A South Korean commission has accused successive governments of committing widespread human rights violations by enabling mass overseas adoption of at least 170,000 children, often through fraudulent ...

Since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s, South Korea provided an estimated 200,000 children for international adoptions.

Human rights investigators and journalists uncover repeated violations by South Korean organizations responsible for sending approximately 200,000 ...

The commission’s findings were published on Wednesday following a nearly three-year investigation into complaints filed by 367 of some 140,000 South Korean children who were adopted to six ...

South Korean governments committed numerous human rights violations over decades in a controversial programme that sent at least 170,000 children and babies abroad for adoption, a landmark inquiry ...

Through policies and laws that promoted adoption, South Korea’s military governments permitted private adoption agencies to exercise extensive guardianship rights over children in their possession and ...

A South Korean commission found the country violated its children’s human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse. A South Korean commission found the country ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to ...

Through policies and laws that promoted adoption, South Korea’s military governments permitted private adoption agencies to exercise extensive guardianship rights over children in their custody ...