Adoptees raise alarm over NCRC’s handling of records

Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing scrutiny over mismanagement and technical errors. Hopes were initially high when the NCRC took over from private agencies that had historically been reluctant to release documents. But adoptees have expressed frustration over delays, disorganization and technical mishandling of important documents. Data uploaded to the NCRC’s Adoption Central Management System (ACMS) has already led to heartbreaking moments. In one case, an adoptee was falsely reunited with who they thought was their birth mother, before it was revealed the two were not related. There are also files that are still unaccounted for and may never be recovered. So far, the NCRC has received documents from smaller child care facilities such as orphanages. On July 19, it is set to start receiving files from bigger private adoption organizations in Seoul. The data is to be stored at a facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, which

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