NCRC Finally Re-Listed The KAS Website — It Can Now Be Easily Searched Again Using Google!
Posted to Paperslip on August 8th, 2025.
YOU GUYS.
NCRC finally RE-LISTED the KAS website so that it can be easily searched again using a Google trick we have been telling Adoptees about for years!
After YEARS of our asking them to do so, NCRC has finally re-listed the KAS site again, so that it can be easily searched using our favorite Google trick!
This means that you can now SEARCH the KAS site for specific search terms using Google. Previously, KAS had DE-LISTED the KAS site so that you could NOT search the site conveniently using the following Google search trick:
For example, the KAS “Family Search Bulletin” is below:
https://www.kadoption.or.kr/en/board/board_list.jsp?bcode=42_2
The “Family Search Bulletin” contains a TON of pages that are a massive pain to click through one by one. WITHOUT being able to search the KAS website via the Google search trick below, this section of the website would be almost impossible to search (since KAS’ internal search function is poor).
The KAS “Family Search Bulletin” is a place where Korean Adoptees and Korean birth family can search for one another by submitting individual posts to the KAS website.
Please note that there is a KOREAN and an ENGLISH version of the KAS website:
KAS English website:
kadoption.or.kr/en/
To search the ENGLISH version of the KAS website using Google:
Type into your Google browser:
site:kadoption.or.kr/en/ + search term (with or without quotes ““)
It’s best to search for ENGLISH terms on the English version of the KAS website.
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KAS Korean website:
kadoption.or.kr
To search the KOREAN version of the KAS website using Google:
Type into your Google browser:
site:kadoption.or.kr + search term (with or without quotes ““)
*Please note that we are not sure if searching the KOREAN version of the KAS website ALSO searches the ENGLISH version of the site. You might try searching both in some tests to see how it works.
It may be best to search for KOREAN terms on the Korean version of the KAS website. Remember - a Korean birth parent is going to make a post in KOREAN - NOT ENGLISH!
Previously, when the KAS site was de-listed for YEARS, it was painstakingly difficult to click through EACH POST AND PAGE ONE BY ONE.
Now that NCRC has RE-LISTED the KAS website, you can easily search the KAS website using Google!
To search the KOREAN version of the KAS website easily using Google, try this trick below:
Type into your Google browser:
site:kadoption.or.kr + 1970
To get this result!
Or, if you want to search the KOREAN version of the KAS website for the term “orphanage”:
Type into your Google browser:
site:kadoption.or.kr + orphanage
To get this result!
You can search for ANY search term with or without quotes ““.
GOOGLE SEARCHES THE KAS SITE FOR YOU!
You can use this trick on ANY website. Simply remove the “ http://www. “ from any URL, and type into your Google browser, for example:
site:homedepot.com + hammer
To get this result!
You can search for search terms with or without quotes ““
Such as:
site:homedepot.com + “hammer”
To get this result!
Also click on “Images” in Google to see image search results associated with your search term.
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We truly hope this is a PERMANENT change and that the KAS site remains LISTED on Google, so that it can be easily and efficiently searched!
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It’s important to note that the KAS site has a “Family Search Bulletin” for both Adoptees searching for birth parents AND birth parents searching for Adoptees.
You need to ALSO search the KAS website using KOREAN search terms if you are looking for posts by Korean birth parents, who have made posts in KOREAN!
For example, let’s say you are looking for a birth parent looking for a child born in Busan. You would FIRST need to translate “Busan” to KOREAN, and THEN use the KOREAN search term using our Google trick described above.
We highly recommend using ChatGPT for translation. You can simply type into ChatGPT:
Translate to Korean: (add your text without parentheses) and voila!
We used ChatGPT to translate “Busan” to Korean, which is 부산
Then type into your Google browser:
site:kadoption.or.kr + 부산
To get this result!
Also click on “Images” in Google to see image search results associated with your search term.
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Please Note — IF you find someone you think could be a relative match for you on the KAS “Family Search Bulletin”, you have to contact NCRC to obtain any contact information for that person. This COULD be problematic.
In 2021, we were forced to take the case of a Korean birth father, Mr. Park, to the Korean National Assembly due to the willful failure of Holt and the NCRC to reunite him with his twin daughters. From 2018 to 2021, Mr. Park and his daughters had been in contact with the SAME Holt social worker, and Mr. Park had also been in regular contact with NCRC. Yet Holt never reunited them. The Holt social worker later admitted she had suspected they were related — but retired without informing either party.
I had discovered Mr. Park’s posting on the KAS website in 2021 using this Google search trick (I searched for the Korean word for “twins”) while investigating my own case involving a deceased twin sister I had only learned about in 2020. When I contacted NCRC to request Mr. Park’s information, they denied having it — despite being in touch with him for three years. NCRC took over six months to even respond to my email. At that time, they had only ONE birth family search worker to respond to ALL requests by Korean Adoptees around the WORLD.
Mr. Park was ultimately reunited with his daughters not because of Holt or NCRC’s actions, but because I personally flew to Korea at my own expense, located Mr. Park, and provided him and his son with 23andMe DNA kits. Their results matched almost immediately with his twin daughters, who had already tested with 23andMe. Without my intervention, it is very likely Mr. Park would have died without ever seeing his twin daughters again.
You can read more about how we criticized Holt and NCRC here:
The October 2021 Effort to Hold Holt and NCRC Accountable at the Annual National Audit At Korea’s National Assembly
MP (Member of Parliament) 서영석 / Seo Young-seok of the Democratic Party of Korea, who was identified by a Korean supporter / activist in 2021 to represent Mr. Park’s case at the Korean Government’s annual National Audit is the same MP who is currently assisting Adoptees in attempting to hold NCRC to account in 2025. He was originally identified to help us with the Mr. Park case in 2021.
