• Respond to the following prompt:
  • War, poverty, race, gender, and global relationships have all affected the lives of children throughout the world. Explain which of these issues had the biggest impact on the Korean transnational adoptions. Use these questions to guide your response:
    • What happened during the event/issue you selected?
    • How did it impact the Korean children?
    • How did it contribute to an increase in Korean transnational adoptions?

Expanded Essay Question for Exam

• War, poverty, race, gender, and global relationships have all influenced adoptions throughout the world. Select three of these issues and explain how they have influenced Korean transnational adoptions.

Sources

• Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2010.
• “History, trauma, and identity: The legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans.” Amerasia Journal, 29, 2003/4, 111-129.
• Kim, Eleana. “The Origins of Korean Adoption: Cold War Geopolitics and Intimate Diplomacy,” US-Korea Institute at SAIS, 2009. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep11137.pdf
• Memory of a Forgotten War Study Guide: https://www.mufilms.org/media/docs/memoryofforgottenwar/MOFW-StudyGuide-2013.pdf
• Oh, Arissa. To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption. Stanford University Press, 2015.
• Truman Library: The Korean War and its Origins, 1945-1953  https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/korean-war-and-its-origins

• Woo, Susie. Framed by War Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire. New York: New York University Press, 2019.