By Love Wilhelmina Abanonave
A recent investigation has uncovered shocking revelations about South Korea’s post-war adoption practices. The government has been found to have falsified birth records, wrongly reported child abandonment, and neglected to conduct proper background checks on adoptive parents.
According to CNN report, this disturbing report sheds light on the country’s history of sending over 200,000 children abroad for adoption since the 1950s. The investigation exposes the dark truth of a lucrative adoption industry that thrived in the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, when South Korea was struggling to rebuild.
Many of those adopted children, now adults scattered across the globe and trying to trace their origins, have accused agencies of coercion and deception, in some cases forcibly removing them from their mothers.
When adoption agencies depend on donations from adoptive parents, they are pressured to continue sending children abroad to sustain their operations. This structure increases the risk of illegal adoptions.
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