Minnesota has the highest concentration of Korean adoptees of any state in the U.S.

A new investigation by the Associated Press revealed widespread corruption in the Korean adoption system that has many adoptees questioning what they’ve been told about their past.

The report found South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable means.

Sara Docan-Morgan is a professor of Communication Studies at University of Wisconsin - La Crosse and she thinks a lot about the complications that come with being adopted from Korea by an American family.

This year she published a book called In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family. She spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about it.