South Korea’s cruel Adoption Industry | Korea adoptee’s interview
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2023
- Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that she was abandoned by her parents. It wasn't until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than "Nameless". As the only Asian in a small French village, Kim grew up sexually abused by both her parents, and she began to track down the adoption agency that placed her, and we joined on her lonely, long journey.
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Hi my name is Yooree and many thanks for your supportive and kind words, I'm going to Paris to file a complaint against the French adoption agency. I will keep you updated. Please take great care. I fight for the rights of adoptees and I fight against illegal adoption.
🙏🏻
I hope you will find your happiness yooree kim.
Vas-y Yooree de tout coeur avec toi
@@estermartins8466 merci Ester. Bien à toi
i hope you can get some measure of justice
The fact that the adoption was non-consensual on the children's and parents' part, technically this is considered kidnapping or even human trafficking
It is blatant kidnapping/abduction/trafficking whatever you want to call it. Absolutely despicable and shameful.
We adoptees from Korea have been saying this for a long time
Adopters don’t care they expect the child they brought to be grateful to them. Infant adoption is just modern day slavery if you can’t have kids you don’t have the right to steal another persons child
People are desensitized these days. IVF is human trafficking too but no one is willing to speak up.
It's trafficking.
The disgusting part is that a wife protecting a pedophile-husband. And she still blames a girl for sending him to jail! That woman should have never been out of jail, she never remorsed. I wish to all who suffered to stay strong.
so many woman in toxic marraiges usally defends the husband actions and blames kids. Espeically alot korean older ladies usually defend the acuser, I’ve seen interviews.
France and Germany are too culturally tolerant of pedophilia
@@jalvarez4506I knew one already 😂 these types of women are never going to change. I'm glad Yuri can move out and didn't become homeless.
This should be a Interpol investigation. These traffickers should be prosecuted, no matter how long ago.
Trafficking in children ,babies or older what crying shame . Government allowed a lot of things ,in many countries.
This was government sanctioned. There will be no trials.
This 1000%
I'm also adopted (from Seoul to France at the age of 3 months old, in 83), but I've never tried to look for my birth family because my adoptive parents (who have been caring, no complaint at all) told me early on that there was no information in the file. However, this documentary put things into perspective and I'm starting to question my own adoption and the informations in my file... Huge respect and support to Kim Yoo-Ree, Louise and the others! Thank you KBS for your investigative work.
I hope sincerely that you will get the opportunity to meet your biological parents. I hope that you got to live a healthy and happy life. All the best!
Bonjour, j'espère que vous trouverez des réponses. Je suis choquée par ce reportage, étant française et expatriée en Corée du Sud en 2012 (j'ai l'amour de la corée), voir mme Kim Yoo ree dans cet état me donne envie de la contacter, de la connaitre et de la soutenir. C'est absolument horrible, ils lui ont volé sa vie. Courage pour vos propres recherches. Cordialement
@@e.r.4447 None of the files given to adoptive parents have specific information about birth parents. It's more general. My paperwork was rigged likely make the adoption cleaner.
There are various resources now that make it way easier to search.
You need a starting point though. Like, the name of the domestic agency and international agency at least.
(Also, FYI...there is a group of older Korean adoptees fighting for adoptee rights in Korea for over a decade now.)
It just depends on your priorities. But you also have to think about the others. Maybe this whole time your parents have a thought about meeting. Sure, adoptees who have had a blessed life usually don’t look back to try and find out who they really are but I feel that it’s fair for both sides to at least meet. That’s also why I always felt adoption is wrong. I’d rather have a child suffer rather than having a kid having a total identity crisis
This is child trafficking. My heart breaks for Yoo-ree specially. She's incredibly strong. ❤
also the parents tbh. like imagine putting your kid in a childrens home for a small amount of time only to return and they aren't there anymore. or to hear that the father of the child just gave the kid up for adoption like the heartbreak of those mothers must have been insane
@@litchtheshinigami8936 completely agree. This is a heartbreaking situation all around.
@@litchtheshinigami8936 or just straight up selling your kids for money, because welcome to poorest fucking country on the planet
@@litchtheshinigami8936I was furious at Louise’s birth father 🤬 Can you imagine her birth mother’s heartbreak all these years? 😢
Yooree’s adoptive mother blaming her for her rape is pure insanity
The audacity on the adoptive”mother” to still try and blame her for their own miserable behaviour! I would send her to life in prison without parole. Let her spend the rest of her miserable life in jail. What monsters! And happy that Kim Yoo are got her closure and maybe a little peace.
go to law school, lets talk about this in 12 years
This is a perfect example of the dark side of adoptions. The child can have a good life, or it can be catastrophic. It's impressive that she still knows Korean after all these years in France .Yoo-Ree's adoptive mother only seem to worry about that she tried to send her father to prison. As if she betrayed the family for not accepting his sexual abuse.
These people are evil. To that woman, she is just a commodity, a paid good, so therefore the husband can do what he wants.... Even the husband paid all the fee because he worked for it.
It is just pure evil that the lady can justify it. She even let the Korean woman in the house because no one talks to her, lonely stupid woman, especially when her husband died!
She deserves it.
I think the range is...a bit wider. Likely, more a standard distribution curve with extreme good and extreme bad cases as the tail.
