SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Koreans adopted by Danish parents decades ago have formally demanded the South Korean government investigate their adoptions, which they say were marred by widespread practices that falsified or obscured children’s origins. Most of the South Korean adoptees sent abroad were registered by agencies as legal orphans found abandoned on the streets, although …
Chae Pilseok is looking for his daughter. Adopted Korean. “Korea was very poor at the time. There was no way to find the child if you lost your child. What I did was report it to the police station. I went to all the orphanages to find my daughter. I cried a lot because I felt sorry for the starving …
Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory is called Ae Ran Won, and it is one of a dozen homes for unmarried women in South Korea. Ae Ran Won can hold fifty pregnant women in its ten rooms, but when I was there in November, it had only thirty-five.
The reunion after such a long time, only lasted 8 minutes. “So he left and I just broke down because that was really my last chance of knowing anything…because I worked so hard to get to this meeting with him.” Kara Bos. After 6 months, her father passed away at the age of 87 years old. “Although it is only …
