Good News!

7/31, Our recent YouTube videos and other platforms, such as TikTok and Facebook Reels, have been a tremendous success, reaching over 140,000 views in just several days. Let’s build on this momentum and aim to reach an even larger audience by this Sunday. We also reached out to the 300 national assembly members in Korea. Starting next Monday, we will be reaching out to the 435 legislators in the U.S. Congress and White House with our peace messages. We deeply appreciate your support in sharing the video widely.

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