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Korea's Lost Children
Why are Korean children still being sent abroad? The Friday Documentary gives a rare insight into the legacy of South Korea’s overseas adoption programme. The programme begun in the 1950s due to the masses of mixed-race orphans from the Korean War and an impoverished government unable to provide for them. Every year, around 1,000 South Korean children are given up for adoption in Western countries. Successive governments have pledged to end the practice of transnational adoption - although South Korea is a developed country and has one of the lowest birth rates globally, it is still not enforcing such laws. An estimated 200,000 Korean children have been adopted overseas over the past 60 years – around 300 of them have since returned to live in Korea and many are now involved in trying to change the adoption laws. Journalist Ellen Otzen meets Jane Trenka and Suki Leith, both adopted by American families, exploring the impact of foreign adoption.
Korea's Lost Children, 6 August | |  | |  |  | | |  | Berlin's Jewish community
 Berlin today boasts a 12,000-strong Jewish community. However, native German Jews are in the minority - among the most recent arrivals are young Israeli artists and musicians, many of them with German roots. Why would they want to live in a city where their grandparents suffered persecution and, in many cases, death? Heart and Soul presenter Kristine Pommert meets them to find out. The programme explores the ongoing presence of antisemitism in Berlin and discovers what happened to the thousands of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union who settled in Berlin after the fall of Communism, more than 20 years ago.
New Jewish Life in Berlin, 4 August | | |  | | | | | | | | | Iraq's civilian security
 It is claimed that armed conflict continues to kill far more civilians in Iraq than in Afghanistan. This statement is easily forgotten as US forces prepare to pull out of Iraq and leave security in the hands of a local government system in Baghdad. But the government has yet to be formed, four months after elections took place. This week's HARDtalk interviews Safa Rasul Hussein, Iraq's acting national security adviser and asks: Is Iraq facing a new descent into chaos?
Safa Rasul Hussein, 3 August | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | BBC World Service reacts to live events and breaking news,
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