Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS) - Formerly Eastern Child Welfare Society (ECWS).
A bit of hodgepodge information about ESWS (formerly ECWS) from KoRoot (2022):
From: An ESWS (Formerly ECWS) 30 years history book written in Korean:
김득황 KIM Deuk Hwang (Fuller missionary school? or university? student) the founder of ESWS met the head of the David Livingstone Missionary Foundation in Oct, 1970. KIM Deuk Hwang received a full scholarship and free student dormitory accommodations. The David Livingstone Missionary Foundation was interested in supporting churches and orphanages, and anti-communism projects also. KIM Deuk Hwang was a retired vice-minister and elder in a Korean church. Later he established the Korea Livingstone Missionary Foundation in 1971. In the same year in November 1971 he changed the organization name to Korea Christian Crusade.
Korea Christian Crusade became ESWS. In 1972, Dillon (under David Livingstone) sent / formed an agreement about adoption to / with Korea Christian Crusade. But it was difficult for Korea Christian Crusade to get permission to do adoption business from the Korean government. So it was delayed..and finally in 1972 July 29th…they got permission from the government.
In a year, ESWS failed in the adoption business….so they stopped receiving orphans...and handed all the children over to Holt. The staff of ESWS blamed the staff of Holt. All of the foster moms and social workers cried (and were greatly upset)…it was about domestic adoption...because in 1972…as soon as ESWS started ADOPTION...at that time all domestic adoption was closed adoption, so it failed. Usually domestic adoptive parents...they announced adoptive child is their natural born child (by receiving the child around the delivery date). But ESWS social workers didn't know this or ignored this. In this book, they said they knew but ignored it. So they failed...
From 1973....started to look for overseas adoption.
Nowadays...only a few adoptive parents do open adoption. Several domestic adoptees...leave the adoptive family when they hear the truth accidentally or maliciously…They become youth on the streets…become single parents...again…send children for adoption…it’s a vicious circle.
David Livingstone Foundation and Brothers Home of Busan.
Trigger Warning: Extremely upsetting content.
The David Livingstone Foundation unfortunately had a major connection to Brothers Home of Busan.
For more information, please see:
AP Exclusive: Abusive S. Korean facility exported children
”Records show that at least one agency that handled at least five of the adoptions that the AP found, Eastern Social Welfare Society, at the time called the Korea Christian Crusade, paid Brothers $10 a month for every child at the facility in 1972. Eastern president Kim Jin Sook, the daughter of founder Kim Duk Whang, responded with irritation when reached for comment and questioned why the AP was investigating a story that would harm South Korea’s image.”