SEOUL--South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being ...

last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s ...

China has banned overseas adoptions of locally-born children but South Korea's international adoption programme is still ...

The story told by Chu Sang-mi of North Korean orphans who found refuge in the Polish People’s Republic in the 1950s is a harrowing tale about large-scale historical events that shatter ordinary people ...

At least 31 children had been improperly sent overseas for adoption through the notorious Brothers Home in Busan, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea (TRC) confirmed in January.

and interned at WCCO during her time there. Minnesota is home to the highest concentration of Korean adoptees in the United States. Adoption programs peaked in the 1980s and remain steady today.

Unlike most Korean adoption cases Lee knows her case number, her mother and father’s name, and the agency from where she was adopted. The first time she ever came to Korea, with the help of the ...

including the widespread falsifying of child origins that fueled a foreign adoption boom in the 1970s and '80s. In granting the request for an extension through May 2025, South Korean President ...

Produced to mark the 70th anniversary of Korean adoption, From Ibyang-a to Ibyang-In (from adoptee child to adoptee person) offers a profound reflection on the phenomenon of adoption. The film ...