Real Talk For U.S. Adoptees Considering Submitting Their Case For TRC 3 (Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission, S. Korea) In 2026.

Posted to Paperslip on January 16th, 2026.

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A Cautionary Tale For Unprecedented Times In The US.

The following information is for those U.S. Adoptees considering submitting their cases for the Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission, S. Korea (TRC 3), which may begin at or around the end of February, 2026.

As a US Korean Adoptee who submitted her case for the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption, which took place between 2022-2025, there are some important things which US Adoptees who are considering submitting their cases for TRC 3 should know about. While it is not my place to tell an Adoptee what they should and should not do regarding TRC 3, I do not feel that I am doing anyone any favors by withholding the important information which I know about — particularly during these extraordinarily sensitive times in the US.

There are some key considerations below which you should think about BEFORE you submit your private, sensitive adoption documents to any Korean Adoptee or Korean Adoptee led organization for TRC 3. Hopefully this allows you to make a more informed decision.

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CONSIDERATION 1:
PRIVACY and The Behavior of DKRG Leadership During TRC 2.

The Korean Adoptee led organization which is organizing cases for submission to TRC 3 is the Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG) which is led by Holt Danish Korean Adoptee Peter Regel Møller (for whom NO evidence exists that he is a lawyer, apart from what he has told multiple international news outlets for years) and his wife, KSS Danish Korean Adoptee Boonyoung Han. These two currently live in S. Korea and run KoRoot. While I acknowledge that DKRG has done important work as regards TRC, it should be known that during TRC 2, these DKRG leaders regularly blocked and ghosted Adoptees with active TRC 2 cases from their DKRG / TRC 2 related Facebook groups, which meant that many Adoptees with active TRC 2 cases were unable to get information about the TRC 2 process for years — since DKRG has positioned itself as the sole mouthpiece for the TRC 2 and 3 process.

Despite my case being one of the first 34 cases accepted by TRC 2, without explanation DKRG blocked and ghosted me on the very day that the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption began — on December 7th, 2022 — which led me to ultimately decide to withdraw my TRC 2 case in January 2023. It would be one thing if I were the only person to have experienced this behavior, but there were unfortunately many others who experienced the same thing. As part of the process of submitting my private, sensitive adoption documents to TRC 2, I had to sign over legal authority to Peter Regel Møller, who had told me in August 2022 when he first approached me to help with the TRC 2 effort that he was a lawyer. I later found out that no evidence exists on the Danish legal bar website which lists ALL Danish lawyers that he is a lawyer. There are additionally six articles in the Danish publication Politiken concerning past serious mismanagement of music festivals in Denmark by Peter Regel Møller which date back to 2011.

Because most of the Korean Adoptees who submitted their cases for TRC 2 were Danish, most US Adoptees are unaware of what happened during TRC 2.

However, now in 2026, TRC 3 is being organized by DKRG, through its network of partner *KRG groups, one of which is based in the US. The biggest target for the new TRC 3 effort is the US — since Korea sent the largest number of Korean Adoptees to the US by far, and since — partly due to the fact that DKRG blocked me from the movement — the US was underrepresented in TRC 2.

Many of the *KRG leaders are aware that Peter Møller is not a lawyer, and are aware of the regular blocking and ghosting behavior of Peter Møller and Boonyoung Han — yet do not inform others of this behavior. Currently there is a big effort by the *KRG groups to get Korean Adoptees from around the world to submit their private, sensitive adoption paperwork to the *KRG groups for TRC 3.

US Adoptees should be aware that if you submit your private, sensitive adoption paperwork to any the *KRG groups, your adoption paperwork is almost certainly going to end up in the hands of Peter Regel Møller and Boonyoung Han. You should be aware that Boonyoung Han is a researcher, and as such, collection of Korean Adoptees’ adoption paperwork is extremely valuable to her. I submitted my own private adoption documents to Boonyoung Han for her research study in 2022, and referred many other Adoptees to her for her study — and it was only months later that she and her husband Peter Regel Møller blocked and ghosted me. Once you submit your adoption documents to the *KRG groups, there is not going to be any way for you to get them back.

