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South Korea’s fact fee has concluded that the federal government bears duty for facilitating a overseas adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, pushed by efforts to scale back welfare prices and enabled by non-public businesses that usually manipulated kids’s backgrounds and origins
By KIM TONG-HYUNG, Related Press
Revealed: March 28, 2025, 1:46pm
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Fact and Reconciliation Fee Chairperson Park Solar Younger, proper, comforts adoptee Yooree Kim throughout a press convention in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Picture/Ahn Younger-joon)
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s fact fee concluded the federal government bears duty for facilitating a overseas adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, pushed by efforts to scale back welfare prices and enabled by non-public businesses that usually manipulated kids’s backgrounds and origins.
The landmark report launched Wednesday adopted a virtually three-year investigation into complaints from 367 adoptees in Europe, the USA, and Australia, representing essentially the most complete examination but of South Korea’s overseas adoptions, which peaked beneath a succession of army governments within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.
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