Orphaned sisters separated in Korea 40 years ago reunited after getting jobs

Two sisters separated at birth 40 years ago in a South Korean orphanage were hired and reunited at a Florida hospital, reported the Guardian.

Holly, or Pok-nam Shin, was adopted two years later and went to live in Alexandria, Virginia.

Eun-Sook, who’s now generally known as Meagan Hughes, was taken by her mom when she was a younger youngster.

Meagan Hughes barely remembers her mother or the Korean orphanage.

Both girls eventually wound up in orphanages with O’Brien adopted by a family in Arlington, Va., and Hughes taken in by a family in Kingston, New York within two years of one another.

Earlier this year, O’Brien was hired at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota., working on the fourth floor with the medical surgical unit.

And after undertaking a mouth swab DNA test, it was finally confirmed that they were long lost sisters.

In 2013, two Florida-born women adopted by different parents discovered each other in a creative writing class at Columbia University, according to media reports.

“I was like, this is too good to be true”, said O’Brien.

“But in my heart, I knew…” The sisters were reunited and are employed at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota.

O’Brien was convinced she had a sister, but when her adopted family contacted the orphanage they were told that there was no record of a sibling.

When they met at the hospital, where they were working the same 12-hour shift, they immediately noticed coincidences about their backgrounds like both having been at an orphange in South Korea.

“I’m like, this can’t be”, O’Brien told the paper.

The DNA test results, which arrived in August, were positive.

“When I heard from Holly, my first reaction was like, ‘Oh my god, ‘” Hughes added.

O’Brien wrote on Facebook after the story began circulating, “I really want to thank you all for your wonderful words of support”. “I was so excited. I was numb. I have a sister”.