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As I am expecting to talk to Department of State official, my son's abduction issue is now on national news media in America.
After I posted my story here couple weeks ago, I've been on news a few more times.
One thing led to another, and I am expecting to talk to a high US government official next week, named Special Advisor Michelle Bernier-Toth from United States Department of State.
She is the main person who's been talking to high Korean government officials including the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Supreme Court of Korea. She even wrote an article before on a major Korean newspaper (중앙일보).
For anyone who is not familiar with my situation, I'm a dad who is separated from my son for almost 5 years, despite numerous court orders from courts of both countries (US and Korea). I initially tried to raise the child together with my ex-wife but after the mother betrayed me, the US court made stern decision that she is too dangerous to the child and should be separated. The law enforcement from both state level and Federal level saw the mother's disrespect of law and her disregard of child's welfare and charged her for Custodial interference of 1st degree and International Parental Kidnapping, respectively.
Korea after making 10 court orders continuously fails to enforce their own court orders and is being criticized both internationally and by Korean citizens. I am not the only one, the most well-known case being that of another American dad named John Sichi(존 시치).
The main issue going on is this: Korea, after 5 years of failure, recently announced that they will change their enforcement rule. When the parents like me saw the new draft we were shocked because it still didn't fix some major existing flaws. For example, if the child doesn't come to me spontaneously, we still have no way to enforce all the court orders we got.
I decided that I can no longer trust Korea to correct their own problem and started actively protesting and raising awareness. Recently a congresswoman publicly supported me, and as mentioned above, I am looking forward to having a meeting with a high US government official that can possibly lead to a meeting with Secretary Blinken.
It is painful to be in a position to criticize the country that I spent most of my school years in. I also don't want to disrespect Korean people who supported me. In fact I am grateful for all the support I got from various Korean news reporters and friends all around the country. I hope the leaders of Korea get to see this so they cannot pretend that this issue will just disappear if they hold off long enough until the dads or moms that lost their children give up. Until then, please help me spread the word. Thank you.
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After I posted my story here couple weeks ago, I've been on news a few more times.
One thing led to another, and I am expecting to talk to a high US government official next week, named Special Advisor Michelle Bernier-Toth from United States Department of State.
She is the main person who's been talking to high Korean government officials including the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Supreme Court of Korea. She even wrote an article before on a major Korean newspaper (중앙일보).
For anyone who is not familiar with my situation, I'm a dad who is separated from my son for almost 5 years, despite numerous court orders from courts of both countries (US and Korea). I initially tried to raise the child together with my ex-wife but after the mother betrayed me, the US court made stern decision that she is too dangerous to the child and should be separated. The law enforcement from both state level and Federal level saw the mother's disrespect of law and her disregard of child's welfare and charged her for Custodial interference of 1st degree and International Parental Kidnapping, respectively.
Korea after making 10 court orders continuously fails to enforce their own court orders and is being criticized both internationally and by Korean citizens. I am not the only one, the most well-known case being that of another American dad named John Sichi(존 시치).
The main issue going on is this: Korea, after 5 years of failure, recently announced that they will change their enforcement rule. When the parents like me saw the new draft we were shocked because it still didn't fix some major existing flaws. For example, if the child doesn't come to me spontaneously, we still have no way to enforce all the court orders we got.
I decided that I can no longer trust Korea to correct their own problem and started actively protesting and raising awareness. Recently a congresswoman publicly supported me, and as mentioned above, I am looking forward to having a meeting with a high US government official that can possibly lead to a meeting with Secretary Blinken.
It is painful to be in a position to criticize the country that I spent most of my school years in. I also don't want to disrespect Korean people who supported me. In fact I am grateful for all the support I got from various Korean news reporters and friends all around the country. I hope the leaders of Korea get to see this so they cannot pretend that this issue will just disappear if they hold off long enough until the dads or moms that lost their children give up. Until then, please help me spread the word. Thank you.
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