Born in Korea, Ji Sun Sjögren grew up in Belgium where she was adopted by her Swiss mother and Swedish father at around the age of two. In ‘A ghost in my country’ (Adoption & Fostering 20:2, 1996), Ji Sun gave a moving personal account of transracial adoption and the disturbing feelings of being ‘caught between two worlds’. That original testimony was inspired by the experience of visiting her native Korea for the first time, aged 26, when she was invited to to exhibit at an international art exhibition. This follow-up account tells of another, quite different journey to Korea when, after an intensive search, Ji Sun finally met up with her birth parents. Like ‘A ghost in my own country’, it is written in collaboration with her adoptive father, Eric Sjögren, who is a journalist living in Brussels.
