Why is Holt-Korea sometimes unwilling to search for birth parents?
They worry that simply searching for a birth parent will expose the fact that that person has born a child out of wedlock. In Korea it is not culturally acceptable to have a child if you are unmarried, and some birth parents are never in a situation where they can reveal their past to their family members. Holt-Korea is afraid that they might accidentally expose these birth parents by searching and, as a result, disrupt significant relationships and cause severe pain.
