1612549
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One "Orphan" Every Hour

2025-08-31 en 92m
Documentary
Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving homes. Others to tragic ends. Raised in places where they looked like nobody else, many were told to forget their past and be grateful. But the innate desire to understand where you came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots. In the process, they discover lies in their past and families they never knew existed. In this documentary series, correspondent Wei Du travels around the world to meet Korean adoptees and accompany a few on their journey to reclaim who they are. Together, they reveal how an “orphan rescue” mission separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands.

Producer

Wei Du

Writer

Wei Du

Executive Producer

Mark Pestana

Supervising Producer

Tan Lek Hwa

Camera Operator

Timothy Martin de Souza

Drone Cinematographer

Timothy Martin de Souza

orphanage human trafficking korean war (1950-53) orphan biological parents adoptive parent international adoption south korea searching for biological parents biological sister human rights violations korean adoptees korean adoption

Status

Released

Countries

    Companies

    • MCN International Pte Ltd
    • MediaCorp
    • cna insider