Meeky Woo Flippen, head of 325KAMRA Korea, speaks during an interview with Hankook Ilbo at the organization’s office in Jung-gu, central Seoul. Korea Times photo by Park Ji-yeon

“578 Ganeung 3-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province. 3-tong, 2-ban,” she said in Korean.

Meeky Woo Flippen, now 60, still has that address etched into her memory after more than 50 years.

“My mother taught me the address when I was 5. ‘I’m not going anywhere,’ she told me. ‘So if someone kidnaps you, make sure you come back here.’”

As she recalled, there had indeed been attempts to take her away. Whenever she returned home from school, a “lady” from Holt International waited for her around the corner.