Kim Mi-ae: "Is the Pre-Entrustment Protection System Acceptable... A Cowardly Excuse"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Despite the Blue House explaining President Moon Jae-in's controversial remark about 'cancelling adoption' as referring to the "pre-adoption foster care system" rather than abandonment, Kim Mi-ae, a member of the People Power Party, criticized, "Is it okay just because it's the pre-adoption foster care system?"

On the 19th, Representative Kim said on Facebook, "President Moon is a former lawyer, so did he not understand the meaning of 'cancelling adoption or changing the child if you don't like them'?" Representative Kim is also an adoptive parent.

She added, "When public criticism of the President's remarks surged, he brought up 'pre-adoption foster care,' which was never mentioned during the press conference. This is a very cowardly act to deceive the public again," and questioned, "In the 'pre-adoption foster care stage' that the President used to excuse himself, can prospective adoptive parents return or exchange a child if they don't like them?"

Representative Kim emphasized, "Is there any country that operates the pre-adoption foster care system like that?" and stressed that the pre-adoption foster care system should be operated as a screening process for adoptive parents. She said, "It is never a means to choose a child," and pointed out, "I absolutely oppose the President proposing to introduce the pre-adoption foster care system with the intention of operating it as such a bad method."

She highlighted that while blood relations cannot be severed, adoption has a very strict 'abandonment' system, explaining that "adoption is also a family relationship that cannot be easily broken." Representative Kim said, "I feel considerable concern and anger that the President would mention such a human rights-erasing policy that easily destroys family relationships," and "I urge him to retract the statement and apologize."

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