Haiwai.com, October 20th, "36 weeks baby seek adoption!" On October 16, a post on a Korean secondary trading website that sold babies aroused social attention.
The poster was priced at 200,000 won (approximately RMB 1,200), and a photo of a baby in a swaddling baby was attached. The location was marked in Seogwipo, Jeju-do.
According to South Korea’s "Asian Economics" report, South Korea’s Jeju Provincial Government reported on the 20th that after investigations, it was found that the posting woman A was a young unmarried mother who put her child online to seek adopters due to financial difficulties.
The infant in the incident has been sent to an infant care institution.
When A was investigated by the police, he said that because he and the biological father of the child did not have the financial ability to raise the child, he decided to give the child away.
A also claimed that she had asked relevant adoption agencies before posting on the Internet, but due to the complicated procedures and harsh conditions, she had to put her child on a second-hand trading website.
Due to the perennial sluggish birth rate, the South Korean government has introduced a number of preferential policies to encourage people to have more births, while also introducing relevant measures to protect the rights of single mothers.
However, as the "second-hand website selling babies" incident continues to ferment, the government's policies on raising children for single mothers have been constantly criticized.
The governor of Jeju Province, Won Hee-ryong, posted on social networking sites on the 18th that in the future, the system for protecting women will be improved and obstacles to the legal adoption process will be found.
(Overseas Network Liu Qiang)