They all seek their birth mothers. The park where adoptees leave tags of hope

Dozens of Korean adoptees from North America and Europe gather to leave their names on a wall at a former US military base, hoping that, after decades, a birth mother might still be looking for them.
They fasten ceramic nametags onto mesh that covers a cobblestone wall at Omma Poom Park – meaning “mother’s embrace” – in Paju, South Korea.
More than 900 tags, suspended like unsent letters, form a quiet monument to years of mass child-parent separations that have created what is likely the world’s...