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'South Korea's Adoption Reckoning' Reporters & Director Spotlight How Western Demand Played a Role in the Korean Adoption Boom
The filmmaker and reporters of the documentary "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" talk about how their investigative revelations challenge some Korean and Western assumptions about international adoption, and how the practice is now facing a reckoning.
September 20, 2024
‘Is This Really All for the Children?’: Former Korean Adoption Worker Speaks Out
An AP/FRONTLINE documentary, ‘South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning,’ examines cases of false identities and fabricated backstories during a historic adoption boom of 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.
September 20, 2024
Western Nations Were Desperate for Korean Babies. Now Many Adoptees Believe They Were Stolen
Hundreds of thousands of South Korean children were adopted by families in the United States, Europe and Australia. Now adults, many have since discovered that their adoption paperwork was untrue, and their quest for accountability has spread far beyond South Korea’s borders to the Western countries that claimed them.
September 20, 2024
Interactive: 'Who Am I, Then?' Stories from South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning.
Explore this interactive that tells the stories of over a dozen Korean adoptees as they search for the truth about their origins.
September 19, 2024
Adoption Fraud Separated Generations of South Korean Children From Their Families, AP Finds
The stories of South Korean adoptees — who searched for their roots and realized they are not who they were told — have sparked a reckoning that is rocking the international adoption industry.
September 19, 2024
Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty to New Sex Crime Charge in New York Before Rape Retrial
In the runup to Harvey Weinstein’s retrial in New York on rape and sexual assault charges, the disgraced producer was indicted on a new sex crime charge.
September 18, 2024
The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
From attempting to incite racially motivated violence to encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure, the alleged crimes planned and advertised by extremists on Telegram go far beyond the charges facing CEO Pavel Durov.
September 3, 2024
Remembering Ofra Bikel
Ofra Bikel was one of the most prolific and consequential producers in FRONTLINE’s history.
August 29, 2024
Biden's Decision
FRONTLINE tells the inside story of Biden’s rise to the presidency, the personal and political forces that shaped him and led to his dramatic decision to step aside.
August 19, 2024
Tennessee Family’s Lawsuit Says Video Long Kept From Them Shows Police Force, Not Drugs, Killed Son
A mother whose son was having a seizure in his Tennessee apartment said in a federal lawsuit that police and paramedics subjected the 23-year-old to “inhumane acts of violence” instead of treating him, then covered up their use of deadly force.
August 16, 2024
Investigating the Rise of the Far Right in Germany
Correspondent Evan Williams talks about the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany, the threat of violent extremism, and the recent riots in the UK.
August 15, 2024
The Last Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Recalls the 2021 Taliban Takeover
Adela Raz, Afghanistan's last ambassador to the United States, remembers the day that the Taliban took over Kabul three years ago.
August 14, 2024