By Elahe Izadi and Kelly Kasulis Cho

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In South Korea, the findings of a government inquiry confirmed what many adoptees had suspected for decades: Babies were sent abroad for profit, often with falsified backstories. In Michigan, a man is questioning his origin story.

Over the weekend, South Korea announced it would end private adoptions in the country. This comes after an investigation found human rights abuses by international adoption agencies. Some babies had been taken without their birth parents’ knowledge or consent. Records were falsified. Identities were swapped. Babies were stolen.

Host Elahe Izadi speaks with Seoul-based reporter Kelly Kasulis Cho about how adoption fraud occurred for decades in South Korea. We also hear from a man who is now on a quest to find his biological family. 

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