Yoo Ree’s adoptive mom is a complete bitch to be still defending her perverted pedophile of a husband to this day.
A pedo and his groomer's wife
I think she speaks Korean because she lives in Korea now. I wish her to return there, if she’s not. She will find peace and family.
it's so inspiring how yoo ree was able to come back and face her adoptive mother with confidence and calm, no longer as the intimidated little girl who couldn't do anything
It's on camera, you think she would really give her a good "treatment"?
I hope that adoptive “father” and “mother” that abused her gets their due karma. They can rot.
I doubt she would have gotten her passport and adoption papers back if the camera crew wasn’t there. Both sides were forced to be civil to each other.
It broke my heart to see Yoo ree press that door bell and cry out for justice and a way to find peace for her painful past. It’s an increasingly unjust world where law just protects rich and powerful.
I teared up😢
Didn’t that family (Yoo Ree) also adopt her brother? He was never mentioned.
@@tinatieken8840Yes I wonder what happened to him and what are his thoughts on their situation? Was he also abused? 😢
@@pingteo6104 I wish I knew the answer.
Wow, Yoo-ree found her adoptive "mother". This woman has no remorse. I'm surprised Yoo-ree was able to get some documentation from her.
I am sure she only gave the document because there was the camera and she wanted to make sure to never ever see her.
I can see a LOT going through of Yoo Ree childhood...a lot of scars. I hope she will find her peace and joy of life.
Why did she adopt Yoo-Ree in the first place though?
@RoyaleSPRTZ Based on the man's actions, he wanted a captive that he could abuse in every way. Perhaps the woman wanted to keep her economic or social position by ignoring the abuse. I imagine that their local neighbors may have praised them for "saving orphans". I thought the woman could have been coerced by her husband but her interaction with Yoo-ree doesn't support my original assumption.
Yes, I understand now. I hadn’t watched the later part of the video at the time. Thank you though
Everyone involved from the Koreans who sold her to the French agency that facilitated it should be thrown in jail for human trafficking....I don't care if the crime is 40 years old or whatever by now.
That french lady they who did this illegal adaption should be prosecuted by law.
She has destroyed so many families!
Yes please
Korea is also responsible. This happens all over Europe, forced adoption of European kids. Class issue. Govs all over are involved, except for a few countries that don't do it
*adoption
Child trafficking is what it is! And still World Wide!
Horrible criminals need to put in jail!! I Pray there will be Justice for all in this documentary And all adopted Children around the World. My Nieces Mom is Korean Adopted Now wondering what the true story is from her Korean Parents. Heartbraking to watch
Her pain was so gut wrenching. Her anger was palpable.
:( what a horrible thing to have lived though. My heart goes out to all of them.
Your hair cut; bangs looks like that character from the "Rocketeer".
@@jhan3894 I don’t remember a character with bangs from that movie? But it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it
@@moonbubbles3046 Betty-Page.
@@jhan3894 thanks!
Why is this being called an adoption industry? The parents didn't give the kid up. The child was kidnapped and trafficked.
I’m a Korean adoptee who was adopted from gwangju Korea to the US. I had it easy. I was given to a great loving family and reading an article about these adoptions especially the ones from Holt I’m appalled. I cannot believe the adoption agencies and the Korean government agreed to this. It really wants me to figure out where my birth family are and find out if they were made to sign the adoption papers or if they were lied to and said I died at birth. Looking back it makes sense now that there were a lot of Korean adopted kids growing up. I just can’t believe this. It’s very upsetting
Hi, not sure if you would want to know but if you are wondering where to start in your search, if that is what you choose, the K.A.A.N. organization is great place. My wife is adopted from Korea and has found this community to be something she never knew she needed or could have. Good luck to you.
@@MichaelRamos-lb2im thank you
Very fascinating. I'm a Korean Adoptee from the US and going to Seoul this summer for the first time since I was adopted in the 70s. My heart goes out to the lady from France adopted by an abusive father, but I have unfortunately heard of this happening here in the US as well. I was very lucky to have been adopted by very loving, supportive adoptive parents in the US, but thank you for educating me on the process of how lost children in Korea were adopted. I was completely unaware of the darker side of overseas adoption and how money feeds into adoption agencies for foreign adoptions... I was also a lost/abandoned child with no information about my background other than my biological parents were apparently presumed deceased. But after watching your doc, I'm questioning everything.. This has inspired me to educate myself further into my background, hopefully locating a biological family member. Thank you so much for your documentary. Well done!
U r very lucky
Unlike u
Sooo many Koreans Kids either kidnapped or without the parents permission had been sold to western country for Pedophil
Thats why they had changed the kids original Identification record
in sooo many cases
like their real parents name and II formation and the kids original parents Adress etc
By doing that the real korean parents neither the kids unable
to find out each other
because of the manipulated
Identification decument
South Korean Power elites has been supplying kids for Western Pedophil liver power Elites
to doesns of years
They are absolutely Evils
Most of Korean ppl do not Know about this criminal kids trafficking because Korean Media
never reveal this truth m
As a Korean
I’m sooo ashamed of our Evil
government power Elites
There's a place in South Korea doing DNA tests on abandoned babies (look up Babybox - S Korea Paradox on UA-cam) as there is at least a baby being dropped of every other day and sometimes every day. If the parents run off and won't come in to write a letter to the baby, the baby is DNA tested so they (the babies) can find their heritage when they're older. If you want to find your birth family, this might be the way to do it.
