Ha Kum Chul, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigators, speaks to the media during a news conference at the commission in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Im Hwa-young/Yonhap via AP)

Han Tae-soon's notebook sits on a table at her home in Anyang, South Korea, Saturday, June 1, 2024. Han, who is in her 70s, has notebooks feverishly annotated with English translations, written during countless hours trying to learn her daughter's language. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Han Tae-soon, who believed her daughter had been missing for years before discovering she had been adopted by a family in the United States, stands for a portrait at her home in Anyang, South Korea, Saturday, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In this photo provided by Robert Calabretta, right, he and and his biological father, Lee Sung-soo, stand together for a photo while on a visit in Daegu, South Korea, in August of 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy Robert Calabretta via AP)

Robert Calabretta holds a picture of his biological mother and brother while sifting through family mementos at his apartment, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. After Calabretta was adopted as a baby to an American family, hospital officials told his mother to assume he had died. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Michaela Dietz, an adoptee from South Korea, holds a baby photo of Robyn Joy Park, who was also adopted from South Korea as an infant and whose identity was switched, next to Park's newborn daughter, Rae, while visiting Park at her home in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, April 19, 2024. Park hasn't found her real parents. She thinks often of the girl whose identity she was given, and wonders: what happened to her? (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)