Korean ‘orphans’ uncover the truth about their adoption history

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After decades of believing they were orphans, several Korean Canadians have learned that their birth parents may still be alive. CBC’s Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang helps uncover how they got here and why some say Canada ignored evidence of botched adoption paperwork.
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@abigailinkorea 9 месяцев назад

I cannot imagine coming home one day to find that my own mother had dropped off my child at an orphanage. The rage, the pain, the suffering, the grief. And to think that her family never spoke of child again-- I'm glad they're reunited, and horrified they were separated at all.

@Esther-32013 4 месяца назад

I believe it was probably the mother-in-law. Most kids (if not all) from divorced parents would go to the fathers side. Usually the father would work and not child-rear, so it was left to the fathers mother (grandmother). I'm assuming she didn't want to take care of her grandchildren since South Korea was poor back then, so she probably sent them to an adoption agency. There are so many sad stories back then. Including my parents (both from South Korea).

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

@@Esther-32013 Yeah, my Dad's mother did the same thing. Pretty annoying since my Mom had many siblings. Someone could have taken care of me.

@evannagle4274 8 месяцев назад

My brother and I was adopted in 1990. I’ve always questioned my adoption. I never knew about any of this until recently. I wish I could get some help to find my family.

@gwenmloveskpopcecmore 4 месяца назад

You can probably do a 23 and me kit

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

Best place to start is with "GOAL Korea". They are based in Korea and run by adoptees.

@johnsomn2148 Месяц назад

The DNA profile aided one of the black producers on NBC find, I think Chinese family .

@LittleHedgie 9 месяцев назад

Jenny Duffy is a friend of mine.. and this hurts that she has deal with this pain.

@maxim3830 4 месяца назад

Ki Sun, as an adoptee myself, I applaud you, as a Korean, to shed light onto this dark topic. It means a lot to see Koreans care about the fate of those who lost their original identities, and who are struggling until this day to find the truth about their own past. It means a lot to see Koreans who stand with us as allies and who speak up to address the injustices done to us and our families, both in Korea and in our adoptive countries. Thank you!

@ashleymlyniec5807 5 месяцев назад

I was adopted to an American family from Sunrin Orphanage out of Pohang in 1987. I was "seven" years old. I have done DNA testing but no matches to parents, siblings or first cousins. My paperwork says I was found out on the streets and was taken to the Pohang police station by a gentleman who found me but I have a feeling there is more to my story. I would appreciate assistance in finding out my truth as I have so many unanswered questions...

@docaz9453 4 месяца назад

I don't know what to say to you, but I hope you find your relief and be happy.

@CiceroSapiens 3 месяца назад

Seven seems pretty old not to remember anything, do you think you were much younger? Why do you feel there is more to the story? What do you remember? This seems like it would be a very interesting story.

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

You are right on the edge where paperwork was getting better. If you have paperwork on your adoption, you have a good starting point. You'll be able to get "some" answers.

@EChan-eu2co Месяц назад

@@HKim0072 Actually, it's been found in another documentary by this topic that a lot of the papers were falsified from a template. This story about being left in the street is a template they use. There was good money in adoptions. They were basically selling children. In at least one case, the four year old girl was playing in her family's backyard and was kidnapped. Her family didn't get much help from the authorities. It took 40+ years for her to be reunited with her family.

@HKim0072 Месяц назад

@@EChan-eu2co Dude - you need to re-read what I said. And, please. Don't correct people or give out information as fact unless you've done more than some basic research. There is a time curve on the accuracy of adoption data on paperwork. And like I said, she's right on the edge when paperwork started to get cleaned up.

@sabrina.natalie 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for opening comments on this video. I didn’t realize this was so prevalent. Thank you for this amazing investigative journalism. This is heartbreaking!

@CBCTheNational 9 месяцев назад

We’ve opened comments on this video to hear your ideas and experiences related to this story. Comments remain closed on other posts to try to reduce harm to the subjects of our content, our staff and the audience.

