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

SEOUL, South Korea — A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage Monday over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, ...

Robert Calabretta holds his baby photo from before he was adopted out of South Korea to a family in the United States, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at his apartment in New York. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's government investigation into human rights violations in past international adoptions, which led to a landmark admission of government responsibility in March, has ...

Around 200,000 children were sent abroad from South Korea to be adopted in foreign countries over the course of seven decades. South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning, FRONTLINE’s latest documentary in ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old Korean man whose traumatic adoption ...

A South Korean truth commission called for the country to apologize to those who were sent abroad “like luggage” so that adoption agencies could profit. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul South ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chairperson Park Sun Young, right, comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were ...