Divided Families Foundation
The Divided Families Foundation (formerly known as Saemsori or the Saemsori Project) is an American NGO that advocates for reunions for Korean American Divided Families who are seeking to reunite with their relatives in the D.P.R.K., whom they have not seen for 60 years since the Korean War in the 1950s. Unlike previous first-generation divided families organizations, the Divided Families Foundation began in 2006 by focusing on lobbying the American government as well as raising public awareness, and in 2007, created the Congressional Commission on Divided Families, a caucus co-chaired by then Rep. Mark Kirk and Rep. Jim Matheson.
References
- Chicago Public Radio’s Mike Rhee reports, April 13, 2006 on efforts to reunite Koreans in Chicago with their families in North Korea
- Duluth Weekly, June 14, 2006: Georgia Senators Support Korean-American Seeking Family Reunion in North Korea
- Dynamic-Korea May 16, 2006: Saemsori Project seeks to reunite families
- Chicago Tribune, April 13, 2006: Decades pass, but Koreans hold hope for reunions
Further reading
- Korea’s Divided Families: Fifty years of separation by James A. Foley: ISBN 0415297389 | ISBN 978-0415297387
- Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography of Korean Family Dispersal by Choong Soon Kim: ISBN 978-0-8165-1071-9
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