Yoo Ye Eun

I have stumbled across this story on my usual nightly web browsing. What little I know is that she was blind since birth, abandoned and adopted by her foster parents. Her foster parents know no music training, and since three, the girl could play with perfect pitch from listening only, the entire "Fur Elise." On the Korean version of talent shows, the young girl played an impromptu piece with Korean singer Noh Sa Yeon. The panel of judges gave her 95 points, the highest ever received on the show watched by millions. The video has received nearly 30 million hits. See Video Here Once again though, this really struck me as illustrating the enormous complexity of Korea's adoption issues. Here was a child who was found to be blind at birth, who was left abandoned most likely because of the societal pressures on a family to produce a "healthy" child and yet, now this child may go on to bring fame and wealth to her foster family. What is going to happen when the birth parents come forward and try to claim this child as theirs? Oh wait, this is Korea. I don't know if a birth mother would do that for fear of shame put upon her for having this child and abandoning it. Does that statement just sound utterly ironic? Am I making any points, or am I not thinking clearly? This is what happens when I don't blog enough. The absence of blogging has muddied my ability to analyze these situations.