South Korea’s president apologized Thursday for poorly managed foreign adoption programs that were rife with abuses and fraud ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chairperson Park Sun Young, right, comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March ...

Erin Huppert, who was adopted from South Korea as an infant in the early 1980s, talks about her experiences while at her St. Paul home on Friday, March 14, 2025. Huppert is one of some 200,000 Korean ...

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French ...

Korean parents are famously dedicated to their children’s education. But beyond the usual cram schools for math and English, a growing number are enrolling their children in private academies for ...

Erin Huppert, who was adopted from South Korea as an infant, wasn’t much interested in learning more about her pre-adoption history. But the St. Paul resident is reconsidering that now. “I have never ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were ...

Ha Kum Chul, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigators, speaks to the media during a news conference at the commission in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Im ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. A single tear ran down his cheek.