Preview: Season 2024 Episode 10 | 31s | Video has closed captioning.
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary investigates cases of falsified records and identities among the adoptions of 200,000 children to the U.S. and other countries over decades.
Aired: 09/20/24
>> I was in my thirties when my adoptive mother suggested that I find my birth mother.
>> This is a classified report of the problems... >> South Korea investigating possible human rights violations as well as falsification of adoption paperwork.
>> Records were switched.
It’s just Shakespearean in a way.
>> Flipped my world upside down, really questioning, who am I then?
>> What do you do when you find out your origin story is marked with grievous injustice?
>> NARRATOR: Premieres Tuesday, May 28th, 10/9c.
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Explore this interactive that tells the stories of over a dozen Korean adoptees as they search for the truth about their origins — a collaboration between FRONTLINE and The Associated Press.
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