The Second Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC 2) Controversy.
Published to Paperslip on January 8th, 2026.
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The TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption has occupied five years of my life (2020-2025). Although I was forcibly pushed out of the movement by DKRG (Danish Korean Rights Group) “leaders” in 2022, this experience has been deeply scarring. I would like to put it behind me and move forward; however, I believe that what happened to me had significant consequences for KSS Adoptees that have not been fully understood.
As the co-founder of Paperslip, I supported the birth-family search efforts of KSS Adoptees for free for many years. During the investigation into my own and my twin’s switch cases starting in 2018, I became aware of certain types of documents that most KSS Adoptees have never seen. This is because I was one of the very few KSS Adoptees from 1964-2025 who was ever granted access to the KSS file room, giving me firsthand knowledge that most others do not have. Now that ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files — including those of KSS — have moved to NCRC, and KSS has permanently closed Post Adoption Services, there will never be another KSS Adoptee like me who will ever have been granted permission to search KSS’ file room in the way that I was. Therefore, DKRG’s exclusion of me from the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption is egregious — not only for the negative impact that it has had on me, but also for the repercussions that it has for ALL KSS Adoptees.
This context is essential to understanding the broader impact of my exclusion from the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption and the gaps in awareness amongst KSS Adoptees that remain.
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Regarding the TRC, TRC 2 stands for the Second Truth and Reconciliation Commission of S. Korea. You can find many articles about the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption online — it has been all over the news in the past few years. There is also a dropdown section on Paperslip’s home page called “Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea (TRCK)” with many articles related to TRC 2. TRC 2 was set up in S. Korea in 2020. Back then, the TRC 2 was not set up to investigate overseas adoption. It’s primary purpose and intent was to investigate the concentration camps from S. Korea’s history, including Brothers Home in Busan, Seongam Academy (which had an historical tie to the founder of my Korean Adoption Agency, KSS), and Samcheong Education Corps. While some of these concentration camps – especially Brothers Home – did have ties to adoption, the cases of concentration camp survivors are separate cases from those of Adoptees. Brothers Home survivors pushed for years for TRC 2 to happen, and Korean Adoptees owe them a tremendous debt for this. Without TRC 2 happening, there would have been no opportunity for Korean Adoptees to introduce their cases for investigation as well.
Back in 2020, I summarized the stories of around one dozen switched Adoptees whom I had identified since 2018, and submitted them to the (then) head of TRC 2 through a contact in Korea. However, we never heard back from TRC 2. However, this is how TRC 2 became aware of the practice of systemic switching. Then around April or May 2022, the Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG) organized a group of primarily Danish Adoptees to formally submit cases to TRC 2 for investigation. Their effort was successful, and two of the leaders of DKRG, Peter Moeller and Boonyoung Han, reached out to me to help spread word to US Adoptees about submitting their cases to the TRC, which I gladly did. I made a Zoom recording with Peter Moeller in August 2022 (which I still have a recording of) and posted that to various Korean Adoption forums. DKRG wanted me to handle ALL US cases, but because I was about to depart for Korea to film an SBS documentary about my case in October 2022, I politely declined. There was absolutely no way for me to take on all US cases with zero notice and just two weeks before the TRC 2 deadline for submission when I had a full time schedule, and was about to depart for Korea. It had additionally taken me one year to make the SBS documentary filming a reality, and the trip to Korea to film the documentary was my top priority. DKRG seemed to understand this, and we had no argument. I submitted my case along with around 367 others, in the process signing over legal authority to Peter Moeller (who is NOT a lawyer, despite what he says in the press) and my case was accepted by the TRC for investigation in December 2022. However, when I got back from Korea after filming the SBS documentary, I discovered on December 7th, 2022 — the very day that the TRC 2 investigation into overseas adoption began — that I had been blocked from all DKRG / TRC related groups by Peter Moeller and Boonyoung Han, for no reason, having had no argument. I tried to contact them multiple times and in many different ways to ask why, and to this day, they have never responded. They have unfortunately treated countless other Adoptees in the same way — blocking and ghosting them for any minor disagreement, or for no reason at all — and there are multiple articles in the Danish publication Politiken about Peter Moeller’s fraudulent activities related to music festival management in Denmark dating back to 2011. Unfortunately I did not know any of this when DKRG first approached me in August 2022. A lot of the Danish Adoptee community has stayed silent over the years about DKRG’s bad behavior. But at this point, their behavior is well known amongst Adoptees connected to TRC 2. Many of the Adoptees whom DKRG blocked from its forums and ghosted had active TRC 2 cases.
On January 1st, 2023, I received multiple messages from Danish KSS Adoptees letting me know that Peter had given false credit for my years long KSS K-Number research to Bastiaan Flikweert, the Dutch son of two KSS Adoptees who themselves later admitted they knew this was my research. For over one year, Bastiaan refused to even privately admit that I had done my own research on KSS K-numbers. Unfortunately, I had told Bastiaan about my work in confidence during a Zoom in February 2022, which was before DKRG was even formed. He must have told Peter, who is not a KSS Adoptee (he was adopted through Holt). It was only after one year when I was finally able to call Bastiaan out on an Adoptee forum that he finally admitted he had no role in my original research. Peter Moeller and Boonyoung Han have never come forward to take their share of the blame and apologize. DKRG blocked several Danish KSS Adoptees with active TRC 2 cases who immediately spoke up to defend me when Peter gave Bastiaan false credit for my KSS K-Number research on a DKRG forum from which I was blocked. These Danish KSS Adoptees were thus not able to get information about the TRC 2 investigation for years, since DKRG has positioned itself as the sole mouthpiece of TRC.
While I certainly do not think that Bastiaan was blameless in his actions, he at least finally admitted that he did not do my research. Meanwhile, none of the organizations to which Peter, Boonyoung, or Bastiaan are attached have ever mentioned Paperslip.org or the important research that I have published on the website in their numerous media opportunities — despite Paperslip.org being the only site by and for KSS Adoptees since 2020. DKRG has actively sought to take credit for my work, while at the same time trying to discredit me and sending their minions after me online. It’s deplorable behavior. Later, in the lead up to the March 2025 TRC 2 Interim Report, DKRG struggled to gather more evidence for TRC 2 from Adoptees with active cases — likely because they had blocked so many of them from their forums.
Even after these two punches by DKRG, I booked a flight to Korea in February 2023 to meet with the TRC investigators to tell them everything I knew about KSS. The TRC was primarily investigating Holt and KSS Adoptee cases since Holt and KSS were the only two Korean Adoption Agencies which adopted to Denmark. Paperslip was and is the only site by and for KSS Adoptees, so it was and is particularly relevant to the TRC investigation. However, because DKRG wanted credit for my research into systemic switching and KSS K-numbers, they deliberately blocked me from meeting with the TRC investigators. I had to cancel my trip to Korea, and I lost a lot of money in the process. In March 2023, I withdrew my TRC 2 case, despite having been one of the first 34 cases accepted by the TRC to investigate. The TRC 2 investigation only recently concluded in late 2025. It found that switching was a human rights violation. This owes an enormous debt to the work that I have been doing with other switched Adoptees since 2018. TRC 2 also only ruled in 56 of the 367 cases submitted – in other words, the TRC 2 investigation only found human rights violations in a tiny minority of the cases it accepted to review. To my knowledge, all of the Danish KSS switched Adoptees with whom I had connected since 2018 received judgments in their cases. Only those who receive judgments by the TRC are eligible to sue (for a limited time) in Korea.
Despite DKRG’s deplorable behavior toward me, the work I carried out behind the scenes through Paperslip substantially supported the TRC 2 investigation. Between 2021 and 2025, I reviewed — for free — hundreds of KSS Adoptees’ birth family search request forms to ensure they knew how to request and obtain the formerly secret Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary. This document is unique to KSS and was one I discovered in the back of my own file at KSS in 2018. In July 2021, another KSS Adoptee and I accidentally determined how this document could be formally requested and obtained. I coined the terms English Adoptive Child Study Summary and Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary that same month and, for years thereafter, relentlessly informed KSS Adoptees about its existence and the process for obtaining it from KSS.
As a direct result of this work, a significant number of Danish KSS Adoptees were able to request and obtain their formerly secret “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” and to submit this as a form of documentary evidence to TRC 2. The March 2025 Interim Report is replete with examples of the KSS “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary”, while containing comparatively less evidence from Holt, despite Holt being a far larger Korean Adoption Agency than KSS. Additionally, I was able to get the story of a Danish KSS Adoptee into the media through my SBS contacts in Korea. One of the same SBS contacts additionally filmed, at my urging, another documentary involving European Korean Adoptees and tattoos.
Furthermore, the definition of systemic switching that I developed in 2018 is now enshrined—largely verbatim—in the March 2025 Interim Report of TRC 2, which concluded that systemic switching constituted a human rights violation. This finding owes greatly to the work I have undertaken with switched Adoptees since 2018.
Because DKRG punched me repeatedly in the TRC 2 process, I was not able to get justice for myself nor my twin sister through the TRC 2 investigation. And there are significant KSS documents which DKRG did not know about, since they had not seen them, that may not have been preserved during the file transfer to NCRC. Therefore DKRG’s actions in pushing me out of the movement and making sure that I could not inform the TRC 2 investigators about all that I know about KSS has had serious and egregious consequences for KSS Adoptees, who have lost a significant portion of their material history simply because DKRG wanted to take credit for my work, and could not bear to share the media spotlight with anyone else who had done important research.
DKRG has positioned itself as the sole mouthpiece of the TRC 2 and the coming TRC 3 — it remains to be seen if DKRG will repeat the same abuses towards some Adoptees as they perpetuated in TRC 2.
In the meantime, the related *KRG groups are busy sharing fractured, partial, and incomplete information regarding KSS specific documents, since they, like the main DKRG group, seem incapable of linking a long reliable source of information specific to KSS Adoptees: Paperslip.org. This is not only frustrating but deeply sad to see; I have spent countless hours compiling as much shareable information as possible in one place, considering that Adoptees tend to share fragmented information online and via word of mouth. That tendency is only being furthered by *KRG groups which skirt outright plagiarism by instead sharing incomplete information. Please do better: link to Paperslip’s pages directly, cite your sources of information, and give proper credit where it is due. Otherwise, you are just furthering the decades long gaslighting of Korean Adoptees.