Courtney the enthusiast

Please help support this father who is still fighting for the right to be with his child

3 months ago | [YT] | 10

Courtney the enthusiast

Thank you  @roamwithromy  for covering this and warning other women of the risks of living in korea

4 months ago | [YT] | 74

Courtney the enthusiast

Thank you for spreading awareness

4 months ago | [YT] | 18

Courtney the enthusiast

Something I was thinking about and had to write down. This is very much genocide about to happen in front of our eyes. I support my fellow humans.

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6 months ago | [YT] | 59

Courtney the enthusiast

It has been a stressful few weeks. The court wants me to oay child support asap this coming year (which I'm ok with while the custody case is ongoing ), yet when I meant the clear case of the court allowing on side to use visitation as a means of further finachial abuse the court is saying sorry it is what it is basically. I'm suppose to show I have a good income and can pay child support for now and potentially have a good income with good work schedule if I want custody...yet when I make clear that normal adults work monday-friday and no company wants to hire a future employe whos already requesting mondays off for visitation with her son..
the court is telling me if I don't show up to a few because I start working until custody is chosen soon ill automatically lose the chance to be considered for getting custody. so it's a lose lose situation...I've contacted the other parent and the continue to ignore me about pictures of my son, potential to reschedule vists on weekends, ect. This is all about the court allowing abuse to keep occurring in the form of control and finachial abuse during a divorce. Other parents I know were allowed to bring their kids home for weekend vists...their work was unaffected by vists. the court says I can't because the risk of abuse and conflict that happened between my son's father and I. I stated that I was aware that pick up and drop of is possible via the center.
so that no interaction is necessary. it is still up to only my son's father. so once again, I'm left with very little chance to accept jobs I've found hiring for jan/feb/March school year..
they want a full time teacher. Even jobs with great hours like 10-430 that would have high income I can't take because I must work monday-friday. Korea's court system is set up for abusers and the elite ( or those with family and money to live off of) it seems the victims and those who are trying their best to work with the courts and be honest with the court end up getting the losing results.

This is a frustrating battle. I am glad that my last vist with my son went well. I will post about that shortly.

All I will say is if I lose this custody battle, I will make my life purpose dedicated to making sure this country and the police/ government center consulting group ect.
.that allowed and aided in the forceful abduction of my son (and refuse to hand over the police station cctv because the know my mil ran out with my son and they did nothing ) will face the correct legal consequences and take the proper responsibility for their actions. You all have been with my through all of this and I appreciate it.

I have already told the court if I lose custody I am going back to the united states...as I don't belive my son's father will correctly allow vists, updates, or communication if he wins custody. I promise you all if that happens when the results come out within the next 3 months or so...the whole truth will come out even if it means never stepping foot in this country again. Korea has prove itself to me...to sadly still very much be a 1st world country with a 3rd world mindset...stills no respect for the safety of its female citizens, no respect for proper punishment to abusers/child abusers/ grapists....

if you are a foreign woman considering moving here, it is ok to love a country and still admit that it is failing its women and children and those in the lower class deeply. I am sorry if I seem to have resentment behind my words...that may somewhat be true, but I have always been someone who speaks truthfully about the downfalls and things that my own country should also do better and fix in society, and living here and what I have gone through, what my children have gone through...I can never fully forgive this government and policing system for how it let racism/ misogyny and lack of properly preforming their jobs fail all 3 of my children. Korea do better! Because if you don't I hope you are ok reading the backlash in the newsprint years latter when are the angered parents your citizens have kidnapped children from finally get enough media attention. -

8 months ago | [YT] | 151

Courtney the enthusiast

I am sorry I haven't updated on here or tic tok in a few weeks. I've been doing job interviews and getting my kids school changed and the holidays as well. So please know this custody fight is still ongoing and I am still doing my best. I appreciate all the kind words ❤️ I will update about all the good and bad news I've gotten from the court system/ vists with my son/ job updates/life updates within the next few days. I need to log back into my tic tok account as I have somewhat locked myself out. Thank you for all of you continuing to check in on my sons case ❤️

8 months ago | [YT] | 100

Courtney the enthusiast

Thank you again to  @GRAZYTV  for giving me the opportunity to sit and talk about DV issues in South Korea. She made the whole Conversation very comfortable and relaxed. I hope it sheds light for any one wanting to live here or have children here

9 months ago | [YT] | 51

Courtney the enthusiast

I want to say thank you to  @GRAZYTV  for reaching out and covering my son's case. I hope if anything it can inform others and spark change in laws one day. Parental kids napping needs to be illegal in South Korea, abuse needs to be considered a more serious charge or handled better by authorities as well.

9 months ago | [YT] | 51

Courtney the enthusiast

I have made a video update on my son's case on tic tok, but I must upload it later today as my phone app is acting werid. However I have an announcement I have been wanting to share.

I started my channel to get the story of my son's abduction known and leave a paper trail in case this case went extremely bad. I also wanted to warn other parents the risks of this happening to them ( especially as a forign parent when law enforcement as less helpful).
I still want my channel to continue to focus on this as it's very important. However, in the past before all of this I was a airline employee and dreamed of making travel vlog (I was too shy to), then I moved to korea and I seen youtubers making videos such as life here (I was too shy), I even wanted to make videos once on teaching English phrases and expressions online to esl students (as my job is English teaching). Again I let my insecurities block me from trying these things.

I had the opportunity as well to monetize my youtube a while back but opted out because I didn't want my videos to have ads as I felt it would make people avoid watching them when they concerned my son's case.

I dont know how long this effort to have my son returned will take. With that being said, i must go on living as much as a normal kife as possible to do until hes returned. I want to make a esl channel either seprately or have a video section just for esl teaching videos soon. I might even throw a few life in Korea videos in as well. However, these will be honest, not sugar coated. They will talk about the amazing benifts of life here as well as the cons that affect so many people. I want people coming here who had the same curiosity in the world that I had at 16 and longing to learn new things to come here with excitement yes, but also realistic expectations and not a false idolization of "the korean dream" that just as many people paint for immigrants coming into the u.s in the last 50 years...is never the full truth of a country as all counties have their own problems and flaws.

So don't be suprised if you see my adding other content or experimenting with esl videos. I hope you all know my channel is primarily for my son. And please keep following our journey to get him back ❤️ I just hope if anything, when this is all over and better, I can continue to not only use this platform for Good and awareness, but potentially to Kickstart something I've always wanted to do such as esl videos. I want to take the bravery I had to build within myself back in May as that scared women making my first youtube video..and continue to force her to do the things that feel scary for the sake of building a beautiful life. Because as we can see from this experience life...loved ones...relationships with family can be so short. Nothing is promised. So I hope you all continue to support me if I decide to take this path. I hope you stay along to see my son returned ❤️ bless you all

9 months ago | [YT] | 159

Courtney the enthusiast

I want to thank  @JoongAngIlbo  Sunday. They have taken the time to cover a legislative and systematic issue in Korea that had hurt so many parents in the recent years. Please check out 중앙일보 's article of the detrimental affects of parental child abduction and how it is harmful to the children involved.

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