A summary of the news articles on the South Korea TRC press conference on International Adoption of March 26 2025

NRC: Rapport: Zuid-Korea is schuldig aan misstanden bij internationale adopties

NOS: Ernstige overtredingen geconstateerd in Zuid-Koreaans adoptieprogramma

Telegraaf: Adoptieschandaal: tienduizenden Koreaanse baby’s en kinderen verhandeld

Yonhap News: Foreign media pays attention to the results of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigation into ‘violation of human rights of overseas adoption’…”Fraud or cheating”

Yonhap News: Let’s make peace with the inconvenient truth of overseas adoption

Seoul Economic Daily: “Mia was manipulated into an orphan and adopted abroad”…Truth and Reconciliation Commission Urges Government Apology

Seoul Shinmun: Overseas Adoption and Human Rights

YTN: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said, “Mia must be manipulated into an orphan, adopted abroad… and the government must apologize.”

Busan Ilbo: The committee said, “The state violates the human rights of children in the process of overseas adoption.”

MBC: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said, “The overseas adoption ‥ should apologize by manipulating Mia as an orphan.”

KBS news: Truth and Reconciliation Committee “Mia was manipulated as an orphan, adopted abroad without consent…The government should apologize.”

CNN: This country was the world’s ‘baby exporter.’ But its government violated human rights to meet demand, probe finds

BBC: South Korea admits to ‘mass exporting’ children for adoption

The New York Times: World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Admits to Adoption Fraud

AP News: South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions

France24: S. Korea govt responsible for international adoption fraud: inquiry

Trouw: Zuid-Koreaanse commissie geeft misstanden adoptie toe. ‘Eindelijk erkenning’

RD: Zuid-Korea moet excuses maken, zegt vereniging voor geadopteerden

WSJ: South Korea’s International Adoption Program Violated Rights of Children, Commission Finds

ABC AU: South Korea acknowledges human rights of thousands of adopted children were violated

The Korea Times: South Korean government blamed for human rights abuses in overseas adoptions

Korea Joongang Daily: Dutch couple’s cases cast light on illegal adoptions as commission recognizes rights violations

Recording of the press conference with english subtitles (UK-UK)