A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s. The report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday came years after The Associated Press revealed adoptions from the biggest facility for so-called vagrants, Brothers Home, which shipped children abroad as part of a huge, profit-seeking enterprise that exploited thousands of people trapped within the compound in the port city of Busan. Thousands of children and adults — many of them grabbed off the streets — were enslaved in such facilities and often raped, beaten or killed in the 1970s and 1980s.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean commission found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at government-funded facilities where thousands of people were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to the 1980s.
It’s fascinating watching the west talking about Korea during the cold war. It was rarely, if ever mentioned, and was treated as pretty bad, at best an “unfortunate necessity” but usually just ignored as much as possible. It wasn’t until the 90s when South Korea’s image was rehabilitated and the DPRK was demonised.
It’s fascinating watching the west talking about Korea during the cold war. It was rarely, if ever mentioned, and was treated as pretty bad, at best an “unfortunate necessity” but usually just ignored as much as possible. It wasn’t until the 90s when South Korea’s image was rehabilitated and the DPRK was demonised.