Paperslip Concludes A 15 Month Campaign To Warn KSS Adoptees About The Transfer of ALL Korean Adoption Agency Files To NCRC.

Posted on June 29th, 2025.

We dedicated over 15 months — from March 11th, 2024 - June 15th, 2025 — to trying to spread the word to KSS 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 begins July 19th, 2025.

See The Timeline:

Major Paperslip Updates Reflecting Birth Family Search Changes + Timeline Of Policy Changes

We have been the ONLY organization (whether run by Korean Adoptees or otherwise) to consistently warn Korean Adoptees in general about the file transfer to NCRC for over ONE YEAR (from March 11th, 2025 — June 15th, 2025). No other Korean Adoptee organization (or otherwise) took responsibility for consistently warning Korean Adoptees that they should request a birth family search and their Korean facing documents prior to the file transfer to NCRC.

Please see our archival medley of the graphics we created as part of our 15 month campaign to warn KSS Adoptees (and ALL Korean Adoptees) about the transfer of ALL Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC, beginning July 19th, 2025.

We are sorry if you were not ready to hear our message, or simply missed hearing it.

To connect with the KSS Adoptee community, please join the private Facebook group for KSS Adoptees ONLY:

KSS Cribmates

This is the best way to keep up with the rapid changes in the world of birth family search — and the best way to stay connected to the KSS Adoptee community.

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Please Note:

ALL future birth family search requests (by KSS Adoptees and ALL Korean Adoptees) must be submitted to NCRC via the KAS website.

For the most relevant pages related to the future of birth family search AFTER July 19th, 2025, please see the DROPDOWN MENU on Paperslip’s homepage titled:

”AFTER July 19th, 2025, ALL Birth Family Search Requests Must Be Processed Through NCRC/KAS”:

Please See:

IMPORTANT Info For KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptees With Interest In Search After July 19th, 2025

KSS Adoptees with questions can reach out to us at: paperslipadoptee@gmail.com

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Below is an archival medley of the graphics we created as part of our campaign from March 11th, 2024 — June 15th, 2025 to warn KSS Adoptees (and ALL Korean Adoptees) about the transfer of ALL Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC, beginning July 19th, 2025.

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Please be advised that Paperslip.org is the FIRST and ONLY site / organization by and for the International KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptee community.

Please be advised that an organization led by non-KSS Adoptees and others sprang up at the last minute and began to post to social media on June 12th, 2025 that Adoptees should request their Korean Adoption Agency file by June 15th, 2025. Effectively this group gave Adoptees less than 72 hours’ notice to request their documents — without providing any specific instructions about how to do so. By comparison, we at Paperslip had been warning KSS Adoptees for over one year — since March 11th, 2025 — that KSS Adoptees should request both a birth family search and their formerly secret “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” directly from KSS, PRIOR to the July 19th, 2025 file transfer to NCRC. We have been relentlessly helping KSS Adoptees with the specific birth family search process — which (to our knowledge) has resulted in over 40 reunions of KSS Adoptees since we first began advising people in 2021.

Furthermore, the new group did NOT provide any specific birth family search application instructions per Korean Adoption Agency - nor did they reference Paperslip.org, the only organization of any kind to have consistently warned KSS Adoptees and ALL Korean Adoptees about the file transfer to NCRC for OVER ONE YEAR.

The new group also confusingly seemed in their social media posts to advise Korean Adoptees to make requests through both their Korean Adoption Agencies and through NCRC — which Adoptees have never been allowed to do at the same time. The traditional path has always been to start with the Korean Adoption Agency — then make a request through NCRC once the path through the Korean Adoption Agency had been exhausted. Of course, after the July 19th, 2025 transfer of ALL Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC, the only option will be to make birth family search requests through NCRC via the KAS website.

Members of the new group made a short presentation at the Omma Poom Opening Ceremony in Paju. S. Korea on June 14th, 2025 KST — less than 24 hours before the deadline for Korean Adoptees to submit birth family search requests to KSS — and spread the false advice that ALL Korean Adoptees should make a birth family search request through NCRC before the June 15th, 2025 deadline. What the group failed to acknowledge is that each Korean Adoption Agency has its own birth family search protocols. KSS was STILL accepting birth family search requests as of June 16th, 2025. We know because a KSS Adoptee whom we helped fill out KSS forms that day recently experienced a reunion in Korea, based on the KSS request we helped them to submit to KSS on June 16th, 2025. (KSS may have accepted the request on this date because time-zone wise, Korea is ahead of the US and Europe by around one day).

The new group vaguely advised Adoptees starting on June 12th, 2025 to request their “Korean file” from their Korean Adoption Agencies — but KSS, as one of the four major Korean Adoption Agencies, would NOT have honored a random request for a “Korean file”. From 2021-2025, KSS only provided the formerly secret “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” to KSS Adoptees based on a specific request naming the document EXACTLY by this title (which we figured out in 2021), with that request having to be made on a SPECIFIC FORM — a process which we at Paperslip.org figured out and tirelessly spread the word about to KSS Adoptees, for 4 years. We are sorry for any KSS Adoptees who were mis-advised by this new group regarding making birth family search requests through KSS or NCRC. We were NEVER consulted by this group, despite their being well aware of our years long advocacy for KSS Adoptees.

The failure of this group to consult us before advising Adoptees is unfortunately hardly surprising given that one non-Adoptee member of this group accepted false credit for our research into KSS K-Numbers for over one year, before we were able to call him out publicly.

Birth family search is capricious enough. We hope that KSS Adoptees consult Paperslip.org - an organization which has served the KSS Adoptee community for FREE since 2020. Since we are actually KSS Adoptees, we actually know something about KSS birth family search.

KSS Adoptees should join the private Facebook group KSS Cribmates to connect with the KSS Adoptee community, and to keep up with the latest ACCURATE developments regarding KSS birth family search. Please be sure to answer the membership questions when requesting to join. KSS Adoptees who have any questions should contact us at paperslipadoptee@gmail.com

Thank you!