Peter Moller, co-founder of Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG) speaks during an interview with The Korea Times at the newspaper's office in Seoul, Sept. 30. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

By Lee Hyo-jin

Adoption agency Holt International has denied allegations that it had forged adoption documents, in response to claims made by a group of Danish adoptees who said their adoption proceedings involved irregularities by Korean agencies.

In a recent interview with The Korea Times, Peter Moller, co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group (DKRG), claimed that two Seoul-based adoption agencies ― Holt and the Korea Social Society (KSS) ― fabricated many of the adoption documents of Korean children who were sent to Demark in the 1970s and 1980s.

Moller disclosed a letter sent from the KSS to a Danish adoptee in 2016, which stated, "In fact, it (the adoption file) was made up just for the adoption procedures."

The Danish adoptee speculated that Holt, the country's largest adoption agency, had also falsified or distorted documents. He claimed that some adoptees sent overseas by Holt found themselves registered as orphans, even though the agencies knew that their biological parents were very much alive.