August 11 th (Fri.)
Time
14:00 -19:00
19:00 - 21:00
Event (Location) Speaker Title
Conference Registration/Accommodations Check-in, Informal Reception (Lobby)
Opening Ceremony & Dinner (Grand Conference Hall)
Welcome remarks and presentation of speakers
Welcome Address
Nicole SHEPPARD
Dae-won WENGER
GOA'L Vice Secretary General
GOA'L Secretary General
Video Message
Featured Speakers
Mr. Ki-moon BAN
Prof. Chang-Mo CHOI
Minister of Foreign Affairs
GOA ’L Board of Directors
21:00 - 22:00
Workshop #1: OUTSIDERS
WITHIN: Writings on Transracial
Adoption - book introduction
Jane Jeong TRENKA
Editor & Contributor and Author of the book
"The Language of Blood"
August 12 th (Sat.)
08:30 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:30
10:45 -12:00
12:00 - 13:15
13:15 – 14:15
14:30 - 15:45
16:00
– 16:45
17:00
– 18:15
Registration & Continental Breakfast (Lobby)
Presentation #1a: In Between
Identities - Searching for Korean-ess
(Meeting Room)
Charlotte GULLACH
Danish Adoptee & Korea Klubben Board
Member
Hokyung LEE GOA'L Adoption Services Director
Presentation #1b: DNA Testing
(Art Hall)
Choonhong HWANG
Workshop #2: Korean Domestic
Adoption & Adoptive Families
(Meeting Room)
Ms. Suk-Kyung SUH
Mr. Seung-Joon HONG
Dow Gene DNA Research Center Rep.
Manager, Dept. of Adoption & Childcare at
Holy Family Child Adoption Center
Domestic Adoptive Father
Hee-gon YOO Adult Domestic Adoptee
Presentation #2: Breaking Through the Fugue State (Art Hall
Kim Park NELSON US Adoptee & PhD candidate, research
Lunch (Dining Hall)
Workshop #3a: Adoptees in the
Entertainment Industry
(Meeting Room)
Narrative & Performance:
Anamnesis: An Adoptee's Vow to
Remember (Art Hall)
Workshop #4a: Adoptees Running their own Businesses in Korea
(Meeting Room)
Amy ANDERSON
Philippe LAPAIRY
Mirim KIM
Mathieu MOLES
Benjamin HAUSER
Boon Young HAN
US Adoptee & Stand-up Comedian
French Adoptee, TV Reporter & Singer
US Adoptee, MA in English Composition; thesis “Reconstructing International Adoption
Narratives: a Korean Adoptee Tal ks Back”
French Adopteee, Chef & Coowner of ‘Le Petit
Paris’
US Adoptee, Furniture Imports
Danish adoptee, ASK member
Workshop #4b: Adoptee, Activism and Change (Art Hall)
Su-Yoon KO
Jenny Kyung-ah NA
US Adoptee, ASK Member
US Adoptee, ASK Member
Presentation #3:
IKAA Introduction &
2007 IKAA Gathering
(Art Hall)
"Resilience" film screening & discussion (Art Hall)
Tim HOLM
Sarah Kim RANDOLPH
Thomas Tae-yang
JOERGENSEN
Dae-won WENGER
Tammy CHU
Reverend Do Hyun KIM
US Adoptee, AAAW President
US Adoptee, AAAW Board member
Korea Klubben Board member
Swiss Adoptee & GOA’L Secretary General
US Adoptee, Film Director & Co-producer
Manager, KoRoot & Film Producer
18:15 - 18:45
18:45 - 19:45
Group Picture (Art Hall)
Dinner (Dining Hall)
20:30 - 24:00
Shuttle bus to Hongdae -> S-Club Entertainment:
Amy ANDERSON – Stand-up Comedy & Bonjour – Music performance
August 13 th (Sun.)
09:00 –10:00
10:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 17:00
Continental Breakfast
Check-out & shuttle bus to Hongdae, Fringe Festival & Lunch (on own)
[optional activity] Performance: The Ballerina who Loved a B-boy

August 11 th (Fri.)
14:00-18:00
Lobby
18:00-19:00
Lobby
19:00-21:00
Grand Conference Hall
21:00-22:00
Grand Conference Hall
Conference Registration & Check-in – Art Exhibit open
Informal Reception
Opening Ceremony & Grand Buffet Dinner
Welcome remarks & presentation of Speakers
By Nicole Sheppard, G.O.A.
’L Vice Secretary General and Jiwon Park, Translator
Welcome Address
By Dae-won Wenger, G.O.A.
