South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has apologized for poorly managed foreign adoption programs that were rife with abuses ...

International adoptions began after the Korean War as a way to remove mixed-race children from society. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Foreign adoption programs were rife with abuse and fraud, which a truth commission had earlier admitted the South Korean government had been responsible for.

An official inquiry in March found numerous human rights violations in international adoptions of South Korean children.

Programme, which started after Korean War as a way of removing mixed-race children from society, violated human rights.

Yooree Kim, who was 11 when she was sent by an adoption agency to a couple in France, sits for a portrait as tears well up in her eyes in her apartment in Seoul on May 19, 2024. [AP/YONHAP] A ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers his speech during a celebration to mark 77th Armed Forces Day in Gyeryong, South Korea Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP) SEOUL, ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A 52-year-old woman who was adopted to a French family in 1984 without her biological parents’ consent has filed for compensation from South Korea’s government, citing how ...