The Universe Has A Sick Sense Of Humor.

Posted to Paperslip on February 1st, 2026.

The universe has a truly sick sense of humor. The two primary pathways I spent years helping U.S. and KSS Adoptees navigate — FOIA requests and requesting and obtaining the formerly secret KSS “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” — are now effectively CLOSED — at precisely the moment when TRC 3 (the Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea) is about to begin. FOIA is largely blocked as an information gathering tool for U.S. Adoptees due to the declining situation in the US, and the KSS “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” is now much harder for KSS Adoptees to obtain due to the massive bottleneck of Adoptee requests at NCRC, the Korean public institution which took over ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files — including those of KSS — on July 19th, 2025. NCRC has very few birth family search workers to handle requests from ALL Korean Adoptees around the world. The wait times for Adoptees who have submitted birth family search requests to NCRC is tremendous. Not to mention the fact that ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files may move yet AGAIN — this time from NCRC to the Seongam Branch of the National Archives — likely in the first half of 2026.

From 2020 to 2025, I relentlessly supported Adoptees in requesting and securing these records. I spent 15 solid months shouting from the rooftops that KSS Adoptees should request and obtain their “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” from KSS prior to the July 19th, 2025 transfer of ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files to NCRC. And I have spent YEARS urging US Korean Adoptees to make FOIA requests, following Paperslip’s guidelines. These significant efforts, which were so highly relevant to the TRC 2 investigation into Overseas Adoption, even though I was brutally pushed out of it, make it all the more absurd that DKRG and USKRG chose to block the ONE person — me — who was most directly responsible for helping Korean Adoptees obtain some of the most significant documentary evidence for the TRC 2 investigation. Now, with TRC 3 imminent, those same evidentiary pathways have been shut down almost entirely.

You couldn’t design a more counterproductive outcome if you tried.

But wait — there’s more. USKRG “leaders” have refused to share Paperslip links or links to the KSS forum “KSS Cribmates” on the Korean Adoptee forum which they moderate, and from which they have blocked me. Meanwhile, DKRG did NOT mention Paperslip or KSS Cribmates (both of which they are well aware) even ONCE throughout the entire TRC 2 Investigation into Overseas Adoption (2022–2025).

The TRC 2 investigation into Overseas Adoption focused primarily on Danish Korean Adoptees. KSS was one of only two Korean Adoption Agencies that placed children in Denmark, which made Paperslip one of the most relevant sources of information available to TRC 2.

Despite this, DKRG chose not to acknowledge Paperslip in any of their extensive media opportunities. Had they done so, many more Korean Adoptees could have been informed about — and able to request — their FOIA and KSS documents. Instead, DKRG withheld recognition of my work, effectively suppressing the dissemination of critical research I have conducted for years through Paperslip and KSS Cribmates.

No one will ever know how many more Korean Adoptees could have obtained critical information through FOIA and from KSS if these so-called “Korean Rights” groups had not actively suppressed the sharing of Paperslip links and links to KSS Adoptee groups from 2022 to the present.

And no, PLAGIARISM is NOT the same as sharing the information from Paperslip directly. And no, “Korean Rights” groups’ blind allegiance to “the cause” does NOT supersede our LEGAL right to protect our proprietary information here on Paperslip.

Sad times, in so many ways.