Two Abandoned Korean Sisters, Adopted by Families in the USA & Belgium – Reunited by MyHeritageDNA Testing

The following teaser is from a Feb. 26 article posted at the Jerusalem Post website.

Forty-seven years ago, two Korean sisters were abandoned at a train station in South Korea. Separated and adopted by different families, they discovered one another and met in February thanks to a DNA test they both took with Israeli company MyHeritage.

Christine Panel and Kim Halen independently took the test to find their parents. Panel was abandoned when she was two years old. Halen was abandoned a few weeks later when she was just six weeks old. When they were found, they were taken to separate orphanages; Panel was adopted by a family in the US and Halen was adopted by a family in Belgium.

MyHeritage later told the two that they were siblings with the same mother and father, and orchestrated their reunion at the train station where they were both abandoned.

Read the full article and view the video about the reunion.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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