A horrifying scandal broke out in South Korea recently. After two years of in-depth investigation, the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a heavyweight report, revealing the dark inside story that the South Korean government ha

[Daughetee Mcgaw]

A horrifying scandal broke out in South Korea recently. After two years of in-depth investigation, the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a heavyweight report, revealing the dark inside story that the South Korean government has long condoned - South Korea actually admitted that it had "exported" children for adoption in large quantities, and at least 170,000 children were sent abroad, and behind this was a systematic child trafficking operation under the guise of transnational adoption.

The survey data is shocking: between the 1960s and the 1990s, at least 170,000 South Korean children were transported to European and American countries. Behind this huge number is a complex dark operation chain, with forged documents, illegal fees, identity tampering and other shady dealings.

The report clearly pointed out that under the protection of special legislation, more than 300 private adoption agencies have developed child trafficking into a "profiteering industry". These agencies are like cold "production workshops", "producing" children to be adopted every month according to demand. They cleverly evade supervision by forging "abandonment certificates" and carefully fabricating the identities of children. Even worse, they also require adoptive families to pay high "donation fees". Due to the widespread falsification of relevant documents, many adoptees are now in a desperate situation of finding their relatives, like a lonely boat that has lost its direction in the vast ocean. "This is essentially the government's tacit approval of child trafficking." Park Sun-young, chairman of the committee, said sharply at the press conference.The investigation further revealed the evil details of this system: up to 52% of adoption files contained forged birth certificates, and in 34% of cases, the biological mothers were forced to sign the relevant documents. In 1968, an institution was so cruel that it changed the identity of a 3-year-old child to a "17-year-old orphan" just to circumvent the adoption age limit.