SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins.

The findings of a government probe confirm what many adoptees attested to for years: Babies were sent abroad for profit, often with falsified backstories.

Besides recommending an official apology, the commission also called for a comprehensive survey on adoptees' citizenship status and any corresponding policy measures, remedies for

A South Korean appeals court held on Wednesday that main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was not guilty of violating the election law, reversing a lower court's ruling and removing a possible block in his path to run for president.

South Korean prosecutors said on Wednesday they planned to go to the Supreme Court to appeal against a ruling that cleared main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung of election law violation earlier in the day,

A South Korean court has ruled that opposition leader Lee Jae-myung did not violate election laws, overturning a lower court’s decision and boosting his chances of running in any future presidential elections.

Wildfires in South Korea fueled by high winds and dry weather have killed at least two dozen people and forced almost 30,000 to evacuate.

The death toll from multiple wildfires tearing through the southeastern region of South Korea rose to 24 on Wednesday, officials said, with more than 27,000 residents evacuated and historical treasures destroyed.

Historic Buddhist temples burn in South Korea wildfires Edited by Gavin Butler, with reporting from Jake Kwon, David Oh, Hyunjung Kim, and Suhnwook Lee in Seoul, and Koh Ewe in Singapore The fires started in Sancheong county on Friday and have spread to at least six neighbouring counties,