SOURCE #1: In Korea, Adoptees Fight to Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas (Pi'ikea Everett)
Haruch, Steve. “In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas.” NPR. NPR, 09 Sept. 2014. Web. 10 Mar. 2017.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this article is to explain the complex nature of South Korea’s new adoption law which was established in 2012. The purpose of this law is to reduce international adoptions with the intent of protecting Korean orphans. However, various people affected by this process has mixed feelings about whether the law actually helps Korean orphans.
EVALUATION OF TEXT:
The strength of this article is that the author, Steve Haruch, had interviewed a variety Korean orphans like Stephen Morrison, Hollee McGinnis, and Deann Borshay Liem who have personally shared their experiences about being an orphan and also about being adopted into non-Korean families. After reading this article, I was able to easily find other materials talking about the subject matter that I was studying. Another strength of this text is that the author introduced multiple perspectives into the article in which people voiced out their opinions both for and against international adoptions. It seemed like he didn’t favor one perspective over another and presented the information as non-biased as possible.
A weakness of this article was that I felt the the article didn’t have a nice flow to it, making it hard for me to follow along as I read through it.
As someone who doesn’t know much about the adoption process, I was able to better understand the cultural reasons of why orphans in Korea are having a difficult time adjusting to society.
A weakness of this article was that I felt the the article didn’t have a nice flow to it, making it hard for me to follow along as I read through it.
As someone who doesn’t know much about the adoption process, I was able to better understand the cultural reasons of why orphans in Korea are having a difficult time adjusting to society.
PERSPECTIVE:
This article was written by Steve Haruch. He is currently a writer that is working with NPR, The New York Times, and The Guardian. In one of NPR’s podcast, I discovered that he was a Korean orphan that had been adopted into an American family. This blew my mind away because when I initially read this article I had no idea that the author was a Korean orphan because he doesn’t insert his personal experiences into the article. As a writer who is Korean and was adopted by an American family, Steve Haruch has extensive first-hand experience with the subject matter of his own article. Haruch does a good job presenting both sides of the adoption issue, which makes hard for readers to determine how he feels about the law. But one thing that he makes clear in his writing is that there are major effects concerning the treatment of Korean orphans receive in Korea which need to be addressed and changed.
SOURCE #2: Why a Generation of Adoptees Is Returning to South Korea
Jones, Maggie. "Why a Generation of Adoptees Is Returning to South Korea." The New York Times. The New York Times, 14 Jan. 2015. Web. 04 May 2017.
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COMPARISON OF PERSPECTIVES
1) In what ways are these perspectives about the issue similar amongst these different sources?
2) In what ways are these perspectives about the issue different amongst these different sources?
2) In what ways are these perspectives about the issue different amongst these different sources?