Above: The original email I sent to Bastiaan Flikweert and his mother Alice on February 6th, 2022, in which I unfortunately decided to share the then password protected website Paperslip.org — which contained my then password protected KSS K-Number research — with Bastiaan, who is the NON-Adoptee DoKAD son of two KSS Adoptees. His mother, a KSS Adoptee, had already witnessed my conducting my research on a KSS Adoptee forum for years, and had direct access to my research on the KSS Adoptee forum. She and her husband, who is also a KSS Adoptee, later both told me privately that everyone knew that I had done the KSS K-Number research, but to “just” let their son Bastiaan take credit. Another KSS friend of theirs has also pressured me to let Bastiaan keep the FALSE credit assigned to him for my work. I have never understood this.
Never did I expect or anticipate that Bastiaan would be assigned FALSE credit for my work by DKRG on January 1st, 2023.
This was nearly two years AFTER I had already been FILMED in June 2021 sharing my KSS K-Number research with Associated Press (AP) reporter Tong-hyung Kim in Seoul.
However, Tong-hyung would not publish an AP article acknowledging my KSS K-Number research until years later, on October 14th, 2024. This was because in the intervening years, Tong-hyung was busy using my research about systemic switching and my contacts and information to flesh out the larger FRONTLINE / AP project which would culminate in the September 2024 documentary “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning”. Therefore the January 1st, 2023 plagiarism attempt against my KSS K-Number research by DKRG and Bastiaan Flikweert happened BEFORE my KSS K-Number research was PUBLIC — which it was never meant to be — and BEFORE the 2024 AP article had finally acknowledged my work.
I did not publish the footage which had been filmed in Seoul in June 2021 of my informing AP’s Tong-hyung Kim of my KSS K-Number research until November 11th, 2026 — largely due to the fact that I had never associated my name publicly with Paperslip until recently, due to KSS’ still operating Post-Adoption Services until July 19th, 2025, when “all” files were turned over to NCRC. KSS was always extremely vindictive, and until KSS’ PERMANENT CLOSURE on July 19th, 2025, I had never wanted them to know that I was the person behind Paperslip.
It has been an exhausting YEARS long battle to defend the work which had always been mine, ever since.
After FALSE credit had been assigned to Bastiaan Flikweert by DKRG’s Peter Moller on January 1st, 2023, it took Bastiaan over one year to finally acknowledge, on February 18th, 2024, that he had “nothing to do with the decoding of the encodement of the KSS K-Numbers.” He further stated, “Rebecca Kimmel’s hard work and endless efforts she put in due to her discovery of her dead twin sister’s case has been critical for this discovery.”
However, in the same statement, Bastiaan slickly tried to FALSELY credit himself for “finding the hard evidence of KSS’ matching process of adoptees in the early stage of their adoption timelines” — which he DID NOT DO — since I had already done that in the course of my KSS K-Number research by 2021. Bastiaan could not even have tried to do so without attempting to keep the FALSE credit assigned to him for my work. Bastiaan attempted to keep FALSE credit for my work for over one year before I could finally call him out publicly. Privately, Bastiaan had the audacity to tell me that “there was no evidence for my decoding” of KSS K-Numbers — which is utterly absurd, since the ONLY way he knew about KSS K-Number encoding was because I had unfortunately directly informed him in confidence. The fact that I was finally able to call him out publicly is the ONLY reason he finally ‘fessed up that he HADN’T done my research.
To understand the repercussions these egregious actions by DKRG and Bastiaan Flikweert have had on the entire KSS Adoptee community, please see:
A Hard Lesson Learned: Not Everyone Deserves Access to What You Create. Protect Your Work and Choose Wisely Whom You Trust.
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