Category: South Korea
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The Korea Times: Swedish-Korean adoptee’s pioneering research on flawed adoptions gains belated recognition
By Lee Hyo-jin Link to story. Tobias Hubinette’s findings on illegal international adoptions confirmed by investigations in Seoul and Stockholm
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She was adopted at 11 by a French family, but there’s a legal twist: her biological family didn’t agree
Yooree Kim was sent from South Korea to France, but her parents thought she was abandoned. By Joe Brennan Link to story.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees voice deep concerns regarding state takeover of adoption system
By Jung Min-ho Link to story.
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Korea Times: Korea improves adoption transparency, access, accountability
By Ma Kyung-hee Link to story. As of July 19, under the Special Act on Domestic Adoption and the Act on International Adoption, the Korean government has assumed full responsibility for managing both domestic and international adoptions, marking a transition from a private agency-led model to a public system. These reforms aim to streamline adoption…
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KPBS: Thousands of adoptees were never given US citizenship. Now they risk deportation
By Gustavo Solis / Investigative Border Reporter Contributors: Charlotte Radulovich / Video Journalist Shirley Chung was just 16 months old when an American family adopted her from South Korea in 1966. She was raised by a Black family in Texas, went to a mostly white school and attended a mostly Black church. Growing up in a mixed-race family, she…
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Korea Times: Korean adoptee turns personal objects into portraits of belonging
By Antonia Giordano From story: In MI&Gallery near Gyeongbok Palace, a small collection of sculptural works asks a single, pointed question: What object best represents your relationship to Korea? The prompt is at the center of the upcoming exhibition, “Art & Seoul,” by Sydney Fallon, an Asian American artist and Korean adoptee who traveled from…
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The Washington Post: Was he given up for adoption? Or was he taken?
By Elahe Izadi and Kelly Kasulis Cho From the story: 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…
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JoongAng Daily: Adoptees left with mixed feelings, unanswered questions as Korean government reins in ‘baby exports’
By Michael Lee/Lee Jun Hyuk From story: For decades, thousands of Korean children were sent abroad for adoption, their lives determined by private agencies operating with minimal oversight and often incomplete documentation. One of those children was John Quick, now a 42-year-old restaurant owner in Seoul, who was adopted just six months old by an American…
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The Korea Herald: South Korea moves to end ‘baby exports,’ state to take full responsibility
By Choi Jeong-yoon From story: Link to article.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees raise alarm over NCRC’s handling of records
By Antonia Giordano Link to story. Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing scrutiny over mismanagement and technical errors. Hopes were initially high when the NCRC took over from private agencies that…
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