• Headline: "Benefit Bazaar by Sangnokhoe and CAPOK to Aid Unfortunate Children"
• Source: Dong-A Ilbo
• Date of Publication: October 24, 1972
• Summary: 

Sangnokhoe (the Evergreen Society), a dedicated group of high school principals' wives in Seoul, is teaming up with the Christian Adoption Program of Korea (CAPOK) to host a benefit bazaar aimed at raising funds to "aid unfortunate children." The bazaar will take place at the CAPOK office near the Second Han River Bridge. All proceeds will go toward covering foster care expenses for infants born to unwed mothers as they await placement with adoptive families."

• Archiving Note:  

If children born to unwed mothers had not been interpellated as “unfortunate children” to justify fundraising efforts for adoptive placements, their trajectories might have been different. If they had instead been supported to remain within their birth families, countless adoptees, now adults, might not have experienced separation from their families of origin or struggled with questions about their identity decades later.

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