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133. Does the government have any plan to fill the vacuum in protecting an adopted child
when the child is abandoned by adoptive parents? Please include the status report of
dissolution of adoption.
Issue 37. Hague Convention
1) Current status
134. The government has entered into the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on
Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption in May 2013
and been preparing to ratify it. The bill to agree on the ratification has been submitted on
October 18th, 2017 and on hold in the National Assembly.
2) Questions
135. What is the government preparing to ratify the Hague Convention?
F. Disability, Basic Health, and Welfare
(Arts. 6, 18, para. 3, 23, 24, 26, 27, paras. 1-3, and 33)
1. Children with Disabilities
Issue 38. Medical Service for Children with Disabilities
1) Current status
136. The Act on Welfare Support for Children with Disabilities lays an insufficient ground
for medical support for children with severe disabilities, leaving them out of the existing
healthcare delivery system. In addition, the act selectively chooses who to support based on
the level of income.
137. The state has only one private children's rehabilitation hospital in place, leading many
more children to be treated along with adult patients. In 2017, the National Assembly pointed
out that 5,250 children (around 25%) of disabled children were not being treated. The
government chose a local government which can conduct a public project to run a public
children rehabilitation hospital rather than building one by itself. The project selected