’L Secretary General
Video Message
By Ki-moon Ban, Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Featured Speakers
By Professor Chang-Mo Choi, G.O.A.'L Board of Directors
Workshop #1: Outsiders Within: Writings about Transracial Adoption
Book Introduction by: Jane Jeong Trenka, Editor & Contributor
Description: People from around the world often turn to interracial and intercountry adoption with the idea that while growing their families, they're saving children from destitution. But as Outsiders Within reveals, while transracial adoption is a practice traditionally considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and even economic toll.
August 12 th (Sat.)
08:30-09:30
Lobby
Registration continued & Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Meeting Room
Presentation #1a: In Between Identities – Searching for Korean-ess
Presenter: Charlotte Gullach, Danish adoptee & Korea Klubben Board Member
Description: Being adopted to a European country very often represents a special challenge for international adoptees, as they often face a coherent homogeneous culture leaving the adopted person without any tools, knowledge or recognition of the necessity of shaping identity from both biological and adopted heritage. Come learn about what happens when neither visual representation nor c ultural identity is capable of embracing or bridging the adopted reconstruction of a “self” in the country adopted-to.
09:30-10:30
Art Hall
Presentation #1b: DNA Testing
Presenters: Choon-hong Hwang, Dow Gene DNA Research Center Representative
Hokyung Lee, GOA ’L Adoption Services Director
Translation: Jiwon Park
Description: More overseas adoptees than ever before are returning to Korea to search for their birth families. After potential birth family members are found, DNA testing is the most accurate and reliable way to confirm if the adoptee and potential family members are actually related. Information about the procedures of DNA testing and what services are available to adoptees will be provided.
10:45-12:00 Workshop #2: Korean Domestic Adoption & Adoptive Families (Meeting Room)
Meeting Room Moderator: Su-yoon Ko, US Adoptee & ASK Member
Panelists: Suk-kyung Suh, Manager of Dept. of Adoption & Childcare – Holy Family Child Adoption
Center
Seung-Joon Hong, Domestic adoptive father
Hee-gon Yoo, Adult domestic adoptee
TBA, Korean to English Translation provided. This session is closed to all media
Description: For many decades the focus of many international viewers of Korean adoption has been on international adoption. However, domestically, the Korean government and individuals have been trying to change attitudes towards adoption & adoptees. Listen to current efforts being made to promote domestic adoption as well as get insight to the experiences of domestic adoptive families.

10:45-12:00
Art Hall
12:00-13:00
Dining Hall
13:15-14:15
Meeting Room
13:15-14:15
Art Hall
14:30-15:45
Meeting Room
14:30-15:45
Art Hall
16:00 -16:45
Art Hall
Presentation #2: Breaking Through the Fugue State: Korean Adoptee Interventions in Adoption
Research
Presenter: Kim Park Nelson, PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota
Description: What can be gained now that Korean adoptees are taking control for the first time in research and cultural production about Korean adoption experiences? Until recently, much of the existing research on Korean adoption relied on parent and adoption agency "best practices" and configured Korean adoptees as well-assimilated within their white families —"successful" additions to the western nuclear families. A different story emerges when Korean adoption is queried as a cultural
(rather than a social or familial) phenomenon and when Korean adoptees themselves-rather than adoptive parents and adoption agencies-are at the center of those queries. When adult Korean adoptees conduct and participate in adoption research, we learn that Korean adoptees have lots to say about our racialization as Asians immigrants, our political location as "saved" children of Cold War conflicts, our cultural location in white and non-white communities, and about the state of transnational and transracial adoption practices around the world.
Korean-style Lunch
All participants
Workshop #3: Korean Adoptees in the Entertainment Industry (Meeting Room)
Moderator: Sarah Kim Randolph, US Adoptee
Panelists: Amy Anderson, US adoptee & famous Stand-up Comedian from the US
Philippe Lapairy, French adoptee & TV Reporter & Singer in Korea
Description: Ever wonder what it ’s like to work in the Entertainment Industry? In this panel discussion adoptees will talk openly about their work as entertainers, highlighting the pros & cons, candid insight into the Hollywood and Korean entertainment industries, issues of adoption & race in popular culture & more.
Narrative & Performance: Anamnesis: An Adoptee's Vow to Remember
Performer: Mirim Kim, US Adoptee, MA in English Composition
Piano: Mihyun Lee
Vocals: Juyeon Jung
Multimedia: Jiyoung Park
Description: Acting out various roles, this one-woman performance will imagine herself from the perspective of a child growing up in an orphanage, a volunteer (observer) at the same orphanage, returning to the US as an advocate for these same children, and more. A discussion session will follow and participants are encouraged to actively engage in this session.
