Bastiaan Flikweert, also known as 신서빈, is currently pursuing an MA in Korean Studies at Yonsei University GSIS, South Korea. Born in 1999 to two Dutch Korean adoptees, he spent his childhood living in both the Netherlands and Korea. This living back and forth between these two cultural spaces has opened up unique opportunities and perspectives but also came with struggles and questions on adoption, identity and belonging. Bastiaan has completed two undergraduate degrees in History and Korean Studies. With his fluency in Dutch, English, and Korean, he has been researching the history of Korean adoption. His history degree focused on the first mothers of transnational adoptees, specifically on agency versus structure before and after 1966. In Summer 2022, he finished his second BA thesis on the topic of the early institutional history of Korean adoption in the Netherlands. He is also part of a research team studying the intergenerational impact of transnational adoption by looking at adult children of Korean adoptees.