Plagiarism Attempts Against My KSS K-Number Research.
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I have moved all information related to past and ongoing plagiarism attempts against my KSS K-Number research to this page.
This page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
For my actual KSS K-Number research, please see:
KSS K-Numbers
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Note:
This page is relevant ONLY to KSS (Korea Social Service) Adoptees.
This page is NOT relevant to Adoptees who were adopted through:
Holt Korea; Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS) - previously Eastern Child Welfare Society (ECWS); or Korea Welfare Society (KWS) - previously Social Welfare Society (SWS).
Please Note:
KSS (Korea Social Service) was the SMALLEST of the 4 major Korean Adoption Agencies — the other 3 major Korean Adoption Agencies are listed above. KSS ONLY adopted to the US, Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland through a SPECIFIC list of Partner Western Adoption Agencies, between 1964-2012. You can see a full list of KSS’ Partner Western Adoption Agencies here:
List of All KSS Partner Western Adoption Agencies
If you were NOT adopted through KSS (Korea Social Service) and one of its Western Partner Adoption Agencies, then this page will NOT apply to you.
Also, please note that some KSS Adoptees were adopted through a PRIVATE adoption, where a prospective adoptive parent physically came to KSS in Korea to select a child for adoption. KSS Adoptees who had private adoptions often DO NOT have a K-Number.
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If you are NOT a KSS Adoptee, and you are trying to figure out what your Korean Adoption Agency was, please see:
How To Figure Out Your KOREAN Adoption Agency Name
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A Note Regarding Plagiarism:
Below is the official U.S. Copyright for my original KSS K-Number research.
Please see:
The entire website www.paperslip.org is COPYRIGHTED, as well as individual pages.
The research on this page wholly belongs to Paperslip.org and credit belongs wholly to me, Rebecca Kimmel, for my original research. Any instances of plagiarism which we discover will be called out publicly and may be legally pursued.
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UPDATE — November 10th, 2026:
Please see:
South Korea’s (Hidden) Adoption Reckoning:
My Filmed 2021 Seoul Meeting with the Associated Press (AP) About My KSS K-Number Research.
KSS Adoptees Around The World Contributed To This Adoptee-Led Research Project — Which Was Solely Conducted By Me, Rebecca Kimmel / Paperslip Co-Founder Since 2020.
On January 1, 2023, an egregious attempt was made to falsely claim credit for my original KSS K-Number research, which had been conducted over the course of several years.
This research was never intended for public release. It was carried out as part my investigation into the switch case of my deceased twin sister.
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UPDATE — November 6th, 2026:
When I met with the TRC 3, there was a gasp in the room as they realized that KSS’ DEATH BOOKS have likely been LOST due to my being pushed out of TRC 2 by DKRG and its DoKAD affiliate.
Why Decades Of KSS Death Records May Be Permanently Lost.
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NOTE: This Adoptee-led informal KSS K-Number research has been conducted from 2020-current with several hundred KSS Adoptees adopted through KSS in Korea to the US, Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland who are part of an online community of international KSS Adoptees. This research is well documented and known online amongst hundreds of KSS Adoptees around the world. It is only because of the generous sharing of information amongst KSS Adoptees that this informal research has been possible. Thank you to all KSS Adoptees who have participated!
No other non-Adoptee outside party has had any role in our original K-Number research.
Paperslip is NOT affiliated with DKRG (Danish Korean Rights Group) or any other so-called “Korean Rights Group”.
I had not wanted to make this information public previously, since it would confuse non-KSS Adoptees. However, since DKRG tried to take assign FALSE credit for my original research to a non-Adoptee DoKAD (the son of two KSS Adoptees), I felt it was time to come forward. There is much more information which I know about the K-Number system which I will only share with verified KSS Adoptees.
Please note that you are welcome to share this page with Adoptees - however, you may not simply copy / paste this information and claim it as your research.
Please contact us if you find any instances of plagiarism of Paperslip’s information, or misleading information about KSS K-Numbers.
I did not include EVERYTHING I know about KSS K-Numbers in this online summary.
I only ever made this research PUBLIC because I knew that DKRG had knowingly assigned FALSE credit for my KSS K-Number research to one of its supporters, Bastiaan Seo Vin Flikweert on January 1st, 2023. It took Bastiaan over one year to even admit privately that he had NO role in my research — which he finally did admit to, but only after being called out publicly online. I did not want DKRG to spread FALSE information about KSS’ K-Number system, and I did not want DKRG to continue to attribute FALSE credit to another party. Previously, I gladly would have worked TOGETHER with DKRG but I was abruptly, deliberately and without explanation blocked out of the DKRG movement in 2022, apparently due to DKRG’s desire to take credit for our original research and to be the only activists in the media. I asked that Bastiaan Seo Vin Flikweert inquire with DKRG as to the reason for being blocked and ghosted from TRC 2 related groups, which he patently refused to do.
