Queye TV One "Orphan" Every Hour
Documentary
One "Orphan" Every Hour
2025
1:32
★ 0
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.

Cast

Wei Du

Moses Farrow

Mary Bowers

Han Tae-soon

Anna Samuelsson

Catherine Harned

Chase Malmgren

Tobias Hübinette

Phil Pellouchoud

Madeline Bjork

Crew

Wei Du

Producer

Wei Du

Writer

Mark Pestana

Executive Producer

Tan Lek Hwa

Supervising Producer

Timothy Martin de Souza

Camera Operator

Timothy Martin de Souza

Drone Cinematographer

Andy Tan

Camera Operator

Ooi Kim Keat

Camera Operator

Marco Cervi

Additional Camera

Andersen Xia

Additional Camera

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