A WARNING for TRC 3 participants: U.S. Korean Adoptees with no prior experience with DKRG (Danish Korean Rights Group) have NO idea with whom they are dealing.

Written By Rebecca Kimmel

You can’t say we didn’t try to warn you.

I have been maligned for telling the truth about DKRG for years. As one of the few U.S. Korean Adoptees whose case was accepted by TRC 2 (2022-2025), I was the unfortunate (American) canary in the (mostly Danish) coal mine. All I can say is, you can’t say that I didn’t try to warn you…

Take it from a U.S. Korean Adoptee who has dealt with DKRG (Danish Korean Rights Group) since 2022 — if you have not had prior experience with DKRG, you really have NO idea of the kind of people with whom you are dealing if you submit your case to TRC 3 through this group.

Please note — You Can Submit Your Case To TRC 3 Independently Of Any Other Self Proclaimed “Korean Rights” Group. Please see the PAPERSLIP BLOG for more information about submitting your case to TRC 3 INDEPENDENTLY.

Many USKRG “leaders” who are acting as overly enthusiastic cheerleaders for DKRG unfortunately have very little long-term experience of the true behavior of DKRG. USKRG is however aware that DKRG’s Peter Moller is NOT a lawyer, but does not inform its members. USKRG was formed well after submissions were completed for TRC 2, and was only formed after DKRG pushed me out of the movement in 2022. Most of USKRG “leadership” had very little to do with TRC 2, and thus did not have much first hand experience of DKRG behavior. And if they did, they must condone it, which makes such complicity even worse. I am deeply concerned that USKRG (whose leadership is largely Danish) is recklessly pushing U.S. Korean Adoptees to submit their sensitive, private adoption documents to DKRG for TRC 3. Especially for U.S. Adoptees, there are serious concerns about the behavior of DKRG which Korean Adoptees should know about. Unfortunately, the predominantly Danish Korean Adoptees of TRC 2 have kept largely silent about DKRG abuses out of FEAR or complicity. Because DKRG behaves in such nasty ways, unfortunately the fear of the Danish Korean Adoptees is understandable. But the Danish Korean Adoptees’ failure to inform others publicly about DKRG’s bad behavior may cost naive U.S. Korean Adoptees dear.

Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han, Danish Korean Adoptees who run both DKRG and KoRoot from their base in Korea, are two of the most ruthless people I’ve ever had the displeasure to meet. For no reason except for the fact that I happen to be an American Korean Adoptee and not Danish — and as the co-founder of Paperslip happen to have done some of the most extensive and original research into KSS history and practice — these two DKRG “leaders” have ruthlessly and maliciously maligned me over the past three years, despite having first reached out to me to help them spread the word about TRC 2 to US Adoptees back in August 2022 (which at the time, I gladly did). I only realized after they blocked me out of the movement in December 2022 that they wanted sole credit in the media for anything to do with Korean Adoptee “Rights”. I learned the VERY hard way how much they dislike Americans — and the lengths to which they will go to exclude U.S. Adoptees from the TRC process.

DKRG is now, however, in the lead-up to TRC 3, going after U.S. Adoptees — because TRC 3 is specifically interested in the U.S. side of the adoption process, and thus, in U.S adoption documents, which largely deal with immigration. TRC 3’s interest in U.S. documents ironically relates to the fact that TRC 2 was dominated by Danish Adoptees — since DKRG deliberately kept U.S. Adoptees out of the submission process for TRC 2 until the last minute. DKRG is therefore in support of USKRG superficially — and the naive USKRG leadership probably believes that DKRG truly cares about U.S. Adoptees. I think that the reality of the situation will come out over the next four years of TRC 3.

If you are a U.S. Korean Adoptee with an interest in submitting your case through USKRG or DKRG (or any of the *KRG groups), and you have not had prior experience with DKRG, please take our WARNINGS about DKRG seriously.

U.S. Adoptees who are considering submitting their TRC 3 cases through USKRG should understand that their sensitive, private adoption documents will ultimately be in the permanent possession of DKRG. And any veneer of document “privacy” and “security” is a total joke. I myself submitted my sensitive, private adoption documents to DKRG back in September 2022, and by December 2022, DKRG had blocked and ghosted me for NO reason. I have never heard from them since, despite my repeated efforts to contact them. They still have my documents, and there is no way for me to retrieve them. DKRG’s Peter Moller also told me — as well as everyone else through international press — that he is a “lawyer”, but there is ZERO evidence that he is one. He is NOT listed on the Danish Bar website, which lists ALL lawyers in Denmark. He has a history of fraud related to music festival management in Denmark dating back to 2011, which is documented in the publication “Politiken”. This is a person who has silenced a lot of the Danish Adoptees with TRC 2 cases through FEAR. I would NOT, under any circumstances, recommend that anyone entrust him or his wife Boonyoung Han (a researcher for whom the collection of adoptees’ documents through the TRC 3 submission process is very valuable, and ultimately, profitable) with sensitive or private adoption documents.

