Paperslip's recommendation to a female KSS Adoptee in May 2026 resulted in a DNA match with her Omma through 325Kamra just two months later, in July 2026 — ending her Omma's 10-year wait for a match.

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This past May 2026, a KSS Adoptee and I connected through a group I admin, which the Adoptee had found through Googling one of KSS' "Feeder Orphanages", and I reached out to her since she was in Korea. I wanted to let her know to try to take the Korean Police KNPA test before she left town. I ended up calling her through Facebook messenger that day, and we had a long conversation, during which I mentioned that she should take ALL possible DNA tests.

She ended up taking 23 and Me and transferring the raw data to GEDMatch. A few days ago, this resulted in her matching with her Omma, who had visited Seoul 10 years ago - in 2016 - to take the FTDNA test through the Korean Adoptee organization 325Kamra.

325Kamra has distributed free FTDNA kits to Korean birth parents and Korean Adoptees for years. For Korean birth parents (not for Adoptees) 325Kamra usually transfers the raw data of FTDNA to GEDMatch.

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If you are an Adoptee interested in finding family through DNA testing, you should take ALL possible DNA tests - 23 and Me, Ancestry, FTDNA and MyHeritage - or take one of these tests and upload your raw data to GEDMatch.

You can also transfer raw data from Ancestry to FTDNA and MyHeritage.

If transferring raw data is too confusing, just buy ALL possible DNA tests. You will have to upload raw data to GEDMatch however - there is no test to purchase for that platform.

Adoptees should also take the Korean Police KNPA test either at a Korean police station in Korea, or at a Korean Consulate / Embassy in your home country.

Please see:

DNA Testing

It's important to understand that the various commercial DNA tests all have SILOED / SEPARATED DATABASES. Therefore, even though the Korean birth mom had taken FTDNA, and her daughter, the KSS Adoptee had taken 23 and Me, without BOTH of them having transferred raw data to GEDMatch, they would NOT have matched one another through DNA testing.

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Fortunately, for the Korean birth mom, 325Kamra handled the transfer of raw data from the FTDNA test they had given her to GEDMatch.

And fortunately, the Adoptee, after taking 23 and Me, transferred her raw data to GEDMatch.

Omma and daughter ended up matching on GEDMatch a few days ago.

We hope that there is a reunion at some point in time.

You can see the original 325Kamra announcement here on Facebook.

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How this DNA Match happened:

The KSS Adoptee only took 23 and Me. But she uploaded the raw data to GEDMatch.

The Korean birth mom only took FTDNA. But 325Kamra (the Korean Adoptee organization which had DNA tested the birth mom) uploaded her raw data to GEDMatch.

So the MATCH between the Korean birth mom and the KSS Adoptee (her daughter) happened on GEDMatch.

The tricky thing about GEDMatch is that BOTH parties have to upload their raw data to GEDMatch in order to match.

The other route for an Adoptee is to simply take ALL possible DNA tests:
23 and Me, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FTDNA.

*It is important for Korean Adoptees to take FTDNA in particular, since this is the test which 325Kamra has used for years to test Korean birth parents in Korea.

*Plus the Korean Police KNPA DNA test.

This covers all your bases.

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Why Paperslip has been involved with so many DNA testing success stories.

Over the years, many Adoptees, both KSS and non-KSS Adoptees alike, have found close relative matches due in part to recommendations about DNA testing on Paperslip.

I think a big part of the reason why Adoptees I refer to DNA testing often find relative matches is because I don't share just the fragmented bits of information that I very commonly see Adoptees share with one another online. Some examples of partial advice I often see online:

"Take a DNA"
(Ummm, did you mean, take a DNA test? Which one/s?)

"Take the 325KARMA test"
(Erm, that's 325Kamra, and they are a KAD organization that distributes the DNA test called FTDNA — Family Tree DNA).

"Take FTDNA"
(What about the other tests?)

"Take the police test"
(Erm, where? How?)

Etc.

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If you refer people to DNA testing, please share this DNA link:

DNA Testing

The whole purpose of Paperslip is to aggregate and filter the FRAGMENTED, partial, and often erroneous information that floats around the internet.

Thank you!

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This case illustrates why we often say, “DNA is the only truth”.

According to the post by 325Kamra (linked above), the Omma was told that her daughter had been adopted to the Netherlands. We assume that KSS likely told her this, after she presumably returned to KSS to try to find her daughter. As it turns out, her daughter was NOT adopted to the Netherlands, but to a different country in which KSS had Partner Western Adoption Agencies.

In general, unfortunately there is no point in relaying to Adoptees the country a birth parent has been told that their child was adopted to in a birth family search post, because the Korean Adoption Agencies OFTEN LIED to birth parents about where their children had been sent. This was done so that the Korean birth parents had zero chance of finding their children.

Unless a birth parent took their child directly to a Korean Adoption Agency to relinquish them, the birth parent often doesn’t know the Korean Adoption Agency their child was adopted through (or if the child was adopted at all).

I know of several instances of KSS lying to birth parents about the adoptive country their child/ren were sent to.

In this case the birth mother believed her child was adopted through KSS to the Netherlands. But KSS adopted this child to a different country than that. KSS probably lied so that the birth mother had no chance to find the Adoptee.

If an Adoptee is KSS, they could have been adopted to the US, Netherlands, Denmark, or Switzerland between 1964-2012, through a specific list of Partner Western Adoption Agencies. Any of those countries are always possibilities for KSS Adoptees to have been adopted to.

DNA is unfortunately the only truth for a reason.

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This deception by KSS — and how DNA testing shattered it — perfectly illustrates what we recently wrote about in our blog post titled:
“The Wall”.

Above: Our AI illustration of DNA Testing shattering “The Wall” between Korean birth parents and Adoptees.

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