The filmmaker and reporters of "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" documentary talk about how their reporting challenges some Korean and Western assumptions about international adoption, and how the practice is now facing a reckoning.

South Korea’s adoption program started with the unwanted children of Korean women and Western soldiers from the 1950-53 Korean war, and then included the children of single mothers, the poor and others.

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means,