TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea) Facts and History.

The TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea) is not only an investigation into Overseas Adoption. Read below for some facts and history about TRC 2 from a personal perspective.

TRC 3 begins February 26th, 2026.

You can submit your case INDEPENDENTLY of any “Korean Rights” organization.

UPDATE — February 9th 2026:
TRC 3 Announces The Opening Of Submissions: From February 26th, 2026—February 25th, 2028.

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Resources:
TRC Website.
TRC on Wikipedia.

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TRC 2: 2020-2025.

TRC 2’s Investigation Into Overseas Adoption: 2022-2025.

Most Korean Adoptees only became aware of the Second Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Korea (TRC 2) in late 2022, when the TRC 2 investigation into Overseas Adoption first began. However, TRC 2 actually ran for five years — from December 10th, 2020 until November 26th, 2025.

Before TRC 2 was ever on anyone’s radar outside of S. Korea, I — a US KSS Adoptee — became the very first person to submit any falsified cases of Korean Adoptees to TRC 2, albeit informally. On December 18th, 2020, I submitted summaries of around one dozen switched Adoptees’ cases to the head of TRC 2 through a contact in Korea. I had been identifying other switched Adoptees since 2018 — several of whom were switched Danish KSS Adoptees — and had realized that switching was systemic. At the time, I only became aware of TRC 2 through a contact, and admittedly, I did not know much about the TRC 2 process at the time. However, this is how the TRC 2 investigators first came to be aware of systemic switching. I referred all of the around one dozen switched Adoptees that I knew to TRC 2, and to my knowledge, all of the Danish KSS switched Adoptees with whom I had been in contact since 2018 received judgments in their cases when TRC 2 concluded in late 2025. Just 56 Adoptees of the 367 who submitted cases received judgments in their TRC 2 cases, making it all the more significant that the main switched Adoptees I knew received judgments in their cases. I withdrew my TRC 2 case in January 2023 due to severe and ongoing mistreatment by the Danish Korean Adoptee led organization Danish Korean Rights Group / DKRG, which organized the official TRC 2 investigation into Overseas Adoption in mid-late 2022. The official DKRG effort happened nearly two years after I first informally submitted case study summaries of switched Adoptees to TRC 2.

The March 26th, 2025 TRC 2 Interim Report would later come to acknowledge switching as a human rights violation, marking a significant, though mainly symbolic achievement for switched Adoptees. While DKRG leaders would love to take total credit for this, neither Peter Moller nor Boonyoung Han have switch cases; indeed, TRC 2 ultimately did not render judgments in their cases, since their cases lacked evidence. It makes sense that Peter and Boonyoung, with their respective cases of “simple” orphanization did not organize the switched Adoptees; rather, a switched Adoptee — namely, me — did.

If not for the years of grassroots work I undertook with switched Adoptees, the TRC likely would not have identified switching as a human rights violation. When I met with Danish switched Adoptees in Denmark in the Fall of 2018, they were not yet aware — prior to my connecting them— that they were all switched Adoptees. Ironically, it was me — an American Adoptee — who first connected us as a group. Our subsequent connection and collaboration, along with years of jointly comparing documents, ultimately enabled the TRC 2 investigation to recognize switching as a human rights violation. It is no coincidence that I — a switched Adoptee — ultimately conducted the research to collect and compare hundreds of KSS K-Numbers. As a switched Adoptee, I am compelled to examine not only my own case, but those of others as well.

To go back in time: I had invited Boonyoung Han, a Danish KSS Adoptee, to be an “observer” of a forum which I had created for switched Adoptees in 2018. There, and on the forum KSS Cribmates, for which I have been an Admin since 2018, Boonyoung witnessed firsthand my years of research into KSS K-numbers, systemic switching, and KSS history and practice overall. She was also a member of both forums when I submitted the story summaries of the approximately one dozen switched Adoptees to the head of TRC 2 through a contact on December 18th, 2020. I would later voluntarily refer all of the switched Adoptees I knew to her research study about human rights abuses within Korean Adoption, and submit my personal, sensitive adoption documents to her team for the study. I did not know at the time that Peter Moeller was also connected to this study, having never heard of him. I met Boonyoung just once, in 2021 in Seoul, Korea — we had dinner together, got along very well, and she even contributed her own KSS K-Number to my research. Afterwards, we exchanged some friendly emails. So she was well aware that I had been doing intensive research into KSS K-Numbers since that research began in 2020. I would later try to engage her in my October 2021 effort to criticize Holt and NCRC at S. Korea’s National Assembly (Korea’s version of US Congress), though at the time she told me that I “should not criticize NCRC” — which is highly ironic given her later involvement in much harsher actions against NCRC. We never had any disagreement.

