The KSS File Room at KSS’ Post Adoption Services Building, 2016-2025.
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In 2019, I took this photo of KSS’s file room, located within its Post Adoption Services building, just across the hall from the rooms where KSS social workers met with Adoptees for file reviews. Most Adoptees were likely unaware that the file room was even in this building, as KSS kept the door firmly closed during visits.
KSS stored all Adoptees’ files in this room, likely from 2016 — after the demolition of its former campus — until 2025, when it ceased Post Adoption Services. On July 19th, 2025, all former Korean Adoption Agency files, including those of KSS, were transferred to NCRC.
Note: I am truly sorry to have to watermark these images. I wouldn’t have to do that if people didn’t have a tendency to steal Paperslip’s work.
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Below:
Approximate layout of KSS’ former Post Adoption Services (PAS) Building (Building 1 in the diorama of KSS’ old campus below, see the color photo at bottom right).
The PAS building was where KSS Adoptees’ files were housed from 2016-2025.
Please note that the diagram below of the PAS building layout is just based on memory and is not 100% accurate and is not to scale.
While the PAS building still exists (as of June 27th, 2026), KSS no longer processes Post Adoption Services after July 19th, 2025. On that date, all former KSS files were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
KSS Adoptees who wish to request a birth family search and / or their KSS adoption files must now submit a Petition for Adoption Information Disclosure to NCRC via the KAS website.
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Note: There were 1-2 File Review rooms off of the left side of the hallway.
Note that the “Waiting Area” of the KSS Post Adoption Services building (Building 1 in the diorama of KSS’ old campus above) faces the FRONT of the PAS building, whereas the diorama shows the former KSS campus (which was torn down in 2016) which was previously located in BACK of the PAS building.
Please note that this building may have been remodeled over time. We do not know what this building was used for prior to 2016, but from Google Maps’ Time Machine feature, it appears like it may have been a garden shed or storage building of some type. Compare views of this building from 2009 and 2018:
Google Maps View of Building 1 from 2009 (This was before 2016 when KSS began to use this building as its Post Adoption Services building).
Google Maps View of Building 1 from 2018 (This was after 2016 when KSS began to use this building as its Post Adoption Services building).
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Above: An unfortunately blurry shot of the interior of the former KSS Post Adoption Services (PAS) building, taken in 2016 by the KSS Adoptee who provided us with this photo.
Note that 2016 was the first year that this building (which may have been a former storage shed or garden shed) was used by KSS as its Post Adoption Services (PAS) building, after KSS tore down its adjacent former campus in 2016.
The KSS Adoptees’ files which you see sitting in the hallway were not normally stored this way. According to the KSS Adoptee who shared this photo with us, a KSS social worker said that the files were out in the hallway due to a major Korean Adoptee conference being in town (meaning many KSS Adoptees may visit KSS during this time to view their files).
Please see the images elsewhere on this page to see what the KSS file room - which was down the hall on the right — looked like.
On July 19th, 2025, ALL former KSS paper files were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
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Please see below for larger images of the following rooms within the former KSS Post Adoption Services building:
-KSS Office
-KSS File Room
Please see the link below for information on the former KSS Campus in Seoul:
The KSS Receiving Home in Seoul -The Old KSS Campus.
This page has a better image of the KSS diorama of its old campus.
KSS Adoptees’ files were originally stored in the office of the K.S.S. Receiving Home (Building 2 in the KSS diorama above).
KSS tore down the majority of its main campus in Seoul in 2016, and presumably at that point moved its files to what may have been a converted garden shed — what became at that point the Post Adoption Services building (Building 1 in the KSS diorama above).
Presumably from 2016 - July 19th, 2025, ALL KSS Adoptees’ files were stored at its Post Adoption Services building (Building 1 in the KSS diorama above).
While the PAS building still exists (as of June 27th, 2026), KSS no longer processes Post Adoption Services after July 19th, 2025. On that date, all former KSS files were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
KSS Adoptees who wish to request a birth family search and / or their KSS adoption files must now submit a Petition for Adoption Information Disclosure to NCRC via the KAS website.
