FORGED ADOPTIONS 5: To mark the 35th anniversary of the newspaper’s founding, the Hankyoreh is featuring the stories of 20 transnational Korean adoptees in several installments.
The court’s decision marks the first time a court has recognized human rights abuses in transnational adoptions and is likely to spark a wave of similar petitions by adoptees
Amid widespread accusations of corruption and malpractice in the past, South Korea opened its first official government investigation into its adoption industry last year.
South Korean adoptees have been returning to the country to hold the government accountable for what they call a corrupt adoption system that went largely unchanged until recent decades.