Korean Adoptee Stories

Happy 3rd Birthday to Korean American Restaurant Bap and Chicken!!!

KADStories.com interviews John Gleason, Korean Adoptee, Founder of Bap and Chicken and to help celebrate Bap and Chicken's 3rd Birthday we have our first KAD Mukbang!

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Daily Hours:

11:00am - 8:00pm

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Phone:

(651) 333-0929

Address:

1328 Grand Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55105

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LINKS:

Korean American Restaurant, Bap & Chicken:

Web site:

KADStories interviews fellow KAD, Nik Nadeau member of Shinparam: Korean Traditional Drumming Troupe and he discussed some interesting cultural history and meaning behind Shinparam and South Korea, and how to join and when they meet!

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LINKS:

Traditional Korean Drumming Troupe, Shinparam:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/Shinparam

http://Korean American Newspaper, Korean Quarterly:

www.koreanquarterly.org

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Annyeonghaseyo! KADStories.com wanted to share some amazing projects we currently have been working on, along with sharing projects to look forward too. We unbox a gift from The Adoptee Group, discuss our role being an illustrator for a Korean American children's book, and all our other projects we currently got going on, and that is a lot of them! 

Please support us by visiting the links below!

Buy "A Handbook to Ko...

KADStories.com host's Travis & Kyle try three different popular Korean snacks: 

1.) 새우깡 (Shrimp Cracker) https://fresh.hmart.com/3114621569

2.) 포스틱 (Postick) https://fresh.hmart.com/3114621578

3.) 새우깡 (Sweet Potato Flavored Snack) https://fresh.hmart.com/12010125

~ Special Thanks to our friend Hyang Eun Kim for these special Korean treats!

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Key Topics Covered:

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Korean Adoptee Stories was privileged to have interviewed Glenda Coward. Glenda unfortunately has grown up in an abusive household including physical, emotional and mental abuse that she was forced to live in a group home at 14. Trying to escape that life she found herself in an abusive marriage and has suffered mental health issues.  Until five years after that she was able to find herself in a healthy marriage and now has 3 ...

Korean Adoptee Stories is excited to interview a half-Korean and half-Barbadian American Adoptee author Li Quaites. Li discusses what it was like being adopted by a black family and growing up being a mixed race person living in America. She never thought about her adoption until miraculously reunited with her Birth Father. She also discusses the trials and tribulations trying to find her birth Mother in Korea. She recounts her exp...

Meet Dr. Byung Kuk Cho who was an amazing pediatrician and humanitarian who served orphans and adoptees post Korean War. This interview discusses and helps promote Dr. Cho's memoires of the horrors, and realities of war along with hope, willing serving others that brought change to orphans and adoptees. This interview also brings about the ever important discussion about the adoption politics amongst adoptees which became known as ...

Korean Adoptee Stories is excited to re-release Jennifer Werth's Interview. This is a poignant tale of the adoptee experience that many may relate to. Thank you for sharing a part of yourself to us! 

The Adoptee Group Links: 

Web Page:

http://www.theadopteegroup.org

FaceBook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/TheAdopteeGroup

An Adoptee's Guide to Korea FaceBook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/AdopteeGuideToKo...

KADStories.com most viewed video is our birth family reunion 2018 montage with almost 30,000 views. However many people insisted they would like to have more context so to celebrate our Fourth Anniversary of our Birth Family Reunion to South Korea during the Pyeong Chang 2018 we produced this never before seen footage explanation and reaction documentary for you all! This was a two month project and with the help of Lily Gal and he...

Woo Ae Yi is back to be interviewed by KADStories.com to promote her new film: "The Red Thread of Fate," which is a romantic, based off a book she also had written. And is a story that focuses on Zarah, an adopted young woman coming into her own through self-discovery and the emotional complexities of romantic relationships. In Red Thread of Fate, an optimistic college graduate meets her dream older Asian man, but she is in a relat...

This interview with Korean Adoptee, Sarah Clifton, was conducted by Kyle & Travis Balitz, during the summer of 2020 and was originally released through the Gide Foundation, which is now known as The Adoptee Group.  The interview is now re-released through KADStories.com. Sarah, who resides in New Mexico came to visit us here in Minnesota. We believe this interview was so candidly informative and know many adoptees will rel...

KADStories's Hosts Kyle & Travis had another opportunity to attend MN Kangnam Korean Baptist Church to celebrate Pastor Daniel's Birthday. This was part of sermon that we though was interesting as small upload. If adoptees are looking for a community to belong to Korean Church's are very welcoming to adoptees and a close-knit community and most of them offer lunch after the sermon! Happy Birthday Pastor Daniel!

MN Kangnam ...

KADStories's Hosts Kyle & Travis had another opportunity to attend MN Kangnam Korean Baptist Church to celebrate Pastor Daniel's Birthday. This was part of sermon that we though was interesting as small upload. If adoptees are looking for a community to belong to Korean Church's are very welcoming to adoptees and a close-knit community and most of them offer lunch after the sermon!

MN Kangnam Korean Baptist Church:

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Korean Adoptee Stories hosts Travis and Kyle open a gift we received from a very talented KAD specialty baker named Melissa Jordan, owner of Works of Wonder Bakery. Thank you so much for the wonderful gifts!

Works of Wonder Bakery:

Email: WorksOfWonderBakery@gmail.com

Phone: (860) 235-1703

FaceBook Page: http: www.facebook.com/WowBakeryVA

Korean Adoptee Ministry Center: 

Website: http://www.KAMCenter.org

Fa...

Korean Adoptee Stories hosts Travis and Kyle open a gift we received from KAD Village and write our #UNSelfie for promoting TAG Cares

KAD Village:

Website: http://www.KADVillage.com

FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kadvillage

FaceBook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/612176773123936

The Adoptee Group: 

Website: http://www.theadopteegroup.org

FaceBook Page: http://www.facebook.com/TheAdopteeGrou...

KADStories.com decided to take a little break from the deep and heavy content and went for something a little light hearted and wanted to kick off a cooking series: Kooking with Kads! Here we also want to introduce KAD, Lily Gal who teaches us how to cook Pajeon (Korean Pancakes). Thank you also to our Mom Donna Balitz for allowing us to use her kitchen to create this delicious Korean Food!

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Pajeon Ingredients:

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Meet Jayme Hansen. Mr. Hansen is a well known authority in the adoption sphere and has truly lived a life of a dozen men. Even though his childhood living in Minnesota was difficult including experiencing racism, bullying, and being adopted into a dysfunctional farming family he managed to overcome many challenges after joining the military. He was on active duty in Operation Desert Storm, and has worked his way up as a CFO of the ...

Meet Jayme Hansen. Mr. Hansen is a well known authority in the adoption sphere and has truly lived a life of a dozen men. Even though his childhood living in Minnesota was difficult including experiencing racism, bullying, and being adopted into a dysfunctional farming family he managed to overcome many challenges after joining the military. He was on active duty in Operation Desert Storm, and has worked his way up as a CFO of the ...

KADStories's Hosts Kyle & Travis were invited and had the special opportunity to attend Mrs. Kim's MN Kangnam Korean Baptist Church in early October, who is a Korean immigrant and owns a restaurant name Hoban in Eagan and taught us Korean for our Kimchee Klub. This is just a short video of Pastor Chris Reinertson who ministers the American church side called Southtown Baptist Church congratulating Kangnam Church and Pastor Dani...