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Families of South Korean organ donors launched a campaign to ease a ban on communication with those who received the organs of their loved ones. All they want is letters saying the recipients are healthy and living well.
The campaign followed an event hosted by the Korean Organ Donor Program (KODP), a Seoul-based group encouraging organ donations. Currently, the law prohibits an exchange of personal information between donor families and recipients.
"It would be great to receive a message from a recipient that he or she is living a good life because of my son's donation," Park Sang-ryeol, the mother of a 25-year-old man who donated his organs to seven people, said at a ceremony in Seoul on Friday.
Park and other participants insisted they should be allowed to exchange letters between the families of organ donors and recipients. In the United States and some other countries, letters are exchanged between donor families and recipients. Sometimes they are allowed to see each other.
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Park Sae-jin
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