Personal Narrative: Human Trafficking In South Korea

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One year. The longest most exciting year. Filled with challenges and adventure, that would lead to infinite stories, and as I stepped off the plane I felt the warm of excitement all over me. This would be two weeks in South Korea, two weeks that I would get to meet the family I never knew, two weeks that I decided to get involved. Human trafficking in Korea has been a problem for years, but sadly, there is no action being taken to stop, or at least help the women involved. My mother was adopted from Korea, her father was a US soldier and mother worked at a diner, we recently found out that we are not only Korean but are also Japanese. This was a real shock considering my mother was born to a korean Woman, however, history between Korea and

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