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Youngeun Koo

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south korea is finally reckoning with its decades long foreign adoption scandal

South Korea is Finally Reckoning With its Decades-Long Foreign Adoption Scandal

A system that claimed to act for the child’s welfare instead routinely erased adopted children’s pasts, ignored their birth families and decided their futures for them.