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One "Orphan" Every Hour

Aug 31, 2025
1h 32m
★ 0.0

Overview

Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving homes. Others to tragic ends. Raised in places where they looked like nobody else, many were told to forget their past and be grateful. But the innate desire to understand where you came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots. In the process, they discover lies in their past and families they never knew existed. In this documentary series, correspondent Wei Du travels around the world to meet Korean adoptees and accompany a few on their journey to reclaim who they are. Together, they reveal how an “orphan rescue” mission separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

MCN International Pte Ltd
MediaCorp
cna insider

Cast

Wei Du

Wei Du

Moses Farrow

Moses Farrow

Mary Bowers

Mary Bowers

Han Tae-soon

Han Tae-soon

Anna Samuelsson

Anna Samuelsson

Catherine Harned

Catherine Harned

Chase Malmgren

Chase Malmgren

Tobias Hübinette

Tobias Hübinette

Phil Pellouchoud

Phil Pellouchoud

Madeline Bjork

Madeline Bjork

Yuri Doolan

Yuri Doolan

Stephan Jones

Stephan Jones

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