South Korea’s government enabled the “mass exportation” of children with private adoption agencies by fabricating birth records and failing to follow consent procedures, a landmark investigation has ...

Author Jenny Heijun Wills on South Korea’s adoption ‘fraud,’ trauma-bonding with other victims, fixing the unfixable and more ...

It became big business in the 1970s to 1980s, bringing international adoption agencies millions of dollars as the country overcame post-war poverty and faced rapid and aggressive economic development.

Human rights investigators and journalists uncover repeated violations by South Korean organizations responsible for sending approximately 200,000 ...

Since the 1950s, South Korea has sent more children abroad for adoption than any other country, with most sent to Western ...

The government-established Truth and Reconciliation Commission said the government failed to properly oversee the private agencies that facilitated the adoptions overseas, which began in the ...

As the country made its way out of poverty, South Korea continued to rely on private adoption agencies to bring millions of ...

It became big business in the 1970s to 1980s, bringing international adoption agencies millions of dollars as the country overcame post-war poverty and faced rapid and aggressive economic development.

The commission said there was “mass exportation” of children abroad by Korean adoption agencies to meet demand ... Korea’s international adoptions began with mostly mixed-race children ...

Adoption agencies falsified documents to present ... Norway and Denmark — have opened investigations into their international adoptions. The United States, which has received more children ...

It became big business in the 1970s to 1980s, bringing international adoption agencies millions of dollars as the country overcame post-war poverty and faced rapid and aggressive economic development.