Workshop #4a: Korean Adoptees Running Their Own Businesses in Korea
Moderator: TBA
Panelists: Mathieu Moles, French adoptee, Head Chef & Co-owner of Le Petit Paris
Benjamin Hauser, US adoptee, Beginning Furniture Import Business
Description: Come hear about how adoptees are using their skills and education gained from their adoptive countries to start new chapters in their lives and careers as adults in Korea. Get helpful tips on the do ’s and don’t’s of setting up your own business while learning more about the cultural nuances that are involved in navigating your way through the business culture of Korea.
Workshop #4b: Adoptee, Activism and Change
Panelists: Boon Young Han, Danish adoptee, ASK Member
Su-Yoon Ko, US adoptee, ASK Member
Jenny Kyung-ah Na, US adoptee, ASK Member
Description: Adoptee Solidarity Korea (ASK) will give a brief overview of the organization
’s activities.
They will then put it in context with Korean legislation activities that have taken place in Korea in the last year.
Presentation #3: IKAA & the 2007 IKAA Gathering in Seoul, Korea
Presenters: Tim Holm, AAAW President
Sarah Kim Randolph, AAAW Board member
Thomas Tae-yang Joergensen, Korea Klubben Board Member
Dae-won Wenger, G.O.A.
’L Secretary General
Description: Representatives of some of the member associations of IKAA will give a brief overview about the organization, highlighting key achievements & activities. A presentation will follow about the upcoming 2007 IKAA Gathering planned for July 31-Aug 5, 2007 in Seoul.

17:00 - 18:15
Art Hall
15:00 – 17:00
B-boy Theater
Hongdae
Film Screening & Discussion: “Resilience”
Produced by: KoRoot, Reverend Do Hyun Kim
Directed and Co-produced by: Tammy Chu
Descriptions: Resilience tells the stories of Korean birth mothers who gave their children up for overseas adoption. The film explores the reasons and circumstances behind their decision, which was often due to lack of social welfare support and women ’s rights. For the very first time, despite stigma and discrimination from their own society, birth mothers bravely come forward to tell their stories of loss, struggle, and ultimately, of courage and strength.
18:15 - 18:45
Art Hall
18:45 - 19:45
Dining Hall
19:45 – 20:30
20:30 – 24:00
S Club
Hongdae
August 13 th (Sun.)
09:00 – 12:00
Seoul Women ’s Plaza
12:00
– 13:00
13:00
– 14:45
Hongdae area
Official Closing Remarks, Group Photo & Finish filling-out Evaluation Forms
All participants
Korean-style Dinner
All participants
Board Shuttle Buses to S Club [Hongdae]
All conference participants – must have entrance ticket for free entrance
Non-conference participants – must pay cover at the door!
Evening Entertainment & Closing Party
Stand-up Comedy by: Amy Anderson
Music Performance by: Bonjour (to be confirmed)
Fun, Dancing & Drink specials for all attendees all night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Continental Breakfast & Check-out
All participants staying on-site
Shuttle Buses to Hongdae
All participants staying on-site
Sightseeing & Lunch (on own)
Seoul Fringe Festival will be going on (Aug 11-27, 2006) during this period.
Fringe’ means a cultural festival, which future-oriented young artists come together to present their works of art such as paintings, music and street performances. The fringe festival originally began in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and since then it has spread widely across the world. Currently, there are 70
Fringe festivals being held worldwide including Korea.
Since 1998, ‘Seoul Fringe Festival’ which originated from the Asian Fringe Festival has been held in about 20 artistic places such as small theaters, live theaters, and galleries around Hongik University in
Seoul. At present, about three hundred teams from seven countries including Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Singapore, Macao, Japan, India, and Korea participate in the festival, and more than two hundred thousand spectators enjoy this large-scale art and culture festival.
Info in Korean: www.seoulfringe.net
Info in English: http://english.tour2korea.com/ click on -> July Through September Festivals Await
Performance: The Ballerina who Loved a B-boy
*** Advanced registration for this event is required***
Participation fee: 24,000 won/person
(at a specially discounted price of more than 50% off, Regular price is 50,000 won)
Join G.O.A.’L Conference participants as we attend a performance of The SJ B-Boys’ extraordinarily popular show in Hongdae. Bboy dancing (also known as “breakdancing”) evolved from street hiphop culture in 1970’s New York City and involves highly demanding, awe-inspiring moves with DJ beats in the background. B-boy culture has since expanded globally, and the SJ B-Boys demonstrate how hip-hop has been integrated into the new face of Korean culture. The SJ B-Boys
Theatre’s current, long-running production is “The Ballerina Who Loved a B-Boy.” The performance tells the story of a prissy ballerina falling in love with a streetwise b-boy through the energetic and modern style of b-boy-ing. Finally, one of the cast members (LastForOne, the world champion at the
2005 BOTY, an annual, international b-boy competition in Germany) will give a special performance demonstrating his considerable skills.
Info: http://www.sjbboys.com/program_ing_eng.html