Traditionally, mixed-race children have been born to U.S. servicemen and South Korean women. Those who stayed in the country were often raised by single mothers after the American father returned ...

Korea’s international adoptions began with mostly mixed-race children following the war, and grew to include the children of unwed mothers, abandoned babies and others.

WASHINGTON — In 1959, six years after the Korean War armistice, Estelle Cooke-Sampson came to the United States as a 6-year-old mixed-race adoptee. She was one of tens of thousands of mixed-race ...

South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby exporter” – sending hundreds of thousands of children overseas after the country was ravaged by war and many mothers ...

An AP/FRONTLINE documentary, ‘South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning,’ examines cases of false identities and fabricated backstories during a historic adoption boom of Korean children.