South Korea's Baby Pipeline Fraud

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Fraud allegations rock South Korean adoptees and families

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More than 120 adoptees contacted The Associated Press after a series of stories and a documentary made with Frontline exposed how Korea created a baby pipeline.

The reporting shook adoption communities around the world with details about how agencies competed for babies.

"I can't stand the thought that somebody lost their child," one adoptee says.

Korea 's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been investigating government accountability over foreign adoption problems since 2022 .

The center has confirmed that private agencies hold about 170,000 adoption files, but director Chung Ick-Joong doubts it will acquire a space to store and manage all these records in time.

The agency expects family search requests to increase "possibly by tenfold," according to Chung .

"I'd rather be childless than think I have somebody else's child that didn't want to give them up," she said. "I think of somebody taking my child. Those poor families, I just can't imagine it.".

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