I think that especially given these highly uncertain times in the U.S., that U.S. Korean Adoptees should be VERY careful about with whom they share their sensitive, private adoption documents. This caution extends not only to submitting adoption documents to USKRG, DKRG, or any of the *KRG groups, but also to the TRC 3 commission and investigation itself. There is NO guarantee of privacy in this process, and for U.S. Adoptees with sensitive adoption cases, NOW is NOT the greatest time to share your private adoption documents. Please THINK CAREFULLY about WHY sharing your sensitive, private adoption documents with STRANGERS with NO accountability might be problematic in these particular times in the U.S.

I know that the situation sucks. TRC 3 looks like a tantalizing opportunity for some to try to get answers in their adoption cases. But before you rush off to submit your adoption documents to USKRG, DKRG, or any of the *KRG groups, please consider the following ways in which DKRG behaved and treated Adoptees and non-Adoptees alike during TRC 2 (2022-2025):

-DKRG’s Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han have FAR too much influence over TRC investigators and commissioners, throughout the entire investigation. Despite the fact that DKRG is NOT supposed to have involvement in Adoptees’ cases or access to their documents past the point of submission, I experienced myself that this is NOT the case — DKRG has influence over the investigators, and has maligned Adoptees (like myself) whom DKRG does not like, in order to keep their cases out of the TRC investigation. It has also been noted that DKRG has access to some Adoptees’ files past the point of submission to TRC 2. This is NOT supposed to be the case. The three former TRC 2 investigators were over-reliant upon Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han since only one of the TRC investigators spoke English.

-DKRG maligned some of the strongest historical legal allies of Korean Adoptees — lawyers from law firms which have for decades supported the causes of Korean Adoptees. Since Peter Moller is NOT actually a lawyer (as he has lied about being for years in the press), he did not realize going into TRC 2 that class action lawsuits just kind of aren’t a thing in Korea. The experienced lawyers which have supported Adoptees for decades have only expressed interest in pursuing individual civil cases for Adoptees at the end of TRC 2 — not class action lawsuits. What most Adoptees do not realize is that it was not DKRG which originally had the idea to submit Adoptees’ cases to TRC 2 — it was the Korean lawyers whom have supported the causes of Korean Adoptees for decades. But DKRG of course has always taken credit for the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption.

-DKRG’s Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han desire to be in the media CONSTANTLY, both in Korea, and internationally. If you are a U.S. Korean Adoptee, please consider that it is maybe NOT A GREAT TIME RIGHT NOW TO BE IN U.S. MEDIA.

-DKRG withheld information from U.S. Adoptees who were part of TRC 2. This is because they only really wish to support Danish and other European Adoptees, and have an inherent disdain for U.S. Adoptees. I am sure this is part of the reason why they pushed me (an American) out.

-DKRG’s Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han have blocked and ghosted countless TRC 2 participants from their private DKRG / TRC 2 related Facebook groups, from 2022-2025. Due to the fact that there is now the USKRG group — which had very little to do with TRC 2, and which is run by several naive Adoptees with no prior experience with DKRG during TRC 2 — this blocking and ghosting behavior will likely be masked, but Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han still run the USKRG group behind the scenes. Ridiculously, a Canadian USKRG “leader” has long ago blocked me from the USKRG group — because I was telling the truth about DKRG.

-Given that the TRC organizes the cases of participants into cohorts, and that EACH person in a cohort must be contactable prior to the TRC being able to move on the NEXT cohort, I suspect that DKRG’s intensive blocking and ghosting behavior likely significantly impeded the number of cases which TRC 2 ultimately investigated. I distinctly recall that DKRG was scrambling to try to contact Adoptees with TRC 2 cases in the lead up to the March 26th, 2025 TRC 2 Interim Report, in an effort to collect additional evidence. It probably did NOT help that DKRG had blocked and ghosted so many TRC 2 Adoptees from their Facebook groups! Since DKRG made sure that it was the ONLY mouthpiece for TRC 2 for Adoptees, some TRC 2 participants who were blocked by DKRG did not receive information or updates about TRC 2 for YEARS!

-DKRG’s Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han have by many accounts spent HOURS maliciously maligning not only myself, but many other Korean Adoptees in their private Zoom sessions with the remaining TRC 2 participants whom they did NOT block and ghost from their private Facebook groups. This has reportedly made some participants deeply uncomfortable. I myself learned of a REALLY terrible and patently false rumor which DKRG spread about a good friend of mine, who is an amazing Korean Adoptee. I was incredibly shocked to learn early on that DKRG’s “leaders” were so malicious and spiteful, with no just cause.