I too had a great Adoptive family; but you need to ask yourself, at what Cost? Not only that, but Men, we have it tougher! The Suicide rates of us Adoptees are ridiculous and quite honestly...frightening and sad. There's many of us who are also homeless and forgotten. Some of these same parents didn't even get their kids American citizenship. Are you freaking kidding me?
@@jhan3894 I'm kind of the wrong person to comment here because I don't have an adoption background myself (I'm a long term foster parent). Just wanted to say that as soon as the primary bond with the biological parents is broken, no matter how early in life, there is severe trauma. Suicide rates in kinship care sadly are also really high and in group homes they are heart breaking
@@annaf3915Is being a foster parent better than adopt parent? Im childless and im thinking of either adopt... Or foster... There's just too many children suffers outside.. Thinking of blessing others to have a better life/guidance in life. Im 40
my heart is breaking. watching her yelling outside the gate and her hands shaking from so much anger. i wish i was there with you to yell and scream at this woman. more importantly, South Korean government must bring justice and put all those criminals for trafficking children for money regardless of their old age. i don;t give a FCK if they are 80's now. seriously.
I completely agree and am shocked by the presented video. No country can be considered civilized if such cases are possible in it.
Yoo-ree's tenacity and strength just amazes me. I am lost for the appropriate words. I wish her future is full of lighthearted happy days and now she can forge a new future exactly the way she wants.
At least she can speak Korean! I had to wait for Technology of Apple Translator! This is our Life! It matters!
I am Korean living in Kazakhstan, I wasn't adopted i was born to my Korean parents and grew in Kazakhstan. But I felt tremendous pain and was crying a lot when i watched it, may all Korean adoptees find justice and peace
It’s so sad that this is not just a thing in Korea but in a lot of other countries too. Even in Canada, we have a horrible history of forcibly taking indigenous children from their homes and putting them into foster care or having them adopted by white famines (sixties scoop). It’s so sad to see what children have to go through in these sort of situations
...from their alcoholic homes, often
@@zimrieland the alcoholism was also a result of the residental school system and their abusive staff. There’s plenty of horror stories of Catholic priests molesting Indigenous children, and nuns did beat them, too.
Happens in the Uk too, class issue. White working classes , or completely disenfranchised white women are the main targets
It is commendable that KBS has initiated to report on Korea's illegal adoptions, and I can not even imagine the status of adoptions worldwide at the present time. I expect KBS will continue to support the group in Denmark by reporting the group's work. I am aware that Korean Adoptees have been vocal about adoptions in general, among them I have a close friend. She was in pain. I sincerely hope by now she has found her biological parents and found peace in her heart. 💕💕
Major papers and TV companies in South Korea have done stories like this for 10 years. None has changed. So complicated. I am a single Korean woman living in Korea, with a good job and loving parents. I can't be pregnant by sperm donations, because sperm donations are legal only for married hetero couples here, and if I fall pregnant by some guy now and can't marry him, I will be ....momm...if I give birth to it and keep it, I will lose my job and never get a new one, and my parents, at least for years, won't meet me. I don't know how I will feed a baby and myself for all my life. And abortions are legal only for some cases like medical or criminal background, and my case will not be one of them, so I will have to find some hidden, expensive, dubious doctors or whoever will terminate my unmarried pregnancy, risking my health and even my life.
America will pay for this. Everything you've done to us we will do to you!
illegal?????? no its not
@@tinavino1575 10 years? this been going on since the 60's lol
@@r6guy usa didnt do this, keep barking doggy
hello i'm a french. I don't know how the adoption services are at the moment but what I can say is that my mother after being abandoned spent all her childhood and adolescence at the DASS ( the service that manages and places the children) and in foster families and in view of what she dared to tell me at her 60th birthday sends shivers down my spine....foster families in the 1950s didn't seem too in control....she told me about scenes where she was hit and badly treated....and I suspect sexual abuse although she never told me about it....
So this report only half-surprises me even though it breaks my heart.
THANK YOU for daring to talk about this kind of subject. For things to change, we have to be aware, ignorance is an evil that is no longer necessary today!!!!!!
Hi, I am French too and still today social services when in comes to child care is a joke. And when it comes to pedophilia, sexual assaults.... we as French know that our government and justice system prefer to look the other way. There are so many celebrities, politicians and very recently a judge even who never get judged and when they do and are found guilty the sentence is a joke. So of even the children of those wealthy people do not find justice what can we expect for those children. Sad world we live in...
It’s still the same ; I was taking in charge by DASS too because my mom was too sick to take care of us ; it’s a joke.. it’s been 10 years now that I left the family that “took care” of my bother and I for 13 years ; I know some fosters are good but some clearly do it for the money. Raising a child that isn’t yours doesn’t give you full rights on crushing their confidence ; dreams and not giving them your ears when something bad happens in your family. Her adopted (real adoption) son abused me for 10 years almost and she didn’t believe when I first spoke up… I never had the guts to talk about it to an adult after that.
This whole dass and child service is bullshit ; not under control ; they don’t care about the kids
I am so so sorry about this. I'm East African (Kenyan), and some of our orphans are also sold.
