More than 300 overseas adoptees submitted complaints to Korea's truth-seeking body Thursday, marking the first wave of petitions in the renewed state probe into alleged misconduct in the nation's decades-long intercountry adoption program. As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) reopened its headquarters in Seoul's Jung District at 9 a.m., adoptees stepped forward as the first petitioners of the commission's third term. Stacks of documents — including adoption records and applications from 311 adoptees — totaling roughly 50,000 pages were delivered in boxes and submitted to the commission. The TRC, an independent state body mandated to investigate historical injustices, is set to revisit alleged misconduct in Korea's overseas adoption system, which sent roughly 200,000 Korean children abroad, mostly to Western countries, between the 1960s and 1980s. Thursday's launch of the third TRC came after the National Assembly revised the Framework Act on Settling the Past for Truth and Reconciliation in January, paving the way for the body's reestablishment. According to KoRoot, a civi