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Maja Andersen hugs Sister Christina Ahn at Star of the Sea orphanage in Incheon, South Korea, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Andersen had been admitted to the facility as a malnourished baby and was adopted at 7 months old to a family in Denmark, according to the documents. She says she’s grateful for the love her adoptive family gave her, but has developed an unshakable need to know where she came from. She visited this orphanage, city hall and a police station, but found no new clues about her birth family.
Still she remains hopeful, and plans to return to South Korea to keep trying. She posted a flyer on the wall of a police station not far from the orphanage, just above another left by an adoptee also searching for his roots.Maja Andersen, third from left in the front row, holds a South Korean flag while taking a group photo at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent away from Korea to Western nations as children. Many have grown up and are searching for their origin story. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Maja Andersen, third from left in the front row, holds a South Korean flag while taking a group photo at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent away from Korea to Western nations as children. Many have grown up and are searching for their origin story. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The flag of South Korea is displayed at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The flag of South Korea is displayed at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Korean adoptees have organized, and now they help those coming along behind them. Non-profit groups conduct DNA testing. Sympathetic residents, police officers and city workers of the towns where they once lived often try to assist them. Sometimes adoption agencies are able to track down birth families.
Nearly four decades after her adoption to the U.S., Nicole Motta in May sat across the table from a 70-year-old man her adoption agency had identified as her birth father. She typed “thanks for meeting me today” into a translation program on her phone to show him. A social worker placed hair samples into plastic bags for DNA testing.But Albanese and Dutton, who leads the conservative Liberal Party, met in Sydney Tuesday night for the third televised
Dutton accused Albanese of being a “weak leader” who was “loose with the truth” during the hour-long debate.Albanese told Dutton: “You can go to personal abuse; that’s a sign of desperation.”
A fourth debate is planned Sunday.Albanese’s center-left Labor Party is seeking a second three-year term.