Some parents have lost kids on a school day... The child just vanishes walking from school. To see this happening in another country is heartbreaking... clearly our children's safety is a global crisis.
May you all find peace through the awful memories. Hopefully, your voices will save another child who is still in the system. 🙏🏾
@@cassandralucastorres1676 I am so sorry about your experience... May you find peace despite the nightmares. May your experience be a key that frees more children, not a source of bad memories.
🙏🏾🙏🏾
This entire thread thread is so heartbreaking to bring tears. I am sorry sorry sorry. I too was molested, though not by family. May I wish that you can take back your heart break, take back your happiness. Don't let them continue to hurt you long after they have gone and YOU ARE NOW SAFE!!!
it's hard at first, I know. My abuse was 37 years ago. I still remember it clearly but I refuse to let that piece of crap make me sad or take me down anymore 🙂🙂
Yoo-Ri story is really heart-breaking.
As a french woman, I feel ashamed of what she was subjected to. Her determination to find justice is really touching and I hope she'll find peace, eventually. It's a really good thing that we get to see her confronting/speak out against her adoptive mother, and I was glad to know that she may have had approached the police to relate what this despicable man did to her. (As the adoptive mother seems to imply)
She is really empowering.
Je vous envoie tout mon courage, vous êtes une très belle personne.
Someone needs to be accountable. No one should grow up with the feeling their identity was lied to. I can’t imagine the shock they went through and the struggles of not knowing. I hope these adoptees find closure and peace one day. Great documentary.
Child trafficking then and it still goes on today. To the lady who endured sexual abuse as a defenceless child I am so very sorry for your pain and suffering. These children and babies were taken/stolen as meaingless commodities and trafficking out and its wrong, its cruel, its evil. This is the world we live in and its not improved even to this day. I commend the sheer strength of those people in this film for surviving through such horrors.
The documentary does not discuss the Korean attitude toward lost, abandoned, or orphaned children. It is very bad, as though somehow the children are at fault for what happens to them, are a problem to the society.
It’s a real negative part of their culture.
at around 21 minutes in, When they show the words of the Minister for Health and Social Affairs..... absolutely heartbreaking. I really wish they had spent more time focused on that, it's disgusting.
The foster care system in the US ain't peaches and cream either.
WHY Isn’t the head of the adoption agency in jail right now!
Ms Yoo-ree, Ms Louise, your stories have left me heartbroken and in tears. I pray that your rights are fully restored as soon as possible and that every person responsible for your suffering is adequately punished. I pray for happiness and peace in your future life. May God save every single child who faces the same cruelty today..
Being a Transnational adoptee from Korea is still to this day very Painful. I live in a Country that hates me for my "Ching-Chong" features! But I had it easier because i'm handsome; i look like Tom Cruise, his exact measurements if He was on Earth2! I'm one of the lucky ones. If you're not Attractive in American Society; well good luck!
AMEN! AMEN! AND AMEN!
I am Albanian and my country also went through this terrible event for a very long time during the Communist regime and in the early 90s. Parents would be told their children had died, while they were either adopted to other Albanian parents (some who knew the truth) or mainly to Italians.
Now, there are numerous cases of both parents who have been looking for their children ever since, and children who want to find out what really happened.
It is incredibly heartbreaking.
The flip side is when the parents who give their children up, hunt them down when they become adults and hit the child they
abandoned for money because of “family” duty. Happened to my friend, she was raised by a wonderful family in Minnesota, is a wonderful daughter to them…..she told her biological mom to take the first flight back to Korea, she owed her nothing.
Yeah or remember the Case with Adam Crasper
There’s also some who don’t even get them U.S citizenship
Before I forget: Salt Lake City, Utah in the US has the same problem! It's being cracked down on, but there are a TON of shady adoptions there. An active duty soldier's wife put their daughter up for adoption while he was away at training, and the child was adopted by a family there! When he got an attorney to get his child back, they found out the adoption agency lied and said they'd exhausted every effort to contact the biological father first. Well, the wife gave them his name, he was all over social media, and he was in the military--so super easy to track down. The man had his child adopted without his consent and had to fight to get her back. He won his case, but the adoptive family fought to the bitter end and kept trying to delay giving her back. This needs to stop!
Let me start by saying that Adoption agencies care way more about money than the welfare of the babies and kids. It sounds like you might have been kidnapped and/or sold to the agency. I was adopted back in 1978 by a loving family with six siblings and I couldn't be happier with how they treated me. Back in 1995, when I was visiting my Japanese girlfriend, she arranged a trip to Korea to look for my mother and grandmother. Since I lived with my mother and grandmother until I (age 8) was adopted, so I had photos (given by caring teacher and mother) and documents to make it easy to find my agency. When I got to my agency, the woman working there remembered me and lied to my face stating that she didn't know where my mother lives. After we left the agency, she called up my mother and told her that I was in Korea looking for her. But she will not tell my mother which hotel I'm staying at until she came into Seoul and made a donation. My mother relied "If you don't tell me right now where my son is staying, I will come to Seoul and kill you". There are more interesting stories I could tell about my experience but this story is not about me. Yoo-ree, I can't say in words the amount of pain and suffering you've endured. Most people on this planet can't understand the amount as well. Both your adoptive parents and the Korean agency are the most disgusting example of a human there are. I'm not sure what you're trying to seek regarding them but I hope you can move on and find peace in your life. I'm impressed that you can speak both Korean and French fluently so maybe you can teach French in Korea and try to build fond memories there. Maybe you could even start a business helping other Korean adoptee's learn about their past and maybe (I know it very difficult) even bring families together again. Remember trials and tribulations don't define a person but how you've overcome them. I'm so proud of you my Korean sister.
