Danish adoptees call for investigation into South Korea’s adoption system

The World

Over 50 people adopted from South Korea by Danish parents have cosigned an application to South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses in the country’s adoption system going back to the 1960s. The World’s Carol Hills spoke to Peter Knudsen, a spokesperson for the Danish Korean Rights Group, which organized the application. He’s also an adoptee himself.

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