@jennypalmer331 5 месяцев назад

Oh gosh. What a scandel. So many children may have been taken like the grandmother who handed over her grandson, Truly disgusting

@guybeauregard 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this important reporting. For viewers who want to get a sense of the broader international aspects of this history of transnational adoption, try to get a hold of the powerful films by Deann Borshay Liem, particularly her film Geographies of Kinship. For any adoptees reading this: you are not alone.

@trudynlary Месяц назад

I was adopted and now interested in love my adopted parents could not ask for better parents I was very lucky to have them just got my adoption paperwork from my mom

@Kitkat-wu3ow Месяц назад

I'm sad for the adoptees... Sad for the adopted parents....sad for the birth parents. I suppose i am dreaming...but i hooe all could be reunited and begin healing.

@DOA011970 Месяц назад

The parents have no excuse to put their child or children up for adoption to third parties. The trauma and immense grief that these children have suffered are criminal. The children's homes earned a minimum of 20,000 dollars per child when a child was transported abroad for adoption! Scandalous! Orphans were traded abroad as trading stock, partly with the approval of the Korean government. The term Adoption is a more civilized name for human trafficking. The inhumane treatment of these innocent children is a great stain on the Korean government and its parents/guardians.

@EChan-eu2co Месяц назад

Actually, in another documentary, it's been found that some of these children were actually kidnapped. A mother was looking for her little girl who disappeared in playing in their backyard. It took 40+ years for them to reunite. Single mothers were also pressured to give up their children even if they didn't want to.

@DOA011970 Месяц назад

@@EChan-eu2co, A mother can tell a beautiful story years later. The fact is that a mother is simply and purely selfishly made the easiest choice. A mother who throws away her own child as trash, like a dog when you don't like it anymore and takes it to a dogshelter. Many mothers who have taken their children to a children's home suffer from depression for years afterwards, after their inhumane act. Small children who are emotionally attached to a mother simply cannot be discarded, because the mother is in a difficult situation. The children who were trafficked abroad have in many cases suffered enormous trauma as a result. We can qualify this behavior as aggravated child abuse.

@sheilagreenedartley9104 2 месяца назад

And now, there's a shortage of children in South Korea.

@szszszsz95395 Месяц назад

Wow. Spot on. Such karma, eh?

@M_SC Месяц назад

It’s not really related issues

@bpxl53yewz29 11 дней назад

Birth rate in Korea is low because couples are choosing not to have babies. The birth rate has nothing to do with the international adoption rate.

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

4:55 lol, my story is very similar. My parents were splitting up and my grandmother (Dad's side) took me to the orphanage. Had more issues about growing up as the only Asian kid with mostly white people than being adopted. When I got to college age, I was kinda proud of my story. That I was left on the street and with only my name and birthday. But, my mom's family is huge! They tried to get me back (what I've been told), but it was "complicated". Never really pressed further. Knowing more information doesn't change the past. No biggie for me.

@MiriamYonit 9 месяцев назад

My uncle and aunt went to Korea and adopted a boy and a girl. They raised them on an Iowa farm. They were in a loving home. This article is very interesting.

@M_SC Месяц назад

Most of the adoptees were loved and well treated. Some still struggled with being “other” in their communities.

@moonlightpaw5868 25 дней назад

Just because they were loved it doesn't mean they are not curious.

@bpxl53yewz29 11 дней назад

The issue isn’t how well the adoptees were raised. The point of this documentary was that many of these adoptees were taken from their parent parents for adoption profiteering. For many, their birth parents are still alive.

@LINERIC44 Месяц назад

Please don't condemn the adoptive parents. Most are great parents and had no idea. They were lied to and duped as well.

@M_SC Месяц назад

Is anyone doing that?

@user-lf1pg8zk4h 4 дня назад

I heard the head of Holt amassed a fortune selling babies abroad. He owns many properties including gold courses in Australia. The more babies Holt sent for adoption the more money he could make.

@AL-wn2tt 8 месяцев назад

If adoption is demonised. War orphans are at risk of trafficking or a very bleak future in an orphanage.

@hanaluong2672 8 месяцев назад

Reporting the truth is not encouraged then?

