Despite S. Korea’s low birth rate, babies are still being sent overseas for adoption

South Korea has sent almost 170,000 babies overseas for adoption since 1953. - The Korea Herald/ANN

SEOUL: Born as Yoon-hwa in South Korea in 1974, she became Petra Zwart of the Netherlands at the age of one.

Her adoptive Dutch family provided a warm and welcoming home to both Zwart and her biological brother, who was adopted at the age of five.