The KSS Post Adoption Services (PAS) building over the years.

As frustrating a place as KSS’ former Post Adoption Services building may have been to deal with for some KSS Adoptees, it is still saddening to see the building already in such a state of disrepair in June 2026 — less than a year after its PERMANENT CLOSURE on July 19th, 2025.

This place was also the site of countless KSS Adoptee initial reunion meetings with their birth parents.

And it’s the place where ALL KSS Adoptees’ files were stored from 2016 until their transfer to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do on July 19th, 2025.

Below are photos of KSS’ former Post Adoption Services building from Google Maps, which shows (interactive) views of this building from different years.

Following the destruction of KSS’ main campus in Seoul in 2016, this small, white, one story facility was in use as KSS’ Post Adoption Services building from 2016 to July 19th, 2025.

We do not know the prior use of the Post Adoption Services building before its 2016 conversion, but earlier Google Maps imagery suggests that it may have been used as some type of storage facility.

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KSS tore down its former campus in Seoul in 2016, and moved ALL KSS Adoptee’s files from the K.S.S. Receiving Home (the main building on KSS’ former campus) to a small one story white building it converted in 2016 for use as its Post Adoption Services building. Here, Adoptees would meet with a KSS social worker — frequently, Mrs. Choon Hee KIM, who by the 2000s was KSS’ longest serving social worker and then Director — to review their KSS adoption file. Around three KSS social workers worked full time out of an office in this building, 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. KSS’ former Post Adoption Services building is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED, and KSS no longer handles Post Adoption Services for Adoptees.

We predict that KSS will likely sell the former Post Adoption Services building and land for some commercial use at some point in the (probably near) future.

Unfortunately, once that happens, there will be NOTHING LEFT of KSS’ original campus in Seoul for KSS Adoptees to visit.

Please click here for address information of KSS’ former Post Adoption Services building in Seoul:

Contact Info for KSS - Korea Social Service - Korean Adoption Agency

Please note that KSS NO LONGER handles Post Adoption Services, and that ALL former KSS adoption files were transferred to NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do on July 19th, 2025.

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To request a copy of your former KSS Adoption file and / or a birth family search, you will need to file a Petition for Adoption Information Dislosure request through the KAS website. Please be sure to CAREFULLY READ the FAQ section about NCRC below:

ALL ADOPTEES START HERE!
FAQ + SITE NAVIGATION.

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Below: Google Maps view of the (then) future KSS Post Adoption Services building from October 2009.

KSS had not yet converted this facility for use as its Post Adoption Services building when this view was created in October 2009. Its prior use, before the 2016 renovation and conversion, is not known.

Click here for a Google Maps interactive view of this building in October 2009.

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Below: Google Maps view of the (then) future KSS Post Adoption Services building from January 2015.

KSS had not yet converted this facility for use as its Post Adoption Services building when this view was created in January 2015. Its prior use, before the 2016 renovation and conversion, is not known.

If you look closely in the screenshot and Google Maps interactive view below, behind the white building which KSS converted into its Post Adoption Services building in 2016, you can see one of KSS’ old brick buildings, which was at the back of KSS’ old campus. Presumably the old brick building is “Building 8” — “The Director’s Private House” — in the diorama of KSS’ old campus, which you can see here.

Presumably the brick wall in this photo was the former boundary wall of KSS’ old campus. You can see that in the following screenshot and Google Maps interactive view from 2018, this old brick building is gone, having been replaced by new apartment buildings.

Click here for a Google Maps interactive view of this building in January 2015.

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Below: Google Maps view of the KSS Post Adoption Services building from March 2018.

KSS had already converted this facility for use as its Post Adoption Services building when this view was created in March 2018. Its prior use, before the 2016 renovation and conversion, is not known.

Click here for a Google Maps interactive view of this building in March 2018.

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Below: Google Maps view of the KSS Post Adoption Services building from June 2026.

KSS had already PERMANENTLY CLOSED this facility for use as its Post Adoption Services building on July 19th, 2025 when this view was created in June 2026 (roughly one year after its closure).

Despite the amount of trauma that doubtlessly occurred here for many Adoptees, it is exceedingly sad to see that the last place which KSS Adoptees could visit — the last remaining building of KSS’ former campus in Seoul — has fallen so quickly into disrepair.

