- Author: Kim, Chae min
- Title: The Absence of Human Rights in South Korea’s Overseas Adoption Policy
- Language: Korean
- Journal: Memory & Vision 35: 282-318
- Publication Year: 2016
- Publisher: Korea Democracy Foundation
■ Abstract This study aims to clarify that overseas adoption phenomenon has been occurred leading by the Korean government in South Korea. The national policies of the overseas adoption have developed toward violating human dignity based on a principle of discrimination. This study explores tendencies of the national policies selected in the overseas adoption change process and seeks a possibility to change the national principle of rules toward to the policies of friendly human rights.
The structure of the overseas adoption could be primarily divided into three periods. It is seen that the policies also have been changed based on the periodical features. The period of formation corresponds to war orphans and mixed-bloods after the Korean War, the period of promotion corresponds to the movement policy during the industrial period from the view of population management, and the period of change corresponds to the institutional change along with changing into the domestic adoption.
It has revealed that the policy that implemented as a name of the best policy in order to protect children as the welfare avoided the responsibility of protection for the native people and leaded to produce social minorities who had to face with discrimination and prejudice. New aspects as names of multicultural society and low birthrate in the Korean society has been facing with are needed to reflect on alternative for the children and their biological parents by questioning what a humanitarian perspective is which is related to the issues can be developed regarding to the adoption in the future.
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