It's an effective way to support the cause. Mirae kate-hers RHEE hasn't added a story. Welcome to my project, Run Towards My Family , a Birth Family Search BFS , a social art intervention, and a marathon running challenge in the form of a durational endurance performance where you can follow my journey as I literally run to find my first family.
These performative works deal with issues of identity, gender and racial discrimination, ethnic solidarity, and using language learning, food and cuisine, cultural artifacts, and social media to critique and celebrate. In fact, one of my past social interventions was successfully funded through Kickstarter , which you can check out here if you're interested. I speak both fluent broken German and Korean with a serious Detroit accent, where I grew up.
Just kidding, but I have a funny midwestern accent, I do know that. My interest in my heritage was quite precocious and I returned to South Korea for the first time to study Korean traditional music and dance in the late nineties when I started searching for my first family.
I have been the focus of numerous newspaper articles and was on television three times: once on MBC and twice on KBS but with no luck. I even conducted a search as an art project in called the Missing Persons Project , where I posted up missing persons posters of myself in the neighborhood where I was born. As I am now middle aged, the chances increase that my South Korean parents have passed. I hope to reunite with them before one of us dies.
Over twenty years ago when I conducted my first BFS, the situation was vastly different. We were pathologized and demonized by adoption institutions, adoptive parents, and the society at large.