Things are way way different from the 1990s on birth searches. A few KADs have pushed for adoptee rights over the past decade or so. It's way more streamlined process.
There is a organization called G.O.A.'L. founded / run by Korean adoptees located in Korea that helps with birth searches.
Even in 2023, S. Korea has some...questionable parenting laws. I have a S. Korean colleague that was in an abusive relationship with her (now-ex) boyfriend. They had a son out of wedlock, and when they broke up his family was legally able to take custody of the child without her consent. It had something to do with the father's rights to the child outweighing the mother's rights, but I didn't get too deeply into it with her. She has not seen her son in person in years... 😢
Korea seem to lack empathy for children. Soon they ll have none!
That’s horrifying
Unfortunately we have many cases like these here in Brazil. Hundreds of children disappear year after year and no one can find them.
Many are trafficked to countries in Europe, the USA and other countries to be "adopted". So sad it's inhumane.
Some time ago, I saw here on UA-cam the story of a Brazilian woman who was "adopted" by a French elderly home, was taken to France and spent her entire life feeling that something was wrong. She was constantly punished and humiliated when she didn't behave as they wanted. Her mother was a very poor woman and left her children in one of these "reception institutions" and said that she would return to her daughters as soon as the financial situation improved.
From what she gave to understand, the biological father never wanted to assume paternity. Some time later she returned and the Italian man at the "institution" said that one of them had been adopted, against her mother's wishes, and taken to another country.
It was later discovered that this Italian was a drug trafficker and the "institution" was a front for international child trafficking.
Returning to the young woman's story, she reports that she had a hard time with these "parents", she didn't have a childhood, she didn't know what it was like to play and have friends.
As soon as she became of age, she discovered her true story and sought every possible way to find out who her parents were and managed to locate her family in Brazil and they agreed to meet her and welcomed her very well.
The bad side of this story is that her mother passed away many years ago and she had never given up hope of finding her. She started using her Brazilian registered name.
The brothers who are the result of another relationship with their mother remain in contact with her to this day.
I would love to know the life of Kim Yoo Ree that transpired after she left home at age 17. Where did she go? What did she do to survive? Is she married? What about her brother? Not once was her brother's update mentioned. I wonder why. There are so many questions!
No matter what, she is an incredibly strong person for having the courage to speak up and sue her adoptive "parents" when she was only 17 and continuing her struggle for justice. Left alone facing her abusers and the ones responsible. Maybe her brother has a family of his own and doesn't want to show his face to keep them away from the media attention.
Here is what I found on internet (and it makes me feel better after watching her sad story) : "At 17, Kim left her French adoptive parents to study on her own, majoring in Korean language and literature at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. It was with the help of Korean friends she met at the time that she was able to find her family easily, and it was through connections formed at a part-time job assisting South Korean news outlets with local coverage that she was able to settle in South Korea in 2002, she said.
“I ended up doing part-time work with [journalist] Hong Se-hwa‘s daughter in Paris,” she recalled. “Because of that, I’ve had a lot of good teachers working with me and helping me escape my identity confusion and scars relatively well.”
Kim, who said she has written and published short stories in English, currently works a freelance film producer and interpreter. She also discussed the happiness she felt as a Korean serving as interpreter for a recent good-will match between the South Korean and Algerian Olympic soccer teams.
“In the ‘80s, I would cut out the tiniest references to South Korea from the newspaper and treasure them as a way of soothing my loneliness and longing for my mother tongue,” she said."
BUT I don't get the "she was able to find her family easily" because in the video she says it took almost 40 years to see her parents. Maybe she found some family members but didn't wanted to see her korean parents as she was mad at them (because they abandoned her) as mentionned in the video but when discovering the truth in 2022 it changed everything, I don't know.
Indeed, she's really brave to face her evil adoptive Mother. She's really strong
Wow. As someone that is considering adopting in the future. This was very informative. I’ve herd of this happening to a little girl. Once she was able to talk or learn English. I forgot the details of the story. But the point is that she was finally able to communicate that she had a family. The adoption center put her up for adoption without her parent’s knowledge.
How long had her parents been looking for her
I've come to the conclusion that it's always better to adopt locally and if possible stay in touch with the birth parents. With foreign adoptions, there is usually money involved and that corrupts the whole process. I read a book about a couple adopting from Guatemala and even though they did everything to ensure the birth mother really wanted to put her child up for adoption and wasn't pressured in any way, they later calculated all the costs of vetting, papers, flight tickets etc and realized that if they had given this same amount to the birth mother, she would have been able to raise her child herself and even paid for his education up to adulthood. Noone should ever have to give up their child just because they are poor.
After watching the documentary baby box. I came here and watched this ..
I idolized korea because of its dramas and kpop. And used wish that i live there or have been born there.
But not anymore... Very upsetting that they too cannot take care of their children..
저 당시 책임자들이 늙어 죽기전에 빨리 다 잡아서 벌 받게해야한다.
They are instead hailed as angels in s korea.
