The filmmaker and reporters of "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" documentary talk about how their reporting challenges some Korean and Western assumptions about international adoption, and how the practice is now facing a reckoning.

Western governments eagerly approved and even pushed for the adoption of South Korean children for decades, despite evidence that adoption agencies were aggressively competing for kids, pressuring mothers and bribing hospitals,

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means,

A South Korean truth commission says it found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities where thousands of so-called “vagrants” were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to

A new AP/FRONTLINE documentary, ‘South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning,’ examines cases of false identities and fabricated backstories during a historic adoption boom of Korean children. In this excerpt, a former adoption agency worker describes pressure to adopt out large volumes of children — and ‘zero effort’ being put into verifying that children being adopted out had actually been abandoned.