South Korean Adoption Agency Abruptly Halts Operation in Wake of Reports of Widespread Abuses of ‘Fundamental Human Rights of Adoptees’

Human rights investigators and journalists uncover repeated violations by South Korean organizations responsible for sending approximately 200,000 babies and small children to prospective parents around the world beginning after the Korean War.

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The chairwoman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Park Sun Young, right, comforts an adoptee, Yooree Kim, during a press conference at Seoul, March 26, 2025. AP/Ahn Young-joon

SEOUL — A message on the website of a South Korean agency famed for putting Korean children up for adoption by American families for more than 60 years comes as a shock after reports of widespread abuses of “fundamental human rights of adoptees.”

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