South Korea vows to end foreign adoptions as UN presses Seoul to address past abuses

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55766002

The AP investigation, in collaboration with Frontline (PBS), detailed how South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to send some 200,000 Korean children overseas despite evidence that many were procured through questionable or unscrupulous means.

Western nations largely ignored the abuses and sometimes pressured South Korea to maintain the supply to meet their high demand for babies