Eight Danes adopted from South Korea sue the Danish state

The Danish-Korean Rights Group has revealed that newborns in South Korea were systematically stolen from their mothers and given up for adoption in the 1970s and 1980s, Ritzau news agency reports. In 2024, the state authority, the Danish Appeals Board, determined that Danish adoption agencies were aware of this practice.

The adoptees are demanding compensation for the pain and suffering, but also for the large costs incurred by adoptees who want to trace their origins.

It's about the fact that, as an ordinary person, but also as an adopted person, you have the right to have a connection to your origins, says Gitte Mose, one of those behind the lawsuit, to Danish Radio.