S. Koreans Adopted Internationally Demand Investigation into Their Adoptions
About 300 South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States are calling for South Korea’s government to investigate their adoption.
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About 300 South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States are calling for South Korea’s government to investigate their adoption.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For 40 years, Louise Kwang thought she was an orphan baby found on the streets of the South Korean port city of Busan before
For 40 years, Louise Kwang thought she was an orphan baby found on the streets of the South Korean port city of Busan before her adoption to Danish parents in 1976. She felt her entire sense of identity collapse in 2016 when her South Korean agency matter-of-factly acknowledged that her origin story was fiction aimed…
Nearly 300 South Koreans who were adopted to European and American parents as children are demanding South Korea investigate their adoptions, which they suspect were based on falsified documents that laundered their real status or identities as agencies raced to export children
Their effort underscores a rift between the world’s largest diaspora of adoptees and their birth nation decades after scores of Korean children were removed from their families