Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. The Good Bad Mother starts out like a happy folk tale about a village piggery, where pigs romp freely, seem generally ...

but has returned to her home country to look for her mother. Driven by poverty, South Korea used to be the world’s largest source of babies for adoption. It began with Korean women wanting to ...

The South Korean mother with two children who moved to Japan ... “I want to find a good husband and work together with him to live our lives,” she said. “But when it comes to actually ...

KAWASAKI, (Japan): The mother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, expressed her anguish as the 47th anniversary of her daughter’s abduction approached. Megumi was ...