A South Korean commission found the country violated its children’s human rights by facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse. The landmark report released Wednesday followed ...

Erin Huppert, who was adopted from South Korea as an infant in the early 1980s, talks about her experiences while at her St. Paul home on Friday, March 14, 2025. Huppert is one of some 200,000 Korean ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president apologized Thursday for poorly managed foreign adoption programs that were rife with abuses and fraud, months after the country’s truth commission ...

North Korea has maintained a near-total closure of its international borders for the past two years, effectively halting economic activities and trade with other nations. While the economic ...

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up ...

Childhood obesity has surged to alarming levels in Korea, which now has the highest rate among children and adolescents in ...

Erin Huppert, who was adopted from South Korea as an infant, wasn’t much interested in learning more about her pre-adoption history. But the St. Paul resident is reconsidering that now. “I have never ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his ...