A recent report from South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed that mothers were systematically coerced into giving up their children for international adoption. Hospitals and adoption agencies played pivotal roles, employing aggressive tactics to convince primarily single mothers—often in welfare shelters—to relinquish their newborns, often under false pretenses that their children would have a better life abroad.
According to Peter Mller, a South Korean adoptee and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, the systemic nature of these practices was deeply violent. He remarked, 'It's inconceivable how violent and systemic it was, but there's also redemption in the truth coming out.' This highlights the call for greater transparency and reconciliation regarding the dark history of international adoptions.
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