Global Overseas Adoptees' Link is founded by 12 adoptees from the US and Europe who returned to Korea.
G.O.A.’L. petitions the Korean government to include adoptees in the Overseas Korean Act, allowing adoptees access to the F-4 visa.
First G.O.A.'L. conference is held.
G.O.A.'L. holds their first national conference in Suwon, South Korea.
G.O.A.’L. is officially registered as a non-profit organization in Korea.
G.O.A.’L. is officially registered as a non-governmental organization in Korea.
The first Birth Family Search website is launched.
G.O.A.’L. launches the Dual Citizen Campaign.
G.O.A.’L. launches a worldwide petition and collects signatures to give overseas adoptees the right to dual citizenship in Korea.
G.O.A.'L. hosts a homecoming program for Korean adoptees.
G.O.A.’L. creates First Trip Home (FTH), a unique program for adoptees to return to Korea for the first time and search for their origins.
G.O.A.’L. partners with You&Me Psychological and Consultation Services (YPCS).
G.O.A.’L members can receive subsidized counseling sessions through You&Me Psychological and Consultation Services (YPCS).
G.O.A.’L. makes an agreement to offer Korean language scholarships for adoptees.
G.O.A.'L. creates and signs agreements with several universities in Seoul to offer language scholarships for adoptees seeking to study Korean.
KPMG Korea partners with G.O.A.’L.
KPMG Korea begins providing accounting services for G.O.A.'L.
G.O.A.’L. announces COVID-19 relief fund.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, G.O.A.’L. provides a relief fund for adoptees living in Korea.
G.O.A.’L. announces their rebrand and new logo.
Rebranding is done by adoptee and designer, Amy Fortunato.
G.O.A.'L. updates their website.
With the financial support of Korean Air, G.O.A.'L. launches a new website and membership platform site.
First homeland tour to Jeju for adoptees living in Korea.
G.O.A.'L. introduces "Jeju: Discover Your Homeland," a 3-day excursion to Jeju Island for adoptees living in Korea.
Korean adoptees are sponsored to study Korean.
The Export-Import Bank of Korea sponsors 5 overseas adoptees to study Korean in intensive Korean language programs in Seoul.
G.O.A.'L. begins assistance with a social welfare program.
G.O.A.’L. is selected to help the NCRC manage a program for overseas adoptees living in Korea who are in difficult situations. This program would later be named as the KARE Program.
G.O.A.'L. partners with Seoul National University
G.O.A.'L. and Seoul National University (SNU) announce a language and cultural exchange program between overseas adoptees and SNU students.
G.O.A.'L. announces "Sotdae," a unique family search program
G.O.A.'L. creates the Sotdae program, a 10-day origin search journey for one adoptee's first time back to Korea.
G.O.A.'L. partners with Seoul Metropolitan Government.
G.O.A.'L. and the Seoul Metropolitan Government provide support kits that include food and daily essentials to adoptees living in Korea.
G.O.A.'L. is awarded a Presidential Citation.
During the 17th Adoption Day Ceremony, G.O.A.'L. receives a Presidential Citation for their contribution to the adoptee community in Korea.
G.O.A.'L. is awarded a Presidential Citation.
During the 17th Adoption Day Ceremony, G.O.A.'L. receives a Presidential Citation for their contribution to the adoptee community in Korea.
