Baby box at South Korean church

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 8 Kyodo - Lee Jong Rak (L), the senior pastor of Jusarang Community Church in Seoul, explains about a baby hatch, set up there for an unwanted babies on June 20, 2022. Lee installed the hatch -- where parents can give away their newborns anonymously -- in December 2009.

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