Above: A screenshot of my meeting in 2021 with Associated Press (AP) reporter Tong-hyung Kim where I discuss my KSS K-Number research. At least he credited me for my KSS K-Number work in the October 2024 AP article about my case.
My original KSS K-Number research has been documented multiple times by the press.
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Correcting parts of the very belated “admission” by DoKAD Bastiaan Flikweert that he had NO role in my KSS K-Number research, which I conducted between 2020-2021.
The YELLOW highlighted portion of his admission, that he “had nothing to do with the decoding of the encodement of the KSS K-Numbers” is self-explanatory.
However, the ORANGE highlighted portion bears more explanation, and clarification of this SLICK statement which carefully hides the false statement that Bastiaan was the first to find “the hard evidence of KSS’ matching process of adoptees in the early stages of their adoption timelines.”
Sorry, but Bastiaan was NOT the first to do this, either. I had already discovered that KSS was assigning children with encoded KSS K-Numbers at the ORPHANAGE level — at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan — by January 2021, over a YEAR BEFORE I unfortunately first told Bastiaan about my KSS K-Number research in February 2022.
There is actually NOTHING that Bastiaan did with respect to KSS K-Number decoding or “finding hard evidence of KSS’ matching process of adoptees in the early stages of their adoption timelines” which I had not already done.
He only found very limited and restricted evidence AFTER I had unfortunately already informed him of the KSS K-Number codes (which were already confirmed by then by KSS’ Director on film which was featured in a 2022 SBS documentary about my case).
Bastiaan and his mentor Dr. Philsik Shin clearly wanted to publish about my work without crediting me. But when I finally met Dr. Shin in Korea during IKAA in 2023, Dr. Shin finally — after way too long a conversation and after taking way too long to respond to my emails about this topic — agreed that they would NOT publish anything about KSS K-Numbers without crediting me / Paperslip.
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Bastiaan Flikweert’s long belated admission after over one year that he did NOT have anything to do with my work of decoding KSS K-Numbers (see Yellow highlighted section).
However, in the Orange highlighted section, Bastiaan slickly tries to get away with stating that he found “the hard evidence of KSS’ matching process of adoptees in the early stage of their adoption timelines”.
As my screenshots below clearly show, I already knew by January 2021 — over a year before I ever first informed Bastiaan in confidence of my KSS K-Number decoding and research — that KSS was assigning children with encoded KSS K-Numbers at the ORPHANAGE level (at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan).
This research was NEVER meant to be public, which is why Bastiaan believes that he was the first to make this discovery. I ONLY made my research PUBLIC because DKRG’s Peter Moller gave Bastiaan FALSE credit for my work on January 1st, 2023.
I therefore decided to make PUBLIC the KSS K-Number research which I had already done, which hundreds of KSS Adoptees had participated in, and had already shared in supposed confidence with Bastiaan on a password protected website. However, I have never previously shared screenshots of my post from January 14th, 2021, which clearly shows that I already knew by then that KSS was assigning encoded KSS K-Numbers to children at the ORPHANAGE level — at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan.
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Bastiaan’s affiliates, who continue to attempt to plagiarize my KSS K-Number research, would love to believe that he made the original discovery that KSS was assigning children in its system with encoded KSS K-Numbers within an illegal timeline.
However, I had already discovered PROOF that KSS was assigning children with encoded KSS K-Numbers at the ORPHANAGE LEVEL — at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan — by January 2021. The screenshots below from January 14th, 2021 illustrate that COMPLETELY.
Therefore, there was NOTHING ORIGINAL which either DoKAD Bastiaan Flikweert or his mentor Dr. Philsik Shin discovered with respect to KSS K-Numbers.
While Dr. Shin may have previously understood there to be a specific timeline in which children should have been in the pipeline for adoption — without my KSS K-Number decoding of ALL first digit KSS K-Number codes, and without my prior discovery in January 2021 that KSS was assigning children with encoded KSS K-Numbers at the ORPHANAGE level (at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan) — Dr. Shin’s knowledge about a certain timeline of adoption would have been completely MEANINGLESS.
And Bastiaan’s falsely attributed claim to decoding KSS K-Numbers is completely IRRELEVANT, since he already confessed on February 18th, 2024 that he had NO role in the decoding of KSS K-Numbers (see screenshot of his statement below). Unfortunately, it took him over a YEAR to finally be honest about the fact that I had decoded KSS K-Numbers.
I now understand that Bastiaan and Dr. Shin wanted to publish something in which they took credit for “their” supposed co-discovery that KSS was assigning encoded K-Numbers to children within an illegal adoption timeline. However, the ONLY piece of information which I did not have which Dr. Shin — not Bastiaan — had, was the exact timeline of a legal adoption. Bastiaan merely came in SECOND in a two person race — after I told him that I had already completed the race! Since there’s no prize for that, he long wanted to KEEP the false credit he was assigned by DKRG for my work. He never would have ‘fessed up had I not been able to finally call him out publicly.
Everything to do with decoding of KSS K-Numbers and discovering that KSS was encoding children at the ORPHANAGE level was MY work.
I wouldn’t have to KEEP reiterating this if Bastiaan and his affiliates would simply STOP attempting to plagiarize my copyrighted work.
Sorry, fellas, sometimes you just need to allow the WOMAN who ACTUALLY DID THE WORK to take proper credit for it.