I don't think I could move on and live every day knowing my child is somewhere out there in the world not knowing where, or what exactly has happened to them.
The Korean baby export story starts with the nature of Korean culture and society (and government agencies). It started with exporting biracial children in the 50’s and 60’s because the society didn’t accept mixed race people. The country was very poor, but that’s not the case in later years. The society doesn’t approve of single mothers and they face many barriers and so gave up their children. And, most of all, you just don’t adopt other people’s children in this culture. Period. These are conditions ripe for abuse by the government, adoption agencies, by some adoptive parents,etc. My heart goes out to the people in this video. I have a few Korean adoptees friends in the US. Most, if not all, have lingering sadness and anxieties about their adoption situations. At the very least, they have issues about being raised by someone of another race and never really connected on a deep level with their adopted families. It’s human nature to want to know where you come from. Everyone has a need to belong.
It's not like they're not happy with their adoptive family, they just want to know the truth about their earliest life.
Could you imagine, all your whole life you believed you were abandoned/orphanage, but then you rediscover your adoption file is so strange and the truth is you're not an orphanage, nor your parents abandoned you. It must be hurt so much.
It makes you questioning your whole life and your existences.
I can understand their point of view.
You can't say this was done for the convenience of the adoptive parents when the Korean Government made all these policies and signed off on every adoption...
amazing after she got kidnapped from kr to France, she retained her native language and remembers her bio parents' names. You are brave and i'm sorry for what happened to you. Big hugs. May you be continue to find happiness and peace as you go through your journey of healing. How calm she remained when confronting the adoptive mom. I'm glad you got back your papers.
After watching this, I’m questioning everything about my and my younger sister’s adoption…looking jnto this.
salute to kbs for making this investigative report. it sheds light on something that's downright deplorable about something in your nation, right down to national policies that made it happen. i know it's not easy to do this and even have other nations see something dark and ugly, but it's awareness of what's wrong that's the first step towards making solutions and developing an even better culture and nation.
I know a few Korean adoptees, some of who were lucky enough to go back to Korea to study or even become English teachers there (I taught as well so that's how we met). However, their stories are also sad, some of whose adoptive parents didn't work out. It has definitely left them scarred. I am somewhat surprised this is still going on, as I heard it is closed to adoption, like Japan due to these issues. However, with the ongoing stigma of single motherhood and few resources ("the baby box" being one), I am not entirely surprised.
The BABY BOX …PASTOR I believe is an INCREDIBLE MAN. 😢❤. Keeping the children in their COMMUNITIES and possibly SAVING THERE LIVES. 🙆🏻♀️❤️🔥🙏🏽
@@stephanieallangarman5598 FUCK CONDOMS JUST DUMP THE BABY IN A BOX AT NIGHT LOL FREE BABIES FREE ADOPTION MORE DRAMA FOR THE KIDS GROWING UP SHIT NEVER CHANGES
Being boys it is harder to assimilate in country's of Adoption. People love girls and have easier assimilation. Men; we fight for marriage relationships, sexual partners, jobs and Always considered Foreigners in OUR very own Country. Not easy at all. One guy was deported, without his Wife and two children; he was sexually abused by his Adoptive parents. In Korea, he killed himself! This still Haunts me to this day.
@@stephanieallangarman5598yes
@@jhan3894 "we fight for marriage relationships, sexual partners, jobs and Always considered Foreigners in OUR very own Country. "--> What an absolute lie. Stop playing the victim. No one treats men like a foreigner in their own country. Men have the ability to apply for government aid, for housing, for scholarships, and are able to get jobs that ACTUAL Foreigners can not. Men do NOT fight for marrages/sexual partners. TF does that even mean? What are you fighting? Your partner????
This truly infuriates me. Holt organization, Korean government, the french adoption organization. They all played their part in it. The fact that those two organizations are still functioning as if nothing happened is just...
Two things that stood out to me in the conversation at 15:26
Tona, never says outright that the girl died, as they are translating it into in the subtitles. There is not even a mention of death in that conversation at all. But listening to it, it does sound like something off, but. Death, dying or dead, was not mentioned from Tona.
Directly translated from Danish to English:
"My parents
In the adoption time when they were waiting
when they were waiting for me
They first was going to get one girl
Then they were told that girl returned back to her mother
And then they were going to get another girl
And that was Uhm Sung-Sook
But then they got me
So I am actually the third in line for them waiting to get a young girl"
Also at 40:36 Nia says
"What Peter is doing right now, is not because we have to be angry or mad, but because we have rights". And the subtitels says " Is not just out of anger, but because we have the right, etc" There is a rather big difference in the way that was translated.
lol, yes. That is way different. KBS needs a better Danish translator.
Probably not too many people in Korea are tri-lingual (English, Danish, Korean).
Back then My family is poor that hardly we pass for just eat and go to school , when i was a kid a very rich relative as my mom can they adopt me… but i m glad no matter how hard for my mom and father to raise me and my siblings she never gave me away….family stay together we care each others help each others … Now we our economy really better cause me and siblings have good job and really stable economy . just remember God always loves us, and world always turning now ur bad time but someday u will have good time
Thank you for the English translation. What a terrible sad story! I'm crying for all the adoptees that are forever deprived of a normal relation with their birthparents especially when adopted so young - not speaking the language, nor understanding the Korean culture, let alone the immense history of that beautiful country.
