The South Korean government has been found in a long -awaited investigation, capable of “mass exports” of children with private adopted agencies by failing to create birth records and fail to follow consent processes. As CNNThe country, which remains one of the largest exporters of the world’s infants, has sent over 200,000 South Korean children abroad since the 1950s, when the Second World War and Korean war had been rebuilding the country dissected by the devastation. Many of the children, now adults accused adults trying to find out their origin and accused agencies of deception, in which they were forcibly removed from their mothers.
Now, after three years of investigation, the government’s truth and reconciliation commission issued its conclusions on 100 cases of the first of the total petitions filed by adoption eclipses sent abroad between 1964 and 1999. CNNIt was found that 56 out of 100 were “victims” of government’s negligence, violating their rights under the Korean Constitution and International Conference.
According to the investigation, local agencies collaborated to export South Korean children with foreign groups, operated by the monthly quota set by foreign demand. Many adopted eclipses occurred through suspicious or lump sum immoral means, said this. The Commission found evidence of the fabricated record, including “intentional identity replacement” and false reports that are being adopted, left by the parents of their birth. It said that there was a lack of consent of the proper parents for adoption.
The Commission said that such a lack of monitoring caused a large number of adoption of inter-country, losing their real identity and family history due to wrong or fabricated records.
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The Commission determined that “the state violated the human rights of the adopted eclipses protected under the Constitution and International Agreements, including failures in implementing proper administrative procedures while ignoring their duties to ensure basic human rights, including insufficient laws, poor management and inspection, and to implement appropriate administrative procedures while sending a large number of children abroad,” Independent,
“Many legal and policy shortcomings were revealed,” Commission Head Park Sun Young said, “This violation should never have been.”
The investigation of more than 300 cases began in 2022 and is due to ending in May. Till then, the Commission recommended that the government offers an official forgiveness, conducts a comprehensive survey of the citizenship status of the adopters and comes with measures for the victims whose identity was incorrect.
