My name is Becky Belcore and I am a Korean American intercountry adoptee. I was adopted when I was almost one year old in 1973 to two American parents who at that time lived in Minnesota. When I was five years old we moved to the South. I mainly grew up in Virginia and Alabama at a time when there were few other Asian Americans living in the American South.

I am Yoo Yong-yi and I am 86 years old, born in 1938 in Seoul. My mother, Suh Eum-jeon, was from Masan, a city in the South Gyeongsang Province and my father, Yoo Soon-bok, was from the North. They first met when he went down to Masan for work. They set off for the North after my mom got pregnant with me. I was later told that she almost had a delivery on a running train.

On April 27, Korean American March for Peace in Korea was successfully held. It was a commemorating event of the Panmunjom Declaration, demanding three urgent calls for peace on the Korean Peninsula:

1. End the Korean War, Peace Agreement Now

2. For Peace in Korea, No More US-ROK War Drills

3. Korea Peace Now, Korea is One