INCHEON, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has imported twice as many cats and dogs this year compared with two years ago as people spend more time at home amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, customs data showed Wednesday. According to the data by the regional customs office in Incheon, a main gateway for trade [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Unlike the negative views held by certain groups towards abandoned dogs in terms of health and behavior, abandoned animals turned out to adjust well at adopted homes as they are cared for and their wounds are healed. Lim Ji-min, a 23-year-old who adopted an abandoned dog from the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The subscription rate for pet insurance policies continues to languish at extremely low levels. The number of contracts for general insurance for dogs and cats stood at 33,621 as of late last year, which was merely 0.4 percent of the estimated number of all pets in the country (8.6 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising interest in pets is leading to a growing popularity of books on cats. Yes24, a leading online bookstore, reported a 2.7 times increase in the number of books on cats, going from 60 books in 2010 to 160 in 2020. This year, there have been 111 new publications [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Presidential contenders from the ruling and opposition blocs have added a new approach to their widening campaigns to win voters at next year’s presidential election: reaching out to cats and dogs. Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung and Rep. Lee Nak-yon, the top two presidential hopefuls from the ruling Democratic [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Early this week, two young bears escaped from their cramped cages at a breeding farm in Yongin, south of Seoul. One was shot to death hours after the escape, and the other is still on the loose. Similar incidents have occurred in the past in a country where bears [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in and former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl, who officially declared his bid to compete in next year’s presidential race on Tuesday, apparently have one personal trait in common: they are both owners of pet dogs that share the name Tori. Yoon, who officially makes clear his criticism [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday announced a new set of measures for pet-related businesses to better protect animal rights in line with the growing number of pets in the country. Under the measures, puppy farms are obligated to make the width and length of cages at least 2.5 times the [...]
SEJONG, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Tuesday it has added three additional species to the list of protected marine organisms in line with efforts to join the international move to conserve the ecosystem. The newly included species are the olive ridley sea turtle, killer whale and false killer whale, according [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Thursday it will ease some preventive measures against avian influenza and instead provide more incentives to chicken farms. Under the plan, the ministry will spare birds from poultry farms that have strictly followed preventive measures in case of another outbreak of the highly contagious [...]