Original sentence: Please see Korean adoptees for remarks on the effects the adoptees
Edited sentence: And under the system, the nation reduced the number of children permitted for overseas adoption by 3 to 5 percent each year, from about 8,000 in 1987 to 2,057 in 1997.But even with this nationalism - and the capacity of a postwar industrialized South Korea to provide its babies with a high standard of living - today's orphans are still sent abroad by the thousands(Baker, Christian Science Monitor, 1997).But in 1998 the government temporarily lifted the restrictions, after the number of abandoned children sharply increased in the wake of growing economic hardships (Shin, Korea Herald, 1999).Every year, South Korea welcomes back a few of the children it has sent abroad for adoption.In the beginning adoptive families were often told by agencies and ‘experts’ to assimilate their children and make them as much as possible a part of the new culture, thinking that this would override concerns about ethnic identity and origin.Korea was the world's number one exporter of orphans for decades.Many Korean adoptees grew up not knowing about other children like themselves (Meier, 1998).Most of these adopted Korean children grew up in white, upper or middle class homes in suburbian settings.Official numbers show that approximately 150 000 Koreans have been adopted to North America, Europe and Oceania (Elliott, 2002), but the actual numbers are most likely closer to 200 000.Returning as adults - and as Swedes, Americans, Germans, or whomever-they encounter a culture overcome with guilt for having sent them away and enthusiastic to educate them about Korea.Some Koreans even urge these foreigners to become Korean - it is, after all, they say, their biological heritage.Some called it a national shame considering the country's economic prosperity, but domestic adoption is rare in this nation that clings strongly to patriarchal bloodlines (Elliott, 2002).The first generation of Korean adoptees have now reached adulthood.The goal of the plan was to totally eliminate foreign adoptions by 2015.The proportion of children leaving Korea for adoption amounted to about 1 percent of its live births for several years during the 1980s (Kane, 1993).To stem the number of overseas adoptions, the Korean government had introduced a quota system for foreign adoptions in 1987