@AL-wn2tt 8 месяцев назад

@@hanaluong2672 The whole truth, many children could be like this lady but many children are like two kids I know from Belarus are in an orphanage from birth they are severely behind in all their milestones. One child was the separated from her siblings after her mother died the other was abandoned at birth cos she had cerebral palsy. If they had been adopted life would have been so much better. At 18 the girl with cerebral palsy was put into a adult institution with p3with psychological problems. They will never have a normal life.

@AL-wn2tt 8 месяцев назад

@@hanaluong2672 went to Vietnam with a group. Ten year old girl has arranged to meet her birth mother. She never turned up. That's the truth. Behind every adoption is human tragedy. Nowadays children are not even allowed to be born.

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

Governments should have some responsibility of verifying information, making sure there is an accurate paper trail and creating some type of program for future adoptees.

@ChoyJoy Месяц назад

Unethical adoptions are never okay.

@bertharodriguez9719 21 день назад

I’m surprised that they didn’t start a campaign like put up their pictures as child through every news broadcast someone would of recognize them

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

No definitive date, but by the late '90s, Korea got their house in order. Paperwork is much better. Gets murky the earlier the adoption. Paperwork is a mess. Things were more sketchy etc.

@jdmmg4904 21 день назад

❤😢

@user-iq9zl8if5v 2 месяца назад

와 댓글에 90년대에도 입양가신 분들이 있네… 진짜 문제가 많다😢

@TheJlee28 8 месяцев назад

Of course they didn’t know anything about it or the kids wouldn’t survive.

@Sad_bumper_sticker. 23 дня назад

Is the awful grandmother who took her grandson to the adoption clinic without asking her daughter still alive? Was the reunited son and mother able to confront her with her actions?

@Kitkat-wu3ow Месяц назад

Since the paperwork is fraudulent... I wonder if Korea can set up a DNA program (volunteers) for those birth parents who are seeking their lost children. So that adopted Korean children all over the world can submit their DNA too...they might get matches with their parents but also potentially siblings. Frankly, those who have been adopted early in the 60s and 70s are running out of time. It's at least what the Korean government can do to make sort of make right.

@roseengland9701 16 дней назад

The individuals featured in the documentary had an unexpected influence on my path of self-discovery by prompting the implementation of more stringent regulations for the international adoption of mixed-race children in orphanages. While I hold a personal disagreement with this policy, I remain optimistic that I will eventually be able to discover the identity of my maternal grandparents. All that I am currently aware of is that my mother's father was a Korean orphan brought to Ogden, Utah after the Korean War. 😢

@M_SC Месяц назад

It really is patriarchal culture that caused a lot of this. If divorced, the father’s family gets the child, but the dad is a man so doesn’t raise children, and his mother is handed a baby she didn’t ask for to raise, as if doing that alone isn’t a 24/7 job. I am sympathetic to the mother in law that took the baby to the orphanage, under that culture, (patriarchy not Korean), it was more appropriate to abandon the child at an orphanage for a married couple to adopt than let a divorced woman have custody. And sharing was impossible, part of patriarchy is families “owning” the child. It is only with the destruction of patriarchal attitudes that such situations can be avoided.

@nicolejaime9222 23 дня назад

Kelly of course they knew they were also taking the native children and adopting them out across Canada in the US so yes they knew .....

@RealityTVObsession84 2 месяца назад

I wonder if it’s possible suing South Korea for compensation ?❤

@pkhayward6249 2 месяца назад

Can you help me find birth family South Korea?

@deanpapadopoulos3314 2 месяца назад

👍👍👍🙏🏼🙏🏼✝️

@familylove5412 24 дня назад

I got great story for you people

@MarionThiessen 9 месяцев назад

The more I learn about it, the more I think it’s almost impossible to make international adoption ethical.

@renataostertag6051 8 месяцев назад

Don't be daft please. Millions of kids all over the world are wasting away in orphanages (dying rooms) and would cling to any chance of being taken away from this hell on Earth, they are in. Just because there are a few "wrong" adoptions does not make the vast majority of them wrong.

@maxim3830 4 месяца назад

@@renataostertag6051 Not really "a few". The vast majority of South-Korean (to overseas) adoptions can be labeled as problematic, because the majority of those adoptees has been made orphan on paper, while in fact they weren't. South-Korea has made intercountry adoption an industry, with significant profits for the trading sides, and with the children as commodities. I don't know in which universe that would qualify as "not wrong".