According to Danish friends who were part of the original DKRG group of founding members (though Peter and Boonyoung like to pretend they were the only two who founded DKRG), it was Boonyoung who originally suggested at a gathering in Denmark that they should bring me into the TRC 2 movement. Peter would later reach out to me in late August 2022, to request that I help raise awareness amongst US Korean Adoptees about how to submit their cases to TRC 2. I gladly agreed, and dropped everything that day to record a Zoom meeting with Peter Moller and Peter Knudsen — Peter Moller is a Danish Korean Holt Adoptee, and Peter Knudsen is a Danish Korean KSS Adoptee (both are part of DKRG). I spent hours on the Zoom and eventually released a video (which I still have) which provided instructions for how US Adoptees could submit their cases to TRC 2. At the time, Peter Moller told me that he was a lawyer. That turned out to be a lie.

DKRG wanted me to take on ALL US TRC 2 cases, but at that point there were only about 14 days left before the September 11th, 2022 TRC 2 submission deadline. At the same time, I was preparing to fly to Korea to film an SBS documentary about my own case. The documentary traced how my investigation into my switch case — and my likely twin’s separate switch case — led me to identify and locate a Korean birth father, and ultimately to find his real twin daughters by administering and processing his 23andMe DNA test. I politely declined DKRG’s invitation to take on all US cases, and we had no argument.

I submitted my case through DKRG and later in December 2022, my case became one of the first 34 cases accepted by TRC 2 for investigation.

I was therefore extremely shocked to discover that on December 7th, 2022, shortly after returning to the United States from Korea, where I had been filming the SBS documentary — I had been unceremoniously blocked from all Facebook groups run by DKRG. Ironically, this was just before my case was accepted by TRC 2 and just before the SBS documentary about my switch case was released in Korea. I had never had any argument or dispute with either Peter or Boonyoung. To this day, they have never provided any explanation nor apology, nor returned any of my many attempts at contact. This was distressing not only because DKRG at that point had made itself the sole “Representative” of TRC 2 through which Korean Adoptees could submit their cases and glean information about the TRC 2 process — but also because I had already submitted my private, sensitive adoption documents to DKRG, both for the TRC 2 investigation, and for Boonyoung’s research study. Of course, I cannot get those back.

It was around this time that Peter gave false credit for my KSS K-Number research to Bastiaan Flikweert, the Dutch son of two KSS Adoptees who have both admitted witnessing my doing this research in real time on the KSS Adoptee forum of which we were all members. At the time, Bastiaan was supporting the DKRG effort in Korea, though I believe that Peter and Bastiaan have since had a falling out. It unfortunately took Bastiaan over one year to finally admit that he had not done my KSS K-Number research. This was only after I was able to finally call him out on a forum from which I was not blocked my DKRG. Bastiaan had previously declined to intercede with Peter on my behalf regarding why I had been blocked from the movement. This was convenient for Bastiaan, because I was then unable to defend my work on the very forum where Peter was giving Bastiaan false credit for it. Meanwhile, his parents and a supporter pressured me to let him take credit for my research, despite knowing that I conducted the KSS K-Number research.

DKRG later deliberately blocked my planned visit to Korea — which I had already paid for — to meet with TRC 2 investigators, when I wanted to tell them all that I knew about my research into KSS. I am one of the very few KSS Adoptees who has ever been admitted into KSS’ filing room, with ALL of KSS Adoptee files from 1964-2012. Now that all of KSS’ files have been transferred to NCRC as of July 19th, 2025, this makes my information all the more valuable to any TRC investigation into Overseas Adoption. There will never again be any KSS Adoptee who will have seen as many KSS files.

