Adopted TerritorySince the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Koreas economic miracle, adoption became an