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FRONTLINE and The AP examine fraud and abuse allegations in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate/​ About 200,000 people around the world were adopted out of South Korea to Western countries over the course of the past seven decades in what is believed to be the largest population of adoptees out of any country. More than half of those adopted ended up in the United States. But as the documentary, “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning,” from FRONTLINE and The Associated Press explores, a growing number of adoptees have returned to South Korea as adults only to discover that what they’d been told about their origins was not true. The film draws on years of reporting, thousands of pages of documents — some of which had never been made public before — and interviews with those who worked in adoption agencies, officials from South Korea and abroad, and more than 80 adoptees who gave powerful firsthand accounts. “What do you do when you find out your origin story is marked with grievous injustice?” one adoptee asks in the film. The reporters also spoke to officials from some of the adoption agencies, who have denied systemic wrongdoing. They interviewed a former senior official from an adoption agency who stressed that the overall goal was to find homes for children who would otherwise have grown up in orphanages. “South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” is

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