Identity is inherited, discovered, and created.
Your family’s adoption story may be part of your story too.
DOKADS is a community and learning hub for children, grandchildren, and other descendants of Korean adoptees. Come explore the questions, stories, cultures, relationships, and identities that can continue across generations.
Never heard the word DoKAD before? You’re not alone.
What is a DoKAD?
DoKAD / DOH-kad /
noun
A descendant of a Korean adoptee. Most often the child of someone adopted from Korea — sometimes the grandchild, sometimes further down.
If your parent or grandparent was adopted from Korea, that is you. There is no test to pass and no box you have to tick.
Four ways into the same subject. Take them in any order — or take one and leave.
Who is a DoKAD?
Children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of people adopted from Korea.
What is Korean adoption?
Around 200,000 children adopted out of Korea since the 1950s — and what came after.
Where are we?
Everywhere the programme sent people — and increasingly, back and forth.
Why does this matter?
Because the questions travel — and the second generation is having them alone.
You do not need to have everything figured out before taking part.
The first DoKAD meetup has happened. Nothing new is on the calendar yet — when there is, it goes here first.
The first one. A casual Sunday meetup designed by and for DoKADs in the Twin Cities — mostly just to meet each other and see who is out there.
Want the next one?
Tell us you are interested and what would suit you — a time, a place, a kind of gathering. The first one happened because people asked.
Email usKorean adoptees, parents, organizations, researchers, and allies may provide support, resources, mentorship, funding, or partnership — but descendants should have meaningful leadership in decisions about DoKAD programming.
A few quick questions — nothing too personal. It helps us work out what to run, where, and when.