-DKRG pushed me (a U.S. Korean Adoptee) out of the movement, in order to attempt to take sole and false credit for my years of research and work related to KSS history and practice. They did this despite the fact that excluding me meant that far fewer KSS Adoptees were able to request and obtain their formerly secret Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary from KSS, prior to the July 2025 transfer of files to NCRC. Despite Paperslip being the only site by and for KSS Adoptees (since 2020), DKRG has never ONCE mentioned Paperslip in the press. For inexplicable reasons, DKRG has sought to destroy me and my credibility, despite (or because) of my years of free assistance for KSS Adoptees.

Immediately after I discovered DKRG’s attempted plagiarism on January 1st, 2023, DKRG blocked and ghosted several Danish Korean Adoptees who had active TRC 2 cases. These individuals were fully aware of my research into KSS K-Numbers and had publicly defended me when Peter Moller falsely attributed my original research to Bastiaan Flikweert — who is not even an Adoptee — on a forum from which DKRG had already blocked me on December 7th, 2022. As a result of being blocked and cut off from communication, these Adoptees with active TRC 2 cases were unable to access information about TRC 2 for YEARS! I know that at least one of them withdrew their TRC 2 case as a result.

Ironically, despite my exclusion from the TRC movement by DKRG, the fact that I have spent years helping KSS Adoptees request and obtain their formerly secret Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary significantly supported the TRC 2 effort, in that it provided some of the most concrete evidence of falsification in KSS Adoptee paperwork. Additionally, it is deeply ironic that now that TRC 3 has an interest in obtaining U.S. side documents, the *KRG groups are recklessly (and about 10 years belatedly) advising U.S. Adoptees to make FOIA requests. FOIA is a process I have been advising Adoptees to do for years, but now in current times in the US, FOIA is unfortunately not only a fairly useless process, but also potentially a dangerous one. Please be sure to read about our FOIA WARNINGS!

-DKRG’s Peter Moller and Boonyoung Han have treated various reporters and news organizations (such as TV 2 in Denmark, which made a documentary about Danish Korean Adoptees) horribly.

-DKRG published the private phone numbers of Danish TRC 2 participants in the early days of TRC 2, against the wishes of these Adoptees. One of these Danish Korean Adoptees withdrew their TRC 2 case as a result.

-While I do not know the circumstances of this particular Adoptee’s death, a Norwegian TRC 2 participant who had submitted her case through DKRG commit suicide in 2024. I am not blaming DKRG, but I do think that the TRC process attracts Korean Adoptees with difficult, sensitive cases. And I know that DKRG is NOT sensitive to nor trained with respect to the mental health needs of TRC participants.

TRC 3 participants must take care to take care of their mental health during the years long TRC process.

If, after reading the above, you still feel like it’s safe to submit your sensitive, private adoption documents to USKRG, DKRG, or any of the *KRG groups…well, I sincerely wish you luck. You are going to need it.

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Korean Adoptees With TRC 2 Cases Who Were Blocked From DKRG / TRC 2 Related Facebook Groups Respond About Their Experiences With DKRG During TRC 2 (2022-2025):

Shared with Paperslip on March 23rd, 2025 -

One of the many TRC Participants who was deliberately and maliciously blocked from DKRG / TRC related Facebook groups by DKRG leaders Peter Møller and Boonyoung Han during the 2022-2025 TRC Investigation wrote in response to DKRG’s announcement above (red highlighting ours):

“I received several reminders from TRC. Although it was past the deadline, I managed to complete and send the remaining information to them. But I am very discontent with the fact that I've been blocked from the DKRG groups, which makes it impossible for me to know what's going on. I don't understand why P&B (Peter Møller and Boonyoung Han) have the need to play rulers of the world and ban people from these groups, just because they dare to question their behaviour. And without us willing to contribute, where would those two be today? After all, we're on the same side regarding the adoptions and trying to find the truth about ourselves. It's appalling!”

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Shared with Paperslip on March 26th, 2025 -

”Early on, I chose to support the newly founded DKRG because I thought they had a purpose that I wanted to support.

However, I quickly learned that when adoptees came up with criticism or critical questions, DKRG became very aggressive in their rhetoric. In case of disagreements, adoptees were verbally slapped or were excluded. This pattern of exclusion got worse and worse, and many who had been a great help to DKRG in the beginning were excluded from their Facebook group. DKRG also set up a website where the phone numbers of adoptees who had not given their consent were listed.

DKRG has also pretended to have done a lot of research work, which is huge work that mainly other adoptees have done, including Adoptionspolitisk Forum, (other) researchers and Paperslip.

One of the founders of DKRG ( Peter Møller) has even pretended to be a lawyer, which I see as an opportunity to gain people's trust, which is of crucial importance in terms of getting people to send their documents to DKRG.”

From —
Something Rotten In Denmark: A Word of Caution About The Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG) For Other Korean Adoptees.

Rebecca Kimmel
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