Will the SECOND transfer of ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility to the National Archives complicate TRC 3’s investigation into the 311 TRC 2 cases?

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Will the SECOND transfer of ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility to the National Archives complicate TRC 3’s investigation into the 311 TRC 2 cases?

Both events begin in October 2026.

The S. Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare recently announced that preparations for the SECOND transfer of ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files — this time, from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do to the Seongam Branch of the National Archives — would begin in October 2026.

Please see:
Korean Joong Ang Daily: 240,000+ Korean Adoption Records to Be Inspected, Disinfected, and Transferred to the National Archives in November and December 2026.

Coincidentally, October 2026 preparations for this SECOND major transfer of ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files coincides with the initiation timeline for TRC 3’s investigations in the the 311 cases left over from TRC 2, also in October 2026:

“The newly established Third Investigation Bureau, which was created during the Commission's third term to specialize in investigations into overseas adoption-related human rights violations and abuses in institutional confinement facilities, is currently operating as a task force (TF) pending its formal establishment. Full-scale investigations are expected to begin around October, after investigators have been assigned.”

The quote above is from the translated Newsis article here:
Newsis: TRC 3 Completes 3 Subcommittees, Speeds Truth-Finding Preparations.

It remains to be seen if the disinfection of former Korean Adoption Agency files, which is slated to begin in October 2026, and the subsequent SECOND transfer of ALL former Korean Adoption Agency files from NCRC’s Temporary Storage Facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do to the Seongam Branch of the National Archives in November and December will complicate TRC 3’s ability to access Adoptee’s files for their investigation.

In another coincidence, hundreds of Korean Adoptees will be in Korea for IKAA in October 2026.

Happy Halloween.

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