韩国在1950年代和1980年代之间为20万儿童非法海外收养提供便利,错误地将这些儿童称为孤儿,从而导致收养欺诈现象普遍存在。 South Korea facilitated illegal overseas adoptions of 200,000 children between the 1950s and 1980s by mislabeling them as orphans, enabling widespread adoption fraud.
美联社的调查显示,韩国政府与西方国家和收养机构合作,从1950年代到1980年代,通过不道德的做法,在海外收养了大约20万儿童。 An Associated Press investigation reveals that South Korea's government, in collaboration with Western countries and adoption agencies, facilitated the overseas adoption of around 200,000 children from the 1950s to the 1980s through unethical practices. 许多儿童被假称为孤儿或被遗弃。 Many children were falsely labeled as orphans or abandoned. 该方案旨在降低福利费用,但缺乏适当的保障,导致普遍的收养欺诈,使许多被收养者与其出生家庭断绝了联系。 The program, aimed at reducing welfare costs, lacked proper safeguards, leading to widespread adoption fraud that severed ties between many adoptees and their birth families.