{"id":50984,"date":"2022-12-08T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/south-koreas-truth-commission-to-investigate-dozens-of-foreign-adoptions"},"modified":"2022-12-08T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:31:27","slug":"south-koreas-truth-commission-to-investigate-dozens-of-foreign-adoptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50984","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s truth commission to investigate dozens of foreign adoptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adoptees sent to Europe and the US say they were wrongly removed from their families as government in Seoul actively promoted adoption <\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the US who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid-to late 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s decision opens what could be South Korea\u2019s most far-reaching inquiry into foreign adoptions, as frustration over broken family connections grows, and now grown up children demand government attention.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/south-koreas-truth-commission-to-investigate-dozens-of-foreign-adoptions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adoptees sent to Europe and the US say they were wrongly removed from their families as government in Seoul actively promoted adoption South Korea\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Eu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,41,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50984\/revisions\/50985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}