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In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966.

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee Trailer

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Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee?

Previews + Extras

  • In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee - Clip 2: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee - Clip 2

    S23 E12 - 2m 7s

    Filmmaker Deann Liem Borshay talks about her birth mother's history of struggle in Korea. After the Korean War, Borshay's mother was left with 5 small children and no husband or means of supporting her family. Borshay explains that any anger she has for her birth mother was mitigated after she heard the story of her situation.

  • In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee - Clip 1: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee - Clip 1

    S23 E12 - 6m 25s

    In this clip from "In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee," filmmaker Deann Liem Borshay talks about the historical events in Korea that shaped her destiny as a Korean-born adoptee sent to America during the 1960s.

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