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KAB Team

The members of the KAB team are all volunteers and work for free to keep the KAB association alive; they are all honest and do not receive any benefits, each one pays their membership fee.

Maryse Josse

President

My Korean name is Hyun Ja Oh.

I arrived in Belgium on December 26, 1976, at the age of 5 and a half.

I was adopted into a Belgian-French family from Mons.

It was only later, at 51 years old, that I began to search for my Korean roots. Surely, it takes a certain maturity to receive, accept, and forgive. I work in the public service of Wallonia in project management.

I am happy to volunteer with the KAB group because I find a sense of belonging to a community there. With which I can share my experience as an adoptee and reconcile with Korea.

Helping other Koreans to walk the same path makes perfect sense to me and helps me feel good. Software, marketing, and customer experience.

 Valérie Maquinay

Treasurer

Hello, my name is Valérie Maquinay, my Korean name is Han Hyun Mee. I was found at the age of 2.5 years in Masan, South Korea. I was adopted in Belgium in Verviers and today I live in the Mons region. I work as an accounting assistant in a CISP and it was only natural for me to join K-A-B as treasurer.

Sarah Maréchal

Secretary and Public Relations Manager

Born in Busan and adopted in October 1974 by a family consisting of an older brother and sister of Belgian origin.

Mom of a daughter and a son.

Studies in Fashion Design (Bischoffsheim), Library Science (IESSID), and Art History (ULB).

Hobbies: painting, music (harp, piano, janggu) and concerts, literature, theater, world cinema and K-dramas, sports (cycling and Haedong Kumdo) and travel.

Return to South Korea (Seoul and Busan): May 2011 (International Annual Conference of Korean Journalists as a "special guest"); July 2023 (IKAA Gathering, Seoul); June 2024 (OKA Gathering, Seoul).

Project autumn 2025: training with a Korean master of Haedong Kumdo in the south of Korea.

Korean culture courses at IHECS Academy; Korean courses in 2021 with the King Sejong Institute; private then public courses at IHECS Academy with Ran Choi since 2022.

Myriam Lefrancq


“I was born in Seoul in 1975 and arrived in Belgium at the age of 15 months.”

I spent almost my entire childhood in the Dinant area and I currently live in Brussels.

Trained as a lawyer, I currently work in the social security sector.

I was lucky to reunite with my biological family at the age of 30.

Michael Cheung

IT Manager

Michael is the IT Manager at KAB.


Ran Choi

KAB Public Relations (Korean)

Ran is in charge of public relations in Korean, and is also a Korean teacher.