Before he became South Korea's first president ... Rhee left the country for Hawaii in May that year, where he died in 1965. Born to a poor rural family in the early years of the Japanese occupation, ...

The country’s martial law fiasco is a stark warning for democracies everywhere about what happens when political polarization ...

Peg Reif's daughter, adopted from South Korea in the 1980s ... I think of somebody taking my child. Those poor families, I just can't imagine it.'' This story has been updated to correct that ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea ... propel South Korea into the ranks of the advanced economies of the OECD by 1997. These policies also led to the emergence of family ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Deann Borshay Liem, who was born in South Korea and adopted into an American family, about the ...

Government data obtained by The Associated Press shows less than a fifth of 15,000 adoptees who have asked South Korea for help with family searches ... legislation, poor management and oversight ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Deann Borshay Liem, who was born in South Korea and adopted into an American family, about the Korean government... An adoptee was lied to about her identity.

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 ...