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South Korea's Adoption Shame

Yalda Hakim has been to Seoul to investigate why South Koreans are so reluctant to bring up someone else's child.

South Korea is a country with no tradition of adoption - where there's a stigma if families do adopt. In the past most unwanted babies were adopted overseas - but recently the law has changed, restricting international adoption. And that's lead to an unwanted side effect - hundreds of babies being abandoned and ending up in orphanages. Yalda Hakim has been to Seoul to investigate why South Koreans are so reluctant to bring up someone else's child.

30 minutes

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