An investigation by South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has concluded that the country’s government-endorsed foreign adoption programme violated the fundamental human rights of adoptees guaranteed under the constitution and international conventions.
The commission’s findings were published on Wednesday following a nearly three-year investigation into complaints filed by 367 of some 140,000 South Korean children who were adopted to six European countries, including Denmark – which called on South Korea to investigate the adoptions back in 2022 – the United States and Australia.
