NCRC De-Listed The Korea Adoption Services (KAS) Website Around 2022 / 2023 — Now It Can No Longer Be Efficiently Searched Using Google.
Posted to Paperslip on July 10th, 2025.
NCRC did something that made search LESS efficient. Surprise!
(*Please note that KAS is the predecessor of NCRC, and that ALL Korean Adoptees with an interest in birth family search will have to submit a Petition for Adoption Information Disclosure (birth familiy search request) to NCRC via the KAS website after September 16th, 2025).
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Few people are aware, but sometime around 2022 / 2023, NCRC deliberately DE-LISTED the Korean Adoption Services (KAS) website, effectively meaning that it can NO LONGER be efficiently searched using Google.
This is the KAS website URL:
https://www.kadoption.or.kr/en/
Prior to when NCRC de-listed the KAS website, you COULD efficiently search the KAS website using the handy Google search trick below, which, “coincidentally” enough, we had included on Paperslip as a search tip starting in 2020:
Free Online Tools + Tips For Searchers
”Tips for Efficient Online Searching:
Search tip — Use Google and search any site on the web more efficiently, such as the Paperslip site (below) by removing the http://www. and typing in Google’s search bar:
site:paperslip.org + “KSS address”
This works with any website, and you can substitute “KSS address” with any search term, with or without "quotes”
To get this search result.”
Prior to 2022 / 2023 when NCRC de-listed the KAS website, you COULD previously search the KAS website using Google in the following manner:
Type into Google:
site:kadoption.or.kr/en/ + kss
Previously you would have gotten a helpful result —such as this example result when you search the “Home Depot” website for a “hammer”":
site:homedepot.com + hammer
Now, however, when you search the KAS site using the same Google search trick, you get this ERROR MESSAGE: “No information is available for this page.”
You now get NOTHING as a result, because NCRC de-listed the KAS website around 2022 / 2023. This means that the KAS website can (as of this writing) no longer be searched efficiently using Google.
This search tip came especially in handy for searching the KAS Family Search Bulletin Board — which, without using the Google search tip above, you must PAINSTAKINGLY click through EACH PAGE ONE BY ONE MANUALLY in order to see each posting — in either the “For Birth Family” or “For Adoptee” sections of the page:
The KAS Family Search Bulletin Board
This ongoing, frustratingly inefficient search process is courtesy of NCRC — an issue we’ve raised with them IN PERSON in Seoul not once, but twice: most recently in June 2025. On both occasions, the NCRC representative we spoke with appeared surprised to hear about the problem and assured us they would raise the issue with the website team. Unsurprisingly, nothing has changed.
In our most recent visit to NCRC’s new office in Seoul in June 2025, the worker we spoke with said that the KAS website was going to be redesigned, and that SEARCH functions on the site would be made more efficient.
But we will believe that when we see it.
In the meantime — “enjoy” clicking through each of those search pages one by one.