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Source: FRONTLINE PBS, 2024-09-20 15:03
'All for the Children?': Fmr. South Korean Adoption Worker Speaks Out | FRONTLINE + @AssociatedPress
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A new AP/FRONTLINE documentary examines cases of false identities and fabricated backstories during a historic adoption boom of South Korean children. In this excerpt, a former adoption agency worker describes pressure to adopt out large volumes of children — and ‘zero effort’ being put into verifying that children being adopted out had actually been abandoned.
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Speaking anonymously, the former adoption worker describes believing in the mission of adoption and wanting to help kids in need: “I saw so many children in these situations where parents cannot raise their kids,” she says. “If they had no choice but to grow up in facilities, isn’t it better for them to have parents?”
But the former adoption worker says in the documentary that she developed “a lot of doubts” about the methods used by the agencies.
“Behind the scenes, we questioned: Is this really all for the children?” the former adoption worker says in this excerpt from “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning.”
“South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” will be available to watch in full at pbs.org/frontline, at apnews.com and in the PBS App starting Tuesday, September 20, 2024, at 7/6c. It will premiere on PBS stations (check local listings) and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel at 10/9c and will also be available on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel.
Explore additional reporting on “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” on our website:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/south-koreas-adoption-reckoning/
“South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” is a FRONTLINE production with Maxine Productions and Sony Pictures Television – Nonfiction (SPTNF) in association with The Associated Press. The writer, producer and director is Maxine Productions’ Lora Moftah. The reporters are Kim Tong-hyung and Claire Galofaro. The senior producer is Nina Chaudry. The executive producer of Maxine Productions is Mary Robertson. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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