➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
South Korea: Adoptees turn to DNA tests to find birth kin
Straights Times – August 29, 2016
For years, South Korea was the world’s leading baby exporter, with stigma always being a factor in its international adoptions, which began in the mid-1950s. The children of Korean women and United States servicemen were ostracised for their mixed racial heritage, and the shame of single parenthood fuelled abandonments, while the poor local economy favoured international adoption. Since the 1950s, the country has sent about 200,000 children abroad for adoption, including about 150,000 to the US.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korean-adoptees-turn-to-dna-tests-to-find-birth-kin