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South Korean court clears government, adoption agency of liability in adoptee's deportation from US

A South Korean court has cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a Korean man whose traumatic adoption journey led to an abusive childhood in the United States and ultimately his deportation to South Korea after legal troubles

The Independent UK

Adoptee deported from US criticizes Korean government and adoption agency over lack of citizenship

Adam Crapser, an adoptee who was deported to South Korea in 2016 because his American parents never secured his citizenship, has delivered a scathing denunciation of the Korean government and his adoption agency in a Seoul appeals court

The Independent UK

Mom Who Searched For 44 Years Finds Kidnapped Daughter Was Adopted Abroad, South Korea Gets Sued

“It’s like you’ve been living a fake life and everything you know is not true.” The post Mom Who Searched For 44 Years Finds Kidnapped Daughter Was Adopted Abroad, South Korea Gets Sued first appeared on Bored Panda.

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South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter was sent abroad

A 70-year-old South Korean woman on Monday sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age four

The Independent UK

Rampant adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found

The Independent UK

Our wonderful aged care workers recognised for their hard work

They will be celebrated at an awards ceremony at the National Gallery in September

The Canberra Times

Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

1920s canvas of Dutch woman, to be shown for first time at Holt festival, has slit from border guards’ bayonets

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Stephen Rubin, publisher of 'The Da Vinci Code' and other blockbusters, dies at 81

Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life, has died

The Independent UK

‘Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth

Amid allegations of a corrupt adoption system in Seoul that falsified children’s records, those sent to Denmark as youngsters are desperate to find out their real stories

The Guardian - UK

They did DNA tests to verify they were sisters. By accident, they found their birth father.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Other than the fact that they both are clearly Asian, Becca Webster and Dee Iraca don’t look alike.

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Court orders South Korean agency to compensate adoptee over his mishandled adoption to US

A court has ordered South Korea’s biggest adoption agency to pay $74,700 in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States

The Independent UK

How a monument to my great-great-grandfather could help tackle the scourge of plastic pollution

A newly restored drinking fountain commemorates my ancestor. We need more to tackle the horror of so many discarded bottles, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

On burning books (or book companies)

"It’s painful to see who has the ability to cancel out so much else that should truly matter"

Salon

Nearly 300 demand South Korea probe their adoptions abroad

Nearly 300 South Koreans who were adopted to European and American parents as children are demanding South Korea investigate their adoptions, which they suspect were based on falsified documents that laundered their real status or identities as agencies raced to export children

The Independent UK

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