Advocates say hundreds of adoptees are already seeking investigations, including many from the U.S., which was by far the biggest recipient of Korean children.

South Korea’s fertility rate has climbed for a second consecutive year, bucking a long-term trend of population decline that has plunged the country into one of the world’s worst demographic crises.

Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.

An estimated one in 38 South Korean children — or 2.6 percent — has an autism spectrum disorder, a new study says — figures that experts believe could be similar in the United States. Estimates of ...