Alternate lives: Korean orphans' quests for answers

2019-08-22 6

Abandoned by his mother, Jo was taken into South Korea's orphanage system but never chosen by a new family. He spent the rest of his childhood in what he describes as brutal and rigidly hierarchical institutions. Now he and other South Korean orphans are telling their stories in a short film by a South Korean adoptee himself, on display as an art exhibit in Seoul.