Thousands of children from South Korea have been adopted by Australian families over decades.

In many cases, these children were raised to believe they were orphans – and their adoptive families believed they were doing something loving and selfless by giving them a home.

But a much more sinister truth has been laid bare: South Korea’s own Truth and Reconciliation Commission exposed how many of those adoptions were built on falsified orphan records, and traced trafficking and forged documents back to the agencies involved.

Today, associate editor for The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray, on the trafficking of fake orphans, and whether Australia is finally ready to confront its role in the trade.

 

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Guest: Associate editor for The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray.

Photo: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

Thousands of children from South Korea have been adopted by Australian families over decades.
In many cases, these children were raised to believe they were orphans &ndash; and their adoptive families believed they were doing something loving and selfless by giving them a home.
But a much more sinister truth has been laid bare: South Korea&rsquo;s own Truth and Reconciliation Commission exposed how many of those adoptions were built on falsified orphan records, and traced trafficking and forged documents back to the agencies involved.
Today, associate editor for&nbsp;The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray, on the trafficking of fake orphans, and whether Australia is finally ready to confront its role in the trade.
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Guest: Associate editor for The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray.
Photo:&nbsp;AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

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The fake orphans trafficked to Australia

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