Friday, December 9, 2022

More South Korean adoptees who were sent overseas demand probes into their cases

Peter Møller, fourth from left, an attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, attends a Nov. 15 press conference with a group of South Korean adoptees in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul faces growing pressure to reckon with the child export frenzy driven by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s.

Nearly 400 South Koreans sent as children to families in the West want an inquiry, saying their adoptions were marred by fake documents that changed child identities or falsely declared them orphans.

(Image credit: Ahn Young-joon/AP)

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