Nearly 300 South Koreans who were adopted to European and American parents as children are demanding South Korea investigate their adoptions, which they suspect were based on falsified documents that laundered their real status or identities.
Kwang is among nearly 300 South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who so far have filed applications calling for South Korea’s government to investigate the circumstances surrounding their adoption, which they suspect were based on falsified documents that laundered their real status or identities.
The 283 applications submitted to Seoul’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission so far describe numerous complaints about lost or distorted biological origins.Some adoptees say they discovered the agencies switched their identities to replace other children who died, were too sick to travel, or were retaken by their Korean family before they could be sent to Western adopters.
The move attracted intense attention from Korean adoptees from the world, prompting the group to expand its campaign to Holt and KSS adoptees outside of Denmark. The 232 additional applications received so far included 165 cases from Denmark, 36 cases from the United States and 31 cases combined from Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Germany.
Holt didn’t immediately respond to calls for comment. Choon Hee Kim, an adoption worker who has been with the KSS since the 1970s, said the agency is willing to discuss issues surrounding its adoptions with adoptees individually but not with the media.When asked about KSS letters admitting to the falsifying of biological origins, Kim said: “The adoptees are saying they received such letters because they did, and it’s not like they are making things up.
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