South Korea’s dark past as the West’s ‘baby farm’

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At least 170,000 children were adopted from South Korea by families overseas in the decades since fighting ended in the Korean war. Most of the adoptees ended up living with middle-class, mostly white parents in western Europe and the United States. But as some grew up and wanted to learn the circumstances behind their adoptions, they found that many of the stories on record were not true. Two adoptees and a South Korean birth mother recently shared their stories about how some biological parents were pressured to give away their children.

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