South Korea begins to shed light on « mass export » of adopted children – Liberation

What first strikes in Kim Yooree is his memory. She remembers all faces, all the names of the protagonists of the nightmarish story of her adoption in France, at 11 years old. The nanny « Torturer » From her orphanage in South Korea, the employee of the adoption agency who came to photograph her or even the social worker of Rodez who helped her flee her host family at 17. She especially remembers her first meeting with her adoptive parents, just after landing in Roissy in 1984. “He was 51 years old and her 46. Their old age struck me. And he, he attracted me … No man had looked at me like that since my birth. « 

From the first day in the family home of Maurs (Cantal), sexual violence begins. Yooree and her younger brother must join their new father in the marital bed. « He turns to me, and then I feel something super hard on my thigh. I didn’t know what it was. «  He enters it, it is petrified. « When I saw the drops of blood, on my pea pants, I said to myself: “We bleed when we are injured”. So I was done something wrong. ”

Kim Yooree should never have suffered this childhood and this traumatic adolescence in France, far from his country and his relatives. She and her brother were declared orphans in 1983 to be placed in a new family. Their parents were alive, however, and they never consented to ABA