Global Voices

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

In the 1960s, the Sun Duck Orphanage in South Korea switched the identities of two orphans when an American family adopted one of them. Now filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem goes on a quest to search for her “double” — a girl named Cha Jung Hee — in an attempt to resolve a case of mistaken identity, and in the process explores the complexities of international transracial adoptions.

Coming to Global Voices: In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

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In the 1960s, a South Korean orphanage switched the identities of two orphans when an American family adopted one of them. Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem goes on a quest to search for her “double” — a girl named Cha Jung Hee — in an attempt to resolve a case of mistaken identity, in the process exploring the complexities of international transracial adoptions.

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