USKRG in the News
Updated: Oct 7
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October 01, 2026
Le Monde Diplomatique
In 2024, adoptees in North America established the United States Korean Rights Group (USKRG). Together with DKRG and other rights-advocacy organizations, USKRG is supporting adoptees who wish to submit cases to the 3rd Commission. To learn how USKRG is helping adoptees and who is seeking redress for the harms they suffered, the publication spoke by video with three members of its board... As investigations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and related reporting have continued, many adoptees have begun to question whether the stories they had been told were actually true.
September 15, 2026
Yonhap News
Overseas Adoptees Who Came to Korea for “Adoption Truth Day” Event Face an Arduous Journey Starting with Obtaining Official Records. Even though the system has changed, adoptees say that the same suffering continues on the ground, where they are actually searching for their records.
September 7, 2026
Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea Activity News
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September 7, 2026
Kyunghyang Shinmun
On the morning of the 7th, the national flags of 11 countries, including the South Korean flag as well as Norway, the United States, and France, flew in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Jung-gu, Seoul. A coalition composed of 13 overseas adoptee organizations from 11 countries—including KoRoot and DKRG—and domestic unmarried mothers' groups held a press conference that day. They urged for a truth investigation into the illegal overseas adoptions perpetrated over the past 70 years and submitted a motion to recuse Standing Commissioner Jang Young-soo.
September 7, 2026
Money Today
KoRoot, the Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG), Domestic Adoptees Solidarity, and the Korean Unwed Mothers Families Association held a press conference in front of the TRC in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 7th.
July 27, 2026
Newsis
"These are the records of my own life, yet I had almost no access to them," Michelle said. "I began advocacy work to regain control over my own records." She now serves on the board of the U.S. Korean Rights Group (USKRG), an organization advocating for the rights of Korean adoptees in the United States. Michelle says that even if an adoptee was raised by a loving adoptive family, one feeling never disappears: "No matter how good your adoptive family was, you still want to know who your first family is."
June 1, 2026
Korean Quarterly
Two Korean Americans from the Midwest, one from Minnesota and one from Chicago, are leading up a small organization with a big job. The newly-formed U.S. Korean Rights Group (USKRG) is a group of Korean American adoptees who will dialogue with South Korean government as part of a global coalition of Korean adoptees from many countries.
May 11, 2026
The Korea Times
A recent data breach at the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), exposing sensitive personal records of adoptees, is drawing criticism from overseas adoptee groups and raising questions about the agency's credibility. David Castlen, a Korean adoptee based in the United States and director of IT and cybersecurity at the United States Korean Rights Group (USKRG), said his individual breach notice — which he accessed on May 5 — showed it had exposed a wide range of identity-linked data, including his name, date of birth, photograph, adoption records, passport information, place of birth and information about his adoptive family.
