In a bizarre story, a man in the United States kidnapped his son and brought him to live in Korea after losing a custody dispute with his ex.

“I’ve found my child, this is like a dream.”

7-year old American child kidnapped to Korea for 7 months by his father has been dramatically reunited with his mother.

The heroes are 30-year old Tiffany Rubin, a black woman who lives in New York City, and her son Kobe.

On August 21st her ex-husband Jeffrey Salko, with whom she was involved in a custody dispute, disappeared in New York with Kobe.

At the time Salko had not been paying child support, was facing up to 6 months for that reason, and was limited to seeing his son on the weekends.

Rubin, trying to find her son’s whereabouts, read Salko’s e-mail, discovering the staggering news that he had told a friend that he was going to Korea.

She considered hiring a private investigator but the ordinary schoolteacher could not afford the $10,000 fee.

The FBI’s investigation also had no results.

But Rubin met with some eye-opening news.

In January an anonymous user wrote on her MySpace page that he or she had seen her son going to school in Seoul.

After that Rubin went to Korea with a member of an organization that searches for missing children in a “007 Operation” to look for her son.

Rubin waited in a hotel while the organization member cofirmed that her son was attending the school.

Rubin then went with the organization member to the school and met with Kobe’s homeroom teacher, explaining the whole story — and was finally, dramatically reunited with Kobe.

After meeting Kobe and putting a wig on him to avoid being recognized by her ex-husband they went to the US Embassy, flying to the United States the next day.

FBI spokesman Matthew Burton said that the FBI is working with Korean authorities to ensure Salko’s extradition after he is caught.

The US Department of Justice announced that each year 800,000 children go missing and that among them, 1 in 4 are kidnapped by family members.