Supporting Adoptees and Families Explore Personal & Cultural Connections in Korea Since 1986
We offer personalized post adoption services, cultural expertise, and caring support to help Korean adoptees learn more about their 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 in the U.S. We are dedicated to providing a unique and comprehensive birthland tour with post adoption services backed by years of experience.
Tour Korea will be taking place June 19 – June 30, 2023
Registration for Tour Korea 2023 is currently full, however, spaces may become available due to cancellations. Please fill out the below form to be added to our Tour Korea 2023 waitlist, or to sign up to receive updates about future Tours.
Tour Korea Waitlist- Non-Refundable Registration Fee: $500 ($400 early bird)
- First Payment:
- Tour Only: $1,860
- Tour + Flights: an additional $250 per participant + cost of flights
- Due by February 10, 2023
- Final Payment:
- For everyone: $2,200
- Due by April 14, 2023
- Total Cost (airfare and post adoption service fees are not included): $4,560 ($4,460 early bird)
View Cost Summary & Payment Schedule Here
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.
- 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 (previously Eastern Child Welfare Society), Holt Children’s Services, Korea Social Service and Korea Welfare Services (previously 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.
We Also Provide Additional Post Adoption Services During Tour Korea
Additional services may include:
- Arranging meetings with individuals important to an adoptee’s birth and adoption stories, including foster mothers and birth family. Visits are initiated by U.S. placing agency.
- Conducting searches, in cooperation with Korean agencies, for birth family members. (Searches are initiated by U.S. placing agency.)
- Personalizing and planning side trips for adoptees to visit places of personal significance, such as birth clinic, city of birth, orphanage, etc.
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:
- The opportunity to visit adoptee’s adoption agency
- Traditional and modern cultural performances
- A ride on Korea’s famed bullet train
- A tour of a Buddhist monastery
- Excursions to historical sites in Seoul, Gwangju, Gyeongju, Ulsan, and Busan
- A visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- A discussion and exchange at a single mothers’ shelter
- A visit to the Korean War Memorial Museum
- Explore the Korean Folk Village
- Visit Boseong Green Tea Plantation
- A trip to visit the ocean, spend time on the beach and go 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, destination literature, and more.
The Tour packages includes: 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), and support/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.