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An AI recreation of KSS’ former Post Adoption Services (PAS) building interior. This AI recreation is based on a blurry photo provided to us by a KSS Adoptee.
I recall that the door/s to the file review room/s on the left were sliding pocket doors.
On the left side of the hallway was the KSS Main Office, where around 3 KSS social workers had desks with computers.
Down the hall on the left were 1-2 file review rooms, where KSS social workers would meet with KSS Adoptees to review their files.
At the end of the hallway was a small kitchenette.
On the right side of the hallway, across from the file review room/s, was the KSS File Room. This is where ALL KSS Adoptees’ files were stored between 2016-July 19th, 2025. On July 19th, 2025, all former KSS paper files were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
On the right side of the halllway (not pictured) was a bathroom with multiple stalls.
Not pictured is the Waiting Area in the front of the building, where the diorama of KSS’ former campus in Seoul stood on a white cabinet.
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Above: The old KSS campus in Seoul was torn down in 2016, and KSS sold the land for apartment development.
KSS appears to have converted a garden shed or storage building (Building 1 in the diorama of KSS’ old campus in Seoul above) into its Post Adoption Services building in 2016. KSS operated Post Adoption Services out of Building 1 from 2016-July 19th, 2025. On July 19th, 2025, ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files — including those of KSS — were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
To provide some orientation, the KSS Post Adoption Services building is / was located at the BACK of KSS’ old campus in Seoul. The FRONT of the Post Adoption Services building faces / faced away from KSS’ main campus, toward a street. The BACK of the Post Adoption Services faces / faced toward the Building 2 and Building 8 in the diorama of KSS’ old campus above.
As of this writing on June 28th, 2026, the KSS Post Adoption Services building still exists. However, NO KSS paper files are currently stored here that we know of. While there may be KSS workers who still work here (we are unsure), KSS’ Post Adoption Services building is PERMANENTLY CLOSED to visitors.
KSS Adoptees who wish to obtain their former KSS adoption file and request a birth family search must submit a Petition for Adoption Information Disclosure to NCRC via the KAS website.
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KSS processed overseas adoptions from 1964-2012. I do not know the exact year that KSS built its main campus in Seoul, pictured below in the diorama they had at their former Post Adoption Services building in Seoul (Building 1, upper left in the image below). However the KSS campus for sure existed at least by the 1970s.
From sometime in the 1960s or early 1970s through 2016 when KSS tore its old campus down, KSS files were stored in the KSS Receiving Home (Building 2, upper left in the image below).
Presumably from 2016 — July 19th, 2025, KSS stored all KSS Adoptees’ files at their former Post Adoption Services building in Seoul (Building 1, upper left in the image below).
All former KSS files which were transferred to NCRC on July 19th, 2025 are now at NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do. All former Korean Adoption Agency files, including those of KSS, will likely move AGAIN sometime in 2026 — this time from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do to the Seongam Branch of the National Archives.
To submit a Petition for Adoption Information Disclosure to NCRC, please see:
ALL ADOPTEES START HERE!
FAQ + SITE NAVIGATION.
and:
ALL Korean Adoptees Start Here!
General Birth Family Search Steps Through NCRC — Overview.
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Above — Top: KSS’ diorama of its old campus in Seoul. This is generally what people call “KSS”.
For more information about the old KSS campus in Seoul and the “K.S.S. Receiving Home”, please see:
The KSS Receiving Home in Seoul -The Old KSS Campus.
Above — Bottom Right: The KSS Receiving Home. This is where all KSS files were stored, presumably from the time when KSS’ main campus was built sometime in the 1960s or early 1970s, through 2016 when KSS tore its main campus down, including the KSS Receiving Home. I presume that at that point, all KSS files were moved to its Post Adoption Services building (Building 1 in the KSS diorama). On July 19th, 2025, all KSS files were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do. All former Korean Adoption Agency files, including those of KSS, will likely move AGAIN sometime in 2026 — this time from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do to the Seongam Branch of the National Archives.
Please note that NOT all KSS files were preserved during the file transfer. NCRC did not transfer the digital microfiche files which KSS had on its computers, nor KSS’ computers. I do not know if KSS transferred its death books, which I saw in person in 2019 at KSS’ Post Adoption Services building in Seoul.
