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In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

Sun, 05/01/2016 - 10:00pm
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Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not.

So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, airing Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 10 p.m. on WXXI World, is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. 

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