South Korea vows truth over forced overseas adoptions
- SEOUL: South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung promised on Friday (Aug 7) to "fully uncover the truth" about the nation's dark history of forced overseas adoptions, months after apologising for the state-sanctioned malpractice.
- South Korea was once one of the world's biggest exporters of babies, sending more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and 1999, according to official figures.
- International adoptions began after the Korean War, sending away stigmatised mixed-race babies fathered by US soldiers and infants born to women ostracised out of wedlock in a conservative society.
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- SEOUL: South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung promised on Friday (Aug 7) to "fully uncover the truth" about the nation's dark history of forced overseas adoptions, months after apologising for the state-sanctioned malpractice.
- South Korea was once one of the world's biggest exporters of babies, sending more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and 1999, according to official figures.
- International adoptions began after the Korean War, sending away stigmatised mixed-race babies fathered by US soldiers and infants born to women ostracised out of wedlock in a conservative society.
Sources: CNA