{"id":592,"date":"2025-12-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/?p=592"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:04:47","slug":"korean-government-announces-intention-to-end-overseas-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Korean Government Announces Intention to End Overseas Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 26th 2025, the Korean Government announced their intention to end overseas adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Seu-ran, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said: \u201cWe will stabilize the public adoption system and phase out overseas adoptions.\u201d Regarding the specific timeline, she explained, \u201cWe plan to halt it within two to three years, with the goal of reaching zero cases by 2029 at the latest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Press Coverage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/n.news.naver.com\/mnews\/article\/469\/0000905213?sid=102\">[Hanguk Ilbo] International adoptions to end after 70 years\u2026 Number of children adopted abroad to drop to \u2018zero\u2019 by 2029<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 26th 2025, the Korean Government announced their intention to end overseas adoption. Lee Seu-ran, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said: \u201cWe will stabilize the public adoption system and phase out overseas adoptions.\u201d Regarding the specific timeline, she explained, \u201cWe plan to halt it within two to three years, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity-updates","tag-policy-update"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earsonncrc.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}