South Korea has been winding down the practice of international adoption, but the practice continues there and around the world, even if at a much slower pace than in previous decades. But even if it ...

South Korea is set to overhaul its adoption system on Saturday by ending the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies, which has led to widespread allegations of abuse. South ...

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 ...

The horrifying history of adoption fraud in South Korea has spurred Christians to finally care for orphans in their own country. All Kathryn Roelofs knows about her birth is that it took place in ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday apologized for the country’s troubled history of overseas adoptions, acknowledging that “unjust human rights violations” occurred. In this photo, he is ...

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French ...

In March, South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) released its report on the country’s international adoption system. After a three-year investigation, the committee found evidence that ...

South Korea sent more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and 1999 - Copyright AFP/File South Korea sent more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and ...

Boon Young Han, co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, stands for a portrait at the offices of KoRoot, an advocacy organization for international adoptees from South Korea, on Thursday, March ...

Boon Young Han, co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, stands for a portrait at the offices of KoRoot, an advocacy organization for international adoptees from South Korea, on Thursday, March ...