The world’s largest “exporter” of the world’s world. Revelation from South Korea’s fact-finding commission | Explained news

It mentions the first official reception of such problems, and the Commission has advised that the government apologizes to violate the rights of adoptive parents.

What was the report of the Truth Committee?

At the end of Korea (1950-53) and the present day, more than 200,000 children were admitted to the end of the Korean War (1950-53). As many adopters have have tried to follow their rootsAnd some have accused families of adoption of their adopted.

The commission detailed the mass “export” of children to meet the external demand. “For about 50 years after the Korean war, the government has prioritized the intercity adoption as a cost-effective alternative to strengthening the prosperity policy of families,” said the commission. Here is the main results.

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   Supervisory problems

   The country’s transnational adoption program has been transferred to “coordinated failure and management”, which delegated to private departments, who enjoyed significant benefits.

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   Requirements for foreign agencies

   South Korea’s agencies have been accused of contributing to “minimal procedural control” to meet the requirements of foreign agencies.

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   Fake information

   Agencies falsified posts to indicate that children have been abandoned and adopted to adopt or children differ from options because they have died. The cases were noted when Christmas mothers were forced to hand over their children.

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   Screening concerns

   In some cases, adoptive parents have been thoroughly demonstrated or had to pay to allow the child to adopt.

In addition to my apology, the commission proposed that the government will conduct a comprehensive study of the status of adoptive citizenship and will be recognized for the victims, whose identities have been falsified.

According to the Associated Press, some adopters and even the commission investigators criticized the “careful written” report, saying that there is a case that will be stronger the government’s crime.

What could give such adoptions a chance?

The west of Korean adoptive “export” is pushing a complex history of the torn nation of the war, which was trying to return to the legs in the domestic political turmoil.

An integral Korea was a traditional patriarchal society that was proud to preserve and set up social roles. The concepts of piety disappointment, which emphasized the respect of elders by young generations, and men’s heads focused on Korean society. It was considered important, so adoption was restricted to people who share relatives or the same surname (“a country that was distributed from the Korean prospect in 2013.

The Korean War was marked a turning point. It saw that the Korean Peninsula is divided into the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPREA) in northern North (Korea). According to the UN Sanctions, 17 countries (including USA) have fought for South Korea, and China and Russia helped North Korea.

The role of social norms, relationships with Western powers

The war left about 200,000 widows and 100,000 orphans. Taking into account the developed social norms, lemen children born for Korean women and American servicemen are “begging” in a single masunnomic society. “

The international leak of sympathy will promote the first wave of adoption from South Korea in 1954, as the familiar children’s units were placed in crowded orphanages. The main stimulus was “The growing problem of unwanted, mixed racial children in the US servicemen in the 1950s”, which expanded the scope of the adoption program. (“The movement of purpose and dependence on the United States of South Korea”, RC Sarri, Yenoak BAIK & MARTI BOMBYK, 1998)

In his book Accepted area: Individual Korean adopts and affiliation policyElana J Kim wrote that the first documented American civil adoption of the Korean War’s child was registered in 1953.

The largest recipient of Korea’s adoptive parents today has turned this opportunity into its long-standing policy. It banned Asian immigration and placed in its immigration into the law on its immigration in 1924. After the Korean War, it tried to reserve himself as a leader of the charity, which assumed humanitarian efforts to help South Korea and rescue orphans.

The 1953 Refugee Aid was taken in this direction, mainly intended to refuge refugees from Eastern European countries. However, the lobbying of the Christian Evangelical Couples of Oregon, which wanted Korean children, to adopt by Holtsz, will hold the bill for the relief of orphans of a certain war. Harry Holt and his wife, Berta Holt, have already received six parents, thus accepted eight Korean children in 1955.

Hollts’ names have been created after creating Hollt Adoption Agency, now Holt International, which became the main player of the transnational placement program.

In 1961, South Korea formulated the adoption of adoption law (ELAO), which is openly designed to make foreigners accept Korean children. The United States also passed an act of immigration and nationality, 1961.

Posted by Eddan Camba as a child under 16 whose parents were dead, they left them or voluntarily surrendered to their parental rights. This definition made more children the right to adoption.

Thus, a systematic, difficulty adoption process was created, leading to the adoption of the US increase in the United States in the following years. The authoritarian regime in South Korea from 1948 to 1960 and Park Chong Hamn in 1961-1979 was the basement.

Uptick in the 1970s also informed the change of social institutions in the United States, a decline in birth and fertility shortcomings in the United States, legalization of abortion Roe V. Wade Judgment and birth control, as well as the growth of single mothers. (“Proposal and demand questions in adoption”, Thomas Nut, 1974)

After the internal criticism of the “child’s export”, South Korea sought 20% a year to limit the amount of foreign adoption a year. However, this measure was short-term, and the country will see its maximum number of international adoption in 1985-86, when more than 8,800 children were sent abroad. This pushed backlash wave around the world and forced the government to limit the external adoption at all, while pushing the internal adoption.

The country’s transition to democracy can help these efforts. Before limiting the international adoption of the annual international adoption, the internal adoption has increased over the years.