I’m Kim Tong-hyung, an AP reporter in South Korea. Like many around the world, I grew up in Korea believing the common narrative: that Western families saved orphans who had no other options. But I began questioning that in 2015 while reporting on an abusive facility in Korea and embarked on a 10-year effort to uncover the truth. The first part of an AP-led investigation, in coordination with Frontline, detailed the abuses and fraud that have occurred in South Korea’s adoption system for decades.
I’m here with my reporting partner Claire Galofaro to talk about this project and how we were able to tell this story.
Who is here: Claire Galofaro, an investigative reporter for the AP, who partnered with Kim to piece together not just the Korean government’s culpability, but also that of the Western countries that claimed these children.
Hi, here's the link for PROOF:
We investigated abuses in South Korea’s adoption industry for The Associated Press and Frontline. Ask us anything!
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