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One "Orphan" Every Hour (2025)

Documentary · 1h 32m

Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving homes. Others to tragic ends. Raised in places where they looked like nobody else, many were told to forget their past and be grateful. But the innate desire to understand where you came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots. In the process, they discover lies in their past and families they never knew existed. In this documentary series, correspondent Wei Du travels around the world to meet Korean adoptees and accompany a few on their journey to reclaim who they are. Together, they reveal how an “orphan rescue” mission separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands.

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Cast

Wei Du Moses Farrow
M
Mary Bowers
H
Han Tae-soon
A
Anna Samuelsson
C
Catherine Harned
C
Chase Malmgren
T
Tobias Hübinette
P
Phil Pellouchoud
M
Madeline Bjork
Y
Yuri Doolan
S
Stephan Jones

Crew

Writer
Wei Du
Editor
Grace Xiao, Georgette Soh
Producer
Wei Du

Details

Release date
2025-08-31
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, Korean, Swedish
Production
MCN International Pte Ltd, MediaCorp, cna insider