South Korea offers financial incentives to encourage marriage, but high living costs and shifting social attitudes keep rates ...

The largest exporter of international adoptees allowed fraud to flourish, as the government pushed the adoption agenda ...

Americans have adopted more babies from South Korea than any other country. On Thursday, a government commission in South ...

SOUTH PARIS — Harold E. Leino, 93, of Harrison passed away peacefully on Wednesday March 19, 2025, at the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris surrounded by family. He was born August 28, 1931, at the ...

The commission urged South Korea to issue an official apology for an adoption process that was often fraudulent.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a ...

South Korean governments committed numerous human rights violations over decades in a controversial programme that sent at ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission finds decades of illegal overseas adoption enabled by government negligence ...

Since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s, South Korea provided an estimated 200,000 children for international adoptions. That’s believed to be more than any other country. But the Truth and ...

Since the 1950s, South Korea has sent more children abroad for adoption than any other country, with most sent to Western countries. South Korea has sinced moved to tighten its adoption processes ...

In the decades after the Korean War, South Korea earned the reputation as the world's biggest baby exporter, with some 220,000 children sent to Western nations. One infamous adoption agency ...