The report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday came years after The Associated Press revealed adoptions from the biggest facility for so-called vagrants, Brothers Home, which shipped children abroad as part of a huge, profit-seeking enterprise that exploited thousands of people trapped within the compound in the port city of Busan. Thousands of children and adults — many of them grabbed off the streets — were enslaved in such facilities and often raped, beaten or killed in the 1970s and 1980s.

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in 1985 and 1986. South Korea sent more than 17,500 children abroad in those two years as its foreign adoption program peaked.

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2025-01-05 23:57:24

A South Korean truth commission found evidence that women were coerced into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities in the 1960s to 1980s.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-korean-truth-commission-says-082657761.html

South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government...

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