When a child disappears in a society, even if it is tribal, there is an unimaginable pain among those who are part of their intimate family circle.
The BBC, in its news, on April 5 reported on one of those cases, which causes the shrink of the soul. Shin Kyung-Ha was separated from his family in 1975 in South Korea. She disappeared with 6 years, from her family home in the city of Cheongiu, in the South Korean province of Chungcheongbuk-Do. A few days later, Shin Kyung-Ha was adopted by an American family in Virginia.
His mother, Han Tae-Soon, has sought for more than 40 years to his daughter, without official help. Although in 2019, finally, and thanks to an organization that performs DNA tests and connects people likely to be a family, called 325kamra, he found it. And although, what could be foreseen as a cordial encounter between mother and daughter, after the years, became a cold meeting, full of reproaches. Shin Kyung-Ha, since those early years of his life, always told him that his mother had abandoned her. A technique that generates disaffection, especially in a small child, towards what would actually be his own story. Therefore, when the encounter between them were produced, the mother, was found in principle, with a wall where disaffection was currency.
In statements made at that time to the BBC News Korea chain, Han-Soon was blunt “Why would you steal from someone else’s daughter and you would send her to the United States? My daughter believed that they had abandoned her, without knowing that her mother had looked for her all her life. My health is shattered for having searched her for 44 years, but who has apologized for me for those years?
There is an independent entity in South Korea, the Truth Commission and the reconciliation of South Korea, which in a report published a few months ago, clearly stated that many of the children sent as adoptable To countries like the United States, Denmark or Sweden, in the three decades that range from 1960 to 1990, They suffered human rights violations.
Hundreds of families in South Korea have lost one of the children, without anyone, has never given them explanations on this issue. In addition to the deep pain, in addition, the clear political violation of their rights, especially by denying the institutions the slightest support in that matter. Who is going to compensate them minimally from moral, emotional pain, that the absence of a child causes?
To date, no police position has resigned from his position, no judicial sentence has motivated a waterfall of aid for victims, which in this case are not only the kidnapped children, but also family members. What has been done in the United States, Denmark, Sweden, among other countries, to ensure that the adoptions that are produced are really orphaned children or in a situation of manifest abandonment? Those who signed the exit of one country or the entry into another, and some of this minors, should be interrogated and made to judge to clarify the procedures of said adoption.
Did high positions of the Korean government benefit, in those years, of the dark business behind international adoptions?
Today, government agencies and independent entities have been created that try to end up a business that was entrenched in a time in Korean society. Undoubtedly, when deepened in the background and in the form of adoptions made internationally in those years, you can get the idea of the existence of a mafia that would control everything related to this issue. And although little by little it is tried, from the official bodies, to facilitate the meetings between Korean relatives and their children adopted abroad, it gives the feeling that you do not want to reach the bottom of the matter.
Being critical of such a complex and painful issue is a permanent need. We must not believe that what happened in South Korea is a local issue. And the final question should be if adoptions Are they a business worldwide?
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