"They said she was the biological mother, but it was the wrong person" Adoption information management system... Government neglected countless errors for 15 years

There are many errors in the adoption information integrated management system.
The Child Rights Protection Center under the Ministry of Health and Welfare
is aware of the management errors, but the inspection results are marked as ‘passed’.
This is one of the causes of corruption in the computerization of adoption records.

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A photo of Anna Kim Riley (40, Korean name Jang Won-sook), who was born in Daejeon in 1984 and adopted to the United States in 1985, at the time of her adoption. Anna met her biological mother in 2023 based on the records of the Child Rights Center’s Integrated Adoption Information Management System (ACMS), but the DNA test results showed that she was not related to Anna. Provided by Anna

Anna Kim Riley (40, Korean name Jang Won-sook), who was born in Daejeon and adopted to the United States, believed she had finally found her biological mother in 2023. In March of that year, she was able to contact her biological mother through the 'Adoption Information Management System (ACMS)' managed by the Child Rights Protection Agency under the Ministry of Health and Welfare. However, a genetic (DNA) test result showed that she was not the biological child.

“I was so angry and confused,” Anna told The Korea Times in an email interview. The ACMS, which had been in operation for 15 years, was full of errors and information was being mismanaged.

The 'Adoption Record Computerization Project' that the Child Rights Protection Center has been carrying out for 10 years at a cost of 2 billion won has been revealed to be full of errors (June 13, page 8) such as 'scanning blank pages' and 'incorrect input of names, addresses, etc.'. Behind this, corruption of the bidding company and fundamental problems of the ACMS system are intertwined. Even knowing this, the budget was wasted by proceeding with the additional input project.