Women adopted from South Korea learn they're sisters and grew up 30 minutes apart

Two women who were born in South Korea have developed a close bond after learning they're actually sisters and share the same biological mother.

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AP Exclusive: Adoptee deported by US sues S. Korea, agency

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Adam Crapser lives in limbo, a stranger in South Korea, the country of his birth.

Forcibly separated from his wife, children and friends in America, he is isolated by language and culture, left alone to navigate this sprawling city he's been expelled to four decades after being sent to adoptive parents in Michigan at age 3.


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False alarm? Parents’ ‘discipline’ reported as child abuse

The parents of an elementary school student living in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, were taken aback when they were contacted by police for an inspection into their alleged child abuse.

A local media outlet reported Monday that the parents had raised a stick to their child for stealing from a friend and a store. The act was intended to be for discipline’s sake, but a visiting teacher who glimpsed the act thought of it as child abuse and alerted the polic

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When Adoption Stories Don’t Have Happy Endings

A man raised in the United States has been deported to South Korea, a country he left at age 3.

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Man adopted by US couple as a child to be deported to South Korea after 37 years

A South Korean man who was adopted by an American family when he was three years old is expected to be deported after immigration judge John O'Dell ruled against relief that would have allowed him to remain in the US.

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Adoptee from South Korea faces deportation from US

Adoptee from South Korea faces deportation from US

More than three decades ago, a three-year-old South Korean boy and his sister flew to the U.S. to become the adopted children of American citizens, but their life together didn't last long.

Former Foster Children Tell How They Became Orphans

Former Foster Children Tell How They Became Orphans

Grace Yoon, whose father was arrested by the Chinese authorities on May 9, 2005 while attempting to help North Korean refugees, addressed the group.

Overseas adoption: child welfare or abuse?

Overseas adoption: child welfare or abuse?


Some years ago, during a seminar about overseas adoption from Korea, I stated that the practice is “child abuse rather than child welfare.” Some of the social workers who were working for overseas adoption agencies looked very shocked when they heard my presentation.

Red tape sends adopted baby in U.S. back to S Korea, where she is unwanted

Red tape sends adopted baby in U.S. back to S Korea, where she is unwanted


It would be one thing if the Chicago couple who adopted her were unfit parents. Or if the mother in South Korea who relinquished all rights to her in June was able to provide a home. But the birth mother of 9-month-old baby Sehwa Kim lives in a shelter for unwed mothers and has no desire in any case to be reunited with her daughter. And Jinshil and Christopher Duquet, from all outward indications, have been loving and dutiful parents.