15 Reasons Why Korean Adoptees Kick Ass

Korean adoptees. There are literally 100s of thousands of them. They are everywhere, and they have been kicking ass for a very long time. They are so kickass, you gotta wonder why Korea keeps sending them away on airplanes.

1. Kickass Twins

Via kickstarter.com

Twins! www.kickstarter.com/projects/1746892989/twinsters

2. Kickass Music

Check out this kickass video from Gowe. youtube.com/watch?v=MHElkK59BwI

3. Kickass Foodies

Marja Vongerichten of the Kimchi Chronicles.

4. Kickass Movies

First Person Plural by Deann Borshay Liem.

5. Kickass Books

"Trenka remembers with gross delight headless chickens dancing around until collapse at her adoptive family's farm. She writes, "I wanted my head to be removed, a metaphor so strong that only later did I realize that it was not a death wish at all.... What I longed for was wholeness, for my body to be as white and Northern Minnesotan as my mind." Original and beautifully written reflections like these fill Trenka's memoir, a brave exploration of her identity as a Korean adoptee and pensive young woman trying to negotiate between two mothers and two lives." - Publishers Weekly

6. Kickass Activism

Organizations like TRACK and ASK work alongside unwed mothers organizations in Korea to bring much needed change.

7. Kickass Offspring

Korean adoptee Amy Anderson with her daughter Aubrey Anderson Emmons of Modern Family.

8. More Kickass Offpsring

The talented (and super hot) Daniel Henney's mother is a Korean adoptee.

9. Kickass Art

Via estherka.com

By kate hers.

10. Kickass Acting

Kurt Kwan and Sara Ochs, seen in this image for Mu Performing Arts' Yellow Fever, are two of the amazing Korean adoptee actors ripping it in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

11. Kickass Animation

From the film Approved for Adoption by Jung Henin.

12. Kickass Writing

"Some people who plan to adopt across racial lines give me blank looks when I suggest that they closely examine their town, their neighborhood, their local schools, their social activities and community organizations before adopting outside their race. They bristle when I emphasize the importance of educating themselves about the persistence of inequality and the experiences of transracial adoptees and people of color living in this country. Sometimes they remind me that my experiences as a transracial adoptee aren't universal—which is true—and therefore I don't actually know what their adopted children will face." - Nicole Soojung Callahan, bitchmagazine.org/post/why-we-need-to-talk-about-race-in-adoption

13. Kickass Realty TV

Top Chef champion Kristen Kish.

14. Kickass Restaurants

Korean adoptee Kat Melgaard and Korean American Thomas Kim of The Rabbit Hole and The Left Handed Cook in Minneapolis.

15. Kickass Adoptee Organizations

Via akconnection.com

Organizations, like the AK Connection, have been bringing together and cultivating relationships between adoptees from all walks of life for decades.