FILE PHOTO: This photo taken on May 24, 2017 shows social workers caring for babies at the Jusarang Community Church in southern Seoul. South Korea sent more than 140,000 overseas for adoption between 1955 and 1999. - AFP
SEOUL: South Korea's president apologised on Thursday (Oct 2) for the first time over state-sanctioned malpractices in sending tens of thousands of children overseas for adoption, saying "unjust human rights violations" were committed.
An official enquiry held the government accountable earlier this year for facilitating adoptions through fraudulent practices, including falsifying documents and switching identities.
