The 'baby box' for unwanted South Korean newborns

South Korea is a country with little tradition of adoption and there is a stigma against families which do adopt.

In the past most unwanted babies were adopted overseas - but recently the law has changed, restricting international adoption. And this has led to an unwanted side effect - hundreds of babies being abandoned and ending up in orphanages.

The BBC's Yalda Hakim has been to see a "baby box" which has been installed by a church in Seoul to take in abandoned newborns.

Watch the full programme Our World: South Korea's Adoption Shame on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October 2015. Local broadcast times can be found on BBC World News and BBC News Channel websites.

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