Since 2000, AK Connection has been a home for Korean adoptees in Minnesota. In 2025, we mark 25 years of building community, celebrating culture, and creating space for adoptees to connect, belong, and lead.
ABOUT
A community built around connection, culture, and belonging.
AK Connection supports Korean adoptees as whole people. Since 2000, we have created space to connect, reflect on identity, celebrate culture, and build lasting community in Minnesota and beyond.
Our work is shaped by the adoptee experience and grounded in the belief that Korean adoptees deserve community spaces built with care, understanding, and shared leadership.
AT A GLANCE
Community-centered work since 2000
AK Connection creates cultural, educational, and social programming shaped by Korean adoptees and grounded in belonging, identity, and shared experience.
25
years of community-building
2000
the year AK Connection began
3
core areas: culture, education, connection
OUR MISSION
By adoptees, for adoptees
We honor the transracial and transnational adoptee experience as a unique cultural community. Through cultural, educational, and social programming, AK Connection helps Korean adoptees find connection, reflect on identity, and stay rooted in community.
We believe identity, culture, and belonging matter, and that adoptees deserve spaces shaped by their own voices, stories, and leadership.
Connection
We create welcoming spaces where Korean adoptees can meet, reconnect, and build relationships that last beyond a single gathering.
Celebration
We support opportunities to engage Korean culture through shared traditions, learning, conversation, and meaningful community experiences.
Support
We help adoptees access resources, affirmation, and community-centered spaces where their identities are recognized and respected.
MILESTONE
25 Years of Community
WHO WE SERVE
A community rooted in shared experience
- Adult Korean adoptees in Minnesota and beyond
- Friends, families, and supporters who want to stay connected
- People seeking cultural, educational, and social programming
- Anyone looking for deeper community and belonging
Find your place in the community
Whether you're attending for the first time, reconnecting with community, or looking for ways to support AK Connection, there are many ways to stay involved.
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