HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world ...

The South Korean government is preparing to end overseas adoptions by 2029, shifting responsibility for adoption from private ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, ...

South Korea's government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations ...

Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Lee Seuran said during a briefing that the country will phase out foreign adoptions over ...

Since the 1950s, South Korea has been the largest international exporter of adoptees. Those adoptees were primarily sent overseas to Western countries. Now, for the first time, the country ...

FILE - Anna Singer, a Swedish expert leading the country's investigation into its international adoption practices, speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn ...

International adoptions, which had tarnished South Korea’s reputation as a “child exporting country,” will be phased out ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has tightened controls over adoptions from abroad but will allow them to continue as it conducts an investigation into the legality and ethics of past adoptions, the ...

SEOUL, Oct. 2 (UPI) --South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday apologized for the country's troubled history of overseas adoptions, acknowledging that "unjust human rights violations" occurred ...

The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. "I was going to the market and asked Kyung-ha, 'Aren't you coming?' But she told me, 'No, I'm going ...

Under the new framework, the South Korean government will oversee the entire adoption process. Read more at straitstimes.com.