New AP investigation finds generations of Korean families separated by adoption fraud to the West
Yooree Kim, who was sent to a couple in France by the Holt adoption agency when she was 11, displays some old photos of her and her brother in her apartment in Seoul, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
Over the course of a few decades, around 200,000 Korean children were sent overseas to be adopted, largely to the United States and other Western countries. Now a new investigation from the Associated Press finds that many of those adoptions were fraudulent and that generations of Korean families were torn apart.
We hear from Claire Galofaro, national writer with the Associated Press and one of the reporters behind the investigation.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