Please Note — Because I was ruthlessly pushed out of the TRC 2 movement by DKRG, I was NOT able to discuss with TRC 2 investigators about KSS’ death books, which I saw in person at KSS in 2019. These books contained photos of children who died at KSS, and their death dates. “Thanks” to DKRG, these death books may be lost to history. I have asked NCRC in person in March 2026 if KSS transferred these death books to NCRC, but NCRC currently says they are in the process of cataloguing everything, and do not know. DKRG was not aware of these “death books”, and I was unable to inform them after they, for no reason, ceased all communication with me on December 7th, 2022. So KSS Adoptees have DKRG to “thank” for the loss of this crucial part of KSS Adoptees’ history.
Please see:
What KSS Adoptees lost due to the file transfer to NCRC. And also, what they could gain.
Will NCRC Preserve KSS’ Death Books, Digital Microfiche Files, and Computers?
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In 2019, I took this photo of KSS’s file room, located within its Post Adoption Services building, just across the hall from the rooms where KSS social workers met with Adoptees for file reviews. Most Adoptees were likely unaware that the file room was even in this building, as KSS kept the door firmly closed during visits.
KSS stored all Adoptees’ files in this room, likely from 2016 — after the demolition of its former campus — until 2025, when it ceased Post Adoption Services. On July 19th, 2025, all former Korean Adoption Agency files, including those of KSS, were transferred to NCRC.
Note: I am truly sorry to have to watermark these images. I wouldn’t have to do that if people didn’t have a tendency to steal Paperslip’s work.
On April 12th, 2026, I attempted to generate an AI representation of KSS’ former file room. Please note that per the actual photo of KSS’ file room above, the filing cabinets were FIVE drawers high, not four. Also, the cabinets attached to the walls above the filing cabinets may have been light colored instead of dark brown. There were more rows of filing cabinets in the center of the room than the image above shows. But this gives a general feel for the very small file room at KSS. It had a very claustrophobic feeling. I was allowed into KSS’ filing room in 2019 and 2021.
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(Date unknown). Photo of KSS files out in the hallway of its former Post Adoption Services building. Apparently the files were in the hallway, outside of their usual filing cabinets, in advance of a major Korean Adoptee conference in Seoul. ALL KSS files were transferred to NCRC starting July 19th, 2025.
*Please note that the “76-” numbers you see on the folders refers to the year that the KSS Adoptee LEFT KOREA — NOT the year the Adoptee was born (though these years in some cases may have been the same). So 76 = 1976 — the year that these Adoptees LEFT KOREA for adoption to the US, Netherlands, Denmark, or Switzerland (the only countries to which KSS adopted, between 1964-2012).
Note: I am truly sorry to have to watermark these images. I wouldn’t have to do that if people didn’t have a tendency to steal Paperslip’s work.
On June 25th, 2026, I attempted to generate an AI representation of KSS’ former office at its Post Adoption Services building (in operation 2016-2025).
Please note this just gives a general idea of KSS’ former office at its Post Adoption Services building and is not an exact depiction, given that I do not possess photos of this room.
KSS social workers have sometimes been referred to as “ice queens” given their often frosty reception to any type of visitors.
KSS’ office was wider than is shown above, and had several desks with older style computers and file folders on the desks. All KSS Adoptees’ files were stored across the hall in the file room, which most KSS Adoptees did not know was there. Directly across from the file room was the file review room, in which KSS social workers met with KSS Adoptees. The file review room was on the same side of the former Post Adoption Services building of KSS in Seoul.
On June 27th, 2026, I attempted to generate another AI representation of KSS’ former office at its Post Adoption Services building (in operation 2016-2025).
Please note this just gives a general idea of KSS’ former office at its Post Adoption Services building and is not an exact depiction, given that I do not possess photos of this room.
KSS’ office was wider than is shown above, and had several desks with older style computers and file folders on the desks. All KSS Adoptees’ files were stored across the hall in the file room, which most KSS Adoptees did not know was there. Directly across from the file room was the file review room, in which KSS social workers met with KSS Adoptees. The file review room was on the same side of the former Post Adoption Services building of KSS in Seoul.