{"id":43725,"date":"2015-11-04T02:36:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43725"},"modified":"2015-11-04T02:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:36:46","slug":"koreans-and-camptowns-mixed-race-adoptees-and-camptown-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43725","title":{"rendered":"Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browercenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Brower Center<\/a><br \/>\n2150 Allston Way<br \/>\nBerkeley, California 94704<br \/>\n2015-09-26, 09:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ieas.berkeley.edu\/cks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Korean Studies<\/a>, University of California, Berkeley, we were excited to host a one-day conference to learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prostitutes_in_South_Korea_for_the_U.S._military\" target=\"_blank\">camptowns<\/a> that developed alongside American military bases in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korea\" target=\"_blank\">Korea<\/a> during and after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_War\" target=\"_blank\">Korean War<\/a>. The conference spotlighted the intersection of American military presence and Korean society, focusing on exploring the lives of people who lived in the camptowns and the historical context surrounding the overseas adoption of thousands of mixed-race children. We will be sharing conference highlights as they become available. Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meandkorea.org\/2015-conference.html\" target=\"_blank\">check back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JHvXYb4OMXo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meandkorea.org\/2015-conference.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704 2015-09-26, 09:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) In cooperation with the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, we were excited to host a one-day conference to learn more about the camptowns that developed alongside American military bases in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,459,8,20,842],"tags":[687,21751,21756,3460,21755,21754,228,18621,21753,1967,21752],"class_list":["post-43725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-adoption","tag-center-for-korean-studies","tag-deann-borshay-liem","tag-eleana-kim","tag-grace-m-cho","tag-jai-song-seo","tag-korea","tag-korean-war","tag-myung-duck-joo","tag-sue-je-lee-gage","tag-yong-nam-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43726,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43725\/revisions\/43726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}