The Ties Program and USKRG have curated a week in Seoul for adoptees who are attending Adoption Truth DaSince the Adoption Truth Day Conference in September 2025, efforts have been ongoing to find solutions for adoptees based on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s findings. This conference seeks to review the progress made for adoptees from South Korea worldwide, follow up on the TRC’s conclusions and the examine path towards solutions for adoptees. Attendance will be

News about the third Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC3) examining past human rights violations in adoption practices in South Korea. For more information about the the TRC, please see USKRG's TRC3 page.

On February 26, 2026, the cases for 311 Korean adoptees around the world were submitted to the TRC3 for investigation into human rights violations. On that day, Ibyang, in collaboration with KRG network partners, arranged a livestream of the event. Adoptees around the world who submitted were able to watch as their case was given to the TRC3 by the Danish Korean Rights Group and KoRoot.

Today marks a watershed moment for the global Korean adoptee community as the third Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC3) of South Korea officially begins accepting cases for investigation into human rights violations within the country’s past international adoption practices.

USKRG is pleased to share best practices for crafting a compelling personal statement that will be entered into the TRC as evidence. A good personal statement highlights human rights violations within your file, giving shape and factual support to your human rights narrative.

Rob, Vice President of USKRG, tells his story in his own words, of what it was like to submit to TRC: "I continue because truth matters, even when it is slow, and because my story, like so many others, deserves to be fully told."

For Korean Adoptees Truth and Reconciliation (TRC3) submissions, a Personal Adoptee Timeline is typically a clear, chronological record of your life events related to adoption — especially points where there may have been errors, inconsistencies, coercion, falsified records, loss of identity, or rights violations. It is important that the timeline is not literary or emotional (though you can include impact statements). It should be structured, factual, and evidence-based wher

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TRC3 stands for 'The Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission,' which was recently approved by the South Korean government to look into human rights violations in international adoption. The first two TRCs (TRC1 & TRC2) also examined human rights violations, however they ended in 2025. Please see USKRG's Complete FAQ for the history of the TRC.