28 service. What is the government’s policy to help them stand on their own feet and what does the policy offer? Issue 36. Adoption 1) Current status 126. The revision in 2012 mandates that a person shall obtain permission from the family court to adopt a child; however, a man who had ten previous convictions had adopted a child whom he abused to death, mutilated, and buried in secret in 2016. Another adoptive father's violence had landed a child in brain death. 127. Adoption agencies are mostly responsible for processing adoption where the government subsidizes them with adoption fee upon every adoption of a child. According to comments from the National Assembly in 2017, three major domestic adoption agencies are charging foreign parents-to-be USD 14,500, USD 19,500, and USD 20,040 for adoption, respectively. Subsidized through adoption fee, the agencies might be focused more on pulling off adoption than offering appropriate consideration toward adoptive families or subsequent services after adoption, which poses a potential risk that they might not act in the best interest of adopted children. 128. The Act on Special Cases Concerning Adoption stipulates the provision of post adoption services. The post adoption services for adoptive families are provided by the central adoption agency in the form of public projects with 72% servicing international adoptees. 129. The number of adopted children who were later returned was 1,073 in 2012, which a bit decreased to 833 in 2016 as intervention of the court has been enhanced in 2013. In 2016, in addition, 40 fully adopted children were dissolved, which might cause a gap in protecting them who’s all ties with the original family have cut through full adoption. 2) Questions 130. Does the government have any plan to prevent the recurrence of tragedy such as death of the adopted child in 2016? 131. Is the way where the government pays adoption fees to subsidize adoption agencies desirable? Does the government have any plan to address such an issue? 132. What is the government's policy to ensure stable provision of post adoption services considering the needs of adoptees?