South Koreans demand probe into their past adoptions

Peter Moller, fourth from left, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, attends a press conference with a group of South Korean adoptees in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea (Ahn Young-joon/AP/PA)

A group of South Korean adoptees in Europe gathered in Seoul, urging authorities to investigate their adoptions decades ago that they say were based on falsified documents and involved rights abuses.

About 200,000 South Koreans were adopted overseas in the past decades, mostly in the 1970-80s and mainly to white parents in the United States and Europe.