[PD Notebook] ‘Lost Adoption Records: The Country That Erased Me’
2025-01-13 17:41:10
The Republic of Korea has been given the shameful label of a ‘child exporting country’ by sending over 200,000 children overseas for adoption over the past 70 years.
He gave up looking for a family, believing that the record of adopting an 'orphan' from Holt Children's Services was true.
Informants reveal that not only is crucial information such as biological parents' date of birth and phone number missing, but in some cases the child itself is not registered at all.
In addition to the problem of project results not being uploaded to the system, it was confirmed that project management was overall poor, including losing original project outputs, scanning blank pages, and performing services on behalf of others.