South Korean President apologizes for the abusive foreign adoption scheme Child rights news

The program, which started after the Korean war as a means of removing mixed children from society, violated human rights.

South Korean President apologized for notorious Foreign adoption scheme After the Korean War 1950-53, which caused “anxiety, pain and confusion” to more than 14,000 children sent abroad.

President Lee Jay Meong said at a post on Facebook on Thursday that he was “a heart apology and comfort” for the South Koreans who were adopted abroad and their families with adoption and childbirth, seven months later Truth and Reconciliation Committee The program said it violates human rights for adopters.

The committee, which has achieved complaints of 367 in Europe, the United States and Australia, held responsibility for facilitating adoption through fraudulent practices, including forging records to photograph children as deserted orphans and transforms identities.

He told me that he was “anxious” when he thought about “anxiety, pain and confusion” that would have been suffering from South Korea when they were sent abroad as children, and he asked officials to formulate systems to protect human rights for adopters and support their efforts to find parents.

The international mass adoptions began after the Korean war as a means of removing mixed children born to local mothers and American parents from a society that emphasized ethnic homogeneity, as more than 140,000 children sent abroad between 1955 and 1999.

Foreign adoption continued recently, with more than 100 children on average, and children are often born to unmarried women who face ostracism in a conservative society, who are still sent abroad for adoption every year in the twenties of the last century.

After years of delay, South Korea shouted in July a Hague -adopting agreement, an international treaty aimed at protecting international adoption. The treaty entered South Korea on Wednesday.

Former President Kim Dai Jong, during a meeting with adopters abroad in 1998, apologized, “From below my heart, I am really sorry. I feel deeply a serious mistake against you.”

But he stopped admitting the responsibility of the state for the decades of misconduct.