March 2009 Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association is Founded
August 2009 Unwed Mothers Support Policies Awareness Seminar
October 2009 New York Times Article (article here)
2010
January 2010 KUMFA Launched the Article
September 2010 Ministry of Gender Equality & Family and managers in 14 local governments nationwide conducted “anti-prejudice against single mothers” training
2011
March 2011 Living Space for Single Mothers in an Emergency “A Place to Find Hope” Opens
June 2011 Congressional Forum for Improving Unwed Mothers Support Policies is Held
2012
February 2012 Registered as the 32nd Gender Equality non-profit organization
April-Present 2012 Improving Awareness of Unwed Mothers – Human Library Held
May 2012 Meeting with the Crown Prince of Denmark
October 2012 Meeting with Germany’s Prime Minister, Mr. Bouffier
2013
June 2013 Debate on Support Policies for Unwed Mothers and Families Held in Seoul
August –December 2013 Young Unwed Mothers Policy Meetings and Seminars – Asian Future Forum
2014
March 2014 Sweden MIA and Meetings – Meetings on International Adoption and Unwed Mothers with the Irish Minister of Children and Youth
April-June 2014 Inspection and Study to Improve the Alternative Care System
May 2014 Single Mom’s Day Conference Held
2015
May 2015 Lead organization for 5th Annual Single Moms’ Day “Cheer up, moms! Smile, kids!” march and conference
2016
May 2016 Lead organization for 6th Annual Single Moms’ Day “Make a World Without Child Abandonment and Trafficking” Han River campaign and conference
August 2016 Incorporation of KUMFA
2017
May 2017 Lead organization for 7th Annual Single Moms’ Day, “Single Mothers’ Rights are Children’s Rights” marathon campaign and conference
September 2017 Heater Concert Fundraiser and Bazaar
2018
May 2018 8th Annual Single Moms’ Day “A Society Where Unwed Mothers’ Can Raise their Children”
September 2018 Opening of second location of unwed mother emergency shelter, Heater
November 2018 Inauguration of KUMFA Daejeon and Chungcheong branches
2019
March 2019 KUMFA 10th Anniversary celebration
May 2019 Lead organization of 9th Annual Single Moms’ Day, “Why Single Moms’ Day?”
July 2019 Screening the film of KUMFA Human Library
August 2019 Human Library and Film Screening by KUMFA and GOA’L
September 2019 Sisterhood relationship with Dream Come True Foundation, the Kopino support group
September 2019 Sisterhood relationship with GABRIELA, the national alliance of Filipino women south east Asia
November 2019 Organised the talk concert “Happiness”, sponsored by Seoul International Women’s Association
2020
January 2020 Organised a lecture with Osaka Korea-Japan Single Parents’ Family Research Center
Meeting with Swedish Adoption Centre and Swedish Embassy
February 2020 Attend the meeting on the reality and improvement plan of the youth parent family
Participated in education meeting of unwed mother associations by Minister of Gender Equality and Family
March 2020 Moved the KUMFA office
The 10th in-person regular general meeting
May 2020 Declaration ceremony of the 1st Adoption Truth Day
Nation-wide network activity at Busan, South Korea
June 2020 Memorial ceremony of the former president Mok
July 2020 Nation-wide network activity at Busan
August 2020 Summer camp at Jeju island
September 2020 Lead group at the 1st Adoption Truth Day conference
October 2020 Participated the discussion forum of Jeju Women’s Development Institute
Nation-wide network activity at Busan
November 2020 Organised “Stop Overseas Adoption” press conference
Round table conference about unwed mothers with Jeju Women & Family Research Institute, Korea Institute of Child Care & Education, and Jeju Women’s Association
Organised “What is needed now is not the protected birth system” press conference
December 2020 Meeting with the Minister of Gender Equality and Family
Participated in Gyeonggi single parent conference
Participated the “Holt Children’s Service is responsible for the poor adoption process and apologize” press conference at Holt Children Service
Participated in policy discussion for poor families