Shortly following their having blocked me from all DKRG / TRC 2 related Facebook groups, Peter and Boonyoung went forward to the media about systemic switching. It took me an admittedly overlong time to realize and truly understand who these two actually were — that they are extremely ruthless and narcissistic when it comes to taking credit for the activism and efforts of others. You will notice that DKRG has never once mentioned Paperslip or my efforts in the press — despite the fact that Paperslip is the only KSS Adoptee led site about KSS history and practice. My work through Paperslip and KSS Cribmates had extreme relevance to the TRC 2 investigation, given that the only two Korean Adoption Agencies which adopted children to Denmark were KSS and Holt. Since DKRG organized the TRC 2 effort, most of the Adoptees whose cases were submitted were Danish. DKRG’s deliberate failure to mention Paperslip in their millions of international press opportunities from 2022 forward speaks to their ruthlessness in keeping anyone else who has done important work OUT of the TRC movement.

This represented a devastating personal loss for me, as I had spent years not only investigating my and my twin’s separate switch cases, but also supporting hundreds of other KSS Adoptees through the KSS forum — where I serve as an Admin — and through Paperslip. My work and research regarding KSS has helped 45 KSS Adoptees reunite with their Korean birth families — from 2020-2025. And despite being ruthlessly blocked from the TRC 2 movement by DKRG, I relentlessly supported the effort behind the scenes by helping so many KSS Adoptees request and receive their formerly secret “Korean Adoptive Child Study Summary” — a document I had found at the back of my file at KSS in 2018, and for which I coined the term in 2021. I also coined the term “English Adoptive Child Study Summary” in 2021 to differentiate it from the Korean version. Furthermore, I referred a Danish KSS Adoptee to have her story of adoption falsification filmed by the same SBS producer who had filmed the first SBS story about my case.

After a great deal of agonizing, I withdrew my TRC 2 case in January 2023, following the three brutal punches from DKRG. I want to note that DKRG’s behavior — not only towards me, but toward many other Danish Korean Adoptees, the majority of whom have remained silent out of fear — has harmed me far more deeply than anything KSS has done to me. That is a profound statement, considering that my twin sister died at KSS, and that her death was concealed from me for decades.

I then learned that Peter Moller had lied to me, as he has lied to countless others through international press — since he is NOT actually a lawyer.

Since Peter cannot provide any proof that he is a lawyer — since he is not one — he and Boonyoung have instead spread nasty rumors about me, and sent their brainwashed minions after me online.

My brutal experience of TRC 2 participation is why I cannot more strongly recommend that those who submit their cases for the TRC 3 investigation — slated to begin on February 26th, 2026 — submit their cases INDEPENDENTLY of DKRG or any *KRG organization.

In keeping with the unethical behavior of DKRG, the US version of DKRG has recently chosen to plagiarize Paperslip’s work.

Please do not trust these organizations with your sensitive, private adoption paperwork.

You can submit your TRC 3 case INDEPENDENTLY of DKRG or of any related*KRG organization. Directions for this process will be forthcoming as soon as TRC 3 releases them, sometime after February 26th, 2026.

Please take care of your mental health during TRC 3. It’s going to be a long ride, and not everyone who claims to be a “Korean Rights” advocate really treats Korean Adoptees in an ethical way.

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TRC 3: 2026-?

TRC 3’s Investigation Into Overseas Adoption: 2026-?

TRC 3 will begin on February 26th, 2026. However, it may take TRC 3 a few months to set up the process for submission of cases by Korean Adoptees (and other victims’ groups).

We will share an update once we know more about the TRC 3 submission procedure. Please note that you should be able to submit your case INDEPENDENTLY of any other “Korean Rights” groups.

You should be able to submit your case through the TRC 3 website (see top of page for link) or through a Korean Consulate in your Western country of adoption or residence. There should be a 2 year time period for submissions. Please do NOT feel pressured to submit your sensitive, private adoption documents to any “Korean Rights” group, which is making its own artificial deadlines for submissions.

For in-depth info on TRC 3, please see these related links:

MAIN INFO PAGE: TRC 3 Bill To Be Introduced As The 47th Agenda Item At The Natl Assembly At 2 pm KST

You Can Submit Your Case To TRC 3 Independently Of Any Other “Korean Rights” Group

Taking Care Of Your Mental Health During TRC 3

USKRG Is Aware That Peter Moller Of DKRG Is Not A Lawyer, Yet Does Not Inform Their Members

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