South Korea to investigate international adoption

**helge** · 09-12-2022, 04:01 AM

South Korea to investigate international adoption: 'Adopted around the world wept with joy'

South Korea sets up a commission to investigate international adoptions to Denmark, among others

With a historic decision, the Truth Commission in South Korea has decided to investigate the extent of fraud in the adoption industry. This is initially done by selecting 34 suspicious cases, 20 of which concern adoptions to Denmark.

Children have been stolen from markets, while others have been temporarily placed in orphanages.

PETER MØLLER, CHAIRMAN, DANISH KOREAN RIGHTS GROUP
- Adoptees around the world cried for joy when they got the news, says Peter Møller.

He heads the Danish Korean Rights Group, an organization for Danish adoptees, which has been working for months to obtain documentation.

- Now we can finally clarify what I regard as systematic fraud, where adoption agencies and orphanages in South Korea have, among other things, kidnapped children and falsified birth documents on a large scale, he says.

Profitable business
Over the years, South Korea has adopted up to 200,000 children. With up to 9,000, Denmark is one of the countries in the world that, in relation to population size, has received the most.

Peter Møller is a lawyer and has collected documents from several cases that adoptees have sent to the 'Danish Korean Rights Group' (DKRG). They have been sent because several adoptees have found parents in South Korea, even though their papers indicated they were orphans.

Many Danish-Korean adoptees grew up believing that they were orphans, because that was stated in the adoption papers. Now some find that it doesn't fit.

- In our opinion, it has been a profitable business in South Korea, where the adoption agencies and orphanages involved have earned millions by adopting babies to the USA and Europe, says Peter Møller.

- And in order to get enough children in relation to the demand, grotesque methods have been used. Children have been stolen from markets, while others have been temporarily placed in orphanages. When the biological parents came to pick them up, they were told, for example, that the child had sadly passed away.

Crowbar into willow-rotten system

Eva Tind is one of those who was registered as an orphan and lost child - and sent to Denmark in 1975 with a changed date of birth. In reality, the adoption agency in South Korea had information all along that the parents were alive. She got in touch with them when she was 14 and 21 when she first met them.

Eva Tind was told that she was found on a bench in a park and subsequently ended up in an orphanage. However, she has found that both things are falsified in the adoption papers.

- We adoptees have known all along that there was fraud. The new thing is that it is now recognized and officially investigated. The commission's investigation can become a crowbar in a rotten system, says Eva Tind.

Peter Møller and the group of Danish adoptees have continuously collected cases from all over the world and are now up to more than 300

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