South Korea grants extension of truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases

South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to extend its term by a year through late-May 2025. Investigators had been calling for more time to examine a broad range of human rights violations linked to Seoul’s past military governments, including a widespread falsifying of child origins that fueled a government-backed foreign adoption boom in the 1970s and '80s.

In granting the commission’s request for an extension, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol acknowledged the