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

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Published 2023-06-21
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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All Comments (21)
  • @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.
  • The fact that the adoption was non-consensual on the children's and parents' part, technically this is considered kidnapping or even human trafficking
  • @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.
  • @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.
  • @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. ❤
  • @veryfinalgirl
    Yooree’s adoptive mother blaming her for her rape is pure insanity
  • @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.
  • @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
  • @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. :( what a horrible thing to have lived though. My heart goes out to all of them.
  • @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.
  • @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
  • @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.
  • @wengo44
    my heart is breaking. watching her yelling outside the gate and her hands shaking from so much anger. i wish i was there with you to yell and scream at this woman. more importantly, South Korean government must bring justice and put all those criminals for trafficking children for money regardless of their old age. i don;t give a FCK if they are 80's now. seriously.
  • 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.
  • @CM-id3wo
    That french lady they who did this illegal adaption should be prosecuted by law.
  • @MsTripleone
    I am Korean living in Kazakhstan, I wasn't adopted i was born to my Korean parents and grew in Kazakhstan. But I felt tremendous pain and was crying a lot when i watched it, may all Korean adoptees find justice and peace