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- South Korea plans to end foreign adoptions by 2029, in response to U.N. concerns over human rights violations linked to past adoptions.
- The government will shift from private agencies to a public adoption framework.
- U.N. investigators criticized inadequate remedies for adoptees and a suspended fact-finding probe.
- A truth commission halted its work amid internal disputes, leaving 311 cases unresolved.
- The commission acknowledged state responsibility for a fraudulent adoption program that sent about 200,000 children abroad.
