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

For more than 50 years, profit-oriented agencies in South Korea have organised adoptions of children abroad. As a commission has now worked out, children have been issued as orphans and documents have been forged.

After complaints, South Korea admits that it mishandled adoptions

South Korea has been one of the top countries sending babies abroad for adoption for decades. Now, after an investigation triggered by hundreds of complaints from adoptees, the country has admitted its agencies mishandled adoptions.

South Korea faces accusations of fraud and abuse in adoption process: Report

After a three-year investigation, South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found widespread abuse and fraud in the country's foreign adoption process. The commission held the government responsible for enabling these practices. They say it resulted in many adoptees being falsely labeled as orphans and denied proper consent from biological parents. More than 140,000 South Korean children have been adopted by families abroad over the past…

South Korea admits to human rights violations through mass intercountry adoptions

The South Korean government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission admitted on Wednesday that the government had violated fundamental human rights in the intercountry adoption process due to a lack of a proper legislative framework, oversight, and adherence to administrative procedures. The government’s findings are based on an intensive investigation that involved gathering information and conducting interviews with relevant individuals. The gat…

The recent report of an independent commission has exposed decades of abuse in international adoption processes, with minors taken from their families and placed abroad by private agencies (which have made big profits) without adequate controls. Only recently has the Korean government passed regulations for the protection of children given up for adoption and initiated cooperation with Norway where, from 1969 to last year, more than 6,500 childr…

South Korea sent babies abroad ‘like luggage’ to avoid welfare costs

Babies born to unmarried mothers or fathered by foreign servicemen were adopted in the West after the Korean War, but the process was often fraudulent