# Two Thousand Years of Home *On the British Museum's "Korea" exhibition — and what it means for those of us finding our way back* This week, across the ocean in London, a door opened. The British Museum unveiled *Korea* — its first major presentation of Korean art in more than forty years. One hundred masterpieces spanning two thousand years, drawn from the celebrated Lee Kun-Hee Collection, now fill the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery. It runs through January 31, 2027. I

Longing for home lives quietly beneath the surface - a hunger not just for place, but for recognition, witness, and gentle care. For many Korean adoptees, the absence or rediscovery of motherly love - moseong-ae, 모성애 - threads through every search for self and belonging. Gestures once woven into daily life by halmoni, eomma, eonni, or imo grow distant across continents, yet their echo still calls. The Ahn Kinam Foundation in York, Maine arose from lived experience of this lon

Separation from birthplace runs deeper than a missing language or foreign lullaby; adoptee experience often carries invisible threads of longing and unanswered questions. For many Korean adoptees, identity forms in the shadow of lost rituals and family silences, with the ache for recognition sometimes surfacing in daily life - a taste, a scent, a story half-remembered. The search for belonging calls for more than simple answers; it requires attentive support from those who gr