The filmmaker and reporters of "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" documentary talk about how their reporting challenges some Korean and Western assumptions about international adoption, and how the practice is now facing a reckoning.

An investigation by The Associated Press reveals that South Korea, along with Western countries and adoption agencies, facilitated the adoption of 200,000 Korean children through unscrupulous means. Many adoptees,

Western governments eagerly approved and even pushed for the adoption of South Korean children for decades, despite evidence that adoption agencies were aggressively competing for kids, pressuring mothers and bribing hospitals,

She believes the government of France — along with many Western nations — allowed families to “mail order children” through international adoption, and did nothing to protect them. “They were reckless,