Danish Korean Rights Group

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Danish Korean Rights Group har anmodet Sydkoreas Sandheds- og Forsoningskommission om at undersøge adoptioner fra Sydkorea.


In the service of the truth

The Danish Korean Rights Group has requested South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate adoptions from South Korea.

Hvad er Danish Korean Rights Group

Danish Korean Rights Group er en dansk forening af danske adopterede fra Korea. Foreningen arbejder for koreanske adopteredes rettigheder til identitet og retten til vores sande baggrundsoplysninger


What is the Danish Korean Rights Group

Danish Korean Rights Group is a Danish association of Danish adoptees from Korea. The association works for Korean adoptees' rights to identity and true background information

The Danish Korean Right Group works to bring out the truth about adoptions from South Korea. Close to 400 adoptees from around the world have submitted requests to South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to thoroughly investigate adoptions from South Korea. We will soon know the role of the Korean state during the dictatorship as well as the roles of the adoption agencies.

Tidslinje / Timeline

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Offentliggørelse af delkonklusion fra TRC. I forbindelse hermed blev et pressemøde afholdt. 

26/03/25

Partial conclusion from TRC with a press conference.

Indlevering af sager til TRC vedrørende adopteres medicinske dokumenter

2025

Submission of cases  to TRC regarding the adoptees' medical documents

DKRG's boglanchering 

24/10/24

DKRG's book launch

Boonyoung taler ved National Audit i Korea

21/10/24

Boonyoung makes a speech at the National Audit in Korea

Foreløbig konklusion fra TRC vedrørende koreanske institutioner og ordre 410

09/09/24

Preliminary conclusion from TRC regarding Korean instituions and order 410

TRC mødes med Socialudvalget i Korea

06/09/24

TRC meeting with the Danish Social Commitee in Korea

Officiel klage indgives til Korea's anti-korruptionskomité over NCRS' behandling af adopterede. 

14/05/24

Official complaint submitted to Korea's Anti-Corruption Comittee regarding NCRS- treatment of adoptees. 

DKRG mødes med TRC præsident, kommissionens medlemmer samt efterforskere. Planlægning af det videre forløb. 

13/05/24

DKRG meets with the TRC president, the commission's members and investigator. Planning of the next steps ahead. 

TRC-deltagere mødes med TRC i Korea

13/05/24

TRC participants meet with TRC in Korea

TRC-deltagere mødes med TRC i Korea i forbindelse med Adoption Week 

01/05/24

TRC participants meet with TRC in Korea in connection with Adoption Week. 

TRC bliver forlænget med 1 år 

22/01/24

TRC is extended by 1 year

DKRG anmoder om forlægnelse af efterforskningsperioden ved TRC 

28/11/23

DKRG requests an extension of the investigation period at TRC

Indlevering af 6 tatoverings-sager til TRC 

02/11/23

Submission of 6 tattoo cases to TRC

TRC besøger Danmark 

17/06/23

TRC visits Denmark

Eva taler i det koreanske parlament

11/05/23

Eva makes a speech in the Korean parliament

Sidste svarfrist for til TRC

06/08/23

Final dealine for TRC-participantants to respond to TRC

Peter taler i det koreanske parlament 

29/06/23

Peter makes a speech in the Korean parliament

Eva, Peter og Boonyoung mødes med TRC angående de medicinske dokumenter 

09/05/23

Eva, Peter, and Boonyoung meet with TRC regarding the medical documents

TRC efterforsker børnehjem i Seoul - 300 siders konklusion

02/02/23

TRC investigates orphanages in Seoul – 300-page conclusion

Peter taler ved National Audit i Korea

22/10/22

Peter makes a speech at the National Audit in Korea

Møde med Ankestyrelsen

24/09/22

Meeting with the Danish Appeals Board

Indlevering af 28 nye sager

09/12/22

28 new cases are filed.

Sandhedskommissionen nedsætter undersøgelseskommission af adoptioner fra Sydkorea

06/12/22

The Truth Commission sets up a commission of inquiry into adoptions from South Korea

24 sager + et supplerende hoveddokument indleveres

11/11/22

24 cases + a supplementary main document are submitted

231 nye sager indsendes til kommissionen

13/09/22

231 new cases are submitted to the commission

51 sager + 1 hovedsag indgives til kommissionen

23/08/22

51 cases + 1 main case submitted to the commission

Faktaboks:


Den sydkoreanske sandheds- og forsoningskommision afdækker menneskerettighedskrænkelser begået under Sydkoreas autoritære periode. I 2022 indbragte DKRG 367 enkeltsager for kommissionen. Kommissionen har siden december 2022 undersøgt både hvorvidt der er sket menneskerettighedskrænkelser i enkelt sager og på systematisk niveau. Kommissionens delrapport vedrører derfor alle adoptioner, ca 200.000 til store dele af Vesten, foretaget under Sydkoreas autoritære periode.

Fact box:


The South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission uncovers human rights violations committed during South Korea's authoritarian period. In 2022, the DKRG brought 367 individual cases before the commission. Since December 2022, the commission has been investigating whether human rights violations have occurred in individual cases as well as on a systemic level. The commission's partial report therefore concerns all adoptions, approximately 200,000 to large parts of the West, carried out during South Korea's authoritarian period.

Danish Korean Rights Groups kræver

+ Sandheden om oversøiske adoptioner, etnisk udrensning og deportationer skal frem.

+ Adoptionsfirmaerne skal stilles til ansvar for tyveri af koreanske børn

+ Adoptionsfirmaernes rolle i deportationer af børn skal klarlægges

+ Antallet af døde børn i adoptionsfirmaernes varetægt skal offentliggøres

+ Adoptionsfirmaernes brug af stystematisk forfalskede dokumenter skal klarlægges

+ Sexuelle overgreb på børn og adoptioner til pædofile i regi af adoptionsfirmaet Holt skal efterforskes

+Det fortsatte salg af børn og krænkelser af børns rettigheder skal stoppes i Sydkorea


The Danish Korean Rights Group demands

+ The truth about overseas adoptions, ethnic cleansing and deportations must come out.


+ The adoption companies must be held accountable for stealing Korean children


+ The role of adoption companies in deportations of children must be clarified


+ The number of dead children in the care of adoption companies must be published


+ The adoption companies' use of systematically falsified documents must be clarified


+ Sexual abuse of children and adoptions for pedophiles under the auspices of the adoption company Holt must be investigated


+The continued sale of children and violations of children's rights must be stopped in South Korea

Why are we doing this?

Alle har ret til at kende deres egen sande baggrund og sande identitet. Det gælder også for adopterede fra Sydkorea. Det er adoptionsfirmaerne i Korea, der en gang stod for vores adoption dog ikke. 

Derfor beder vi Sydkoreas Sandhedskommission om at give os sandheden om adoptioner fra Sydkorea. 

Everyone has the right to know their own true background and true identity.

This also applies to adoptees from South Korea. It is the adoption companies in Korea that were once responsible for our adoption, however not.

Therefore, we are asking the Truth Commission of South Korea to give us the truth about adoptions from South Korea.

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