South Korea vows to end foreign adoptions as UN presses Seoul to address past abuses
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South Korean 1st Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Lee Seuran speaks during a briefing at the government complex building in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (Choo Sang-chul/Newsis via AP)FILE - Yooree Kim sits for a portrait with a computer tablet displaying a picture of her taken before she was sent from South Korea to be adopted by a family in France when she was 11 years old, in her apartment in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)FILE - Yooree Kim, who was sent to a French family in 1984 without her biological parents consent, based on documents that falsely described her as an abandoned orphan, sits for a portrait as tears well up in her eyes in her apartment in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
South Korean 1st Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Lee Seuran speaks during a briefing at the government complex building in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (Choo Sang-chul/Newsis via AP)