foreign adoption

Nearly 400 South Koreans sent as children to families in the West want an inquiry, saying their adoptions were marred by fake documents that changed child identities or falsely declared them orphans.

The 2011 death of a girl adopted from Ethiopia by U.S. parents seems to have spurred the decision.

Adam Crapser, adopted by a U.S. couple as a child, is being deported to South Korea as an adult. The New York Times spoke with his birth mother, who says she always imagined he had a better life.