Or is this a PROBLEM for you?
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My KSS K-Number research was NEVER meant to be PUBLIC. I only decided to make it public once Peter Moller of DKRG assigned his then affiliate Bastiaan Flikweert with FALSE credit for my work on January 1st, 2023. I had unfortunately confidentially informed Bastiaan of my KSS K-Number research after it was already concluded in February 2022. I never expected that I would have to fight for YEARS for credit for my OWN research.
Bastiaan is the NON-Adoptee son of two KSS Adoptees who both privately admit to watching me conduct my KSS K-Number research, yet still pressured me to allow their son to keep the false credit assigned to him.
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My post to the KSS Adoptee forum for which I am an Admin, on January 14th, 2021.
Here I list the KSS K-Number codes I had solved, and post lists of children from Nam Kwang which I had been able to obtain. Some of these Nam Kwang documents clearly show that children were being assigned encoded KSS K-Numbers at the ORPHANAGE level — at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan.
This is important because supposedly KSS would only assign a child with an encoded KSS K-Number around one month after their intake to KSS in Seoul. However, these documents, which I obtained in January 2021, clearly show that this was NOT the case, and that children were being pre-destined for specific Partner Western Adoption Agencies of KSS at the ORPHANAGE level — almost immediately upon INTAKE.
While I did not know a specific legal timeline of adoption, I did immediately understand that this was strange, and contravened my previous understanding of KSS’ adoption procedure.
I’m perfect happy to credit Dr. Shin with knowing a specific legal adoption timeline — but without my decoding of KSS K-Numbers, and without my ORIGINAL and FIRST discovery of these Nam Kwang documents listing KSS K-numbered children, nothing of what Bastiaan claims to have done with respect to KSS K-Numbers has ANY meaning whatsoever.
Getting to the moon SECOND — AFTER being told explicitly how to get there — doesn’t mean that you discovered the moon, fellas.
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Note the column of KSS K-Numbers on the right hand side of this list of children at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan.
The redactions are MINE, not Nam Kwang’s.
You can clearly see that the majority of the K-Numbers begin with “3”. I know from my KSS K-Number research that ALL Dutch KSS Adoptees have K-Numbers beginning with the number “3”, since this was KSS’ code for ALL of its Dutch Partner Adoption Agencies.
There’s one anomaly in the list — there’s a KW-1xxx K-Number, which is a Welcome House K-Number. I know that ALL KSS / Welcome House Adoptees have the first digit “1” in their K-Numbers. “W” additionally stands for Welcome House. I am a Welcome House Adoptee, and the first digit of my KSS K-Number is “1”.
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Correcting parts of the belated “admission” by Bastiaan Flikweert that he had NO role in my KSS K-Number research, which I conducted between 2020-2021.
By 2021, I had solved ALL first digit K-Number codes.
However, by January 2021 — YEARS BEFORE Bastiaan’s statement on February 18th, 2024 — I already not only had hard evidence of KSS’ K-Number codes, in the form of nearly 500 KSS Adoptee’s K-Number data which I had collected — but also had hard evidence that KSS was ENCODING children at the ORPHANAGE level, at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan (see screenshots above).
There is therefore NOTHING ORIGINAL that Bastiaan Flikweert or his mentor, Dr. Philsik Shin, discovered with respect to KSS K-Numbers.
They would both LOVE to say that they made an original discovery that KSS was illegally encoding children within a short time frame. However, I had already not only SOLVED ALL KSS first digit K-Number codes by 2021, but also noticed that KSS was encoding children at the Orphanage level (at least at Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan) — BEFORE children physically arrived at KSS. I already had observed that this was strange and unusual by January 2021.
While I did not come up with the exact illegal timeframe which Dr. Shin understood, there is NO WAY that this timeframe would have ANY meaning without my DECODING KSS K-Numbers and FINDING HARD PROOF that KSS was encoding children at the ORPHANAGE LEVEL.
This was my discovery, and NOT Bastiaan Flikweert’s. He only sought proof of KSS K-Number encoding AFTER I unfortunately informed him of my (already completed) research in February 2022, and shared with him the password protected website which had my KSS K-Number research on it at the time. What a HUGE mistake I made in sharing anything with him.
Bastiaan Seo Yin Flikweert
February 18, 2024 🌐
Since the attention my post last week has gained, I feel that I am forced to come forward with a statement to make once and for all the facts and the truth clear. Though I never pursued to be involved in a public dispute within the Korean adoptee community, I come now to the point that I need to clarify certain statements from others made public about me.
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In the first place, I would like to make clear and emphasize that I had nothing to do with the decoding of the encodement of the KSS K-numbers. 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. I have never made any statements that I earn any credits for this.
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In the case of the DKRG-statement Rebecca is referring to, Peter Moller appraised me for my research on finding the hard evidence of KSS's matching process of adoptees in the early stage of their adoption timelines, in which the K-numbers play a critical role. Peter never informed me beforehand and used the wrong terminology to state this.
Behind the curtains, right after this statement, I had contact with both Rebecca Kimmel and Peter Moller to make clear that these were not my stance and words. This was done in private to not publicly discredit members of the adoptee community and hope to resolve this misunderstanding outside the limelight.
I do regret now that I did not go public back then to explain this in-depth to the wider public within the adoptee community.