This huge 8 part series published in 2024 to Jan 2025 uncovers the massive human rights abuses and illegal practices in South Korea’s intercountry adoption program. South Korea is the largest sending country in the world and provided a template to the majority of intercountry adoption programs from other birth countries. The USA is the largest demander of children in the world via intercountry adoption. 

Part 1
19 Sept 2024
Adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

Part 2
20 Sept 2024
Widespread adoption fraud separated generations of Korean children from their families, AP finds

Part 3
20 Sept 2024
Western Nations were desperate for Korean Babies. How many adoptees believe they were stolen?

Part 4
4 Oct 2024
Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families

Part 5
7 Oct 2024
South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter is sent abroad

Part 6
15 Oct 2024
A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them – just not the ones she wanted (switched babies)

Part 7
11 Oct 2024
Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

Part 8
2 Jan 2025
South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations (global response)

Documentary: South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning
Released 20 September 2024 (1.5hrs long), only avail in USA/Canada & South Korea

For those outside USA/Canada and South Korea, if you can’t access this documentary via a VPN, contact ICAV.