Exactly a lot of them lost their language, culture, heritage etc because of it
Oh my God! I was 16 when I first visited Seoul, I still remember vividly on our departure flight from Seoul to Tokyo, we had numerous babies fastened on solo seats. Those babies were en route for mass adoption according to the flight stewardess. Our opinion since then was that South Korea had been a very poor country in the early 80's...
1985 Month of May
Yes, and sometimes it’s because they didn’t want mix kids.
Yes, Korea was a very poor country. It was only 50 years ago when Korea was in the bottom 20 poorest countries in the world. This human trafficking was usually done by Evangelical Christian organizations in America.
@@r6guy , Sometimes good intention is not the right thing to do, listen to God and his leadings.
@@disappearintotheseanot in the 80s, the mixed race kids were from 1950s after the foreign soldiers were there
My broken heart is crying... I cannot never understand HOW one "human" can do so much harm to another innocent human...
This is high level of psychopathology and cowardice of criminal predators and theirs partners in crime.
"L'homme est un loup pour l'homme."
I can only admire the courageous victims who stood up for themselves 🕊️🙏
This is absolutely heartbreaking that these parents and children were robbed of their lives together. I cried watching this story especially for Yooree that suffered horribly. What a brave strong woman to go back and see the house where the abuse was and face her adopted "mother" who was a monster. I pray they finally make progress and are compensated publicly and apologized to although nothing can make up for what happened.
How sad & heartbreaking for everyone involved! Those who operated & made profits via phony adoption agencies needs to go to jail! They have no souls! How could they do that? The government owes them apologies & compensation for turning a blind eye! I hope these people get their truth & find peace.
I am so angry with her - I heard stories like this long ago before we moved from Seoul in the 80s. These stories need to be told so they don't continue.
The Korean government NEEDS to immediately rectify this
what a cruel world we live in. my heart goes out for these people. may you find the justice and peace you are looking for.
Holy f*** so brave, the way she confronted her adoptive "mother"..!! Clearly human trafficking. Hope she finds peace at some point in her life ❤
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There is so much anger and sadness in each of their stories. Glad that one lady found her mom.
한국어 안잊으신거 정말 대단하신듯..
I'm in the same situation as these women but I know my parents' names. However, when I talk to my biological mother and father, the stories doesn't add up. I'm confused all the time. I really not sure who to believe. But it feels good to see that others are in the same situation as me. Thank you for this documentary
Wait did you take a dna test?
I hope u get peace and joy of life. Life is short to just live in the confusion. I hope u get ur happy ending.
@@deborahlin7781 my parents adopted me away because they divorced. I had names and reason (immature) and they didn't come from poor families. So when I was sent to Sweden I was 3-4 years old. At the time my biological mother was in the US so my aunt signed the papers. That's what my biological mother says. She also says that we were very poor and that my biological father beat her. But the story doesn't add up. she moved to US but couldn't afford to feed me? same year my half brother get born. My biological father beat her but she left me? honestly, I'd rather be a child left on a staircase than know all this. what i mean is i know how it feels to be unwanted. adoptees. My family here is not the best either, but I think it's because the family I was placed in already had biological children.
@@kimreview6047 I wish you the same m8
@@therese6030 I've had friends who were adopted and made it their life's mission to meet their biological parents. But I have grown up with parents who did not care for me much and made me feel unwanted. Lots of neglect. Sometimes I want to tell my friends that meeting their biological parents is overrated. Especially if they didn't want you to begin with. Since adoptees are adults now, you guys don't actually need them anymore anyway.
This is interesting. And I cried with them😢. Louise and her Mom’s reunion is priceless.
Why South Korea let their children to be adopted even their parents were alive. This is South Korea's problem. She should go to South Korea for to get her answer , Not France !!
Yoo ree was already a preteen when she was taken. She should have a lot of memories of Korea and may be able to trace her steps to find her parents
@tainanking I found my Korean family. Thank you
this trafficking of children still happens today in a lot of countries
Poor woman... She's shaking...
Omg it said “baby” initially but to find out they were so old is even more insane than I thought originally 🤬🤬🤬
And what kind of adoption agency “has nothing to do with adoptions”??!!?
The adoptive mother is disgusting to mention how expensive they paid for yoore and her sibling. And said how yoo re always mad when she mention the price. OFF COURSE everyone will be offensive to know how much u pay for make her childhood became nightmare with ur predator pedo husband. She (the adoptive mother) never know what true love is. YOO REE i hope u get ur happy ending and find peace and joyful life.❤
I am a 24 year old Korean adoptee. I have an amazing family that I was adopted into, in 1999. I am happy, have an excellent education and am THRILLED that I wasn't left in an orphanage when my birth mother placed me for adoption. Thank God for my parents!!
This is SO heartbreaking!! I can’t imagine how the parents of these children must have grieved not know what became of their children.
Trafficking is and has been going on for decades!! It’s absolutely disgusting!! No one should hurt a child!
It's really strange so many children abandoned in Korea,All international adoptions have to stop.
