South Korean writer Eun Seo-ran was happily single, until a medical emergency made her want family around to help. But she took an unconventional route: legally adopting her best friend.
The 44-year-old lives far from her biological family, who are not actively involved in her life. She's not married and, like many people in low birthrate South Korea, she has no children of her own.
Eun had no way to formalise her bond with her best friend, until she found a legal loophole: adult adoption. Same-sex and common law marriages are not recognised in the socially conservative country, and the traditional family unit remains the norm. "We need to solve the problem of increasingly isolated single-person households by expanding their options, not just 'being alone' or 'being married'".
Eun says she was born into what South Korea recognises as a"normal", nuclear family, but she was not happy as a child.
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