US Adoptees in this sensitive time in the US should be EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS about sharing your private adoption paperwork with unknown strangers.

Please see:

Korean Adoptees: Please Be Careful With How You Share Your Adoption Documents

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CONSIDERATION 2:
367 Adoptee’s Cases Were Submitted To The TRC 2 Investigation into Overseas Adoption — But Only 56 Adoptees Received Judgments, Leaving 311 Adoptee Cases Suspended.

It Took TRC 2 THREE YEARS To Render Judgments In Just 56 Cases. These Cases Were The Ones With The Most Evidence. Most Adoptees Unfortunately Do Not Have That Much Evidence Of Human Rights Violations.

The *KRG groups are making it seem as though EVERY Korean Adoptee on the planet should submit their case to TRC 3. The harsh reality is that, TRC 3 will likely only be able to investigate a small number of cases over its limited 3-5 year term, and those Adoptees who will receive judgments are likely to be only those with significant evidence of wrongdoing in their adoption cases. The burden of obtaining this evidence is largely on the Adoptee, though the TRC 3 will also have tools to investigate.

The brutal truth is that there are likely to be MANY Korean Adoptees with very little evidence in their cases who will submit their cases to TRC 3. It’s my guess that the 311 suspended cases from TRC 2 probably lacked significant evidence — or the TRC 2 simply ran out of time during the 3 year term of the investigation into overseas adoption.

In other words, there were 311 Adoptees who waited for 3 years for NOTHING. It is assumed that these 311 will have to REAPPLY to TRC 3 — in other words, their cases may not automatically be accepted by TRC 3. I am positive that my case was one of the first 34 cases accepted by TRC 2 because I have a metric ton of paper evidence. Unfortunately, this is not the case for the vast majority of Adoptees.

The bottom line is that it is likely that TRC 3 will only accept those cases of Adoptees who have significant evidence of human rights violations in their cases. Those Adoptees who are “simply orphanized” without having other evidence probably do not have a high chance of having their case accepted by TRC 3. The lack of evidence IS a human rights violation in and of itself, but the reality is that TRC 3 is likely to accept only those cases which actually have some evidence of wrongdoing — beyond “simple” orphanization.

It is my understanding that amongst the 56 TRC 2 Adoptees whose cases received judgments were those who were “orphanized” yet had evidence of living birth parents. Most Korean Adoptees unfortunately do not have this kind of evidence, because most of us are not in reunion.

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CONSIDERATION 3:
Pursuing Lawsuits Against Korean Adoption Agencies In Korea Are Not Likely To Be Successful By Individual Adoptees.

Trust me, I get the fantasy of suing one’s Korean Adoption Agency. However, as this prominent Korean Adoptee’s experiences have shown, filing lawsuits in Korea can be a long, complex and expensive process with highly uncertain outcomes—especially for Korean Adoptees.

Apart from one Adoptee currently pursuing an independent Civil / State Compensation Claim in Korea (as of 2025 / 2026), I do not know of any other Korean Adoptees who were one of the 56 Adoptees who received a judgment from TRC 2 who is pursuing a lawsuit against a Korean Adoption Agency in Korea.

It should be understood that most Korean Adoptees cannot sue their Korean Adoption Agencies, because they are well past the statute of limitations in Korea for pursuing legal action. Uniquely, only those Adoptees who receive a TRC 2 or TRC 3 judgment would be allowed to pursue a lawsuit against a Korean Adoption Agency. This is because a TRC 2 or TRC 3 judgment negates the normal statute of limitations — but only for around 2-5 years (the exact duration of time is not known, but it is a short period of time). In other words, only those Adoptees who receive at TRC 2 or TRC 3 judgment, finding evidence of human rights violations in their cases, would be eligible to sue their Korean Adoption Agency within a limited 2-5 year time period. This would be entirely at the Adoptees’ expense.

Suing in Korea is a long, expensive process, and it is separate from the TRC 2 and TRC 3 process. I have explored the brutal realities behind filing a lawsuit in Korea here:

Why Are Lawsuits So Difficult To Pursue In S. Korea?

