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On todays Modern Notion Daily podcast, our guest is Arissa H. Oh, author of To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption (Stanford University Press, June 2015). During the Korean War and the rise of war orphans, Americans began adopting Korean children in large numbers; that trend spiked in the 1980s. Oh explores the reasons why Korea became such a hub of adoption and the struggles faced by adopters and adoptees.
Music this hour:
“Forgiven Not Forgotten” by Jahzzar, from the album Kuddelmuddel
“Soldiertype (militarised)” by Ketsa, from the album What’s Without’s Within
“wherever” by Jahzzar, from the album Sketches
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