Again, its been a long time since I posted. I had the WORST summer camp of my teaching career here in Korea. Honestly, if I had not worked so hard, prepared so many materials, and spent so much of my own money on this camp I wouldn't have cared. However, during the entire camp planning process I was constantly being pressure to make the camp "fun and interesting" and add more activities...on a budget of about $100 which I was only allowed 40 of it because we HAD to have pizza on the last day...to the point where my job was passive-aggressively threatened if I didn't have a "good enough" camp. SIGH! But that is not the point of this post.
This post is to introduce you to KoRoot, a guesthouse here in Korea that is primarily for Korean adoptees. I've never stayed here, but my impression is it is more for long-term guests. So, I didn't make the trip for a place to crash. They also offer NGO services of adoptee issues, and currently are offering DNA testing for Korean adoptees who are long-term residents in Korea and Korean birth parents.
I went about a month ago to get one of the DNA kits. I'll write a longer post about this soon.
But for now, I just want to give directions to KoRoot. The directions on their website (www.koroot.org) are not very clear. It's here in Seoul, near Gyeongbukgung Palace.
If you take Exit 2 of Gyeongbukgung Station (Line 3, Orange line) it is a hefty walk. You'll walk straight past Chogun Elementary School on the left. You'll turn left down the alley past Jihwaja Restaurant.
However, if you take Exit 3, you can catch a bus 7011, 7016, or 7018 up 3 stops to Gyeonggi-do Commercial High School. Cross the street and take a right down the alley just before Jihwaja Restaurant.
You'll go down the alleyway and KoRoot will be on the right. For some reason the building did not look like what I expected so I actually walked past it. The sign is really small.
So, just to help spread the word about the DNA projects, here are the informational posters (in English and Korean).
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