Overseas adoption in Korea has more than 50-years history, starting right after the Korean War. Korea is still sending up to 2,000 children per year, long after the war has ended. With the increasing numbers of grown-up OAKs(Overseas Adopted Koreans) returning since the 1980s, the Korean government has been urged to respond to the phenomena. The Korean government has established OAKs’legal status as “Overseas Korean (jae wae dong po),”and has called upon them to become a “global human resource”of Korea. OAKs are also conspicuous in the media as the sense of tragedy in the core of their existence draws public fascination. These patterns reflect the habitual ways that OAK's are represented in Korean society. Here I first, examine overseas adoption history in the broader picture of Korea's modern history that was basically a history striving for nation-building after it being shattered after the war. Also, here I dig into two personal stories of the adoptees. The former approach which observes the history of adoption in the macro and structural level and the latter approach which takes on micro and individual level is equally important, as the two are not separate but intertwined composing the integral picture of overseas adoption. The intention behind examining history of adoption in macro and micro level is to make the familiar unfamiliar by challenging the existing perception of adoption.