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  2. Court orders South Korean agency to compensate adoptee over ...

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    A court on Tuesday ordered South Korea’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won ($74,700) in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States ...

  3. International adoption of South Korean children - Wikipedia

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    Adoption from South Korea began in 1955 when Bertha and Harry Holt went to Korea and adopted eight war orphans after passing a law through Congress. [6] Their work resulted in the founding of Holt International Children's Services. The first Korean babies sent to Europe went to Sweden via the Social Welfare Society in the mid-1960s.

  4. Woman's search for birth parents leads to landmark S.Korea ...

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    Decades after she was sent for adoption in the United States, Kara Bos’ quest to find her birth parents in South Korea moved a step closer on Friday when a Seoul court ruled that a South Korean ...

  5. Deportation of Korean adoptees from the United States

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    From the 1950s through 1991, a plurality of international adoptees came from South Korea. Koreans are the largest group of adoptees in the U.S. [1] It has been estimated that as many as 20% of adult Korean adoptees are at risk of deportation. Many of the vulnerable adoptees suffered from a lack of access to other resources American citizens have.

  6. List of international adoption scandals - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers Home was one of the adoption centers that engaged in the trafficking in South Korea and the adoption agencies and South Korean government destroyed tons of documents to hide their activities and gave false identities to the children while selling them. The Brothers Home Facility sold the adoptees to Australia, Europe and North ...

  7. National Adoption Month: Mom opens up about being adopted ...

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    This woman's powerful adoption story is touching hearts all across TikTok, just in time for National Adoption Month. National Adoption Month: Mom opens up about being adopted from South Korea by ...

  8. Adoption in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, adoption law in South Korea was amended, known as the Special Adoption Act. In August of 2012, the Special Adoption Act went into effect. [2] The Special Adoption Act was passed in the hopes of increasing domestic adoption and decreasing international adoption. This new amendment changed some of the regulations regarding the adoption ...

  9. South Korea grants extension to truth commission as ... - AOL

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    South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for a one-year extension after investigators sought more time to ...