South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud
Published on: Feb. 26, 2026, 1:21 p.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
SEOUL, Feb 26: South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption programme. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country’s history, began accepting new cases Thursday, months after the previous one’s mandate ended in November with more than 2,100 complaints unresolved. The new commission will inherit those cases, including 311 submissions by Korean adoptees from the […]
