Han Tae-soon reunites with daughter

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South Korea's history of overseas adoptions in the spotlight

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Han Tae-soon lost her daughter Kyung-ha in 1975 when she was six years old .

She was taken to an orphanage and sent illegally to the US to be raised by another family.

Ms Han is suing the South Korean government for failing to prevent her daughter's adoption.

Hundreds of people have come forward in recent years with damning allegations of fraud, illegal adoptions, kidnapping and human trafficking.

South Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War .

At that time, few families were willing to adopt non-biological children.

In 1985 alone, more than 8,800 children were sent overseas, peaking in the 1980s .

Some of these children may have been obtained by unscrupulous means.

An Associated Press news investigation last year found successive Korean governments had rewritten laws to remove minimal safeguards and judicial oversight.

While the government billed the programme as a humanitarian effort, observers say it also served to strengthen ties with Western countries.

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