During my interview with Jeong Mi via Skype, I have learned that she was able to find her father. In 1997, armed with only her father’s Social Security number, and with the help of Pearl S. Buck Foundation (Olongapo) and RAO (U.S. Retiree Activities Office) in Angeles City, Pampanga, Jeong Mi and her mom found her father in Clark Air Base. However, they have been advised by RAO that they could not press a claim for child support because Jeong Mi’s mother was never married to her dad. Jeong Mi says, “I was not only denied by my father, but I was also denied of my birthright . . . those times felt like a deja vu all over again.” Apparently, it was not was the first time that Jeong Mi was denied of assistance by the United States. According to her, they headed the Philippines because the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Embassy in Seoul both disclaimed any responsibility for tracking down her father, or providing her and her mother some any
During my interview with Jeong Mi via Skype, I have learned that she was able to find her father. In 1997, armed with only her father’s Social Security number, and with the help of Pearl S. Buck Foundation (Olongapo) and RAO (U.S. Retiree Activities Office) in Angeles City, Pampanga, Jeong Mi and her mom found her father in Clark Air Base. However, they have been advised by RAO that they could not press a claim for child support because Jeong Mi’s mother was never married to her dad. Jeong Mi says, “I was not only denied by my father, but I was also denied of my birthright . . . those times felt like a deja vu all over again.” Apparently, it was not was the first time that Jeong Mi was denied of assistance by the United States. According to her, they headed the Philippines because the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Embassy in Seoul both disclaimed any responsibility for tracking down her father, or providing her and her mother some any