The legislative push follows public backlash against private English academies that administered entrance assessments to ...

A South Korea commission said the government should issue an official state apology for violating the rights of children adopted overseas, acknowledging that the country over decades allowed ...

Robert Calabretta holds his baby photo from before he was adopted out of South Korea to a family in the United States, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at his apartment in New York. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — ...

There are 1,050 individuals who went missing as children and remain unaccounted for as at 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After years of delay, South Korea has ratified the Hague Adoption Convention, an international treaty meant to safeguard international adoptions, highlighting a significant ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby exporter” – sending hundreds of thousands of children overseas after the country was ravaged by war and ...

Childhood in today’s South Korea is no longer a sanctuary of play and wonder – it has become a training ground for survival in an academic war. The so-called “7-year-old exam” is now a growing trend, ...

SEOUL, South Korea — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. A single tear ran down his cheek. The ...

South Korea's Health Ministry has bestowed medals upon two women, both mothers of 13 children, as the country's birth rate continues its decades-long decline. That's more than 16 times the number of ...

South Korean children are falling to their deaths. Three students in Busan flung themselves off great heights, followed by others in Gyeonggi Province’s Gwangju and Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo District every ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they ...