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‘Children for sale’: inside South Korea’s dark past as the West’s ‘baby farm’ | South China Morning Post

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At least 170,000 children were adopted from South Korea by families overseas in the decades since fighting ended in the Korean war. Most of the adoptees ended up living with middle-class, mostly white parents in western Europe and the United States. But as some grew up and wanted to learn the circumstances behind th…

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