From Jane's post on the Conducive site

Lee Pil-rye, Trenka's "birthmother"
November is National Adoption Month. What would such a celebration
of adoption, whether in the U.S. or another country, mean to my Korean
birthmother?
At the time my mother became a “birthmother,” I was six months old,
and my sister was four years old. Because she passed away about nine
years ago, I will take the liberty of imagining what she might say
about the meaning of adoption in her life, if she could read other
people’s blogs in English, and if she could blog back.
Please read the rest of Jane's thought-provoking post here.