FORGED ADOPTIONS 5: To mark the 35th anniversary of the newspaper’s founding, the Hankyoreh is featuring the stories of 20 transnational Korean adoptees in several installments.
The Ministry of Justice and Security violated the Archive Act when destroying thousands of adoption files in 1983 and 1999, the Government Information and Heritage Inspectorate concluded. It investigated the matter at the request of adoptees and parliamentary questions, NOS reports.