Singapore: Australian adoptees say South Korea must act to make it easier for adoption records to be accessed and families to reunite, after the country’s leader apologised for human rights violations caused by its overseas adoption program. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung offered a “heartfelt apology and words of comfort” on behalf of the country to adoptees, their parents and birth parents in a Facebook post on Thursday, acknowledging the “anxiety, pain, and confusion” many had endured. Rows of babies waiting for overseas adoption in 1984 at a South Korea orphanage. A government apology was one of the key recommendations of South Korea’s landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The findings were based on complaints made by adoptees in 11 countries, including Australia.