Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s and `80s amid huge Western demands for babies.Here are some of the problems adoptees who responded say they faced, along with tips for finding histories and birth families.KYLA POSTREL — Adoption paperwork tells multiple storiesKyla Postrel's paperwork tells two different stories, neither of which she’s sure is true.After a DNA test last year, Postrel found a half-brother who was also adopted to the West. Comparing their paperwork made her even more skeptical of the stories they’d been told. But part of her is reluctant to keep looking "for something that may or may not exist and could be absolutely devastating.”She has been flooded with messages from…
4 Oct 20:00 · iNFOnews.ca