“Siphoning, economic development, social welfare structure” were the most salient words while I was reading Shannon’s essay. It was incisive to point out that adoption appears to some degree benevolent, but at the rear of it, there was a blueprint of the South Korean government dodging the social infrastructure for vulnerable children. According to Shannon’s account, the South Korean government could save money through international adoptionduring 1960s-70s, when there was rapid economic development in South Korea, instead of constructing a social welfare system.
