Advertisement'Feeling Like We Belong': U.S. Adoptees Return To South Korea To Trace Their RootsDecember 27, 2019Anthony KuhnfacebookEmailSouth Korea was once the largest source of children for international adoptions. The U.S. became their main destination. Some Korean-born adoptees feel distant from both the country of their birth and the country where they were raised, but in recent years, many have gone back to build ties with their birth families. (Grace Heejung Kim for NPR)