Study trip to South Korea31 August–6 September 2024
Social Committee 2023-24
SOU Alm. part Annex 290
Public
Study trip to South Korea
31 August
–
6 September 2024
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Saturday 31 August: Arrival and introduction
15:25
16:40
18:00
Arrival at Incheon Airport / TG652
Transport to restaurant
Dinner and introductory meeting
During the dinner, the embassy's deputy head, Philip, will
Hallqvist, give an introduction to the week's programme, it
political landscape and important South Korean cultural
norms.
20:00
Transport to hotel
Marriott Hotel
T1, Incheon Airport
Sunday 1 September: Adoption
Morning
12:00-
12:50
13:10
Parliamentary work
Lunch
Meet embassy staff in the lobby
Go to the embassy
Presentation by Prof. Helen Noh and discussion
Meeting with Professor Helen Noh, who has 40 years of experience,
knowledge and research in the area of adoption with special
expertise in the social welfare aspect. Professor Noh
contributed to the drafting of the Korean Adoption Act i
2011. She served as the lead Korean
investigator for the Korean Human Rights
commission investigation of adoptions from Korea and has
advised expert committee under the Korean president.
Pause
Individual lunch
Hotel lobby
13:30-
15:00
The embassy
Interpretation: no
15:00-
15:15
15:15-
17:15
Meeting with Professor So Rami and lawyer Hwang Pilkyu
The embassy
Professor So Rami is one of South Korea's leading professors
Interpretation: Yes
in Law with expertise in international adoptions (Korea's
Adoption Act 2011). The lawyer Hwang Pilkyu is the chairman
for the International Human Rights Lawyer Association and is a
leading expert on human rights.
Parliamentary work
Dinner
17:15-
18:15
18:15
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Monday 2 September: Adoption
09:10
09:15-
09:50
10:00-
11:15
Meet in the hotel lobby
Transportation to the Korean Parliament
Meeting with the Health and Welfare Committee
Korea's counterpart to the Danish Social Committee.
The Health and Welfare Committee is one of 18 committees in Korea
Naitonal Assembly. The committee consists of 24 members and four
subcommittee. Its responsibilities include: monitoring and
formulation of health and social welfare policies;
review and amendment of legislation on public health,
health care, social security and welfare programs,
review, debate and amendment of bills before voting;
to supervise the Ministry of Health and Welfare,
the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and
various public health and welfare organisations
(including the National Center for the Rights of the Child).
11:30-
12:10 p.m
12:10-
13:10
13:15-
2:30 p.m
Transport to the embassy
Lunch at the embassy
Meeting with Han Tae Soon
Han Tae Soon represents mothers of adopted children.
Seoul room, 3F SSQ
Interpretation: Yes
14:30-
Pause
14:45
14:45- Meeting with Jeon Min Kyung
16:00
Jeon Min Kyung is the lead lawyer in the trial that
was filed by a Danish adoptee on 22 July against the NCRC.
16:00-
Parliamentary work
18:00
18:00
Dinner
Small meeting room
no. 654, Main
Building, National
Assembly
Interpretation: Yes
Seoul room, 3F SSQ
Interpretation: Yes
Tuesday 3 September: Adoption
09:30
09:40
10:00-
11:30 am
Meet in the hotel lobby
Transport to the embassy
Meeting with Dr. Shin Pilshik and biological mothers
Dr. Shin Pilshik interviewed a group of mothers of one
research project at the National Human Rights Commission i
2022.
Lunch
Parliamentary work
Meeting with Kim Sung Ju, former Senior Vice Chairman
for the Policy Committee of the Democratic Party
Seoul room, 3F SSQ
Interpretation: Yes
11:30-
12:15 p.m
12:15-
12:50
13:00 –
2:30 p.m
The embassy
Seoul room, 3F SSQ
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14:40-
15:05
15:15-
16:45
Democracy champion from the student uprising for democracy in
The 1980s. He is behind the latest adoption law in Korea,
which requires adoption agencies to open their files to
the public.
Transport to NHRC
Meeting with the National Human Rights Commission of
Korea (NHRC)
Independent Commission for the Protection and Promotion of
human rights.
