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World News - SEOUL – Born as Yoon-hwa in South Korea in 1974, she became Petra Zwart of the Netherlands at the age of one. Her adoptive Dutch family provided a warm and welcoming home to both Ms Zwart and her biological brother, who was adopted at the age of five. Even. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Tensions between international adoptees and Korean officials erupted last Monday during a forum held at the National Assembly Library addressing the management of national adoption records. After experts gave their recommendations on the country s handling of over seven decades of birth and adoption documents, 15 minutes remained for members of the audience to voice concerns and ask questions.
Nearly 400 Koreans adopted as children by families in the West have requested Korea s Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigate their adoptions through Friday s application deadline, as Seoul faces growing pressure to reckon with a child export frenzy driven by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s.