Kyung-ha

Kyung-ha

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Kyung-ha, now known as Laurie Bender, is a Korean adoptee who was kidnapped as a child in 1975 and subsequently adopted by a family in the United States. After spending decades searching for her biological mother, she was reunited with her mother, Han Tae-soon, in 2019, which revealed the traumatic history of South Korea's overseas adoption practices.

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Kyung-ha was almost unrecognisable as a middle-aged American woman named Laurie Bender.

South Korea's history of overseas adoptions in the spotlight
BBC·United KingdomUnited Kingdom· 2025-05-24
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