As a Korean adoptee, my relationship with Asian Heritage Month is complicated cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For many adoptees, Korea is a vexing site of return. It’s simultaneously home and not home. We’re too loud. Too foreign. Our mannerisms signal our lack of cultural capital, even as the “han” (internalized sorrow or grief) of adoption and separation courses through our veins.