South Korea’s government enabled the “mass exportation” of children with private adoption agencies by fabricating birth records and failing to follow consent procedures, a landmark investigation has ...

Ever since the Korean War ended in 1953, South Korea has been one of the top countries that sends babies abroad for adoption. And this week, for the first time, the South Korean government admitted ...

Korea’s international adoptions began with mostly mixed-race children following the war, and grew to include the children of unwed mothers, abandoned babies and others. Domestic adoption is ...

International adoption began after the Korean War as a way to remove mixed-race children ... More recently, the main driver has been babies born to unmarried women, who still face ostracism in a ...

South Korea’s export of babies peaked in the 1980s, with as many as 8,837 children shipped abroad in 1985. Children were “sent abroad like luggage,” the commission said, presenting a photo ...