Mapping KSS’ System.
Mapping KSS’ System.
When people refer to “KSS”, they may often be referring to different things.
Below we try to clarify the MANY aspects and physical locations (former and current) of locations related to KSS, its network of “Feeder Orphanages” and Maternity Clinics and Hospitals (many of which are unknown), and NCRC and the Seongam Branch of the National Archives.
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KSS (Korea Social Service) in Seoul.
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KSS (Korea Social Service) in Seoul.
Korea Social Service, Inc. 한국사회봉사회
People often associate the following terms with KSS in Seoul:
KSS (Korea Social Service)
K.S.S. Receiving Home
KSS campus
Please note that KSS tore down its former campus in 2016.
From 2016-2025, KSS operated “Post Adoption Services” from a small white building on the border of KSS’ former campus. We do not know how much longer this building will continue to exist. This is the location indicated here on Google Maps.
Google Maps Location of KSS’ Former Post Adoption Services Building (2016-2025).
For information about KSS’ former main campus in Seoul, please see:
The KSS Receiving Home in Seoul -The Old KSS Campus.
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Please note that all former KSS files are (for now) located at NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
For the current NCRC Petition for Adoption Information Disclosure process, please see:
ALL Adoptees Start Here! General Birth Family Search Steps Through NCRC — Overview
How To Book An Appointment At NCRC’s Two Locations in Korea
Address and Contact Info For Important Locations Related To Birth Family Search Through NCRC
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KSS’ former files are likely to move from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do to the Seongam Branch of the National Archives at some point in 2026.
For the location of the Seongam Branch of the National Archives, please see:
Address and Contact Info For Important Locations Related To Birth Family Search Through NCRC
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KSS’ “Feeder Orphanages” in and outside of Seoul
KSS relied upon a large network of “Feeder Orphanages” in and outside of Seoul.
KSS children could have come from ANYWHERE in Korea. However, there were some main hubs for children, and specific “Feeder Orphanages” were known suppliers of children for KSS.
Please click here for information on KSS’ “Feeder Orphanages”, such as:
Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan
Star of the Sea Orphanage in Incheon
Choon Hyun Babies Home in Gwangju
Church Social Service Choong Nam in Hong Song
YangJu Orphanage in Dongducheon
and others.
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Maternity Clinics and Hospitals.
KSS relied upon a large network of Birth Clinics / Maternity Clinics and Hospitals for children.
Depending on your case and when you were born, your birth clinic / maternity clinic or hospital may no longer exist. This is true for many KSS Adoptees who were born in the 1980s and prior. However, this can be on a case by case basis.
For those born in the 1990s and later, your birth clinic / maternity clinic or hospital MAY still exist.
It usually takes a lot of sleuthing with a Korean translator to find these places.
Below is a list of the ones we already know of: