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

Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that she was abandoned by her parents. It wasn't until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than "Nameless". As the only Asian in a small French village, Kim grew up sexually abused by both her parents, and she began to track down the adoption agency that placed her, and we joined on her lonely, long journey.
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[@kimyooree]

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.

[@lp5776]

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.

[@glennsriyousefbaun-cueto9287]

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

[@donamorenoable]

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.

[@carlabroderick5508]

The documentary does not discuss the Korean attitude toward lost, abandoned, or orphaned children. It is very bad, as though somehow the children are at fault for what happens to them, are a problem to the society.

[@CM-id3wo]

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

[@elen2662]

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.

[@sct4040]

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

[@dxdxdxdx]

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

[@DylanDkoh]

Why don’t you sue the agency

[@veryfinalgirl]

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

[@vulpeadejad7523]

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.

[@yokubo7220]

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

[@theguynextdoor4978]

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.

[@Msnovy]

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.

[@moonbubbles3046]

Her pain was so gut wrenching. Her anger was palpable.

[@johna8947]

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!

[@trinity5842]

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.

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

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.

[@amymonteith8064]

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