cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55766002
The AP investigation, in collaboration with Frontline (PBS), detailed how South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to send some 200,000 Korean children overseas despite evidence that many were procured through questionable or unscrupulous means.
Western nations largely ignored the abuses and sometimes pressured South Korea to maintain the supply to meet their high demand for babies
My impression is that they had a problem of an economy that could not support the population at that time. Overpopulation vs underpopulation.