Category: ethics
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Korea’s child rights agency data mishandling draws ire from overseas adoptees
By Jung Da-hyun Published May 11, 2026 Link to story Data breach seen not just as security failure, but threat to identity, dignity This image shows the main page of the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC) website / Captured from NCRC website A recent data breach at the National Center for the Rights…
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Korean adoptees submit new round of investigation requests to Truth and Reconciliation Commission
BY KIM CHANG-YONG Link to story Overseas adoptees submit a petition to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in central Seoul seeking an investigation into forced overseas adoption of mixed-race children and abuse at child care facilities on March 30. [NEWS1] Korean adoptees who were sent abroad between the 1970s and 1990s filed a new round…
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[Column] The Korean government has a duty to overseas adoptees
Posted on : 2026-05-10 With the third term of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission now in full swing, I hope that adoptees are able to learn the truth about where they come from and how they came to be sent abroad Link to story Illustration by Jaewoogy_ma@naver.com By Lee Suk-tae, former Constitutional Court justice On Aug.…
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Birth Mothers Harmed by Overseas Adoption Speak Out: “Government Negligence Must Be Thoroughly Investigated”
by Bae Kyunghwan Link to story Birth Mothers Harmed by Overseas Adoption File Petition with TRCCall for Dedicated Investigative Body on Forged Documents and Human Rights Violations The Coalition for the Truth and Accountability on Overseas Adoption and Children’s Rights (hereinafter TRACE) submitted a petition for truth-finding on behalf of five birth mothers who suffered…
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8 Korean adoptees sue Danish state over human rights
March 26, 2025. AP-Yonhap Link to story COPENHAGEN — Eight people adopted by Danish citizens from South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s are suing Denmark for allegedly denying them the right to their identity, origin and family life, their lawyer said Monday. In the lawsuit, the eight, who were all adopted when they were…
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Washington Times: South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
By Kim Tong-hyung – Associated Press Link to story. SEOUL, South Korea — 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. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, began accepting…
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Impact International: From Orphans to Victims: How State Policies Fueled 72 Years of South Korea Adoption Abuses
Link to story Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File South Korea’s international adoption program, spanning 72 years from the post-Korean War era, has been exposed as a profound failure of state policy that prioritized cost-cutting over human rights. Once portrayed as a compassionate solution for war orphans, it systematically falsified documents and exported children to the US, Europe, and…
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Devdiscourse: UN Experts Alarmed by Allegations of Illegal Adoption of Indigenous Children in Guatemala
“We are particularly troubled that no prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigation has been conducted into the alleged involvement of some State authorities in these processes,” the experts said. Link to full story
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The Korea Times: Adoptees demand answers from country that sold them overseas
By Antonia Girdano Link to story TRC findings reveal suspected illegality of some adoption cases Adoptees and members of advocacy groups pose during a session at the National Assembly in Seoul, Nov. 26. Courtesy of Lynelle Long A bill to extend the mandate of Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) passed the Legislation and Judiciary…
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PBS: South Korea plans to end foreign adoptions as UN urges Seoul to address past abuses
By Kim Tong-Hyung Link to story SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations investigators voiced “serious concern” over what they described as Seoul’s failure to ensure truth-finding and reparations for widespread human rights violations tied to decades of mass…
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