Name: "What It Means To Be Korean" - aka DAN Adoption Documentary Part 2
Uploaded: 2014-08-28T01:08:03.000Z
Duration: 11 min 55 s
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My teeth are very important part of my day.

So Day 1 in Korea, almost lost my phone,  almost lost my passport,

found both of them,  that's where the drama is.

And then...got to the hotel,  checked into the hotel,

got ready, went to Arirang, after Arirang,

Got this fan last night.  You know who you are.

Now we're getting ready to go to membership training and

This is actually a big moment because we're going over to the

Lotte Hotel, officially check-in, register,

and then we're going to do this thing called membership training,

which means there's going to be a lot of drinking probably.

Adoptee's going ham in Korea, man.  So many adoptees here.

Thank you so much for setting this all up.

Yeah. We're finally meeting in person now.

We've been chatting about this for a year.

You literally- we got the invite to do it a year ago.

If it wasn't because you called me that one day-

I probably wouldn't be here. And I wouldn't be doing this conference,

I wouldn't be meeting my family on Monday.

Oh Niko! Nice to finally meet you! How you doing?

Oh my god, man. You're from Denmark right?

He's the Danish rapper.  He's the guy I'm going to be performing with.

Yeah, we gotta hang out though.  We gotta work on that song too.

Yeah, I'm getting a tattoo on Tuesday though.

Oh you're getting a tattoo on Tuesday?  Can I come with you?

I have this one here, this is the one I made

My father he was very popular with the ladies.  So I dunno maybe,

it's just the way of working through it, but I felt like...

The thing that just popped up, in my head,

was that daddy was a player! So I made that.

So we're going to Chungnam right now with  about looks like 30-40 adoptees.

where like everybody gets to know each other.

And there will be a lot of drinking, apparently.

Being on the bus was really the first time I was surrounded by other adoptees.

And it was the first time I really felt like I was in Korea.

I definitely felt like I was in Korea  for the very first time at that moment.

So we're on our way to membership training,

and we got a little lost.  And so, the bus driver down there

is talking to this woman that lives  around this area.

She's literally drawing out the directions in the sand.

Or maybe, maybe she's teaching him how to plant.

We're at a traditional Korean music house.

We're about to play some traditional Korean games.

But apparently membership training is a really big part of Korean culture.

We'll find out exactly what it is very soon.

Have you heard that song? So you've sung it before?

And he's doing a night a drinking of drinking tonight before meeting his birth family for the first time tomorrow.

Alright, so I finally learned what membership training is.

usually in Korean culture, businessmen bring out people that they work with.

it's pretty much an excuse for them to drink.

But it's very important for Korean culture tho  because it puts everyone on the same level

We're playing the Peppero game right now,  we're doing amazing.

We're like an hour away from the meeting with my biological family.

what they're going to do when I meet them,

less than what I am going to do when we actually meet.

I know it's going to be really emotional for them,

but I just feel like I'm not going to say anything.

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"What It Means To Be Korean" - aka DAN Adoption Documentary Part 2

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