South Korea’s cruel Adoption Industry | Korea adoptee’s interview

Hi my name is Yooree and many thanks for your supportive and kind words, I'm going to Paris to file a complaint against the French adoption agency. I will keep you updated. Please take great care. I fight for the rights of adoptees and I fight against illegal adoption.

The fact that the adoption was non-consensual on the children's and parents' part, technically this is considered kidnapping or even human trafficking

The disgusting part is that a wife protecting a pedophile-husband. And she still blames a girl for sending him to jail! That woman should have never been out of jail, she never remorsed. I wish to all who suffered to stay strong.

I'm also adopted (from Seoul to France at the age of 3 months old, in 83), but I've never tried to look for my birth family because my adoptive parents (who have been caring, no complaint at all) told me early on that there was no information in the file. However, this documentary put things into perspective and I'm starting to question my own adoption and the informations in my file... Huge respect and support to Kim Yoo-Ree, Louise and the others! Thank you KBS for your investigative work.

This is child trafficking. My heart breaks for Yoo-ree specially. She's incredibly strong. ❤

This should be a Interpol investigation. These traffickers should be prosecuted, no matter how long ago.

Yooree’s adoptive mother blaming her for her rape is pure insanity

That french lady they who did this illegal adaption should be prosecuted by law.

it's so inspiring how yoo ree was able to come back and face her adoptive mother with confidence and calm, no longer as the intimidated little girl who couldn't do anything

It broke my heart to see Yoo ree press that door bell and cry out for justice and a way to find peace for her painful past. It’s an increasingly unjust world where law just protects rich and powerful.

This is a perfect example of the dark side of adoptions. The child can have a good life, or it can be catastrophic. It's impressive that she still knows Korean after all these years in France .Yoo-Ree's adoptive mother only seem to worry about that she tried to send her father to prison. As if she betrayed the family for not accepting his sexual abuse.

The audacity on the adoptive”mother” to still try and blame her for their own miserable behaviour! I would send her to life in prison without parole. Let her spend the rest of her miserable life in jail. What monsters! And happy that Kim Yoo are got her closure and maybe a little peace.

Everyone involved from the Koreans who sold her to the French agency that facilitated it should be thrown in jail for human trafficking....I don't care if the crime is 40 years old or whatever by now.

Her pain was so gut wrenching. Her anger was palpable. :( what a horrible thing to have lived though. My heart goes out to all of them.

Very fascinating. I'm a Korean Adoptee from the US and going to Seoul this summer for the first time since I was adopted in the 70s. My heart goes out to the lady from France adopted by an abusive father, but I have unfortunately heard of this happening here in the US as well. I was very lucky to have been adopted by very loving, supportive adoptive parents in the US, but thank you for educating me on the process of how lost children in Korea were adopted. I was completely unaware of the darker side of overseas adoption and how money feeds into adoption agencies for foreign adoptions... I was also a lost/abandoned child with no information about my background other than my biological parents were apparently presumed deceased. But after watching your doc, I'm questioning everything.. This has inspired me to educate myself further into my background, hopefully locating a biological family member. Thank you so much for your documentary. Well done!

Wow, Yoo-ree found her adoptive "mother". This woman has no remorse. I'm surprised Yoo-ree was able to get some documentation from her.

Let me start by saying that Adoption agencies care way more about money than the welfare of the babies and kids. It sounds like you might have been kidnapped and/or sold to the agency. I was adopted back in 1978 by a loving family with six siblings and I couldn't be happier with how they treated me. Back in 1995, when I was visiting my Japanese girlfriend, she arranged a trip to Korea to look for my mother and grandmother. Since I lived with my mother and grandmother until I (age 8) was adopted, so I had photos (given by caring teacher and mother) and documents to make it easy to find my agency. When I got to my agency, the woman working there remembered me and lied to my face stating that she didn't know where my mother lives. After we left the agency, she called up my mother and told her that I was in Korea looking for her. But she will not tell my mother which hotel I'm staying at until she came into Seoul and made a donation. My mother relied "If you don't tell me right now where my son is staying, I will come to Seoul and kill you". There are more interesting stories I could tell about my experience but this story is not about me. Yoo-ree, I can't say in words the amount of pain and suffering you've endured. Most people on this planet can't understand the amount as well. Both your adoptive parents and the Korean agency are the most disgusting example of a human there are. I'm not sure what you're trying to seek regarding them but I hope you can move on and find peace in your life. I'm impressed that you can speak both Korean and French fluently so maybe you can teach French in Korea and try to build fond memories there. Maybe you could even start a business helping other Korean adoptee's learn about their past and maybe (I know it very difficult) even bring families together again. Remember trials and tribulations don't define a person but how you've overcome them. I'm so proud of you my Korean sister.

Why is this being called an adoption industry? The parents didn't give the kid up. The child was kidnapped and trafficked.

Yoo-ree's tenacity and strength just amazes me. I am lost for the appropriate words. I wish her future is full of lighthearted happy days and now she can forge a new future exactly the way she wants.

I’m a Korean adoptee who was adopted from gwangju Korea to the US. I had it easy. I was given to a great loving family and reading an article about these adoptions especially the ones from Holt I’m appalled. I cannot believe the adoption agencies and the Korean government agreed to this. It really wants me to figure out where my birth family are and find out if they were made to sign the adoption papers or if they were lied to and said I died at birth. Looking back it makes sense now that there were a lot of Korean adopted kids growing up. I just can’t believe this. It’s very upsetting