Today (December 26), the South Korean government announced that it aims to gradually reduce and eventually completely ...

Under the new framework, the South Korean government will oversee the entire adoption process. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Lee Seuran said during a briefing that the country will phase out foreign adoptions over ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while ...

Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived with his single father, a laborer who moved frequently for work. One day in ...

South Korea's government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations ...

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 ...

Yooree Kim, who was 11 when she was sent by an adoption agency to a couple in France, sits for a portrait as tears well up in her eyes in her apartment in Seoul on May 19, 2024. [AP/YONHAP] A ...

The South Korean government is preparing to end overseas adoptions by 2029, shifting responsibility for adoption from private ...