An inspiring article about Korean adoption was published in the paper last week.

Unwed Korean mom start to assert their rights
by Choe Sang-Hun

"Four years ago, when she found that she was pregnant by her former boyfriend, Choi Hyong-sook considered abortion. But after she saw the little blip of her baby’s heartbeat on ultrasound images, she could not go through with it.

As her pregnancy advanced, she confided in her elder brother. His reaction would sound familiar to unwed mothers in South Korea. She said he tried to drag her by the hair to an abortion clinic. Later, she said, he pressed her to give the child up for adoption."

“But when the adoption agency took my baby away, I felt as if I had thrown him into the trash. It felt as if the earth had stopped turning. I persuaded them to let me reclaim my baby after five days.”

Luckily now there is a group called Korean Unwed Mothers Support Network founded by a dad who adopted from Korea and went back to "help" the community in which his daughter was born. He got a wake up call and decided to give something really helpful back.

More here.