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South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
The new commission inherits 311 deferred cases and aims to address systemic fraud in Korea’s foreign adoption program, which sent over 200,000 children abroad, mostly to Western countries.
- On Thursday, South Korea relaunched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, which began accepting new cases at its Seoul headquarters focused on foreign adoption abuses.
- Because the previous commission's mandate ended last November, a January revision of the Framework Act on Settling the Past expanded the second TRC's investigative scope.
- Investigations by AP and Frontline found roughly 200,000 Korean children were sent abroad, peak flows in the 1980s exceeded 6,000 annually, and adoption records totaling roughly 50,000 pages were submitted to the commission.
- The TRC will inherit unresolved cases including 311 submissions deferred or incompletely reviewed, but no chairperson has been appointed, so civil servants run the commission delaying probes until May or June.
- Under its three-year mandate, applications must be submitted by Feb. 25, 2028, with filings from adoptees in about 15 countries, including the United States, advocates say.
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South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program.
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