The utter uselessness of the NCRC / KAS Family Search Bulletin Board + Why S. Korea’s President’s promise of “committment” is meaningless without significant changes to NCRC.
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The recent speech by S. Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung, promising commitment to Adoptees’ issues is pretty meaningless without significant actual improvements to NCRC.
NCRC’s longstanding issues remain completely unchanged, despite public relations efforts by Korean Government organizations, including recently hosting Korean Adoptee organization leaders in Korea.
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The NCRC / KAS Family Search Bulletin Board has two sections:
- One for Korean Adoptees who are Searching for Birth Family.
- One for Korean Birth Parents Searching for an Adoptee.
Both of these sections are relatively useless for a variety of reasons.
First, the NCRC / KAS internal search system is complete shite. You are restricted to searching by certain categories and cannot search for terms outside of those categories.
Second, you cannot search these pages using the Google search trick we have talked about for years. Doing so just dumps you into the main page and does not turn up individual links to individual posts.
Third, you must have a KAS login in order to search. The NCRC / KAS website has operated on an outdated system for YEARS and many Adoptees (and we imagine, birth parents) have a nearly impossible time creating a login for the site.
Once you are logged in successfully, you are stuck paging through hundreds of pages of posts, unless you happen to know specific information about a child (which was often falsified by the Korean Adoption Agencies).
Behold the carnage:
Searching for Birth Family
https://kadoption.or.kr/home/eng/peopleSearch/findFamily.do?menuPos=19
Searching for an Adoptee:
https://kadoption.or.kr/home/eng/peopleSearch/findAdoptee.do?menuPos=18