Above: Statement made online by non-Adoptee / DoKAD (descendant of a Korean Adoptee) Bastiaan Seo Vin Flikweert, on February 18th, 2024. He had been assigned FALSE credit for my research into KSS K-Numbers on January 1st, 2023 by Peter Møller of DKRG. It took over one year for Bastiaan to admit publicly — or even privately — that he had nothing to do with my original research, which I had unfortunately discussed with him in confidence during a Zoom in February 2022, before DKRG was formed in April or May of 2022. Bastiaan’s admission took place only after an enormous effort on my part to create a purpose-built website and call Bastiaan out publicly for refusing to admit he had NO role in my research. DKRG has never acknowledged this egregious and deliberate false attribution of credit for my deeply personal research, and has never apologized. It was partly due to this treatment that I withdrew my TRC (Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Korea) case in March 2023 — despite my case being one of the first 34 accepted by the TRC. This deprived me of obtaining justice through the TRC for myself and for my deceased twin sister — whose case I was investigating by conducting this research into KSS K-Numbers, which was never meant to be made public.
Subsequent to the statement above, Bastiaan Flikweert unfortunately chose to write an additional problematic statement, which I have responded to below.
Please read the response to Bastiaan Flikweert’s subsequent problematic statement here.
Above: My email to the person who had referred Bastiaan Flikweert to me in the first place, sent January 3rd, 2023 — 2 days after FALSE credit was first assigned to Bastiaan Flikweert by Peter Moller for my original KSS K-Number research on January 1st, 2023 on a DKRG forum on which Peter Moller and Bastiaan Flikweert were both members, but from which I had been blocked by DKRG. Unfortunately I never received a response to this email, which caused me further emotional harm. It wasn’t until MONTHS later, in Summer 2023 when I was in Korea for IKAA, that I was able to meet with this person, and after a long conversation, finally get him to agree that if he or Bastiaan Flikweert ever discussed KSS K-Number encoding, that they would credit Paperslip. It took a painful amount of time, energy and effort to come to this agreement.
I wrote:
”Thanks once again for your help with the TRC!
I'm not sure how much we discussed my K-Number research when I was in Korea, but something which has come up is that Peter Moller has recently given Bastiaan Flikweert credit on a DKRG forum for de-coding the KSS K-Number first digit codes.
I messaged Bastiaan directly, who told me that there was "no evidence" that I had done the K-Number research. This is egregious considering that nearly the entire KSS Adoptee community online is well aware of my original K-Number research since 2020. There is extensive documentation of my research on the main KSS Adoptee forum, which I moderate.
I moderate two different KSS Adoptee forums, the first with 823 members, and the second with 192 members. The majority of the members of both forums are well aware of the original K-Number research which I have been conducting on the main forum since 2020. The K-Number research came about directly because of my twin's switch case, and I ended up collecting and analyzing the K-Numbers of nearly 500 KSS Adoptees, which is how I figured out that KSS' K-Numbers were encoded.
After I realized that I might have had a twin who died at KSS, I took one entire year to research the case - this was in 2020, before I came back to Korea in 2021 and found Mr. Park. A huge part of that year was researching KSS K-Numbers, with the help of another KSS Adoptee who can vouch for all of our research.
Associated Press reporter Tong-Hyung Kim is well aware of my K-Number research, as I discussed it with him as part of my twin's switch case, with our conversation recorded in Korea on film in 2021 (it has not been aired or published anywhere).
The KSS community and I have not wanted the fact that KSS K-Numbers were encoded public, but I decided to trust Bastiaan with this information after you introduced us early this year with good intentions. At the time, Bastiaan was not even aware of what KSS' Western Partner Adoption Agencies were. I shared with him the password to Paperslip, which was at that time a totally password protected site, only open to Adoptees. The K-Number research was a part of that site at the time. Bastiaan said that he would not share that the KSS K-Numbers were encoded, after I explained my research to him.
I'm really disappointed in Bastiaan and will be even more so if Peter goes public with the information about KSS K-Numbers and publicly credits Bastiaan through the press.
I would write to Peter directly, except for the fact that he has cut off all communication for no reason. Unfortunately, this has been his pattern with other Adoptees who have submitted their cases for the TRC.
I just wanted to let you know, because I am sure that DKRG will want to take credit for my original research. I would definitely come forward publicly if this becomes the case.
I'm sorry to bring this to your attention, but it disappoints me greatly that Bastiaan is not being honest and correcting Peter in crediting Bastiaan for decoding KSS' K-Numbers.
Every KSS Adoptee online knows that I did this original research since 2020. We have not made it public, since not every KSS Adoptee knows their K-Number, and currently KSS will share the K-Number with Adoptees if they request it.
I hope that you understand.”
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The brutal experience of having my KSS K-Number research falsely attributed to a non-Adoptee who took way too long to even privately admit he had not done the work led me to research WHY this had happened to me. Please see:
KSS K-Number Addendum:
Why Women Are Often Pushed Out of Historical Movements By Men
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Post-Script: April 9th, 2026.
“Sadly,” the bond forged through plagiarism didn’t last. It seems that DKRG and NLKRG—the groups whose (remaining) founders collaborated in an attempt to claim false credit for my KSS K-Number research — have split as of March 11th, 2026. Color me unsurprised.
In the meantime, having been pushed out of TRC 2 for three years by DKRG in the wake of their actions in cooperation with founding members of NLKRG, I have successfully submitted my case INDEPENDENTLY to TRC 3 as of March 27th, 2026.
I hope that this time, no supposed “Korean Rights” groups will stand in my way in my SECOND attempt to get justice for myself and my deceased twin sister through the TRC!