American fathers cry foul over S. Korea’s ‘inaction’ on overseas child abduction by former spouses

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Enforcement officials find it hard to forcibly separate a child from the abducting parent, said S. Korean official. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL - On a late November afternoon, Mr John Sichi was walking on a treadmill on a street in Seoul. The exercise equipment featured signs on both sides that read “I miss my children so much” in Korean. Next to it stood life-size photos of two toddlers - a girl and a boy.

In February, when South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled in his favour, finalising the lower court’s decision and rejecting his wife’s appeal, he thought he would finally be able to reunite with his children.Despite the court orders, receiving 5 million won in fines and having to serve 30 days of detention, his wife has not let go of the children, who are now 6 and 5 years old .

Half of the parents were unable to retrieve their children even after obtaining legal custody and the right to recover them through legal proceedings, largely due to “delays in law enforcement,” it said. Local legal experts point to a lack of compulsory regulations that apply to the court’s child recovery orders.

Mr Sung’s former wife - who took their 6-year-old son Bryan to Seoul in June 2019 when they were in the midst of a divorce - has already received court-ordered penalties, including fines and detentions. But she is still refusing to return his son, he said.

 

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