Eva Tind

April 17, 2025

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A Life Cut from Its Thread

Eva Tind was born in Busan, South Korea in 1974 and adopted by a Danish couple when she was one year old. She grew up in Låsby, a small Danish town, in a safe and loving home built by her father. But from the start, her origin story contained a strange construction: on her birth certificate it said she was born by her mother and father in Jutland, while her passport said she was born in Korea. Since her Danish parents had never been to Korea, the documents contradicted one another. As Tind puts it, the myth that adopted children are "born when they land in Denmark" was built into both the family narrative and the legal system itself.

The Experience of Being Uprooted

Tind does not describe her adoption as a trauma she consciously carries, but rather as something that shaped her perception of existence from a very early age. She never felt that she had been "cheated" or that something was taken from her. Instead, she describes the experience of being separated and moved as a form of early death—not something that died inside her, but an experience of dying that she absorbed before she had the cognitive tools to process it.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:26) **Adoption, Identity, and the Feeling of Belonging** - Eva Tind, adopted from South Korea as a one-year-old, discusses the core tension of being "born" upon landing in Denmark versus her biological origins.
2 (13:09) **The Experience of Early Separation as a Form of Death** - Eva explains that being separated from her biological parents as an infant was experienced as a form of death, not a conscious sorrow.
3 (16:19) **Feeling "Older" and Lonely** - Having an experience of loss before being developmentally able to process it left her feeling prematurely aged and isolated.
4 (17:42) **The Mirror and Self-Hatred** - Despite feeling internally like everyone else, seeing her Asian features in the mirror created a painful disconnect and self-hatred.
5 (19:39) **Contacting Biological Family at 14** - Eva's parents initiated contact with her biological family in Korea after she impulsively called the adoption center.
6 (23:40) **First Letters and Seeing the Family** - The initial letters were focused on factual details, and she struggled to see a physical resemblance to her biological family.
7 (26:46) **Meeting the Family at 21** - Eva traveled to Korea alone at 21, feeling a strong resistance and delaying the trip.

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Show Notes

Forfatter Eva Tind var et år gammel, da hun blev sat på en flyver fra Pusan i Sydkorea til Danmark, hvor resten af hendes liv har udspillet sig. Hun fortæller om de mange spørgsmål og refleksioner, hendes liv har været præget af, fordi myndighederne havde skåret båndet mellem hende og hendes ophav over. Og så fortæller hun, hvorfor sætningen "slægt skal følge slægters gang" i salmen Dejlig er jorden får hende til at græde.