Adoptee gathering in Seoul

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Participants engage with the speaker at the 2023 Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering organized by the Overseas Korean Agency, a Korean government body established earlier this year to handle overseas Korean affairs, at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Monday. Since the 1950-53 Korean War, some 200,000 Koreans born in the country have been adopted internationally. Government and nongovernmental organizations periodically run cultural exchange trips for some adoptees and their families. [YONHAP]
Participants engage with the speaker at the 2023 Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering organized by the Overseas Korean Agency, a Korean government body established earlier this year to handle overseas Korean affairs, at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Monday. Since the 1950-53 Korean War, some 200,000 Koreans born in the country have been adopted internationally. Government and nongovernmental organizations periodically run cultural exchange trips for some adoptees and their families.

BY ESTHER CHUNG [chung.juhee@joongang.co.kr]

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