July 31, 2006

Korean Adoption Documentary

You can now watch In-Depth 60 Minutes' program Baby Exporting Nation: The Two Faces of Inter-country Adoption on the web. It was produced by KBS in May 2005. You can view the documentary (along with English subtitles) on Jane Jeong Trenka's website Language of Blood.

Unfortunately, I received this info while on vacation in Europe, so I have not had a chance to view it. Still, it should be a thought provoking program.

KBS synopsis:

A 20-year-old unwed mother asked the In-Depth 60 minutes team to help
her find her baby. According to her, the baby was taken by an adoption
agency without her consent, as soon as she gave birth at an Ob&Gyn
Clinic. The transaction of money in the background was traced between
the clinic and the adoption agency related to this. Why is money
involved to secure babies for adoption?

2300 children are adopted abroad among a total of 3800 adoptions
annually. Human rights organizations criticize the government's
encouragement of exporting babies. Especially, overseas adoptions have
a lot of problems due to the lack of a proper system to provide post
adoption services. This is a shameful portrait of Korea, the world's
10th biggest economy and a member of OECD. In-depth 60 Minutes is
investigating the truth of rumours regarding overseas adoption through
shocking stories of unwed mothers who were robbed of their name of
"mother" and through the voices of adoptees who are returning to Korea.

Posted by richlee at July 31, 2006 12:30 PM
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