The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions

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South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …

Korean Adoptees Request to Stop International Adoptions from South Korea

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Harry Holt the Godfather of Holt International Adoption Agency

The History of Harry Holt & International Adoption Program

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Learn how Harry Holt started the overseas adoption program in South Korea, which now serves as the foundation of international adoption worldwide. Publisher’s Summary Has the global manmade market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities? Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of the practice here. How would you like to be given a new identity to …

Holt International Adoption Agency in Seoul Korea

Court Orders Holt to Compensate Crapser for Overseas Adoption

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A local court has ordered Holt Children’s Services to pay compensation to a South Korean adoptee who was illegally sent overseas despite having biological parents in the country. The Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday sided with the plaintiff, 48-year-old Adam Crapser, born Shin Song-hyuk, ordering the agency to pay 100 million won, or 75-thousand U.S. dollars, plus delayed interest. …

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Korean Adopted People to Norway Demand Justice and Truth

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Prosecute illegal and human rights violations in the adoption process. The Norwegian Korean Rights Group (NKRG) is an ad-hoc committee of adult Korean adoptees established to investigate the degree to which adoptees’ human rights are protected before, during, and after adoption. NKRG was formed voluntarily when all of us filed the case of the 2nd Truth and Reconciliation Committee through …