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South Korea to end private adoptions after landmark probe Seoul.

social workers caring for babies at the Jusarang Community Church in southern Seoul.[AFP]

South Korea is set to overhaul its adoption system on Saturday by ending the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies, which has led to widespread allegations of abuse.

South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy and a global cultural powerhouse, sent more than 140,000 children overseas between 1955 and 1999.

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