#10 Interview with Daniel Eysseric

Guest: Daniel Eysseric
Interviewer: Nari
Recording Date: January 16, 2008
Length: 59 minutes

During this episode, Daniel Eysseric, a 34-year-old Korean French adoptee, speaks openly about his opinions on Korean society and the place of Korean adoptees. From his rare position of working in a Korean company, he shares his thoughts on how Korea could positively utilize adoptees more effectively for the purpose of boosting their economic endeavors. Daniel also speaks candidly about his relationship with his Korean step-son, his Korean in-laws, and his ultimate decision to end contact with his birth family after their initial reunion.

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#7 Interview with Bill Packard

Guest: Bill Packard
Interviewer: Chris
Recording Date: January 10, 2008
Length: 55 minutes

Bill Packard is a half-Korean American from Toledo, Ohio. Bill came to Korea after college and some work experience in America and first moved to Suncheon where he spent about two years teaching English. After a quick move back to America to see if things worked there, he moved back to Korea, this time to Seoul, where he’s roughly been for the past three years working in the publishing industry. In this interview Bill discusses growing up slightly ethnically isolated yet well-integrated, as well as the surprising normalcy of growing up with two parents of different ethnicities before his move to Korea.

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