The documentary that we only watched the beginning of on Tuesday implicates the American Military Industrial Complex for continuing the colonial diaspora of Koreans. The Women, the Orphan and the Tiger (2010) explains the Korean adoption epidemic as a biopolitical tool of a military apparatus. In the documentary the adoptee narrator explains, "What comes through the process of search is the way in which the birth mothers bodies have been mobilized to produce adoptees"(18 minutes Jin/Guston). To consider mobilizing birth mothers for production frames Korean War orphans as a commodified product from an exploited labor force. The unequal relationship with Korea after War Two creates an American mentality in which Americans believe it is their responsibility to raise Korean children. This mentality causes the creation of an unprecedented international adoption industry.
 

         America reminisces the Japanese colonial power by controlling the Korean diaspora after World War two. The conception of the American adoption industry can be traced back to the Korean War. Historian Tobias Hubinette points out that practices of western aid including hospitals and orphanages “were tested in Korea for the first time… inhibiting the development of its own social welfare system”(Hubinette 278). Giving economic incentive to the funding of orphanages, the American presence disallowed the establishment of basic welfare services to help poor children succeed in Korea.  Adoption became the go-to option. Halting the colonial diaspora is a crucial factor in decolonizing. In continuing and transforming the colonial diaspora of Koreans, the United States has maintained a colonial presence on the peninsula long after the official end of the Korean War in 1953.