Massive adoption scandal of South Korea
What comes to mind when you think of South Korea k-pop, Korean skincare, cutting edge technology south Korea has a sleek modern image a place that thrives on innovation a cultural powerhouse shaping global trends but there's another side to this country one that barely makes the headlines now, it is out in the open and it's a massive adoption scandal you see South Korea is one of the biggest exporters of children to the world . You heard that right it is the world's biggest baby exporter since the 1950s more than 200,000 Korean babies have been adopted overseas. Two lakh these adoptions were mostly in the US and Europe it started right after the Korean War in 1953 when South Korea was impoverished ,it was one of the poorest countries in the world so adoption was a way to deal with this poverty .Parents gave up their children many of them were abandoned so they were put up for adoption but soon it became a multi-million dollar industry. ...