26,000 Korean adoptees without citizenship: data
Social affairsOct 31, 2017
The number of Korean adoptees who are not naturalized as citizens of their adoptive parent’s country is estimated at 26,000, government data showed Tuesday.According to the Health Ministry data released by Rep. Ki Dong-min of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, 25,996 Korean adoptees do not hold citizenship from their adoptive parent’s countries as of August 2017. 18,603 of them have been brought into the US as adoptees and the remaining 7,393 to other countries.The figure is based on a survey