Tour Korea! 2013

>> Tour Korea! 2013 Registration is Now Open <<

A trip to one's birth country is a unique and treasured journey.

For more than two decades, Children's Home has led birthland tours that provide opportunities for adopted persons and their families to explore personal and cultural connections to Korea. We offer personalized post-adoption services, cultural expertise and caring support to help Korean adoptees learn more about the beginning places, culture and people important to their birth and adoption stories.

As you look at birthland tours, you will find that Children's Home is best prepared and equipped to facilitate this once-in-a lifetime trip. With more than 25 years of birthland tour experience, Children's Home is exceptionally qualified to guide you on this meaningful journey. We have earned the trust of hundreds of families that have traveled on these life-changing tours.
 

Choose a Tour and Register

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Tour Overview & Highlights

Tour Korea! gives you a unique opportunity to explore Korean culture and traditions, experience modern Korean life, and gain insight about adoption in Korea today.  | more > |
 

Attend an Information Session

Join us in person or online via webinar this fall for a free, no-obligation Tour Korea! 2013 info session. | more > |
 

Korean Intermediary Services

Post-adoption services related to your birth and adoption story. Children's Home can help you create a uniquely meaningful birthland tour experience.  | more > |
 

Learn More: Tour Korea! In Depth

Start planning now for this once-in-a-lifetime trip. Let us help you make an informed decision.

• Request a Tour Korea! 2013 brochure
• Discover what makes a Children's Home tour different
• Connect directly with past participants
• Watch a pre-recorded online Information Session presentation
• For Adoptive Parents: When is the best time to make a birthland trip?
• Frequently Asked Questions

Children's Home Tour Korea! . . .

. . . welcomes participants from throughout the United States, regardless of placing agency.

. . . is not a typical group tour. Everyone comes into Tour Korea! with the commonality of adoption, privacy is respected and lifelong friendships are formed.

. . . prepares participants for travel via in-person and interactive webinar orientation sessions.

. . . visits and works with all four major adoption agencies in Korea — Eastern Social Welfare Society, Holt, Korea Social Service and Social Welfare Society.

. . . conducts searches with Korean agencies for birth family members.

. . . arranges and facilitates meetings with individuals important to an adoptee’s birth and adoption stories, including foster mothers!

. . . provides accurate, supportive and experienced translation during meetings.

. . . personalizes, plans and facilitates side trips for adoptees to visit places of personal significance — finding site, birth clinic, birthparent’s hometown, city of birth, orphanage.

. . . gives travelers activity options, free-time and multiple supportive check-in meetings throughout the tour.

. . . supports participants before, during and after the tour experience.

. . . can be an especially significant personal journey when shared with family.

For More Information

Request a Tour Korea! 2013 brochure: click here

Contact Tour Korea! Director Jane Lee with additional questions:
email:  jlee@chsfs.org  |  phone:  651.255.2225  |  toll free:  800.932.9302, ext. 2225