DKRG to Address NCRC Failings at Korean Parliament
- USKRG
- Oct 5, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 2, 2024
On October 21, 2024, Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG), an organization partnering with USKRG, is invited to present at the Korean Parliament on behalf of Korean adoptees around the world. This is the second time that DKRG has received this honor, and adoptees are hopeful it will lead to meaningful change, as it did previously.
The topics of discussion will be presented by Boonyang Han, who will speak about the scandal involving adoptee file transfer to the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC) and the administrative failures of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and NCRC.
From our partners at Swedish Korean Adoptees Network: "The NCRC under the Ministry of Health and Welfare has been carrying out the ‘Adoption Records Computerization Project’ since 2013 to collect and computerize adoption records scattered across private organizations. The purpose is to permanently preserve adoption records in the private sector by integrating them into a public institution and to increase adoptees’ access to information.
However, suspicions have been raised that this project, which has been in progress for about 10 years, has been managed poorly. It is said that everything from basic record scanning to the process of uploading data to the online system has been handled poorly. It has been confirmed that the Ministry of Health and Welfare has also identified the related issues and has begun an audit of the Child Rights Protection Agency regarding the ‘Adoption Records Computerization Project’.
Previously, Newstapa conducted the 'Overseas Adoption and Money' project to identify the structural problems of overseas adoption in the 1970s and 1980s. Through this, [they] have reported in depth on cases of overseas adoptees who were unable to find their information due to the barriers of adoption agencies. The adoption records computerization project of the National Institute of Child Rights, a public institution, was started to help adoptees find their roots, but it is being revealed that it has been carried out haphazardly."
NCRC will also be called before Parliament on the same day.
Stay tuned, as we will post a link once it becomes available.
