The 'PD Notebook' sheds light on the overall problem of managing the adoption records of children adopted abroad.
The 'PD Notebook' sheds light on the overall problem of managing the adoption records of children adopted abroad.
MBC's current affairs program "PD Notebook," which will air at 10:20 p.m. on the 14th, will air the "Disappeared Adoption Record: The Country That Erased Me."
South Korea, which has been labeled a "child exporter" by sending 200,000 children abroad for adoption over the past 70 years. Finding roots is at stake as a comprehensive problem has been revealed in the management of adoption records for those who were recently adopted abroad. It has been revealed that not only adoption institutions but also public institutions that were willing to receive private records and manage them have concealed the problem. The 'PD Notebook' examines the true nature of the adoption record computerization project, which has been carried out for 10 years since 2013.
adoptees who believed in false records
The "PD Notebook" met adoptees who had difficulty finding their biological families due to their adoption records. Park Sang-jo, a Danish adoptee, visited Korea more than 10 times in 35 years to find her biological parents. He gave up looking for his family, believing that the record of adoption of "orphan" by Holt Children's Welfare Association was true. However, this year, I suddenly find out that I have information from my biological father and I am shocked. Although his biological father was already dead, it was impossible to meet him, Holt did not comply with Park's request to provide adoption records to meet many brothers. Park, who overcame various obstacles and met his siblings dramatically, learned that his family had asked the agency to get him back, but was already rejected for leaving far away and had been looking for his whole life.
The production team covered the wonderful story of another Danish adopter. Mia was reunited with her biological father, who was connected by an adoption agency, and stayed as a family for three years, and even held a funeral of sadness. In fact, after his father's death, he finds out that he was not a biological family member. Her file was swapped for another adoptee, which was absurd. This is how important accurate record management of adoptees is. The "PD Notebook" focused on the absurd situation in which information errors have not been corrected even now when the adoption record computerization project has ended.
A sham computerized adoption record concealing a decade.
The adoption record computerization project, which aims to digitize the adoption records of a closed institution (childcare center) and register the data with the ACMS (Adoption Information Integrated Management System) in order to systematically "find the family" of adoptees. The "PD Notebook" meets a number of public interest informants and listens to the actual state of the project. The informants reveal that decisive information such as birth date and phone number of biological parents is omitted, and there are cases where the child itself is not registered at all.
In addition to the problem of not uploading the business results to the system, it was confirmed that the business management was generally poor, such as the loss of the original business output, blank scanning, and proxy performance of services. Despite this problem, the same service company and supervision company took charge of the 2 billion won project for 10 years and continued to proceed. The Ministry of Health and Welfare, a supervisory authority, completed an audit in November last year and demanded disciplinary action and request for investigation of the project's inspection and management officers. Will the Children's Rights Security Agency be able to reflect on its past wrongdoings and be reborn as a public manager of adoption records in the first year of publicization of adoption? Above all, will the data of the lost adoptees be recovered and recovered?
"PD Notebook-Disappeared Adoption Record: The Country That Erased Me" will air at 10:20 p.m. on the 14th.
[Reporter Kim So Soyeon Kim Tattoo Day]