These people have needed all of the limelight for themselves. If you will notice, I do not even put my name on this website, which I co-founded. Unlike these unscrupulous individuals, I have never thought that justice in my own and my twin sister’s cases needed to come at the expense of others.
I withdrew my case from TRC 2 in March 2023 due to these abuses by key members of this *KRG group and by DKRG.
I cried tears of anger and frustration when I withdrew my TRC 2 case. But I knew I could no longer trust DKRG — especially since they were not meant to be involved beyond the point of submission, yet nevertheless remained closely tied to and influential upon the mostly non-English speaking TRC 2 investigators. DKRG conspired to block a trip to Korea I had already paid for to meet with TRC 2 investigators. I had to cancel the trip after DKRG’s interference, thus losing money and a significant opportunity to aid TRC 2 investigators’ understanding of KSS in the process in the early days of the TRC2 investigation into Overseas Adoption. DKRG still retains my private adoption documents, and I believe they keep copies of ALL Adoptees’ TRC case materials submitted through them.
I only recently submitted my case AGAIN, this time to TRC 3. Thank you to Brothers Home survivors — not DKRG — for making TRC 2 and TRC 3 possible. This time, I submitted my case INDEPENDENTLY of any of the so called "Korean Rights" Groups. I would urge any Korean Adoptees to do the same. Submitting your case INDEPENDENTLY preserves not only your privacy, but also your sanity.
A warning to the (remaining) *KRG groups: this is the path you are on. Unfortunately, given the ongoing conduct of DKRG and, in some cases, your own actions, it appears only a matter of time before the consequences follow.
When that time comes, I will have long since moved beyond the point of concern.
Now that my TRC 3 case has been successfully submitted, and I have been assured by TRC 3 staff that it will not be interfered with by the so-called “Korean Rights” groups, I no longer have any need for the utter nastiness I have experienced with DKRG and its affiliates.
I can’t protect every Adoptee who may be affected by DKRG's behavior, and the behavior of the remaining *KRG groups. I’ve been right about too many developments in what is now a visibly fracturing birth family search landscape. I never set out to be a canary in the coal mine, but that’s the position I find myself in now.
I’ve paid the price for telling the truth about these people — but I’d do it again. Apparently, I’m the only one with the balls to warn others about the behavior of these individuals. The rest of you who know the truth about how DKRG behaves — but who have said nothing for years — have literal blood on your hands.
For my part, I’m tired of thinking about and talking about these awful people, in order to warn others. At this point, Adoptees, you are on your own.
I’ll conclude with this:
