Currently underway in Korea: the reunion of a birth family with a KSS Adoptee who has received support from Paperslip since 2025.

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Currently underway in Korea: the reunion of a birth family with a KSS Adoptee, whose search forms I helped submit on the final day they could still be filed directly with KSS — one day after KSS’ official deadline to do so, prior to the transfer of records to NCRC on July 19th, 2025.

In response to this last minute birth family search request, this KSS Adoptee miraculously received some critical information about a birth relative. The KSS Adotpee’s family’s subsequent sleuthing led to an unsuccessful attempt to make contact with the birth family.

On July 3rd, 2026, I had a private Zoom consultation with the spouse of the KSS Adoptee around one week prior to their next trip to Korea, and set them up with some amazing resources that really came through to help make another reunion of a KSS Adoptee with their birth family possible. This family was extraordinarily lucky once again that I was able to assist them at the last minute.

(Please note — I really do not recommend waiting until the last minute to set up birth family search resources in Korea. This family was exceedingly lucky that things worked out).

This reunion was not made possible through DNA testing, but rather through my guidance in helping the KSS Adoptee’s family navigate KSS’ now-outdated birth family search procedures, the KSS Adoptee’s family’s dedicated sleuthing, combined with my suggestions for on-the-ground investigative work in Korea — which all turned out to be successful.

The reunion went well, and fingers are crossed that things continue to go well for this reunion of a KSS Adoptee with his birth family!