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- Adoption & fostering
Did Australia know? South Korean adoptees demand answers over global scandal
Labor has promised, if re-elected, to investigate concerns about the program that facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.
- Lisa Visentin
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- Adoption & fostering
Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia
The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Trump's America
This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years
A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal
For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.
- Lisa Visentin
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- Bushfires
Dozens dead and injured as bushfires ravage South Korea
Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate and a helicopter pilot has been killed trying to extinguish some of the worst fires the nation has ever experienced.
- Kim Tong-Hyung
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- Sydney councils
This Sydney council was about to spend $70,000 on a trip to Korea. Until it changed its mind
The mayor, councillors and other staff are set to attend a three-day festival, but at a lower cost than first flagged.
- Anthony Segaert
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- Review
He may have won four Oscars, but this cult Korean director still delights in mocking Americans
Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, is in the vein of his previous English-language sci-fi films.
- Jake Wilson
Bird feathers found in engines of South Korean plane that crashed
The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed traces of bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed 179 people.
South Korean prosecutors indict president on martial law charges
Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol will face trial on insurrection charges relating to his short-lived insurrection attempt.
- Lisa Visentin
Crashed South Korean jet’s black boxes missing final minutes
Both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders suspended recording for the final four minutes before the plane made an emergency landing, depriving investigators of crucial evidence.
- Heejin Kim
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