South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions
South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulate...
ByKIM TONG-HYUNG Associated PressMarch 25, 2025, 10:12 PMThe AP investigations, which were also documented by Frontline (PBS), detailed how 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 that many were being procured through questionable or outright unscrupulous means.Western nations ignored these problems and sometimes pressured South Korea to keep the kids coming as they focused on satisfying their huge domestic demands for babies.
The commission recommended the South Korean government issue an official apology over the problems it identified and develop plans to address the grievances of adoptees who discovered that the biological origins in their adoption papers were falsified.
It also urged the government to investigate citizenship gaps among adoptees sent to the United States — the largest recipient of Korean children by far — and to implement measures to assist those without Гражданството, което може да преодолее хилядите.
Правителството на Южна Корея в никакъв случай не е признавал директна отговорност за въпроси, свързани с предишните осиновявания, които притеглят възходящото интернационално внимание на фона на рецензията, че хиляди деца са били повърхностно или излишно отделени от биологичните си фамилии.
Министерството на здравето и благосъстоянието, държавния отдел, който обработва осиновяването, не е коментар по отчета на Комисията.
Някои осиновители подлагаха на критика отчета, казвайки, че той не открива съучастието на държавното управление задоволително мощно и че рекомендациите му са прекомерно слаби.
