The President of South Korea on Thursday apologized for poorly managed foreign adoption programs, which were prevalent months after the country’s Truth Commission accepted the state’s responsibilities for such practices for the first time.
chairman Lee jaehooung said in Facebook The post that he was offering “hearty forgiveness and comfort words” from the country South Korean Adopted abroad and their adopted and birth family.
The conclusions by the decisions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the recent court have confirmed some cases of human rights violations during international adoption, Lee said, the government failed to play its role in such cases. He was not detailed.
Lee said that when he thinks about “anxiety, pain and confusion”, he “feels heavy” that when he was sent abroad as children, South Korean adopters would have suffered. He asked the officials to prepare a system to protect the human rights of their efforts to find the parents of their birth.
South Korea has faced increasing pressure to address widespread fraud and abuse, which affects its adoption programs, especially during one day in the 1970s and 1980s when the country allowed thousands of children to adopt every year during a day.
Many adopters discovered that their records were misunderstood to be negligent from their birth families, or to portray as orphans left as theft.
In a historic report in March, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded the responsibility of the government bore to facilitate adoption programs that were inspired by efforts to reduce welfare costs. The report followed the investigation of nearly three years in complaints of 367 adopted reception in Europe, United States And Australia.
In collaboration with the frontline (PBS), a widely alliance with 2024 Associated Press Investigations, stating how South Korean governments, western countries and adopted agencies worked to supply about 200,000 Korean children to parents abroad, despite years of evidence that many were purchased through suspected or uniform dishonesty.
Following a delay of years, in July South Korea confirmed the Hague Adoption Conference, an international treaty meant to protect international adoption. The treaty influenced South Korea on Wednesday.