Since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s, South Korea provided an estimated 200,000 children for international adoptions.

United States pop-star Madonna adopted David Banda from Home of Hope Orphanage in Mchinji District. This was the same year ...

South Korea’s government enabled the “mass exportation” of children with private adoption agencies by fabricating birth records and failing to follow consent procedures, a landmark investigation has ...

The adoptees, from 11 countries, had long suspected their adoptions were tainted by corruption and malpractice ... of their rights under the South Korean constitution as well as international ...

A South Korea commission said the government should issue an official state apology for violating the rights of children adopted overseas, acknowledging that the country over decades allowed ...

The findings carry repercussions beyond South Korea, as several receiving countries — including Norway and Denmark — have opened investigations into their international adoptions.

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

Hungarian lawmakers are set to pass a constitutional amendment that critics say targets LGBTQ+ communities and threatens ...

After the Korean War, when the country was very poor and in ruins ... president of the Norwegian Committee of Inquiry on International Adoptions. South Korea provided the most adoptions to ...

In 2004 international adoptions peaked at 45,000, mainly from poor or war-torn countries. Yet a series of scandals involving child-trafficking, kidnapping and baby-farming prompted tighter ...

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

South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading ...