[mdaisyq]

Children in the age range you are thinking of adopting are quite rare for Korea. Most healthy children are under 1 year at referral, There are waiting children but they tend to be 2 and under with the children closer to 2 having waited a while because of their medical needs and these needs are not minor.

I have heard that Korea prefers to not have children over the age of 3 placed for international adoption because by age 3, the child would be speaking Korean and to have them placed in an international family the change in language and culture would be too hard for them.

Adoption agencies are not closing down their programs, but rather not accepting more applications. Personally, I think this has more to do with the big influx of families who would have otherwise adopted from China switching to Korea and/or concurrent adoptions from Korea by waiting China adoptive families, rather than a projected impending Korean shutdown.