"The demolition of the Mount Kumgang Reunion Center is an inhumane act that tramples on the earnest wishes of separated families." South Korea "sternly urges an immediate halt to such actions" and ...

They were scenes from her childhood in South Korea, before she was adopted at 8 years old by an American family in 1966. Recalling those memories would eventually lead to the discovery that she ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s government ... It expanded to include the children of unwed mothers and poor families. Korea relied on private adoption agencies as its social safety net, bringing millions ...

That agency, Korea Social Service, charged a $1,500 adoption fee, as well as a $400 donation, per child from adoptive families in 1988, the commission said. (South Korea’s per-capita national ...