The result of their reporting is "South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning" — a stunning, 90-minute documentary that investigates the darker side of South Korea’s adoption program.
 
Directed by FRONTLINE Investigative Journalist Equity Initiative filmmaker Lora Moftah (of Maxine Productions, a part of Sony Pictures Television), South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning examines how South Korea’s leaders promoted an adoption boom despite decades of warnings about problems, how Western governments turned a blind eye, and how the consequences are still playing out today.

The film draws on years of reporting, thousands of pages of documents — some of which had never been made public before — and interviews with those who worked in adoption agencies, officials from South Korea and abroad, and more than 80 adoptees who gave powerful firsthand accounts.
“What do you do when you find out your origin story is marked with grievous injustice?” one adoptee asks in the film.

In addition to adoptees and birth parents, the film features interviews with those from inside South Korea’s adoption system including a senior official who handled adoption and other child welfare policies, and a former adoption worker who says the agency where she worked put “zero effort” into verifying whether children designated as “abandoned” actually met the criteria.