@CiceroSapiens 3 месяца назад

@@maxim3830You're completely wrong. Korea made international adoption all but impossible in 2012 to hide their "orphan" problem. The culture treats orphans as non-persons, the lowest in their caste system - often they can't even get jobs or spouses because you have to list your ancestors on job applications.

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

Well, now it's the opposite in Korea. Barely anyone gets adopted overseas. Kids just grow up in orphanages / group homes which are private, but government funded. And, that life ain't pretty either.

@maxim3830 3 месяца назад

@@HKim0072 Yes, but international adoption is not a suitable solution for that problem. It's about time Korea starts to change it's attitude towards unmarried couples, single parents and young moms. And also towards the handicapped and whatever doesn't fit the small Korean mold. If parents are allowed and supported to take care of their children (instead of being stigmatized and coerced to relinquish), orphanages can close down.

@oceanstaiga5928 Месяц назад

After the war people were DIRT POOR but that is no excuse to pressure any family into giving up a child. No matter how hard life might have been, if the child is loved and safe there is no reason to take them away.

@M_SC Месяц назад

Suffering from hunger and poverty isn’t safe though

@oceanstaiga5928 26 дней назад

@@M_SC of course, but in that case you could rip so many kids out of families. Rather than adopting the kids all those families could have sponsored their meals by donating money too. Adoption was not *needed* in every case. In some it would have, of course.

@mutzeemutz8648 8 дней назад

Kim face looks like julian datugan

@BaeleJanes-ts2rr Месяц назад

Please where can the parents get support? The adopted parents

@emmah6045 5 месяцев назад

The first thing overseas adoptees should do before a search is to study the language of their origin. With internet class for free, communication is becoming simpler. You don't have to rely on a stranger as a translator.

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

lol, people have real lives with families. They don't have time to learn a new language as an adult. Translation apps work fine, but they don't work with phone calls.

@user-fs6ou3fk9p 6 дней назад

Do a DNA test. They can't stop you doing that.

@karenavey2183 Месяц назад

Your ‘dramatic’ cadence is quite off-putting.

@freedomlife3623 9 месяцев назад

The Truth is those parents are so desperate to survive and giving their child a better life. Those children should be grateful their new parents adapted them. Those are the one who loved them and raised them. What a life they would have if they left in Korean orphanage. Maybe it’s a warning to adopting parents.

@Socially_Inept_Gyopo 7 месяцев назад

how hegemonic

@docaz9453 4 месяца назад

Everyone have right to know where they came from even if those biological parents were desperate they don't have right to hide the origin of the child.

@HKim0072 3 месяца назад

lol, why are people that aren't adopted commenting?

@EChan-eu2co Месяц назад

At least some of them were kidnapped since international adoptions was big money. A mother looked for 40+ years for her four year old daughter that disappeared from their yard. It was in a different documentary on this topic.

@nightengale829 29 дней назад

I’m sorry but I can not listen to this. Most all adoption are not illegal.

@sagepirotess6312 25 дней назад

Well it's funny. Korea went from gaing babies away to becoming the lowest birthrate country globally... oh and as for human trafficking, korea is #1 for Vietnam bought brides and #2 for filaphina brides. Korea, great country for human trafficking.

@robertbentley3589 8 месяцев назад

What exactly is the story here? . Ninety percent virtue signaling. Must make the adoptive parents feel great.

@Socially_Inept_Gyopo 7 месяцев назад

reeks of hegemony and colonialism.

@save_hyrule 5 месяцев назад

legal trafficking.

@docaz9453 4 месяца назад

The adoptive parents need to tell the child the truth.

@maxim3830 3 месяца назад

@@docaz9453 In the Korean case, most adoptive parents were and are not aware of the lies. They chose to adopt and thought they were giving orphans a better future. Needless to say that many adoptive parents, as soon as they find out that their child never was an orphan, are angry about it too. Some media try to make the audience believe that adoptees and adopters are standing against each other, but in many cases, adoptees and adopters stand together in their fight for truth and justice.