More Korean adoptees want their situations investigated

Nearly 400 Koreans adopted as children by families in the West have asked Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to look into their adoptions before the application deadline on Friday, as Seoul faces mounting pressure to address a child export frenzy fueled by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s.

The commission announced Thursday that it has chosen to investigate 34 instances among the 51 adoptees who origin....