Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

Overseas Korean Agency urges 'identity plus pride' at adoptee gathering

More than 100 adoptees and their families are participating in a four-day event hosted by the newly established Overseas Korean Agency (OKA) to reacquaint themselves with their motherland.

2024-05-22

Adoptee gathering in Seoul

Participants engage with the speaker at the 2023 Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering organized by the Overseas Korean Agency, a Korean government body established earlier this year to handle overseas Korean affairs, at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on...

2023-12-11

Poor info, privacy rights hinder adoptees' search for their roots

After 70 years of more than 200,000 cases of overseas adoption, Korea is still grappling with the question of whether a person’s right to know the truth about their beginnings overrides their parents’ wishes to remain forgotten...

2023-11-05

State panel begins probe into alleged rights violations of overseas Korean adoptees

Over 30 cases of alleged human rights violations suffered by Korean adoptees sent abroad decades ago have come under an investigation, a state truth panel said Thursday.

2022-12-08

Korea to give 370,000 masks to Koreans adopted overseas

Korea will provide 370,000 face masks to Koreans adopted overseas to help them fight the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Sunday. Starting Monday, 210,000, or 60 percent of the total, will be sent to the United States,

2020-05-24