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 many mothers left destitute.Many of those adopted children, now adults scattered across the globe and trying to trace their origins, have accused agencies of corruption and malpractice, including in some cases forcibly removing them from their mothers.A report released earlier this week by a Korean government commission supports those claims and uncovers new evidence on the coercive methods used to force mothers to give up their children.
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