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
A 48-year-old man is suing the South Korean government and the country’s biggest adoption agency for mishandling his adoption to the U.S. in the first case of its kind.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the country’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won ($74,700) in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where he faced legal troubles after surviving an abusive childhood before being deported in 2016. […]