‘South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning’ Reporters & Director Spotlight How Western Demand Played A Role in the Korean Adoption Boom
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.
Widespread adoption fraud separated generations of Korean children from their families, AP finds
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,
Takeaways from AP’s story on the role of the West in widespread fraud with South Korean adoptions
Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
‘Is This Really All for the Children?’: Former Korean Adoption Worker Speaks Out
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.
South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions
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
Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen
Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said ...
Korea Box Office: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Opens Fifth Behind a Panda Documentary as Pre-Holiday Theatrical Business Stalls
Cinema box office in South Korea amounted to a dismal $5.45 million over the weekend, propelling "Alien: Romulus" back to top ...
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The Last of the Sea Women
We are women, after all.” The women of this island have combed the sea for urchin and conch for centuries. Once as many as 30 ...
‘The Last of the Sea Women’ Review: Sue Kim’s TIFF Premiere Reframe’s (Wo)Man’s Relationship to Nature
The documentary produced by Malala Yousafzai details how our changing environment impacts a dwindling group of woman in South Korea.
Korea Box Office: ‘I, The Executioner’ Kills It With $15 Million Debut, Dominates Early Holiday Season
Helped by a long holiday weekend, 'I, The Executioner' dominated proceedings at the South Korean cinema box office.
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28th Whale Festival to Kick Off in Ulsan's Nam-gu, Korea's Only Whale-Themed District
The 2024 Whale Festival will take place from September 26 to 29 at Jangsaengpo Whale Culture District in Nam-gu, Ulsan, South ...