Interpretation: Yes
Nara Kium Jeodong
Building, 340, Samil-
daero, Jung-gu, Seoul
(Delegation only)
Interpretation: Yes
16:45-
17:15
17:15-
18:00
18:00
Transportation
Parliamentary work
Dinner
Wednesday 4 September: Adoption
08:50
09:00-
09:20
09:30-
11:00
Meet in the hotel lobby
Transport to HRBB
Meeting with Director Lee Kyung Eun of Human Rights
Beyond Borders (HRBB)
HRBB works to defend the right of adopted people to
their origins and seeks to lift adoption issues from a
niche issues to be recognized as mainstream
human rights by the public.
Transport to the embassy
Lunch
Meeting with Minjung Kim, President of Korean Unwed
Mothers' Families Association (KUMFA)
KUMFA is the largest civil society organization that
works for (unmarried) women's rights in Korea.
Transportation
Parliamentary work
Transport to the Danish residence
Dinner in the Danish residence
Transport to hotel
The embassy
Seoul room, 3F SSQ
Interpretation: Yes
3F, 22, Sajik-ro 9-gil,
Jongno-gu, Seoul
(Delegation only)
Interpretation: No
11:10-
12:10 p.m
12:15-
13:10
13:15-
2:30 p.m
14:30-
14:45
14:45-
18:15
18:15-
18:45
19:00-
21:00
21:00-
21:30
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Thursday 5 September: Fertility rate, the aging society, and
adoption
09:00
09:10-
09:25
09:30-
10:30 am
Meet in the hotel lobby
Transport to the Presidential Committee
Meeting with the President's Committee on the aging society
and population policy
Korea Presidential Committee Dedicated to Countering
current demographic challenges, such as low fertility rates and
the aging society.
Government Complex
Seoul Main Bldg.
(Jongno-gu Sejongno
77-6)
8 Fl. Standing Vice
Committee
Chairperson's room
Interpretation: Yes
10:35-
10:50
11:00-
12:30 p.m
Transportation to NCRC
National Center for the Rights of the Child
The NCRC is a public institution that is exclusively
dedicated to promoting the welfare of children. NCRC was launched
on 16 July 2019 and is a single institution that has been established
out of a merger of eight child welfare agencies in both the
public and private sectors that run child welfare
programs. Part of their job is to deliver
post adoption services for overseas adoptees and their
families.
Transportation
Lunch at a restaurant
Transportation to the TRC
Meeting with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has among
second given a mandate to investigate cases of South Korean
adopted in Europe and the United States, who suspect that
their origins have been falsified or obscured from the center
to the end of the 20th century – i.a. children adopted to
Denmark.
Transport to the embassy
Meeting with adoption agency KSS
The TRC (5 – 6F,
Namsan Square Bldg.
Toegaero 173,
Junggu)
NCRC (7F, G Tower,
71, Sambong-ro,
Jongno-gu, Seoul)
12:30-
12:50
12:50-
1:30 p.m
13:30-
1:40 p.m
13:45-
15:45
15:50-
16:10
16:15-
17:45
18:00-
19:00
19:00
Beijing room, SSQ 3F
Parliamentary work
Dinner
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Friday 6 September: Adoption
09:00-
09:30
09:30-
11:00
Meet in the hotel lobby and then transfer to the embassy
Remember to check out and take luggage with you on the bus.
Meeting with KoRoot and representatives from Danish-
Korean Rights Group (DKRG)
KoRoot calls itself the Embassy of Adoptees. The
more than 20 years old organization is a Danish-Norwegian
initiative that supports and helps overseas adoptees and
their families in finding their biological Korean
families.
DKRG is a non-profit interest organization that works
for the rights of Danish adoptees from South Korea and
for their rights to their own identity and
personality as adopted.
11:30-
12:30 p.m
12:30-
14:00
14:00
17:30
Lunch
Parliamentary work
Departure to the airport
Departure/ TG653
T1, Incheon Airport
Restaurant The Place
The embassy
Seoul room, SSQ 3F
The meeting takes place at
danish
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Delegation - Social Committee
1. Katrine Daugaard (LA), Head of Delegation
2. Camilla Fabricius (S)
3. Linea Søgaard-Lidell (V)
4. Theresa Berg Andersen (SF)
5. Victoria Velasquez (EL)
6. Karina Adsbøl (DD)
7. Birgitte Bergman (KF)
8. Charlotte Avnsted, committee secretary
9. Sherie Falding, committee assistant
10. Mikkel Bjerregaard, committee secretary
Participants from the Danish Embassy in Korea
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Philip Alexander Hallqvist, Assistant Manager
Liz Koh, Management Assistant
Jenny Lee, Senior Public Diplomacy Officer
Seungwon Shin, Student Assistant
Anna Haj, Intern
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