We predict that KSS will likely tear down this building at some point and sell the land for further commercial construction. If and when that happens, there will be NOTHING left of KSS’ former campus to visit.

KSS Adoptees can still visit the area and walk around.

Click here for a Google Maps static photo of this building in June 2026.

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KSS’ former Post Adoption Services building is / was located at the back edge of KSS’ old campus in Seoul. The former Post Adoption Services building is “Building 1” in the diorama of KSS’ old campus pictured in the link below.

Please see:

The KSS Receiving Home in Seoul -The Old KSS Campus.

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A Personal Postscript.

As much as I hated battling with KSS over the years to get my information, it's very sad to see their former Post Adoption Services building in such disrepair less than a year after the July 19th, 2025 transfer to NCRC.

I visited this place around 5-6 times between 2018 - 2023.
The first time I went in 2018, I knew nothing about Korean Adoption.

The second time I went in 2019, I took some help, and stumbled across what I thought was my real file, but which I would not realize until 2020 was the file of my likely deceased twin sister.

The third time I went in 2021, I took with me an Associated Press reporter and my good friend who filmed the whole meeting like a bada$$ f*cking rockstar. She was not tied to FRONTLINE / AP and she generously gifted me this footage, which I now own. This meeting — and my subsequent 4 years of talking to the AP reporter — would eventually lead to the creation of the FRONTLINE / AP "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" documentary, article series, and interactive. (However, I want to make the disclaimer that I never had any interest in Holt or the other Korean Adoption Agencies — my interest has always been mainly about KSS).

I skipped 2022 because I was too exhausted to visit KSS, but I did visit Korea in October of that year to film the SBS documentary about my case.

I returned from Korea on a high note to discover on December 7th, 2022 that I had been blocked from all TRC 2 related forums by a supposed Danish "Korean Rights" group, through whom I had already submitted my case, turned over my private adoption documents, and signed over Power of Attorney to the “leader” of that group who turned out not to be a lawyer.

The fourth and fifth times I went in 2023, I took with me the same AP reporter as before and a FRONTLINE Director, who would come to cut me out of the documentary and give me zero credit, despite 4 years of talking with the AP reporter about my case.

The last time I saw my KSS social worker in 2021, I left her with some meaningful words and a very thoughtful gift.

I did not know it at the time, but my deceased twin's file was here in this building in 2018 when I first visited KSS and was literally overwhelmed with the feeling of being in a time machine or vortex. It was a bizarre and powerful experience which I can't accurately convey.

At that time, I had no conscious knowledge of being a twin. But I can't help but think that my twin sister was reaching out to me from her file, which was then, unbeknownst to me, buried in KSS' filing cabinets across the hall from where I initially met with a KSS social worker during that first fateful meeting in 2018. My twin's file had been buried in KSS' filing cabinets since 1976, and I had never been near that file until 2018 — since I had never previously returned to KSS since I first left Korea in 1976.

I had been to Korea in 1986, but someone from KSS told us by phone not to visit KSS, and to go to Nam Kwang Orphanage in Busan instead. (I now realize that KSS’ then Director — who had been KSS’ Director in the year that I was there as a baby — likely knew about the complexities of my and my twin’s cases, and never wanted to face me or my adoptive parents in person). I found out in 2018 that I had never actually been at Nam Kwang as a baby. We had just been sent on a wild goose chase in 1986.

Consequently, I never saw KSS' old campus, before it was torn down in 2016. KSS' deception had deprived me of that opportunity.

I believe my twin tried to convey to me in 2018 the message that she was there, buried in KSS’ filing cabinets, but I didn't know at that time that she existed. She would have to wait another year for me to find what remained of her.

It's a miracle that I found her file in 2019. I thought for a year that the photo of her in her KSS file was me.

A year later, in 2020, a renowned Dysmorphologist's analysis led me to realize that the baby in the KSS photo who looked exactly like me was not me. With that realization came the awareness that I likely had a twin sister, who had probably passed away at KSS prior to her intended adoption. The birth of Paperslip soon followed.

It's been a battle ever since to get justice.

RIP, KSS Post Adoption Services.