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The Korea Herald
August 22, 2008
Number of Korean adoptees to U.S. dropping: State Dept.
The U.S. State Department issued visas for 939 Korean orphans last year, according to the department`s figures released recently.
The number compares with 1,376 for 2006, 1,668 in 2005, 1,773 in 2004 and 1,817 for 2003.
Korean nongovernmental organizations have called on their government to look into irregularities involving international adoption agencies in Korea, citing alleged abuse cases involving Korean adoptees abroad.
They said earlier this year that six cases of international adoption from Korea were made in the past decades without their mothers` consent, that the cases were revealed upon the adoptees being reunited with their Korean families as adults.
U.S. police found in March four Korean adoptees dead at their house in Iowa where their adoptive father Steven Sueppel, 42, allegedly killed his wife and the children before taking his own life.
A Korean adoptee was also found to have been abused by a Dutch adoptive father in Hong Kong earlier this year.
Korean government statistics showed that 161,202 children were sent overseas for adoption from the end of the Korean War in 1953 to 2006, with the country being labeled a "baby-exporting" country.
Overseas adoptions of Koreans began in the aftermath of the 1950-53 Korean War, peaking in the mid-1980s when over 8,000 children were sent abroad annually, mostly to the U.S. Since the 1990s, many of the adoptees have been children of single mothers.
The number of Korean children adopted domestically, however, surpassed overseas adoptions for the first time since the end of the 1960s. Korea sent 1,388 children, 52.3 percent of the total of 2,652, abroad in 2007.
 http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/
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