episodes.ghost.io: “We have enough identifying information of the birth parents, thus I made a request for the birth parents search to government agency and I will keep you informed of the progress.”
This is the email I received in April 2025, a few weeks before my 38th birthday. It’s from Jeongmin, a Korean social worker, telling me in broken English that the search for my birth parents has officially started.
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The first time I saw “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” was this past June. The only knowledge of the story I had going into it was Neil Patrick’s iconic Tony performance of “Sugar Daddy”. I didn’t expect to be moved by the story, let alone tear up multiple times. The next day after the performance I immediately looked up a video essay on the story so I could fully comprehend the art I had just seen. All of this to say, I related to the author of the article’s ability to relate to the story and connect with it on a deep level, even in a different way than I had. I also learned about how many children Korea had sent to the U.S. and the impact it had on those children. I was also fascinated and moved by the author’s proclamation that the idea of looking for your other half in love can also relate to a child and its mother, severed from each other signified by every person's belly button.
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