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2. The Drop Box - Wikipedia

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   Every year, hundreds of infants are abandoned in Seoul, South Korea. [5] Pastor Lee's drop box provides a safe location for children to be placed if parents feel they are unable to care for their child, and wish to give them the opportunity to be adopted. [ 5 ]

3. Adoption in South Korea - Wikipedia

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   This was a result of more children being abandoned instead of being put up for adoptions by parent(s). In 2010, before the Special Adoption Act was passed, there were 191 children abandoned in South Korea. The year the amendment went into effect, 2012, the number of children abandoned increased to 235. [2]

4. International child abduction in South Korea - Wikipedia

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   South Korea became a party to the Hague Child Abduction Convention in December 2012. [3] Its domestic implementation law entered into force on March 1, 2013.[4] The implementation act designates the Ministry of Justice as the Central Authority for both incoming and outgoing cases, and assigns exclusive jurisdiction over Hague child return cases to Seoul Family Court.

5. International adoption of South Korean children - Wikipedia

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   In a video which was published on March 27, 2014, on the France 24 YouTube channel, Ross Oke, the international coordinator of Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK), said that baby boxes like the one in South Korea encourage abandonment of children and they deny the abandoned child the right to an identity. [30]

6. Birth mothers in South Korea (international adoption) - Wikipedia

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   Birth mothers in South Korea faced social and economic hardships following the war, and many were left with no choice but to place their children for adoption. It was virtually impossible for unwed mothers to raise children on their own in South Korea, due to social exclusion and an inability to escape severe stigma [2] and discrimination. Many ...

7. South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies

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   Yoo Young Yi’s grandmother gave birth to six children. “My husband and I like babies so much … but there are things that we'd have to sacrifice if we raised kids,” said Yoo, a 30-year-old ...

8. South Korea Needs More Babies and Immigrants - AOL

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   (Bloomberg Opinion) -- South Korea greeted the new year by recording its first annual population decline. Unfortunately, the go-to solutions are meeting some practical challenges in the Covid-19 ...

9. Holt International Children's Services - Wikipedia

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   After seeing a documentary film about "G.I. babies" of the Korean War in orphanages in Korea, the Holts decided they would adopt some of the children who needed families. [6] Harry began preparations to go to Korea, and Bertha asked a friend how to go about adopting eight children from another country.