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James PARKER had been adopted into a loving American family at age 5 and
grew up healthy and happy. However, he always had a sense of longing to
find his birth parents. Now, James enlists as a soldier in the U.S. armed
forces in Korea and returns in search for his real parents. With the help of his
KATUSA (Korean Augmentation Troops to the United States Army) friend,
Joseph SHIN, James is able to find and visit the nursery in Choon-chun
where he had briefly stayed before being adopted abroad. There, he learns
that his Korean name was ‘Eun-chul GOHNG’. He then decides to appear on
a national TV program to help find his birth parents. Through the TV program,
James is able to meet a priest who knows his real father. However, out of
the family that he wanted to find so much, James learns that his father is the
only one alive and a criminal on death row who had served time for over 10
years. Later, James and his father have an awkward first meeting.With the
headline ‘Adopted son abroad meets father on death row’, James and his
father receive much attention from the mass media. As they get to know
each other more through each visit, feelings start to grow. But the meeting
between a father who could be sentenced to death at any minute and a son
who must return to the States after his term in the military can only be
heartbreaking…
