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One "Orphan" Every Hour

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Calorie Rating: 129
Released: 2025-08-31
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Homepage: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/one-orphan-every-hour
Studios: MCN International Pte Ltd, MediaCorp, cna insider,


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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Production and Crew

Wei Du
Producer
Wei Du
Writer
Mark Pestana
Executive Producer

Tan Lek Hwa
Supervising Producer
Timothy Martin de Souza
Drone Cinematographer

Andy Tan
Camera Operator
Ooi Kim Keat
Camera Operator
Marco Cervi
Additional Camera

Andersen Xia
Additional Camera

Aron Prigg
Drone Cinematographer


Jack Anderson
Drone Cinematographer
Jan Forbes
Drone Cinematographer

May Tan
Production Manager
Lock Weiping
Production Manager
Jackie Joseph
Associate Producer

Andersen Xia
Associate Producer
Lexi Tian
Production Assistant

Georgette Soh
Opening Title Sequence
Jerry Teo
Audio Post Coordinator

Chung Chow
Colorist
Tom St. John Gray
Consulting Producer
Sang Hyuk Yim
Translator

Allan Nylander
Translator
Sookyoung Lee
Researcher