Co-presented with Korea Peace Now!

Award-winning filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and aspiring director and community organizer Meejin Seol, in a conversation moderated by journalist Anna Kook, spoke about their respective film-based works, families, geopolitics of adoption, and why we cannot hope to understand the history of the Korean War, militarism, or division without understanding the history of transnational adoption. The discussion addressed the crucial perspective that individuals adopted from Korea bring to the topic of ending the Korean War and tongil (통일, “reunification of the Korean peninsula”) as well as the present-day political landscape in South Korea—including impeachment and ongoing resistance by Korean civil society.