Notice Regarding Reports Including "Prospective Parents Outraged at 'What Do You Mean by Quantity?'... Official Explains Slip of the Tongue"

In our reports on March 27 and March 28 regarding delays in adoption procedures, this broadcaster covered remarks made by an official at the Korea Child Rights Promotion Agency using terms such as "quantity" and "exhaustion."

The official mentioned in the reports stated that they continue to reflect on the fact that they made inappropriate remarks, regardless of the circumstances, and that they apologized immediately after making the comments on-site. The official conveyed, "The term 'quantity' was used to refer to statistical figures, such as the number of completed home assessments. Immediately after the remark, I corrected myself by saying, 'I should have mentioned the figures (related to statistics),' and subsequently apologized several times."

Furthermore, the official stated, "The term 'exhaustion' was also an administrative and statistical expression used in the process of explaining the number of cases where children who were successfully matched for adoption were removed from the waiting list."

This report is in accordance with the mediation of the Press Arbitration Commission.
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