Please Help Support Paperslip’s Mission To Keep Korean Adoptees Informed Through Our GoFundMe.
View our GoFundMe page here: Empower Korean Adoptees with Paperslip
Please Help Support Paperslip’s Mission To Keep Korean Adoptees Informed Through Our GoFundMe!
Paperslip.org was founded in 2020, and since then we have provided FREE resources and advocacy for KSS (Korea Social Service) and ALL Korean Adoptees. Our original research and advocacy has resulted in 45 reunions of KSS Adoptees with their birth families from 2021-2025. We greatly appreciate any support which you are willing to provide through our GoFundMe:
Empower Korean Adoptees with Paperslip
From 2021 to 2025, we assisted hundreds of KSS Adoptees — at no cost — in requesting and obtaining a formerly secret document we identified in 2018 and named in 2021 as the KSS “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary.”
We dedicated over 15 months — from March 11th, 2024 - June 15th, 2025 — to spreading the word to KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptees to request both a birth family search and their formerly secret Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary from KSS prior to the July 19th, 2025 transfer of ALL Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC — which began on July 19th, 2025. We were the ONLY Korean Adoptee led organization to do so. NO other Korean Adoptee led organization, and NO Korean Adoption Agency or Korean government public institution such as NCRC provided timely, consistent WARNINGS to the Korean Adoptee community about the file transfer to NCRC. Paperslip was the ONLY organization to consistently and relentlessly do so!
Because we assisted hundreds of KSS Adoptees in requesting and obtaining the Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary from KSS — and because the Korean Adoption Agencies KSS and Holt were primary subjects of the Second Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC 2) — the Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary became key evidence and was cited extensively in TRC 2’s March 26th, 2025 Interim Report. Through our years of work since 2018 — even before Paperslip.org’s founding — we made it possible for TRC 2 to identify a major human rights violation, the definition of which we codified.
From 2020 or 2021-2025, we have advised U.S. Korean Adoptees to file FOIA requests to obtain their U.S. adoption records. Because the Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea (TRC 3) has expressed strong interest in U.S. adoption documents, the fact that we encouraged so many Korean Adoptees to submit FOIA requests — before such requests became largely ineffective in early 2025 — means our efforts will once again substantially support the Commission’s investigations, this time through TRC 3. (Please note that unfortunately we no longer encourage Korean Adoptees to file FOIA requests in the current environment — please read our WARNINGS on the FOIA link above).
We launched our GoFundMe in 2024 — after providing years of free support to Korean Adoptees. We continue to pour hundreds of hours into making information available for FREE on Paperslip. We additionally offer optional private Zoom consultations for those who wish to discuss their case with us on an individual basis. Please note that we do not discuss individual Adoptees’ TRC cases in this context, but that we do provide an orientation to the rapidly shifting landscape of birth family search as a whole. Please note that the amount of money we earn through private consultations is laughable in comparison to the amount of time we spend in creating FREE content for Paperslip. Your GoFundMe donations help us to continue that FREE work!
Through some of the most turbulent periods for Korean Adoptees in recent memory, we have remained a steady, reliable source of information and guidance. These years have brought significant upheaval to the community, including the transfer of all former Korean Adoption Agency files to the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), the upcoming transfer of all former Korean Adoption Agency files to the Seongam branch of the National Archives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Second and Third investigations, and intense national and international media scrutiny of Korean adoption practices.
Amid these changes, we have continued to support KSS and ALL Korean Adoptees — offering clarity, context, and consistent guidance through every stage of uncertainty.
Please note that we do not charge Korean Adoptees for anything related to the TRC investigations — all of the information we provide regarding TRC 2 and TRC 3 is FREE. We will also not be reviewing individual Adoptees’ TRC submissions — however, we are happy to provide FREE information about how to file a TRC 3 case INDEPENDENTLY. For information related to TRC 3 submissions, please see:
PAPERSLIP BLOG: INFO HUB FOR TRC 3 AND IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATES
We do offer paid individual Zoom consultation sessions, to provide Adoptees with an orientation about how to approach the rapidly changing landscape of birth family search. This is a vitally needed service, and one which we wish that more Adoptees would take advantage of, given that a single hour of information might save an Adoptee years of wasted time, and thousands of wasted dollars. However, we do NOT discuss individual Adoptees’ TRC cases in the context of these Zoom consultations. For more information, please see:
NEW! Advisory Sessions - For Both KSS and Non-KSS Adoptees
Thank you to those who have supported us over the years!