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Norwegian mother writes book to answer son’s questions about his adoption from Korea

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Norwegian mother writes book to answer son’s questions about his adoption from Korea
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A couple uneasily entered a pediatrics ward in Bergen, Norway, holding their young son in December 1998. At the reception desk, they write down the boy’s name: Anders Hyun Molvik Botnmark. The same child, now a young man, rummaged through an old blue travel bag when he was 22 and asked, “Is this really it, Mom?” It was that moment when Kristine Molvik Botnmark, Anders’ stepmother and a sociologist, decided to write “Adopsjonsoppgjøret” (“To Your Korean Mother” in Korean). She adopted her son kno

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