A recent report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Korea has shed light on disturbing practices that took place in government-funded facilities from the 1960s to the 1980s. The commission found evidence that women were coerced into giving up their infants for foreign adoptions after giving birth at these facilities, where thousands of individuals were confined and enslaved.
The largest facility, Brothers Home, was exposed for its involvement in shipping children abroad as part of a profit-driven enterprise that exploited thousands of people trapped within its compound in Busan. Many children and adults, some abducted from the streets, were enslaved in these facilities and subjected to heinous acts such as rape, beatings, and even murder during the 1970s and 1980s.
