{
  "id": 16028611,
  "title": "Adoptees from Korea say they were isolated and abused in the US. Were they also ‘stolen’ from their birth parents?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/adoptees-from-korea-say-they-were-isolated-and-abused-in-the-us-were",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T09:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/korean-american-adoptees"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Last year, South Korea took responsibility for enabling the ‘mass export’ of children for sale abroad. Now those uprooted are grappling with false promises of a better life As international, transracial adoptees in their 30s in the US, Jacquelyn Wells and Lauren White-Gydas have things in common. They were both born in South Korea to unwed mothers in the 1980s. Both were shipped to the US as…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}