This is a tricky question. So many babies are being abandoned so the baby box was started n
By a pastor to give these babies a chance. Before the baby box was created, babies and those born with disabilities were literally thrown away , old wells , out in the country side somewhere, reasons- disabled baby, not a boy, unwed mother or young couples who could not afford financial burden of a child. Birth control is expensive and it is not really taught to teens because there is no sex education in schools. They say the birth rate is low, it is not, because these babies often will end up in government orphanages because a child cannot be registered if Father is unknown. These children are unregistered and not counted, Korean culture does not adopt a child of unknown parentage. These children face an uncertain future, cannot get education, so no good paying job, live in poverty. I believe because the government lost face because of the scandal revealed - instead of fixing the issues , adoptive parents were blamed so they stopped the international adoptions. So where does it leave the abandoned babies? In the same predicament as before. The state facilities are full of children who need a family. International adoptions are the only life line for a decent life. Now that is gone. To stop adoptions was easier than dealing with the issues of illegal kidnapping and adoptions, and the poor research done on people wanting a child. Altering or no paperwork on children . These are fixable so that parents and children can reconnect. The Korean government does not have the balls to do what is right. Yes it would take intensive effort and money. Yes it is complicated since the crime element is involved , the records that exist have been altered and the people involved may have died. It is such a dark crime that has hurt so many. Yet, I am glad this video was made.
Damn, I'm French and normally not violent but this adoptive "mother" is lucky her village is far away from my town. I would NOT come in peace.
my jaw drop when the woman says : "overseas adoption create huge amount of money into the government." what kind of government trade kids of their own color & blood dor money?!
Some parents only want the attention that comes with adopting and/or having children. My husband was adopted from Seoul at the age of 2. He has tons of memories of playing by himself, arguing with or tending to his self-absorbed mother, and being bullied at school k-12 (and his parents did nothing about it). My husband admits he’d rather be dead because his biological parents didn’t want him, and the family who adopted him made it clear he’s a nuisance. It breaks my heart because it’s only now-that’s he’s married-that his parents want his time 24-7.
Ouch... We never know how good your life is until you realize how low the bar gets.
I really hope for their sakes, they find their birth parents. Rather they meet them or not is up to the parents, but I hope they can at least find out they had parents so they can get closure in this journey. My heart felt so heavy watching Louise meet her mother. I wish nothing but the best for these adoptees.
I've known a few Korean adoptees throughout my life. They are wonderful people, but have holes in their hearts. I wonder if this is what happened to them now. 😢
Many of them are my age. Wish I could give them a big hug. You are worthy of love. You are God's children.
As a mother, I can't imagine not wanting to see your own child.
Prison for child trafficking
Wow, the main girl speaks so many languages. Korean without an accent, French, and English. I am so sorry to everyone involved. My heart goes to everyone.
Yeah she’s lucky most Korean adoptees only know the language in the country they’re adopted into to
I skipped the whole intro and staright to the interaction I immediately notice this is not in Korea... it's just child trafficking in a form of adoption...
So heartbreaking, this is something no one should go through. Keeping you all in my prayers and may you find peace.
this is a lot of pain to watch the experience of these people, I cannot imagine how much pain they have gone through in their lives.
these people are so strong, i cried watching this, go get your justice! wishing you all the best
Wow, I admire their strength so much. Thank you for this documentary
I wish they all find peace and healing. It's really sad and I'm sorry for all the turmoil they've had to go through
Thank you so much for making this report. I hope more adoptées can find the truth of their families
I hope you all find some answers and peace. Thank you for sharing your stories
thank you so much for showing this to the world this broke my heart over and over again specially a child in me broke after hearing the rape case like me who can really endure this pain for so long it will never really heal up....
This breaks my heart. I grew up with a friend that was adopted from South Korea. Luckily she has a very good life here, but never got to know anything about her birth parents. I'm not sure if i should share this with her. If she even knows what went on. If she was one of these cases.
You do not know what she experienced and you have no right to tell her story!
@@juliaellman3273 She is my wife.
Excellent reporting!! What a heartbreaking story. 😢
this is infuriating!!!! i hope the evil thats been lurking in the dark is finally brought to light!
Blow this up to world news like 60 minutes or something. This is terrifyingly heartbreaking and so wrong. This needs to be prevented from happening ever again!!!! 😢 all for money no care for the people
Yeah one the most known cases of this is the Adam Crasper Case
im terrified, how humans could be inhumane, really, like in many ways
I hope each of you finds peace. These are crimes against humanity. I am also glad that each and every one of you is alive. Blessings to all of you.
I hope that lady from France finds her birth parents...her story was really sad. all of these children adopted out of their birth parents experienced trauma.
She's got one of the most unique cases:
1- She was really old. Has to be
This 100% a form of child trafficking and all that contributed need to be held accountable. Korea needs to acknowledge these crimes and take responsibility. Sadly, this was happening all over the world at that time. Here in America, women were birthing babies being told they were still born, but it was Dr's and nurses taking babies and selling them. It is disgusting, and people who know about these things need to be prosecuted for their crimes and involvement. Greed is disgusting and evil.
This is heartbreaking. I hope that a humanitarian corporation will look into this matter and force these adoption agencies to fess up. Such a disgraceful practice. 😢
This is such a tragic story! Although this is not my problem, yet my heart aches for these precious people. It is so sad that a child has to say to her mother, Thank you for MEETING me’! I just want to take them in my arms and hug them.
This documentary makes it sound like it’s NO LONGER happening! It’s still happening