Supporting Adoptees and Families Explore Personal and Cultural Connections in Korea Since 1986
We offer personalized post adoption services, cultural expertise and caring support to help Korean adoptees learn more about your Korean origins, culture and people important to their birth and adoption stories.
We work with adoptees from any U.S. or Korean adoption agency who live across the U.S. We are dedicated to providing a unique, comprehensive birthland tour with post adoption services backed by years of experience.
We have made the difficult decision to cancel Tour Korea! scheduled for June 18-30, 2022.
We are hopeful that a 2023 tour may still be an option. Current registrants will be issued refunds for all refundable fees.
We recognize that family searches and connections with foster families is a significant part of the tour experience and we invite you to explore what connections are possible through South Korea Post Adoption Services.
A Trip to Your Birth Country is a Unique and Treasured Journey
As you consider birthland tours, you will find that Children’s Home is best prepared and qualified to guide you on this once-in-a-lifetime trip. Children’s Home Tour Korea…
- Welcomes participants from throughout the United States, regardless of placing agency.
- Is not a typical group tour. Everyone comes to Tour Korea with the commonality of adoption; privacy is respected and lifelong friendships are formed.
- Prepares participants for travel through webinar-based orientation sessions.
- Visits and works with all four major adoption agencies in Korea — Eastern Social Welfare Society, Holt Children’s Services, Korea Social Service and Social Welfare Society.
- Provides accurate, supportive, and experienced translation, as well as cultural understanding.
- Gives travelers activity options, free time, and supportive check-in group meetings throughout the tour.
- Supports participants before, during, and after the tour experience.
- Is an especially significant personal journey when shared with family.
Children’s Home Also Provides Additional Post Adoption Services during Tour Korea
- Arrange meetings with individuals important to an adoptee’s birth and adoption stories, including foster mothers. Visits are initiated by U.S. placing agency.
- Personalize and plan side trips for adoptees to visit places of personal significance — birth clinic, city of birth, orphanage, etc.
- Conduct searches, in cooperation with Korean agencies, for birth family members. Searches are initiated by U.S. placing agency.
Opportunities to Discover Korea & Yourself
Tour Korea highlights the history of South Korea and offers opportunities for participants to learn more about their personal history and identity.
Tour Korea typically includes:
- Visit adoptee’s adoption agency
- Traditional and modern cultural performances
- Bullet train ride
- Visit a Buddhist monastery
- Participate in Tae Kwon Do at Yongin University
- Visit historical sites in Seoul, Gwangju, Gyeongju, Ulsan, and Busan
- Visit the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Discussion and exchange at a single mothers’ shelter
- Korean War Memorial Museum
- Explore the Korean Folk Village
- Visit Boseong Green Tea Plantation
- Ocean beach visit and swimming
Children’s Home tour staff includes: a post adoption worker, country specialist, adopted adult, and adoptive parent. We provide two pre-trip orientation meetings—in person or live via webinar—that address cross-cultural etiquette, gift-giving, post adoption services, itineraries, and destination literature, and more.
The tour packages include: hotel accommodations, daily breakfast, and most lunches and dinners; sightseeing by private motor coach and all admission fees; professional, English-speaking in-country guides; baggage handling; all group transportation; and post adoption services (as applicable), support and expertise provided by Children’s Home staff and volunteers.
Package exclusions: Side trip (post-adoption services) transportation expenses, emergency transportation (and translation) to clinic/hospital or early return to hotel, some meals, personal purchases, and gifts. These additional costs are outlined in orientation meetings and tour materials.