Kim Jin Up, Summer 1970 (©#015)
Yang Ju Child Orphanage, early 1970 (©#007)
Yang Ju Child Care Center looking West, Summer 1970 (©#044)
Yangju Orphanage, Summer 1970 (©#019)
Yang Ju Child Care Center, looking Northeast 1970 (©#045)
Yang Ju front gate, Winter 1970 (©#046)
Kwak Sun Yong, Winter 1970 (©#010)
Donation from Island Hospital, Anacortes, WA Spring 1970 (©#022)
Nursery, Winter 1970 (heated floor) (©#004)
Nursery, Winter 1970 (©#003)
Nursery, Winter 1970 (©#006)
More babies, Summer 1970 (©#002)
Hello, Spring 1970 (©#005)
Kim Jin Up, Spring 1970 (©#014)
Kim Jin Up, center, Summer 1970 (©#016)
You want to come play, Summer 1970 (©043)
Summer 1970 (©040)
Lollipops Snack, Summer 1970, Ice Cream Snack, Summer 1970 (©#055)
Ice Cream Snack, Summer 1970 (©#054)
What no more ice cream! Summer 1970 (©#053)
Kim Suki, center: Kim Jin Up, right: Winter 1970 (©#011)
Children at play, Winter 1970 (©#017)
Boys will be boys, Summer 1970 (©#023)
Kim Jin Up, left: Kim Jung Me, right: Summer 1970 (©#025)
Kim Suki, Summer 1070 (©#012)
Kim Suki, english is hard, Spring 1970 (©#042)
Kim Suki, left, Summer 1970 (©#013)
Swinging, Spring 1970 (©#036)
This is fun, higher please, Summer 1970 (©#018)
Spring 1970, Kim Jin Up (©#027)
Winter 1970, Kim Jin Up and Kim Jung Me (©#035)
Kim Jung Me, front: Kim Jin Up, back: Winter 1970 (©#038)
See what I got more candy, Spring 1970 (©#037)
- Ring around the rosie, Summer 1970 (©#001)
Ring around the rosie, Summer 1970 (©#020)
Ring around the rosie, Summer 1970 (©#021)
CW-2 Webber, Winter 1970 (©#056)
CW-2 Webber, Winter 1970 (©#057)
Ring around the rosie, Summer 1970 (©#028)
Summer 1970 (©#026)
How about a story, Summer 1970 (©#029)
Snack time, Summer 1970 (©#034)
Summer 1970, Mrs. Kwak, left: Kim Jung Me, center: Kwak Moon Soo, Right (©#039)
Summer 1970 (©#050)
- Summer1970 Kwak Moon Su (©#051)
Snowman Yang Ju Child Care Center, Christmas 1970 or 1971 (©#067)
- A hike in the hills, Summer 1970 (©#030)
A hike in the hills, Summer 1970 (©#032)
Korean grave on the hike, Kim Jin Up, Summer 1970 (©#033)
At the top, Summer 1970 (©#031)
Transportation Competition, Korea 1970 ©
- Village street view 1970 (©#049)
Korean burial on hillside, 1970 (©#185)
Always the reminder that war was not far away, 1970 (©#187)
Holidays at Camp Casey 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 11)
Holidays at Camp Casey 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 14)
Holidays at Camp Casey SGT Carmichael 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 19)
Holidays at Camp Casey SPC Garcia 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 20)
Holidays at Camp Casey 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 76)
Holidays at Camp Casey SPC Philips 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 77)
Holidays at Camp Casey SPC Phillips 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 78)
Holidays at Camp Casey 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 79)
Holidays at Camp Casey 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 89)
Holidays at Camp Casey 1970 Contributed by Ray Helmick (© Hemlick 91)
You forgot to add aerial photos compliments of the U.S. Army
Official business of course and Army fuel was only $.07/gal then.
On a whim, I googled “Yang Ju” which was the name of the orphanage from which we adopted one of our daughters in 1975. She arrived in New York on her 2nd birthday along with 19 other orphans also from Yang Ju. Perhaps the orphanage that you show on your website is the same one. I was very touched by the photos and wonder what happened to the orphans shown. I want to thank you for your site and for all of the good works done by Mr. Kwak, his family, and the GIs from the 7th Infantry.
Thank you for your post and kind words. It’s my desire to help fill in the voids that an adoptee might be searching for by providing a brief snap shot of the past through the eyes and observations of others. As I have read other stories online there seem to be a desire to connect to the past, yet for each international adoptee that seems to be at a different level. In some small measure I hope this site helps. What I remember was a home full of well cared for and loved children who always seemed happy.
I love the picture with kids posed behind the gifts from the Island Hospital, especially the little guy in the front row squatting down with a frown on his face.
Good job on the website!
Hi Pat,
I hope you read this email….or if the admin from this website could forward it to you it would be greatly appreciated. I was adopted from Yang Ju in 1975 and I believe that I was one of the 19 orphans that came to NY on that day. I grew up in Shoreham and have recently contacted two other adoptees that came over with me, one grew up in the same town and another in Rocky Point. If you can please email me @ dongsoonlee11@gmail.com I have some questions. Thanks so much! Jen (Lee, Dong Soon)
This is wonderful photos! I’m a orphan from Yang Ju Child Care Center.
And these photos and informations are some very important bricks to my past. I can’t really believe it is happen….!
Thank you SO MUCH for this website!
I would love to get in contact with other orphans from Yang Ju Child Care Center or anybody others who had a relationship to this orphanage and the family KWAK.
Please contact me at lene.wul@gmail.com
🙂
Lene
Hi to All,
I just come back to my hotel in Seoul from Holt Children’s Services post adoption office. Very kinds to them to help me but unfortunately my history starts in 1977, date I was officially registered to government offices in Seoul to be adopted by French’s parents.
I was born in 1969, left in approximately in 1973 at age of 4-5 years old. From 1973 to 1977 no traces, until today… Thanks again to Holt to talk me about this webpage where I recognized the Yang Ju Child care center. Not very clear in my memory, but that was the place I lived at least 3 to 4 years thanks to the people who dedicated their lives to save children. Thanks to all, it was probably a very bad time.
Now, I don’t know what to do if I want find my family as the YangJu doesn’t exist anymore. No archives were kept or destroyed after 10 years.
If someone recognize me , please contact me on y email..
My name is JUNG Chul-Ha, born in 1969-08-14. At least on my papers.
The Holt talks me about
For fifty years I have been searching for information on my adoption. I recently found the name of my orphanage, Yangju, & quickly googled it. Lo & behold, I found pics of me & my adoptive dad on the website…pics #056, #057, #010. So grateful to Mr. W. Larne Gabriel for setting up the website. Please feel free to respond if you have any additional information.
Hi
I was adopted by an American family in 1973. I arrived in the US in December of 1973 to be precise. I am not sure if this was the orphanage i grew up in but some things seem vaguely familiar. I was adoped through the Holt International Adoption Agency. I do have some photoes of me that my adoped parents saved for me. How would i go about finding out if i was from this orphanage?