South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions

South Korea’s international adoption program under fire

A special commission says Korea violated children’s and parent’s rights for decades

South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story

Last week, South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that Korean adoption agencies were responsible for widespread fraud, malpractice and even human rights violations. More than 140,000 South Korean children were adopted by families living abroad in the decades after the Korean war. The report documented cases in which agencies fabricated records and others in which abandoned children were sent abroad after only perfunctory efforts…

140,000 South Korean children were sent for adoption with false documents, without the legal consent of the parents between 1955 and 1999.

Calls for international adoption inquiry as South Korea reckons with its past

South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Committee's new report reveals some of the fabrications and falsifications that allowed 20,000 children to be adopted out abroad and names some of the agencies responsible.

Korean commission finds adoption program rife with abuse, highlighting AP investigation - Seymour Tribune

A South Korean commission found the country violated its children’s human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse. The landmark report released Wednesday followed complaints from hundreds of adoptees in Europe, the United States, and Australia, and represented the most comprehensive investigation into a foreign adoption program that sent some 200,000 South Korean children abroad. The report aligns with what Th…

South Korean Adoption Agency Abruptly Halts Operation in Wake of Reports of Widespread Abuses of ‘Fundamental Human Rights of Adoptees’

Human rights investigators and journalists uncover repeated violations by South Korean organizations responsible for sending approximately 200,000 babies and small children to prospective parents around the world beginning after the Korean War.