The class action type lawsuit of which DKRG dreams is not something which the pro-Adoptee lawyers in Korea have expressed support for. Instead, Korean lawyers have recommended that Korean Adoptees pursue individual civil lawsuits. Ironically, since Peter Regel Møller is NOT actually a lawyer, and he doesn’t speak Korean, there’s nothing legally he can do on his own as regards filing a lawsuit in Korea. Also, to my knowledge, none of the 56 Adoptees who received a TRC 2 judgment are currently pursuing a civil lawsuit in Korea.

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CONSIDERATION 4:
US Adoptees Are Not Currently Able To Obtain Much Information Through FOIA.

For years, U.S. Adoptees could file a FREE FOIA request to obtain U.S. side information about their adoptions. However, currently, that process is almost impossible (since most of the information is coming back redacted) and may even be DANGEROUS for a Korean Adoptee to do. We’ve been strongly encouraging Korean Adoptees to file a free FOIA request for YEARS — something which the US based *KRG group ironically only decided to do once FOIA was no longer a viable possibility.

We wrote to one of the *KRG groups to let them know the current (and hopefully temporary) dangers of Korean Adoptees filing FOIA requests. Unfortunately this group is still actively encouraging Korean Adoptees to file FOIA requests, despite the possible dangers of doing so.

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CONSIDERATION 5:
The Danish Leaders Of The *KRG Groups Have Little Sensitivity To The Issues Of U.S. Adoptees During These Unprecendented Times.

The Danish DKRG leaders Peter Regel Møller and Boonyoung Han live in S. Korea and are what I call “true believers”. They will do anything to further their own cause, and that means that they likely do not prioritize the safety and security of US Adoptees whose sensitive, private adoption documents they seek to collect.

It can be dangerous to allow mercurial DKRG leaders to collect your sensitive, private adoption documents and then, without explanation, block and ghost you. In that situation, you have no way to recover your documents and no ability to control how they may be used in the future. I don’t think I need to spell this out for a U.S. audience: the forfeiture of privacy surrounding private adoption records carries obvious and serious risks.

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CONCLUSION:

For any Korean Adoptee who has significant evidence of human rights violations in their cases, submitting your case for TRC 3 may be the right path for you.

Please just be advised of the risks and realities of the process, as outlined above.

I want to note that I have taken a LOT of heat from some Adoptees for consistently telling the truth about DKRG and its leaders’ behavior toward Adoptees over the years. Instead of ever responding to my many direct requests for communication since they first blocked me from the movement in 2022, DKRG has spread a lot of unfounded rumors about me and sent its minions after me online — yet I never had any prior argument with Peter Regel Møller or Boonyoung Han before they blocked and ghosted me in 2022.

Never in my life have I experienced something worse than dealing with these two Korean Adoptee “Rights” advocates, who, after blocking and ghosting me, attempted to assign false credit for my original research into KSS K-Numbers to a non-Adoptee (then) supporter of DKRG. My original KSS K-Number research grew directly out of my (still ongoing) investigation into my deceased twin sister’s case — whose KSS file I had only accidentally been able to acquire in 2019. Because DKRG ruthlessly pushed me out of the movement, I was unable to obtain justice for myself or my deceased twin sister through TRC 2.

I refuse to LIE to others to cover up their behavior. Korean Adoptees have been lied to enough over the decades. The Danish Korean Adoptees have long kept silent about DKRG’s behavior to protect the TRC 2 process. As a US Adoptee, it was less my place during TRC 2 to speak up as loudly as possible, due to trying to respect the wishes of the Danish Korean Adoptees who constituted the majority of the TRC 2 participants.

However, now that the doors to the TRC 3 process have been flung open worldwide — and US Adoptees in particular are being strongly courted by the *KRG groups to submit their cases en masse — I do not think that US Adoptees should have to enter into this process without being informed of what the possible dangers might be.

A supposed “Korean Adoptee RIGHTS Group” like DKRG cannot simply add another layer of injustice to the rights of the Korean Adoptees it purports to fight for. Some Adoptees may not like it, but it would be utterly irresponsible of me not to continue to tell the truth — particularly in these unprecedented and fraught times in the US.

Please keep yourselves — and your information — SAFE out there.

Thank you.